Posted on 06/29/2015 1:21:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two days after the Supreme Court affirmed gay marriage as a fundamental right, New York City’s pride parade began, appropriately enough, with a wedding.
Presiding over the same-sex ceremony, which took place in front of the historic Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on Sunday afternoon, was New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, according to Newsday.
Cuomo, who noted he was officiating his first wedding ceremony, wed Human Rights Campaign staffer David Contreras Turley, 36, and UBS financial analyst Peter Thiede, 35, while a crowd of onlookers cheered and The Beatles’ “Love Is All You Need” played, Newsday reported.
The Stonewall Inn is the site of the 1969 riots that are seen as marking a turning point in the fight for gay rights.
“It’s hard to put feelings into words,” Turley told the paper. “Even though we had gay marriage in New York, this feels different. I feel different.”
"I'm a little nervous today. This is my first marriage." @NYGovCuomo officiates same-sex marriage outside Stonewall. http://t.co/Gg0tPDX5jR
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 28, 2015
Celebrating #NYCPride #Pride2015 in the West Village. pic.twitter.com/hjoSgO6Ll8
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 28, 2015
New York legalized same-sex marriage in 2011, but this year’s pride parade was expected to draw one of the event’s largest-ever crowds, with as many as 2 million people ignoring rainy weather to pack streets from Midtown to Greenwich Village, organizers told CBS News.
Actor Ian McKellen, in a tan suit and rainbow sash, served as a grand marshal for this year’s parade, alongside director Derek Jacobi and Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, a Ugandan activist.
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As long as it doesn’t affect my life and the people in my close network... Of course I don’t want that to happen, but the anger I felt in 2001 will not be there.
The Stonewall In was a Mo owned bar. The NYC was cracking down on the Mob. So the Gay Straw Man was created.
Gay men eat poop.
Is it just me or isn’t that kind of stupid?
How about billions!
Gandalf the...
No, it's just too easy.
[Sort of gives new meaning to the verse- Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark]
go, fill the streets of NYC ..... it’s only June of hurricane Season!!
That is the meaning of true love.
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