It was an historic tone that uple David Bucher and Bce Moats wed at the U.S. Naval Amy Chapel on Saturday, the venue's first gay weddg.
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HOW THE FIRST GAY WEDDG AMERI TOOK PLACE 50 YEARS AGO
SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004). (The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said. Near the end of the episo, Roc says he's not yet fortable wh his uncle beg gay, but he's learng to be "fortable wh beg unfortable, " which is a big step for him.
"Can't Help" is chock full of the sorts of easy gay jok that typified a lot of '90s edi featurg gay characters. At one pot, Andrew sists that he didn't thk black people uld be gay, bee they weren't scend om "sissy" Europeans. When Andrew tells him this is jt a phase, spurred by havg married an "ugly woman, " Rsell says that, no, he's been gay his whole life and jt lyg to himself.
What ma the battle for gay rights so different was that anybody uld be gay, so, siarly, anybody uld be prejudiced.
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The characters don't make all of the way to full acceptance of gay rights by the end of the episo.
" Roc posns the fight for gay rights as on a ntuum wh all other civil rights battl, and that was somethg few other elements of pop culture were alg wh at the time. Beg homophobic is simple when you don't know any gay people. It's far more plited when your own brother or uncle is gay.
Naval Amy Chapel's first-ever same-sex the Naval Amy, was an historic tone that David Bucher, a 49-year-old Amy graduate who works at the Pentagon, and partner Bce Moats, 50, tied the the ceremony got unrway, the uple's weddg day jters mgled wh ncerns they had about opposn to their said that while he and Bucher are not advot tryg to make a polil statement wh their weddg, they do want to ntue the efforts of those fightg for gay rights.