Giant Anniversary Photo Shoot Staged for Gay Couples, Tuesday, Boston

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Giant Anniversary Photo Shoot Staged for Gay Couples; Family, Friends, Supporters to Mark Historic First Anniversary

5/16/2005 3:51:00 PM


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To: Metro and Assignment desks

Contact: Marc Solomon of MassEquality, 617-283-8237; Josh Friedes of Freedom to Marry, 617-821-7206; Carisa Cunningham of GLAD, 617-447-6500

News Advisory:

The "official" anniversary photograph of gay and lesbian couples, their families, friends and supporters will be snapped at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, May 17, the first anniversary of equal marriage in Massachusetts. The photograph will be staged on the steps of the Boston Common leading to the State House.

More than 6,000 gay and lesbian couples have married in Massachusetts since May 17, 2004, when the Supreme Judicial Court set that date in their decision on the Goodridge case brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). Tomorrow's photograph will be signed by married couples and eventually presented to the Legislature.

Other anniversary activities tomorrow in the Greater Boston area include the following:

1-4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Association national headquarters at 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA (No. 25 is immediately adjacent to the Massachusetts State House and next door to the Parkman House).

Contact: Janet Hayes, UUA Information Officer, 617-948-4386 (office), 781-964-1851 (cell)

4 p.m. -- Cambridge One-Year Anniversary Reception in the Sullivan Chamber of City Hall. For more information, contact Ini Tomeu in City Manager's office 617-349-4339

4:30 p.m. -- Newton "Celebrates Our Families," hosted by Mayor David Cohen on the steps of the War Memorial Auditorium in City Hall at 1000 Comm. Ave.

Contact: Jeremy Solomon 617-796-1110

7 p.m. -- First Anniversary Party, Fairmont Copley Hotel, Boston, sponsored by the Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts, MassEquality and GLAD.

Contact: Josh Friedes 617- 821-7206

There are events happening throughout the Commonwealth including Lowell, Worcester, Hyannis, and Provincetown, Hingham, and Northampton. For details, visit http:////www.MassEquality.org.

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