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I think this is a bit different. A wedding, gay or otherwise, is an event without legal consequences. Gay marriage, on the other hand, is a legal status. A couple can have a wedding, have their marriage recognized by their church, and have every other indicia of being married, but not be in a gay marriage because the laws of their state prohibit this, even while the laws of a neighboring state would recognize the marriage as existing. bd2412T23:52, 11 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
I just fixed the definition. It's a marriage between two people of the same gender, not two homosexuals. With this in mind, it should be kept, as it is idiomatic. ---> Tooironic00:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Keep, I think. I think it's pure SOP, despite what Tooironic says — "gay" is frequently used in reference to same-sex relationships, even if one or both partners is bisexual — but the backformation gay marry seems to prove that gay marriage is a term meriting inclusion, no? —RuakhTALK02:27, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
This is tricky. A marriage between a lesbian female and a gay male is not a "gay marriage", even though both partners are gay (nor would it be a "gay relationship" if a lesbian female and a gay male started dating), and this, unlike "gay wedding", seems to be a set phrase... so, weak keep. - -sche(discuss)03:20, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
If marriage between a lesbian and a gay man isn't gay marriage, that's because gay there is not the noun. It's an adjective (our sense 4, "(of a romantic relationship or pairing) Homosexual: being between two people of the same gender or the same sex; especially, being between two men"), and this is SOP.—msh210℠ (talk) 23:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
I'd strongly say delete except for Ruakh's argument above, but I think I say delete anyway. I'm not (but amwilling to be) convinced that the fact that something is the source of a back-formation means that it's entered the vocabulary as a unit. (And as for as formatting goes, the etymology section at gay marry can indicate the back-formation, linking to the individual parts.)—msh210℠ (talk) 23:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
