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Gay Marriage Pushed to the Forefront By Activist Mayor

By Janice G. Inman
March 29, 2004

Editor's Note: For daily state-by-state information on the fast-changing issue of same-sex marriage, please visit our Web site at http://www.ljnonline.com/ and click on the interactive map.

After a prolonged silence on the increasingly charged national issue of same-sex marriage, New Yorkers finally entered the fray in February. It all began, of course, when New Paltz mayor Jason West, a 26-year-old who ran for mayor last year on the Green Party ticket, became the first elected official in New York State to preside over the marriage of a gay couple. None of the couples were issued marriage licenses, a prerequisite to marriage under state law. On that first day, February 27, West married 25 couples in the Village Hall parking lot.

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