Ten years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage, the upl whose same-sex weddg announcements were the first to appear The Tim reflect on what marriage means to them.
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- WATCH: FIRST GAY MALE WEDDG SOAP OPERA HISTORY
- WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
WATCH: FIRST GAY MALE WEDDG SOAP OPERA HISTORY
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Seventy percent of gay upl live stat where same-sex marriage is now legal, acrdg to Gary Gat, a scholar at UCLA School of Law's Williams Instute. Close to a half a ln same-sex upl n now marry — and as many as 80, 000 gay upl may do so the next year.
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WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
” Breen’s father David told me: “I wonred what the guts might thk bee at one time some people assumed all gays were want-to-be drag queens and I didn’t want [our] guts to thk that. ”) As Drysdale told me, “While there’s nothg nventnal about a gay weddg, everybody had a fantastic time at Becky’s and the gay thg fad to the background as the eveng went on. Make that a gay May 23, 2004, The New York Tim prted 41 weddg announcements that clud 5 same-sex upl, the first legal gay marriag to appear the pag.
”Ten years after they beme among the first gay upl the untry to legally marry, what’s most remarkable is how unremarkable is now, they said. “I have so much more mon ground wh my -workers who are parents and heterosexual than many of my gay iends who are not parents.
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