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From wikipedia and reddit:

Also, historian Allan A. Tulchin recently argued that a form of male same-sex marriage existed in Medieval France, and possibly other areas in Europe, as well. There was a legal category called "enbrotherment" (affrèrement) that allowed two men to share living quarters, pool their resources, and effectively live as a married couple. The couple shared "one bread, one wine, one purse."[64] The article received considerable attention in the English-language press, since Tulchin may have discovered the earliest form of same-sex marriage.[65] Tulchin's views have also sparked significant controversy, as they challenge the generally held view that the medieval period was one of the most anti-gay in history.

I just found this mention on reddit. But I was wondering, firstly was this an actually historically attested phenomenon? Or is it one of those things where the historian finds a single mention/case of it and concludes that it was commonplace? And do we know what it ACTUALLY entailed (i.e. was it a common-law "gay" marriage? Or is it "hey, neither me nor my best friend (who just happens to be a guy) can afford a place by ourselves so lets just live together" (what I've been doing for the last four years of college)
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