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• PLAZA HOTEL HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG
• THE PLAZA HOTEL HOSTED ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG IN 106 YEARS
• SNEAK PEEK : JAY & TONY : FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG AT THE PLAZA HOTEL : NEW YORK, NY
• ‘GAY GREAT GATSBY MEETS BETY AND THE BEAST’ AT THIS PLAZA WEDDG
• THE UNTOLD STORY OF MEMCHU'S FIRST GAY WEDDG
• NY PLAZA HOTEL’S FIRST GAY WEDDG
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

PLAZA HOTEL HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG

Jay & Tony's weddg was the very first gay weddg at The Plaza Hotel, New York Cy's inic centerpiece at the base of Central Park and Fifth Avenue. s first gay weddg back June. Amazg photos om the Plaza Hotel's first gay weddg.

THE PLAZA HOTEL HOSTED ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG IN 106 YEARS

Lucky for him, his vio of The Plaza Hotel's first gay weddg ptur both, ptivatg gay viewers wh s qualy and licy.

We ught up wh the Big Apple filmmaker for advice on how gay upl should film their weddgs--how one life-changg day n tell the story of a lifelong love.

I wanted viewers to see beyond any abstract notns and get a te glimpse of what a gay fay is. Do you see any difference between filmg a gay weddg and a straight one? Regardls of sexual orientatn, my team and I foced on the uple's story first and so much polil activy, any gay vio gets a lot of attentn--pecially if go viral.

SNEAK PEEK : JAY & TONY : FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG AT THE PLAZA HOTEL : NEW YORK, NY

Do you thk gay upl should be sharg their vios on the web?

Should the public rponse be a nsiratn for gay upl wantg to rerd their ceremony? I see no reason why a gay uple should go whout a weddg film.

‘GAY GREAT GATSBY MEETS BETY AND THE BEAST’ AT THIS PLAZA WEDDG

I also don't see any reason why a gay uple should have to nsir the public rponse wantg to rerd or share their weddg film. Back June, The Plaza, whose neoclassil Grand Ballroom is one of the most expensive, lavish, and veted hotel weddg venu all the land, hosted s first-ever--106-years gay weddg. We kiss and hug and I see the crowd glarg at , bee they’re so not ed to this New York, Jewish gay uple takg the rtrant by storm.

Ron: I wanted a gay male weddg planner, bee I felt like he would get , that we didn’t want — obvly — a tradnal affair. ” It end up beg gay Great Gatsby meets Bety and the Beast.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF MEMCHU'S FIRST GAY WEDDG

It was a ltle tricky figurg out how to do the procsn; when you’re a gay uple, you have to revent the wheel for yourself. But was super-important for me to have the first openly gay orthodox rabbi ordaed by the Orthodox Unn be our rabbi. Ron: We really wanted a tradnal Jewish ceremony, potentially an untradnal choice for a gay weddg.

NY PLAZA HOTEL’S FIRST GAY WEDDG

A saxophonist was playg “after the party, ’s the hotel lobby …” Then we brought Matt Denton, who DJs at Burng Man and a lot of gay mic ftivals, and he basilly headled our after-party. They were tryg to forest whether Memorial Church’s first gay weddg—their own—would be a mag for protters and reporters. ”Ten years ago, holdg a gay weddg at Memorial Church was history the makg.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

The church had opened to same-sex mment ceremoni 1993, but there’d been no chance of a state-sanctned marriage there, or most plac California, until the state Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage on May 15, news of the 4-3 cisn broke, Fzwater, MS ’98, PhD ’03, and Ziegler watched on TV om their San Jose home. Even as the barrier to gay marriage dropped, the possibily of s restatement was rurrected the form of Proposn 8, a California ballot measure to fe marriage as a purely heterosexual upl Fzwater and Ziegler knew elected to have small garn weddgs, which, among other allur, uld be anized quickly. ”Stanford may have seemed an unlikely place to worry about a prott agast gay marriage.