Marriage equality has officially come to New York and the weddings are underway! In Niagra Falls, Mayor Paul Dyster married Cheryle Rudd and Kitty Lambert (above) at the stroke of midnight. In New York City, 823 couples signed up to get licenses today and the city clerks offices are open for business. Across the state, in more than a dozen cities and towns, city offices are open and ready to share the joy, including Albany where Edward Delph and Peter Shroeter (left), got their paperwork in order.
Over 100 judges across the state have volunteered to officiate at weddings today (a nice answer to the two small town clerks who have gotten a ton of publicity for refusing to issue licenses to gays).
The so-called National Organization for Marriage is, naturally, planning a sour grapes rally at several sites, but really nobody cares. It's just so they can put together some deceptive fund-raising mailers.
Mayor Bloomberg is officiating at the wedding of two City Hall staffers. Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz is opening Borough Hall for a wedding marathon complete with free cake and champagne. At the City Clerk's office in Lower Manhattan, rabbis are set up to conduct weddings under a rainbow huppa. Even Rod and Ricky from Avenue Q are getting (pretend) married. On Monday night, three couples will get married on the stage at the St. James Theater after the performance of Hair, there are pop-up chapels in Central Park, and on Fire Island, you can get married on a ferry with a crew of drag queens.
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My dear friends/neighbors Rafael and Emilio were two of the gay New Yorkers who married today. You met them...the two guys from Houston. Ray and I attended their pre-wedding bash last night. Fabulous people, food, and booze! Wish you could have been there too.
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