TreeLady is sadly wrong, the mod is equal to samesex relationships, but not marriage.
Gay marriage still disables achievements, hardcoded, refreshed on save.
So it even survives savegame manipulation.

Just an FYI, if you turn on gay marriage in the game rules it disables acheiments, this mod does the same thing without disabling achievments.

Hi, sorry I know this mod is outdated. Do you know of any mods that disable same-sex marriage but still keep same-sex concubines?

your mod was a gem, and I appreciate that it existed! thank you Queen

now have gay king lesbian qeen! you was great mod! bye~!

It meant a lot to have this mod when CK3 didn't have a gay marriage option. Thanks for your hard work!

@Thoth, You can look at the mod "Parthenogenesis" for reference.

@Akim You have to start a new game and make sure that "Accept Same Sex Marriage" is enabled in the game rules at the bottom.

Then you have to either create, or be a part of a religion that accepts same sex relations

@Akim you have to switch the game rule to 'accept same sex marriage' when you start new one.

@VietPham sadly that is not possible for current state of game mechanism. Dev abolished the gender acquirement only for marriage, not pregnancy.

Can you make a same-sex pregnancy, based on this mod Parthenogenesis

I loved this mod. I hear the regular game has it now, but... I don't see how. Sorry, anyone knows?

Thank you for having made this mod, even if its no longer needed.

Now, by any chance you have any plans on making a same-sex pregnancies mod?

(Before anyone says it, I know, I know. Not historically accurate, not even biologically possible, but if we can have a Lord of the Rings mod, and a Vampire The Masquerade mod, then a same-sex pregnancy mod is not so farfetched)

Thanks you for all the work.

Thank you for having kept this mod available. Certainly would love to see that future plans section though.

For those that do not know, you can now enable gay marriage + concubines in the game rules before starting a new save.

If the "Future Plans" section develops into a separate mod now that this one has served its purpose, please let us know.

There is no need for update. Thanks you for all the work.

Would love an update please!

update please

It is sad and happy at the same time to see this mod becoming a history tomorrow!!!

Thanks for this, my Roman Regina-soon to be-Empress Julia Caesar is bi and her husband is really good at knocking her up five seconds it seems so it'll be for the best to have a concubine lol

wow thank you!

It doesn't seem to be working for me? The only possibilities are males and even the lesbians in my court I can seduce but not consort.

Can't find any mods letting you have bio kids with same sex characters and if it were possible/allowed I'm pretty sure you'd find like a million mods of it on the workshop, so I'm assuming this is what Queen Quack means with the cheat engines and .EXE files and stuff, but I know jack diddly and squat about coding... if it's not impossible due to the .EXE thing then I have no idea how no modders have dogpiled the idea with various magic-based mods.

Either way for now if you want a playthrough where you're trying to get pregnant / be impregnated by members of your sex play in debug mode and use the impregnate command. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk, you are now breathing manually.

Can't find any mods that allow what truelove101992 suggested. In CK2 I accidentally got a female character pregnant, while playing a female character, using the pollinate command. CK3 has an impregnate command that I'm testing as I write this comment:

And it works. I haven't tested male characters getting preggo but based off of this https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/44lyx6/crusader_kings_at_its_finestmen_can_get_pregnant/ I'd say it probably works.

(...)

Getting a child to become your heir is also a workaround I've thought of, but I'm waiting pretty on the Royal Court DLC so I can cook something simple up for both adoption and same-sex marriage - as well as dissecting an Event I found in a Dev Diary that deals with adoption so I can learn how the Developers themselves scripted adoption instead of relying on cheating the game's system which could break or fall apart at any time.

Crusader Kings 3 is quite finicky when it comes to people, children and adoption. Of course in a cheat menu, or with Cheat Engine these things can become possible because with Cheat Engine you're modifying source code - something Modders don't have access to and is against Terms of Service with Paradox Games. (I mean we DO have access to it, it's in the .EXE but if you don't want your mod banned don't touch it)

When the Royal Court DLC comes out, there's going to be an update that will lighten the restrictions on Modders with marriage - allowing same-sex marraige to be moddable. I've had same-sex marriage coded into the game since this Mod's release, however I disabled it because the chosen characters would never marry because it's against the source code and didn't want people to think it was a bug.

I do wonder if what Dings mentions could theoretically enable "DNA mixing" with your same-sex partner. Weird, but if you like a bit of a supernatural roleplay, it sounds like a fun option (that could probably be able to be disabled and enabled in the game rules).

(...) If you wish for children in a same gender marriage, you could possibly get bastards into you dynasty by adultery or by concubines. But there are two more workarounds that I know about:

1) With the mod "Daddy Pika's Cheat Menu" you can "force adopt" any person in the game to become your child and you can designate any person to become your heir. Check the mod to learn how.

2) With the mod "Clone Creation" you can at any time create a clone of any person in the game, chose the clone's age (for this purpose I would recommend "baby") and then chose it's dynasty. Check the mod to learn how. But be aware that the mod's author states that a clone will not become your heir. But this could be achieved by using the mod "Daddy Pika's Cheat Menu" and designating the created clone to be your heir.

I know that these workarounds are kind of cheaty. But I hope this helps until Queen Quack makes these things possible in this mod (by the way: thanks for this mod! Nice work so far!)

For those interested in gay marriage: there is a workaround. You will need "cheat engine" (CE) and this cheat table: https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?t=13576 .

I will not explain how to use CE. You will have to figure it out yourself.

Workaround:

In game, pause time, bring up the character screen of the person you wish to marry, then tab out to CE. Enable master-script on top of cheat table, then enable "Find Selected Character", check that the name shown in CE under "Name (Short <15)" matches the name of the chosen character, then enable "Misc info ==>" and there under "Gender" you double-click on the shown gender and switch it to the opposite.
This takes immediate effect. Tab back to game and propose to that character and wait until you are married. Afterwards you just switch his/her gender back.

You now have a fully functional same gender marriage which should cause no bugs in the game. You will just get no children. (...)

yes mod worked .

@Queen Quack,
The mod worked for me when downloaded through the workshop.

(I don't know if any of this information will help the developer/community, but here it is.)

Mods Installed (In load order):
1) Historical Figures
2) Community Flavor Pack
3) Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded
4) CFP + EPE Compatibility Patch
5) Nameplates
6) Gay Concubines and Consorts: Updated

Version 1.4.4 (Azure)
MP Checksum: c354

@Cuongpham and @Hunie
I have no idea why this doesn't work for some people. It doesn't even work for me when I download it through the workshop. I've asked on the CK3 Workshop discussion page about it, and didn't receive much help either.

The mod only seems to work when in the documents/paradox interactive/ck3/mod folder. I've spent a whole week trying to get this mod to work through the Workshop, and it doesn't.

The only way to install this mod is manually, and I had thought I had posted a link to do so but that's gone too along with the last week or so of changes I made to this page.

I've no idea what's going on with this Workshop page, but it's enough for me to just delete it and reupload.

It's not working. Is there any idea about this?

To those subscribed to the thread, I finally updated the mod to work with 1.4.4. Sorry for taking so long. A lot's been happening, but that's no excuse! The gays have returned!

@Voxsmash
I suspect you'd have to convince Paradox to expose the necessary functions for modding, first.

you should make it so th4ere is an option to use one of the courtiers as a "Surrogate"

I doubt paradox was lying about marriage no longer being hardcoded to be heterosexual

But I just tried it doesn't work

Like Ghost Fox said. Actual gay marriage is something I'm waiting on Paradox to be even moddable ;n;

Thanks for the update 😊

Probably with the next big patch, and as for when that would be, take it up with Paradox, for the modders know no more than you.

So…any word of actual gay marriage will be able to be modded in soon?

i guess it doesn't work anymore. I've tried.

Is there a way to remove the sodomite trait from the coding? Since I have that disabled in the game anyway, and since sodomy actually has nothing to do with gay people?

@Arthur.allix, the mod should still work for 1.4.4. I know in mod selection it may say it doesn't support it, but it's because I'm dumb and don't know how to update the friggin' mod's version. Start raising eyebrows if it still works or not when Royal Court releases until I make a public comment about it working for the next big update.

@Queen Quack Good evening. does this mod still work 1.4.4 for gay and lesbian concubines?

My queen will finally get the harem she deserves, thank you.

Thank you so much for doing the work necessary to revive this mod! It means a lot.

W.E.B, the mod is out for 1.4! I know in the Paradox launcher the mod may say it's only for 1.2 or 1.3 or so, but this isn't so. I'm just dumb and don't know how to make the launcher understand it's actually for 1.4