Same-sex marriage is declared legal across the US
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry in an historic triumph for the American gay rights movement.
McKellen and Jacobi celebrate US marriage equality
Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi have celebrated same-sex marriage becoming legal across the US with confetti and Queen in a Vine video.
The actors, who star as a couple in the ITV sitcom Vicious, wore Stonewall Inn T-shirts as Sir Derek made a faux marriage proposal to the sound of Queen's We Are The Champions.
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