Meet the Husband and Wife Who Look Like Identical Twins
Look who’s
causing a huge controversy in Russia these days!
Meet Alison
Brooks (on the left), who married Alina Davis (right). How is this possible in
a country where same-sex weddings are banned, violence against homosexuals is
on the rise, and homosexuality was only declassified as a mental illness in
1999?
Simple. The
23-year-old Alina was born a man named Dmitry Kozhukhov. She labels herself as
“androgyne,” which means she doesn’t fit neatly into one gender identity, goes
around wearing women’s clothes every day, but because her birth certificate
lists her as a man, the Russian authorities couldn’t refuse them their marriage certificate or their right to marry.
“We had no
problems when we handed in the application to the registry office although we
had expected a complaint or something but they didn’t say anything,” Davis told
the Alert More. “But then the head of the registry office called several times,
telling us that they didn’t want us to turn up both in wedding dresses. He said
marriages in Russia were between a man and a woman and nobody else.”
That may be,
but there are no rules against men wearing dresses — or looking nearly
identical to their brides — so the ceremony still took place in the Kutuzovsky
Prospekt registry office in Moscow. Both Brooks and Davis wore white wedding
dresses. While the two were refused entry through the front door and had to
enter through the rear entrance instead, they still got married.
Davis thinks
this is a big moment for couples in Russia. “We are not alone in having such
problems,” she says. “I have written to couples who are planning similar
marriages and are afraid of failures with registration. Be aware – you cannot
be refused.”
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