A gay man proposes to his boyfriend during a live session of Ellen DeGeneres show.

After a recent taping, Ellen kept people in their seats so she could introduce them to Benjamin and Justin, a gay couple from Fort Myers, Florida.

Following a ground breaking refusal by the US Supreme Court to take up appeals against rulings to allow same-sex marriage in several states yesterday, same-sex marriage is set to become legal in eleven new US states, but unfortunately Florida is not one of them.