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Marriage, theme in gay pride parade
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-28 13:33

The party still had its traditional leather-clad legions and dramatic drag queens, but Sunday's gay pride parade featured marchers even more radical — married same-sex couples.

Gay and lesbian newlyweds hoisting poster-sized reproductions of their marriage licenses had a starring role at San Francisco's 34th annual parade. They were joined by Mayor Gavin Newsom and others who helped promote same-sex unions in the history-making wedding march at City Hall earlier this year.

Other cities holding crowd-drawing parades Sunday included Atlanta, Seattle, Toronto and New York, where gay pride paradegoers danced and waved rainbow flags in celebration of Gay Pride Week.

Newsom, who helped push the marriage debate onto the nation's agenda shortly after taking office, received the kind of reception usually reserved for rock stars and matinee idols, with shouts of "We love you, Gavin!" and "Ga-vin! Ga-vin! Ga-vin!" rising from the crowd as he passed.

"It took courage to be in office such a short time and take the stance he did," said Tony Sosha, who marched with his new husband, Ens Layante.

An official crowd estimate was unavailable, but tens of thousands of people typically attend what organizers dub California's largest public event.

San Francisco issued more than 4,000 marriage licenses earlier this year before the state Supreme Court intervened. The court is expected to rule on the validity of those licenses this summer.

Floats featuring couples in wedding finery followed Newsom and San Francisco Assessor Mabel Teng. The parade got rolling behind a contingent of Dykes on Bikes, with some of the motorcycle-riding lesbians wearing veils.

"Equality has always been a part of (the parade). This is just the next evolution," said Teddy Witherington, executive director of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade Committee. "Ultimately, the parade is about who we are and who we love, so the message is central to our community."

More gay marriage on the horizon?

While Massachusetts became the only U.S. state to legally recognize gay marriages last month following a ruling by its Supreme Judicial Court, gay pride revelers said they expect New York and other states to follow suit.

With Congress set to vote within weeks on a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, the issue received prominent treatment at gay pride parades nationwide.

"Even 10 years ago I would have said that's the wrong issue," said Ed Glorius, at New York's parade with his arms entwined around his partner, Dwight Pollard, whom he married at a Manhattan restaurant last week. "And now I feel very differently."

The Manhattan parade featured marching bands, politicians including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and, as always, plenty of men wearing G-strings and towering heels.

Officially called the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March, the parade commemorates the Stonewall uprising of 1969, when patrons of a gay bar in Greenwich Village resisted a police raid.

In Atlanta, where the Georgia Legislature is considering a measure to outlaw not only marriage but any spousal rights for gays and lesbians, the mood was defiant.

"Every year, we see T-shirts, banners and myriad other implements touting the political messages and wants of a richly diverse community," said Donna Narducci, executive director of Atlanta Pride. "I have a feeling we will outdo ourselves this year in the message department."



 
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