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News & ArtsSunday, December 9, 2012
Gay Marriage / History Love and Gay Marriage at City Hall
Posted by Eli Sanders on Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM
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- Deborah Needham and Nancy Monahan of Renton, together 14 years. Monahan is a retired Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class and a Navy veteran.
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Seeing the impotent bigotry from the troll(s) being drowned out by all the love and joy is the icing on the (wedding) cake.
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Wonderful pictures and thank you @28 for the link to the flickr page with Dan and Terry photos as an extra bonus. All teary-eyed here and wishing the new couples all the best and love always.
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I'm so filled with joy today that I can't really contemplate, analyze, or evaluate how important this day is in the progressive development of humankind. All I can say - all that I'm capable of saying today - is may all of you be happily in love forever, very best wishes, and congratulations.
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I love that Cupcake Royale made what looks like (in the Flickr set) a hundred dozen or more rainbow cupcakes!
Congratulations everybody!
Congratulations everybody!
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Fnarf, hugs to you & Mrs. Fnarf. I miss him so much. His widow is coming to stay with me this weekend. But, it makes me smile to think how happy Memorex woulda been to see this day!
If I get back to Seattle, I hope to see you all at a Slog happy or something. Wish there was Slogmail.
OK! Cocktail working. Those pictures make me so freaking happy.
If I get back to Seattle, I hope to see you all at a Slog happy or something. Wish there was Slogmail.
OK! Cocktail working. Those pictures make me so freaking happy.
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@45, bless you too, my dear. You sound like you need it. I remember Memorex, and I remember you telling us a year ago, too. This must be a tough time.
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(Oh whoops! Correction, I'm in the lower LEFT hand corner of that pic..I *wish* I was as slender as Scott. ;D )
HOORAY for the marriages!
HOORAY for the marriages!
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I'm across the country. Not WA, but VA, just outside DC. Been reading Dan's words since..'93? IDK anymore.
To watch the whole thing happen through the years..just, I'm tearing up. My pal Dan, who was Memorex here, died about a year ago, & we talked about if this day would come, if Dan (& all of us!) could marry..& here it is, it's starting. May it soon be everywhere, for everyone.
I don't drink much..but I'm gonna sneak over to the kitchen, here, & make myself a cocktail, & raise a glass towards the west. Mebbe when I eventually get back out to WA, I can meet some of you Sloggers, & we'll have one together.
Me in 2000, low right hand corner, @ The Millennium March in DC:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8453/pr…
To watch the whole thing happen through the years..just, I'm tearing up. My pal Dan, who was Memorex here, died about a year ago, & we talked about if this day would come, if Dan (& all of us!) could marry..& here it is, it's starting. May it soon be everywhere, for everyone.
I don't drink much..but I'm gonna sneak over to the kitchen, here, & make myself a cocktail, & raise a glass towards the west. Mebbe when I eventually get back out to WA, I can meet some of you Sloggers, & we'll have one together.
Me in 2000, low right hand corner, @ The Millennium March in DC:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8453/pr…
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@41, I gotta say, if I'm a straight couple planning my wedding, I WANT a deeply closeted wedding planner, especially if I live in Yakima, or Pomeroy. That's the only way you're going to get a good one. A straight wedding planner is probably going to order the wrong wine, and not enough cases of it.
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God bless 'em. I'm now waiting for the fabric of society to come apart, as scheduled, now that the gays can get married.
I like that bearded guy's rainbow umbrella.
@19 Seconded.
@21 You instantly remind me of a couple lines from a Metallica song:
Circus comes to town.
You play the lead clown.
I like that bearded guy's rainbow umbrella.
@19 Seconded.
@21 You instantly remind me of a couple lines from a Metallica song:
Circus comes to town.
You play the lead clown.
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For those looking for a gay friendly wedding vendors, try hitting up "Offbeat Bride". The site is LGBT friendly and would likely be able to point you in the direction of vendors who are open minded and supportive.
http://vendors.offbeatbride.com/
http://vendors.offbeatbride.com/
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Read and weep over the sad state of Yakima's wedding industry.
The homophobia is amusing, in its way. If your title is President of the Central Washington Bridal Show Association, are you going around imagining that people think of you as straight? Or the owner of a bridal and tuxedo shop? The way they keep chanting "The gay does not exist! The gay does not exist! The gay does NOT exist. THERE ARE NO GAYS HERE" suggests a deeply, deeply closeted wedding planner indeed.
Read and weep over the sad state of Yakima's wedding industry.
The homophobia is amusing, in its way. If your title is President of the Central Washington Bridal Show Association, are you going around imagining that people think of you as straight? Or the owner of a bridal and tuxedo shop? The way they keep chanting "The gay does not exist! The gay does not exist! The gay does NOT exist. THERE ARE NO GAYS HERE" suggests a deeply, deeply closeted wedding planner indeed.
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#31- Here is a run-down on marriage license applications in North Central Warshington, from Friday's Wenatchee World: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2012/…; and a lovely article on a couple from Stehekin, applying for their license at the Court House: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2012/…
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37 dear, if you truly are the "The Stranger's Worst Nightmare", The Stranger has nothing to worry about.
Congratulations and best wishes to all of today's couples.
Congratulations and best wishes to all of today's couples.
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My husband and I were married this morning at city hall. What an incredible day - I'm still overwhelmed. Our heartfelt and deepest thanks to the city, the Stranger, the well-wishers, the justices, and *especially* the many, many volunteers for this day who made today possible. It's still kind of unbelievable that they all made this happen, and in such a beautiful way for every couple who was married. What a day. What a really amazing day.
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At least now the Stranger will fall into complete irrelevancy. Without gay marriage, there's nothing else for them to bray about. Oh, except for the Seattle Times which apparently rankles the Stranger since they have a number of Pulizter prizes that were awarded for written pieces rather than being gay.
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Congratulations to all of the newly weds & those soon-to-be married. Equality will eventually come to all of us. In the meantime, we who can't celebrate those who can.
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@30, did a google search on eastern Washington news sources, the only mention of this memorial day was a brief article in a Spokane paper linking back to King county. The rest of the eastern Washington wasteland news were too busy telling people how to spend money on christmas.
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Dan posted links to wedding pics on his Twitter machine. I'd like to see the wedding pics on Slog anyway. Fie on restraint! Fie!
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I repeat my call for The Stranger to do a report on gay marriage in Republican eastern Washington counties -- are there any? Spokane, I imagine, but what about Grant, Garfield, Stevens? Klickitat? I see that five couples got married in Thurston Counties just after midnight.
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Congrats to everyone! These pics are gorgeous.
@24 I SO wanted to do this today, but had to work :(
@24 I SO wanted to do this today, but had to work :(
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I went down to city hall and cheered newlyweds for a couple hours. A few couples had been together 30 years or more. It looked like most of the couples were older, and likely together for quite a while.
So, so awesome.
(And no, my fiance and I did not get married this weekend. We're waiting till next year to make it official, when the whole families can come.)
So, so awesome.
(And no, my fiance and I did not get married this weekend. We're waiting till next year to make it official, when the whole families can come.)
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Congratulations to Peter and Bob (pictured above)! Best wishes for many more years to come, and see you in Toronto!
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Thank you - so beautiful. Ten years ago it would have been hard to imagine this, and I hope ten years from now it will be hard to remember why it was hard to imagine.
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Can we see more photos! I love these, especially with captions! Just wanting to share in the joy--sending love to my old home state, from my new home state of New Mexico.
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I love all you lovely people. Congratulations.
These pictures and stories are going to be talked about in a hundred years. They're going to be in some gay rights "Eyes on the Prize" thing.
These pictures and stories are going to be talked about in a hundred years. They're going to be in some gay rights "Eyes on the Prize" thing.
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Could just as easily called this post "This is what love looks like".
Wonderful, just wonderful.
Congrats to all.
Wonderful, just wonderful.
Congrats to all.
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Our Seattle legally-marrying gays are a lot better dressed than San Francisco's [then] legally-marrying gays.
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Nancy Monahan seems familiar. Wasn't she a weather person on one of the local stations back in the day?
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