Love Equality

The first pressure group established to campaign for marriage equality in Northern Ireland was called Equal Marriage NI, founded by activist Gary Spedding, and was composed of a number of voluntary organisations, political activists, charities and volunteers in 2011. The campaign pushed a number of political parties, including Sinn Féin, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the cross-community Alliance party to give backing for change to the law in Northern Ireland. However, despite having some success in the midst of growing calls for marriage equality in the rest of the UK and Ireland, the campaigning organisation was basically defunct by 2012.

After the introduction of marriage equality in the Republic of Ireland in 2015 the six organisations of Rainbow Project, ICTU, NUS-USI, Amnesty International, Cara-Friend and Here NI came together to launch Love Equality in April 2016.^[1]

• "Homepage of Love Equality". Archived from the original on 23 April 2016.