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New York's First Legally Wed Gays Will Be Grannies
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Garth Johnston
Published Jul 18, 2011
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The first legal gay wedding in New York State will be between...two gay grannies. Buffalo residents Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd, who have been fighting vocally for marriage equality in New York for some time, are aiming to get hitched on Luna Island by Niagara Falls at 12:00:01 on July 24, the first possible moment they can legally do so. And what a wedding it should be!
“Prince William and Kate didn’t have as many people at their wedding as we will,” Lambert recently joked to the Buffalo News. “It’s going to be amazing. We’ve joked that we’re inviting 1,800 of our closest friends.” The celebration will start with a reception on Goat Island before moving to Luna for the civil marriage ceremony at midnight. Niagara Fallas Mayor Paul A. Dyster will officiate the wedding in front of the couple's friends and family—including their five children and twelve grandchildren!
And as if that weren't enough. According to New Yorkers United for Marriage, "For the first time, to commemorate the wedding, monumental Niagara Falls will be lit in hues of the rainbow equality flag." Nice.
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