DC residents Angelisa Young, 47, and Sinjoyla Townsend, 41, who have been a couple for 12 years, celebrated their wedding Tuesday, March 9 at Human Rights Campaign headquarters. DC Agenda video capture by Steve FoxLesbian and gay couples have been getting married in the District of Columbia since March 9. Over 100 gay and lesbian couples waited for hours on March 3 to sign up for marriage licenses at a DC courthouse.
The city’s LGBTQ newspaper, DC Agenda has covered the advent of marriage equality with a number of stories.
Longtime Blade/Agenda reporter Lou Chibbaro has written several of the stories including one about the first group of couples to celebrate wedding ceremonies:
Under the watchful eye of nearly two dozen television cameras and news photographers, three same-sex couples took their wedding vows Tuesday morning before about 150 guests at a ceremony held less than a mile from the White House.
The weddings, held at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters, were among the first to take place after the city’s same-sex marriage law took effect last week.
D.C. residents Angelisa Young, 47, and Sinjoyla Townsend, 41, who have been a couple for 12 years, were the first to say “I do” after exchanging rings before a barrage of clicking cameras.
“Today was like a dream for me,” Young said after the ceremony. “I always felt like it would come true. But it’s here now, and it’s really real, we want to thank everyone who made this possible.”
[see DC Agenda video report at the end of this post]
While the ceremonies at HRC’s headquarters had the highest profile, they weren’t the first, Joshua Lynsen reports:
