Annual Central Park mass wedding takes on new meaning
As recognizes same-sex civil marriage, 60 couples joined their lives in New York's Central Park, some in white, some in purple boas. The festivities were sponsored by the Wedding Party, a Manhattan-based nonprofit organization advocating for equal rights for same-sex couples. Nearly 300 onlookers attended the service, including Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan), co-sponsor of a bill giving marriage rights to same-sex couples, and Leslie Miller and Alicia Salzer, who broke ground last year as the first same-sex couple to appear in The New York Times wedding section. Newsday
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