“While dozens celebrated as they became some of the state's first legally married same-sex couples, hundreds at Buffalo's Niagara Square were protesting those unions.
Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd may have been the first gay married couple in New York when Falls Mayor Paul Dyster made it official in the first minutes of Sunday but by the end of the day they had many companions across the state.
They married on Luna Island with the lights of Niagara Falls behind them.
"It was a beautiful and joyous moment," said one of those present, Bryan Ball, president of the gay political group, Stonewall Democrats.
"What means most to us is that we're going to be treated just like everyone else."
SDWNY congratulates our Vice-President and Outspoken for Equality activist Kitty Lambert and her new wife's, Cheryle Rudd, marriage the moment Marriage Equality became legal on July, 24 2011 at 12:00:01 AM. The Lambert-Rudd couple marriage before a crowd of family, friends, elected officials, activists and supporters in a beautiful ceremony, as a newly iconic image of the happiness Marriage Equality brings, married by Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster in a joyous moment to the backdrop of Niagara Falls. SDWNY congratulates Kitty and Cheryle on their part in making equality legal for all New York families, and looks forward to the day when our United States government treats us equally under the law. Marriage would not have happened if not for the work of Kitty and Cheryle in NYS, and others who shared their determination, love and perseverance!
This week, SDWNY VP Kitty Lambert and her wife to be, Cheryle Rudd, were featured in the New York Times, in an article on New York same-gender couples who will be marrying when the new laws take effect this weekend.
Stonewall Democrats of Western New York is the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer Democratic voice in western New York. Our mission is to advocate for the LGBTQ community within the WNY area government and the Democratic Party.
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