Photos: Gay Marriage Is Happeng Right Now At Cy Hall - Gothamist

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• GAY DOMTIC PARTNERS TO GET WEDDG-LIKE CEREMONI AT CY HALL
• PHOTOS: GAY MARRIAGE IS HAPPENG RIGHT NOW AT CY HALL
• GAY MARRIAGE NEW YORK
• TO HAVE AND TO HOLD: GAY MARRIAG NEW YORK CY BEG

GAY DOMTIC PARTNERS TO GET WEDDG-LIKE CEREMONI AT CY HALL

cludg many landmarks of gay history. Gay Coupl Can Soon Have Civil Ceremoni At NYC Clerk's OfficeThe cy is about to take a ceremonial step down the aisle for gay upl, the Daily News has 17 years of registerg domtic partners, the cy will soon offer marriage-like ceremoni when they n off to Cy Hall to get hched, jt like straight upl have had for generatns.

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The metropolis is home to one of the world’s largt LGBTQIA populatns the world and many landmarks of gay history, such as The Stonewall Inn and The Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMarch 5, 2004The growg fight over same-sex unns reached New York Cy yterday as dozens of gay and lbian upl seekg marriage licens were turned away at the Cy Clerk's office Manhattan and hundreds of protters mandg same-sex marriage rights rallied outsi Cy rebuffs at the marriage-license unter were not nontatnal, jt a genteel turng away, two by two, like sufagett a century ago at the pollg place.

PHOTOS: GAY MARRIAGE IS HAPPENG RIGHT NOW AT CY HALL

But was the openg salvo of New York's gay and lbian muny for equal marriage rights. A day after the New York Attorney General, Elt Spzer, clared that current laws prohibed same-sex weddgs, but suggted -- a kd of blueprt for gay advot -- that the urts would ultimately rolve the issue, the first nstutnal challenge appeared to be takg shape Nyack, N.

Y., where a gay mayor was nied a marriage license yterday and vowed to sue the the mayor of New Paltz, who has already solemnized the marriag of 25 gay upl and fac crimal charg of vlatg the 19th-century laws rervg marriage for a man and a woman, said he would perform more same-sex marriag this weekend.

GAY MARRIAGE NEW YORK

Supporters hailed him as a hero, but a relig-rights law firm Florida said would ask a urt to ot him om the weddg march for gays and lbians began San Francis three weeks ago, officials California, New Mexi and Oregon have allowed same-sex marriag, Massachetts has signaled s approval, Print Bh has lled for a nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage and lawmakers, and nservative and gay-rights groups have joed a bate that has roiled the natn.

Comparg their e to the black civil rights stggle of the 1960's and the women's movement, a aln of gay-rights advot and civil liberti lawyers has begun a mpaign that seems sted for promence the printial electn race this year and has already drawn policians at all levels to the maelstrom. Bypassg the triumphal arch of the Municipal Buildg on Centre Street downtown Manhattan, the le of three dozen gay and lbian upl -- 72 people all -- moved through a si door up to the Cy Clerk's office on the send floor. Tax had been domtic partners for 17 years and had brought along the paperwork to prove , 11 documents that ctomarily acce a marriage, cludg last wills and ttaments, health re proxi and durable powers of attorney namg one another as the rponsible partner the way, spillg over a siwalk on the eastern perimeter of Cy Hall, 750 monstrators marched a light ra, rryg signs and chantg slogans support of legalized gay and lbian unns.

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

''Gay, straight, black or whe, marriage is a civil right, '' they Cy Hall, the mayor said: ''My msage is simple. '' He has a rerd of supportg civil rights for gays; he has signed a law that regniz gay marriag and civil unns sanctned jurisdictns outsi New York, and has also gone on rerd as opposg the nstutnal amendment Print Bh has proposed.