It's not Everyday...
By Byron LaMasters
When you've finished your last exam for the semester, ironically where one of the questions in my Southern History since 1865 exam was on the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KA.
And today would be the 50th Anniversary of that landmark civil rights case that brought down the folly of "seperate but equal".
And today would also be the first day that gay marriage is legally recognized in the United States, albeit only in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, although New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has vowed to recognize Massachusetts marriages in New York.
So in celebration of fifty years of progress on school integration in America (of course, there's still much work to do), and legal same-sex marriage in America, here's a picture of an interracial gay couple married today in Massachusetts:
Heck of a day, huh?
Posted by Byron LaMasters at May 17, 2004 04:53 PM
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