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//Hi, anon! Ahhh, that’s perfectly alright!! No worries (in all honesty, all kinds of asks are always welcome here anytime everytime, so please keep them coming!!).

As for your question, yes!! They could and some of them did get ‘unofficially’ married!! It was usually done in a symbolic way and done in a small ceremony where there would only be a few people, usually close friends and, sometimes, the close families of the grooms, if the families even knew about their son’s ‘lifestyle’ and were okay with it. Think of these ceremonies as the type of intimate weddings people sometimes celebrate nowadays, just a lot more private and “secret”. Some of these ceremonies were officiated by non other than a religious priest! Most priests at the time, as you probably guessed, were against homosexuality, using the same old ‘arguments’ you hear nowadays, that it was unnatural, that is was a sin, and etc (which kinda doubles up when you take into account how religious Victorian England was overall and how “strict” they were in regards to traditional values and etc) but, even then, there was still a number of priests who were willing to officiate these ceremonies for homosexual couples, you only had to know where to look for them as all this could carry some serious legal issues as well as all the social consequences this could unleash, mainly for the couple, partly due to all the stigma there was around being a gay male at the time (and which was a big deal and could ruin lives and reputations in most cases), but majorly because male homosexuality was illegal and punishable by the law if you got caught ‘in the act’.

In Robert’s case, which is why I mentioned this topic last time, he doesn’t really mind the social consequences any of this can bring upon himself since he’s a criminal already, and he’s also considered a “disgraceful person” by the standards of his time. He’s out and proud in the slums and all that underworld, too, so it wouldn’t make much of a difference in those regards to have the rest of society know that he’s an homosexual man (the legal aspect would be a big issue for him, though, cause this ’crime’ was normally penalized with jail time around this time of the Victorian Era). However, the biggest setback in all this is that he doesn’t want to bring any of these issues upon a future boyfriend of his and, thus, wouldn’t want to drag him into all this and cause him some ‘unnecessary’ trouble as well as to spare him all the legal consequences. These are some of the biggest reasons why he struggles with the idea of confessing his feelings whenever he’s fallen for someone (esp in cases like Jonathan, since he doesn’t want to ‘tarnish’ his reputation ;v;).

This got a bit long but I hope this answered your question, anon!

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