Pictorial: Celebration outside the Stonewall.

[RandySF]

http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/new-york-passes-gay-marriage-bill?ref=fpblg

[Lucinda]

1. What a great night to be in NYC.

:) Awesome pic. Thankie!

[Chovexani]

2. And the soundtrack

http://youtu.be/g4IiccUjGps

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Wow! The energy is just coming off that picture!

I'm really happy for all New Yorkers!

Recommended.

[WCGreen]

4. Boy, this really touches me like nothing has in a long time....

I am so happy for my friends in the gay community.

When I ran for office back in 1996, I couldn't come out in favor of Gay Marriage. It was a different time all together. I am certainly not proud of how I handled that issue. I was in favor of domestic partners being able to get benefits. At the time I felt that the market place would force the issue. I was young, naive and put getting elected over what I truly felt.

I am toying with the idea of running again in 2012 and will gladly openly embrace gay marriage here in Ohio.

[MilesColtrane]

5. Cool!

"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice." - Theodore Parker

Congratulations to my brothers and sisters in New York state.

[Divine Discontent]

6. thrilled to see them celebrating THERE at Stonewall, where the modern Gay rights movement began!!!

Stonewall Riots - June 27-28, 1969 -The Day That Gay Persons Fought Back

On the evening of June 27th, 1969, New York City police did as they had done many times before, raided a known 'Gay' bar when it was full of patrons on a busy Friday night. But on this night, something unusual happened - the patrons of the Stonewall Inn refused to be arrested and taken away in paddy wagons for the 'crime' of being gay. They fought back. Riots in front of the Stonewall Inn in the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, quickly became an emblem of the modern-day Gay pride movement.



I hope some of the folks from those days are still around, and getting to enjoy this wonderful news! All other problems aside for today - today, we celebrate a victory! :applause: