In Albany, Weddg Bells for Gay Marriag Rg Repeatedly - The New York Tim

Contents:

• PHOTOS: NEW YORK'S FIRST GAY MARRIED COUPL
• TO HAVE AND TO HOLD: GAY MARRIAG NEW YORK CY BEG
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• FIRST GAY WEDDG DAY N.Y.
• GAY UPLE SHAR THEIR ADOPTN EXPERIENCE
• GAY MARRIAGE | IN ALBANY, WEDDG BELLS RG REPEATEDLY
• AFTER LONG WA, GAY COUPL MARRY NEW YORK
• DANIEL AND LARRY LENNOX-CHOATE, FIRST GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT, ATTACKED NYC
• THE FIRST LEGALLY MARRIED GAY UPL NEW YORK
• GAY WEDDGS NEW YORK CY--SOME OF THE HAPPIT COUPL YOU'LL EVER SEE (AND SOME AMAZING WEDDG DRS TOO)

PHOTOS: NEW YORK'S FIRST GAY MARRIED COUPL

Hundreds of gay upl began marryg jt after midnight New YorkThis article is om the archive of our partner Lambert and Cheryle Rudd beme one of the first, if not the first, same-sex upl to wed New York State shortly after midnight on Sunday at Niagara Falls, acrdg to the New York Tim. 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 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.

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.

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

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

AdvertisementSKIP Jimenez for The New York TimMay 16, 2015MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the fight over same-sex marriage began earnt, long before gay upl began lg up for marriage licens, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell cid to year was 1967. Homosexualy was still classified as a disorr, sodomy was illegal nearly every state, and most gay men and lbians lived fearful om the age of 14, eyeg young men his father’s barbershop, Mr. Lynn uple, now their early 70s, spoke this month a rare terview the hoe they share here, nearly half a century after they joed their liv and earned a place the history of gay rights, helpg to make Mnota an early center of gay Baker said he was proud that the Supreme Court this year heard the very same nstutnal arguments of equal protectn and due procs that he had intified as a law stunt 2013, when the Mnota Legislature thorized same-sex marriage and a state senator announced, “Today, love ws, ” Mr.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

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GAY UPLE SHAR THEIR ADOPTN EXPERIENCE

"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. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Today was the first day gay upl were allowed to legally marry New York State after Gov. Hundreds of gay upl were expected to marry New York and across the Empire State on the first day same-sex marriage ceremoni.

GAY MARRIAGE | IN ALBANY, WEDDG BELLS RG REPEATEDLY

More than thirty years ago they met on the A tra and went on to beme one of the first gay upl to marry New York after the state approved equal marriage rights.

AFTER LONG WA, GAY COUPL MARRY NEW YORK

“Beg gay, I thought way back when that then I didn't thk was possible" said Michael Elsasser. “Back then if you said you were gay or lbian or bisexual, transgenr that whole list of people, they would immediately say no they would shut the door" said Doug Robson. In Albany, Weddg Bells for Gay Marriag Rg Repeatedly - The New York Tim.

DANIEL AND LARRY LENNOX-CHOATE, FIRST GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT, ATTACKED NYC

| Gay Marriage | In Albany, Weddg Bells Rg Repeatedly.

Gay Marriage | In Albany, Weddg Bells Rg Repeatedly. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAfter Long Wa, Gay Coupl Marry New Estr/The New York TimJuly 23, 2011Hundreds of gay and lbian upl across New York State began marryg on Sunday — the first takg their vows jt after midnight — the culmatn of a long battle the Legislature and a new tone for gay rights advot seekg to legalize same-sex marriage across the natn.

THE FIRST LEGALLY MARRIED GAY UPL NEW YORK

But the law did not take effect for 30 days, which is why Sunday is the first day that clerk’s offic were permted to issue marriage licens to gay upl. Town clerks at least two ral muni have rigned recent days, sayg their relig nvictns preclud them om marryg gay upl, and some ci will see public monstratns on Sunday.

Several other stat are nsirg followg su, and on Sunday, some gay rights advot plan to gather Hoboken to ll on New Jersey lawmakers to follow New York’s lead and allow gay upl to wed. “It’s a huge step forward, and yet don’t erase the fact that there’s so many roadblocks facg advot of marriage equaly, ” said Gee Chncey, a historian at Yale and the thor of “Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. ”Larry Kramer, the playwright and longtime gay rights advote, said that as long as the feral ernment ntued not to regnize same-sex marriag, the celebratn New York on Sunday would be misguid.

GAY WEDDGS NEW YORK CY--SOME OF THE HAPPIT COUPL YOU'LL EVER SEE (AND SOME AMAZING WEDDG DRS TOO)

“Compared to the benefs heterosexual marriag nvey, gay marriag are an embarrassment — that we should accept so ltle, and wh so much hoopla of excement and self-ngratulatn. ”But many people, both opposed to and support of same-sex marriage, saw legalizatn New York as a signifint velopment, part bee of the size and visibily of the state, and part bee of s symbolism — the morn gay rights movement trac s symbolic emergence to the Stonewall uprisg New York Cy 1969. Cuomo was to host a party for gay rights advot and lawmakers at a hotel near the meatpackg Brooklyn, the borough print, Marty Markowz, planned to open Borough Hall for a marathon seri of weddgs, plete wh ee ke and Champagne.