Court wins draw big crowds to gay pride parades

[Omaha Steve]

I have a different story in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014523576


http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130701/DA78CPSO0.html

By LISA LEFF

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay rights supporters crowded parade routes in San Francisco, New York and other major U.S. cities Sunday to celebrate what once was unimaginable - two Supreme Court victories on same-sex marriage.

The high court gave celebrants one more reason to cheer Sunday when Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected a last-ditch effort by opponents to stop gay marriages in California.

Among the thousands at San Francisco's event, now in its 43rd year, were scores of teenage girls, opposite-sex couples and families with children.

"You can feel the smiles," Graham Linn, 42, of Oakland said as he stood on a three-foot-tall building ledge surveying crowds 10-deep on the sidewalks. "All around you there is a release. There is a vindication, and you can feel it."

FULL story at link.

[William769]

1. I am still trying to let it sink in what actually happened.

I was preparing for it, it's been a couple of days now and I'm still in a daze. I am so happy for our brothers & sisters in California and still optimistic that the rest will follow in short order.