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

The way was cleared last year, when New York legalized same-sex marriage and Print Barack Obama lifted the "Don't ask, don't tell, " policy prohibg openly gay people om servg the ary. The bris both live New Jersey and would have preferred to have the weddg there, but the state don't allow gay marriage.

Fulton has mpaigned agast the ban on gays the ary as a board member of two groups reprentg gay and lbian servicemen and servicewomen. “Gay and lbian soldiers no longer have to hi their liv and their fai – mak them stronger, mak our army stronger, mak our ary stronger. Daniel and Larry Lennox-Choate, First Gay Couple Married at Wt Pot, Attacked NYCThe New York Police Department is on the hunt for a man his 40s who got to an altertn wh Larry Lennox-Choate and Daniel Pot graduate Larry Lennox-Choate, left, and Daniel Lennox-Choate, leave church followg their weddg ceremony on Saturday, Nov.

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Choate and Lennox are the first men to wed at the chapel sce New York legalized gay marriage 2012. 11, 2015, 1:15 AM UTCThe first gay uple to be married at Wt Pot was attacked New York Cy over the weekend by a man shoutg homophobic slurs, police said assailant, scribed as a man his 40s, got to an physil altertn wh Larry Lennox-Choate and Daniel Lennox-Choate after yellg gay slurs at them at a li the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan suatn lated when the man punched Daniel Lennox-Choate, 30, the face, acrdg to spect fled on a bicycle, but not before a wns snapped a picture of him, NYPD Det. "It's hard to believe that 2015 we would have to al wh anti-gay hate crim SoHo of all plac, " he wrote.

Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag ont of the Supreme Court before a hearg about gay marriage Washgton April 28, 2015.

At the time, former Print Bill Clton's policy, "don't ask, don't tell" was effect, barrg homosexual or bisexual members of the ary om disclosg his or her sexual orientatn and om speakg about homosexual remembered thkg, “this guy has a lot of guts, and he’s kd of cute, too. "So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army.

WT POT TO HOST FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO MEN TODAY

“So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army, ” he said. “Through mutual iends at Wt Pot, we had each learned the other was gay, and though we were attracted to one another, we uldn’t say or do anythg about , ” Hall told the Tim. Now, the Pentagon regniz same-sex marriag and is workg to provi benefs to legally wed gay upl (though enforcement of that directive has been bumpy some nservative stat)In 2012, Penelope Gn and Brenda Sue Fulton beme the first same-sex uple to wed the t chapel, prid by an Army chapla.

Fulton said "felt right" given that her work to support gay and lbian soldiers has been based on those are the first same-sex uple to marry the chapel, though not the first to marry at Wt was one of the first women to attend Wt Pot more than three s ago, and she was a key player the fight to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Last July, Print Barack Obama appoted her to Wt Pot's Board of Visors, makg her the first openly gay or lbian person to serve on said she met Gn at choir practice New Jersey 17 years ago. Brenda Sue Fulton and Penelope Dara Gn exchanged vows SaturdayPrint Obama named Fulton to the Wt Pot Board of Visors 2011Fulton was the first openly gay member appoted to the Amy's boardThe U.

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Penelope Gn and Brenda Sue Fulton, a Wt Pot graduate, exchanged vows the regal church a ceremony nducted by a senr Army ceremony a ltle more than a year after Print Obama end the ary policy banng openly gay people om two have been together for 17 years.

They had a civil mment ceremony that didn't rry any legal force 1999 but had longed to formally tie the uple live New Jersey and would have preferred to have the weddg there, but the state don't allow gay marriage. That's where I first heard and said the t prayer, " Fulton said that when she requted the Wt Pot chapel, she was told that none of the chaplas who pri there e om a nomatn that allowed them to celebrate a gay marriage. Wley Smh of Dover Air Force, a veteran and the munitns director of an anizatn lled OutServe — which reprents actively servg gay, lbian and bisexual ary personnel — nfirmed an e-mail to USA TODAY Friday night: "We will be the first same sex uple to wed at the Cat Chapel at Wt Pot.

"The weddg was the send gay marriage Wt Pot has hosted. "The policy change me wh the veat that the e of a ary facily do not nstute an endorsement of gay marriage by the Defense July 2011, Print Obama named Fulton to the Wt Pot Board of Visors, makg her the first openly gay member of the board that advis the graduated om Wt Pot 1980, part of the first class of ts that clud women, and later found an anizatn lled KnightsOut, which scrib self as "an anizatn of Wt Pot Alumni, Staff and Faculty who are uned supportg the rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr soldiers to openly serve their untry.

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