With this law, I thee wed …
Dancers in Pink (c. 1876), Edgar Degas. In the collection of the Hill-Stead Museum.
Yesterday, on July 24, 2011, the state of New York passed the Marriage Equality Act, enabling gay men and women from Staten Island to the Adirondacks to legally wed their partners.
This is in their honour: Degas’ Dancers in Pink.
To all my friends in the Big Apple, you guys rock.
Love rules.
This post rocks. We have a few marriage-minded friends in NYC–who have been waiting a *very* long time for this day–and we hope they don’t get hitched while we are in Singapore
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notabilia
July 25, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Hurrah for NY ! It IS high time. Someone I knew had to go out to California to get hitched a while back, but I guess this changes so much. You should be doubly proud to be a NY-er today.
jusdeananas
July 26, 2011 at 1:16 am
PS. My geography sucks. Is Staten Island the southernmost point in the state ? I tried picturing it in my head – as opposed to using a map, which would have been the logical thing to do – and couldn’t see anything past SI. It is, right ? …
jusdeananas
July 26, 2011 at 1:20 am
Yes, you are correct about SI being the southernmost point in NYC. (Related: can you explain to me why there is a sign on Sentosa indicating that a point off that island is the southernmost point on continental Asia? How is that possible? Singapore isn’t ON the continent and Sentosa lies OFF Singapore.)
As for being a proud New Yorker, a hundred times yes. Friends of ours went to Mass. and Conn. to get married; some of them are now getting remarried at “home!”
notabilia
July 26, 2011 at 10:40 am
Had to google that: http://www.sentosa.com.sg/en/attractions/beaches/southernmost-point-of-continental-asia/
Lol !! You’re definitely right there – it makes zero sense. Sentosa certainly isn’t the southernmost tip of the continent, Johor is. It isn’t even the southernmost point of Asia in general; there’s the Indonesian archipelago further down …
jusdeananas
July 26, 2011 at 11:34 am