It’s official: First gay marriag performed New York – Saratogian

Contents:

• TO HAVE AND TO HOLD: GAY MARRIAG NEW YORK CY BEG
• THE FIRST LEGALLY MARRIED GAY UPL NEW YORK
• THEY FOUGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE. A LATER, ADVOT REFLECT ON THE 'HERCULEAN FEAT.'
• FIRST GAY WEDDG DAY N.Y.
• COUPL CELEBRATE FIRST GAY MARRIAG N.Y.
• NEW YORK GAY COUPL RH TO MARRY, PERHAPS DIVORCE

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD: GAY MARRIAG NEW YORK CY BEG

Over the d of a “If you’re gay and you know , stomp your feet” chant om the le behd them, the uple climb the steps. “Marriage equaly is alive and well, ” New York Cy Council Speaker Christe Qun, the body’s first openly gay lear, said a prs briefg outsi the clerk’s office.

THE FIRST LEGALLY MARRIED GAY UPL NEW YORK

The Big Apple said “I do” to a new era of gay rights this morng and celebrated New York Cy’s first same-sex weddgs.

Cy Council Speaker Christe Qun, who is openly gay, wnsed the ceremony that was officiated by Cy Clerk Michael McSweeney.

THEY FOUGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE. A LATER, ADVOT REFLECT ON THE 'HERCULEAN FEAT.'

Serkiz said he hop today’s weddgs brg hope to future generatns of gay Amerins: “I hope this mak a lot easier for gay and lbian youth to unrstand that who they are is OK. ‘‘We want them to unrstand that even though we’re homosexuals, we love each other and are very ser about our fay. But when New York legalized gay marriage a month ago, Smh and Wre set out to make history wh their “I do’s.

Gay marriage bs boon? Gay upl tie the knot N.

" The office uld handle ls than a third of those requts -- gay or straight -- on Sunday, acrdg to a prs statement the cy released earlier the week.

FIRST GAY WEDDG DAY N.Y.

"Marriage equaly is alive and well every borough of New York Cy right now, " said Christe Qun, speaker of the New York Cy Council, who is also gay. Propel gay marriage movement?

Qun told CNN that New York is the place where the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement was born, and a place the world looks to.

COUPL CELEBRATE FIRST GAY MARRIAG N.Y.

Qun, a lbian and proment gay rights activist, stood attendance around 9 a.

NEW YORK GAY COUPL RH TO MARRY, PERHAPS DIVORCE

Siegel met the mid-1980s through their volvement wh an advocy group, Servic and Advocy for GLBT York State’s legalizatn of same-sex marriage followed a multiyear legislative battle that end wh the State Senate’s narrow approval of the Marriage Equaly Act June law took effect one month later, on a Sunday, after which hundreds of gay and lbian upl turned up at town halls and cy clerks’ offic across the York beme the sixth and largt state to allow same-sex upl to wed, a tone that energized gay-rights advot as they phed their mpaign across the untry.

Siegel were honored as grand marshals of New York Cy’s Gay Pri Para, along wh the sger Cyndi Lper and Chris Salgardo, the print of the smetics pany Kiehl’s.