Larissa

Couples like Larissa and Saulo are the focus of a new research project which Santos is also involved in.

Larissa Queiroz, 25, the niece of Chiquinho and Marquinho, also married a distant relative.

"The anti-LGBT rights bill is inconsistent with Ghana's long-standing tradition of peace, tolerance, and hospitality and flies in the face of the country's international human rights obligations," said Human Rights Watch researcher Larissa Kojoué last year.

Rallies were being organised in 346 cities, across Greece in Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Patras and Larissa, as well as in cities across Europe, including Brussels, Rome and several cities in the UK.

Larissa and her husband Valery willingly accept the official line.