It is an important day in the land of Guinness and gingers as the country votes in a referendum on same-sex marriage. Plenty of feelings flying around Twitter.
Seven million Californians are in favour of gay marriage becoming legal. Home to 98,000 same-sex couples, if California would just come to the party already it would be one of the gay rights movement’s biggest achievements ever. But a petition lodged yesterday by groups that still want to limit marriage to a man and a woman has put the legalisation of same-sex marriages in the state on hold.