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...least two historical roadblocks to equality were rightly knocked down—even as the nation’s most narrow-minded did their best to erect new ones. May 17 surely marked a happy ending for those who support equal rights, when hundreds of same-sex couples wed across Massachusetts. Cambridge, too, can claim a spot in the history books when it became the first city in the state, and thus the nation, to serve up marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Last summer also started off well for the cause of equal rights, when the Supreme Court rightly...
Actually, Mike Newell, of Four Wed-dings and a Funeral and Donnie Brasco fame, is set to direct the next one. But that doesn't arrive till November 2005. For now, enjoy the savory witches' brew that Cuaron has cooked up in his Harry pot. For on its own terms, this one is truly wizard...
...power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I hereby pronounce you partners for life." THE REV. KIM CRAWFORD HARVIE, minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, as she married David Wilson and Robert Compton, one of the first gay couples in Massachusetts to wed after same-sex marriages became legal last week...
Although the rush had died down at Cambridge City Hall after Monday’s exuberant early-morning celebration, same-sex couples continued to exercise their new legal right to marry yesterday, joining the more than 1,000 gay couples who have now wed across the state...
...same-sex couples who wed in Oregon may not be married forever. Judge Bearden's ruling that the state must recognize the marriages is being contested, and everyone is waiting for the higher courts. But Roey Thorpe got what she wanted: the pro-gay side goes into that case with the p.r. armor of 6,044 happy newlyweds. Those who oppose same-sex marriage must now argue against rights already granted. "I give them credit for achieving that beachhead," says the G.O.P.'s Mannix. "But will that short-term objective be worth weakening their long-term objectives...