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manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt was June 2012 and rainbow flags were draped all over Hurst Street in Birmingham. Amongst the crowds flocking to watch the Birmingham Pride parade were Michael and Wes - they arrived separately but left together.
Within six months, the pair were engaged and two years later they were married. For both Mike, now 40, and Wes Johnson-Ellis, now 42, it wasn't their first marriage.
They had both previously married women. Wes even has a 15-year-old daughter from that first marriage. “I got married at 20 because I thought that was the thing to do and was how I was able to have a family," Wes tells the Manchester Evening News. "I didn't know anybody when I was in my early twenties that was gay and had children. “I came out when I was 24, and I
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