And we said, ‘You’re all a bunch of hypocrites.’ They shut up and left us to it” – though not without John’s mother pointing out that she had also been divorced, and that marriage was not to be undertaken lightly. And Dan sat his mum down, who was also 21 when she got married. “But then we both sat our parents down,” John says, “and I told my mum I knew she was 21 when she got married. The response was immediate: they were 21 and 23 – way too young. They knew they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together, and announced to their respective parents that they would be entering into a civil partnership. They were together for a year before life intervened when, two years later, they bumped into each other again, the attraction was stronger than ever. When it turned out they were attracted to each other as well, they couldn’t believe their luck. They were from similar backgrounds, country boys who, growing up, hadn’t known anyone else who was gay. ![]() J ohn and Dan met online when John was 19 and Dan was 17.
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