The Washington Post website reports today (July 24, 2011) that lesbians Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd were legally married -- the very first moment they could be -- during a midnight ceremony at Niagara Falls that ushered in same-sex marriage in the empire state.
With a rainbow-lit Niagara Falls as a backdrop early today, Lambert, 54, and Rudd, 53, were among the first gay couples to tie the knot with the blessing of New York state, which last month became the sixth -- and largest -- state to sanction gay marriage.
The Buffalo women -- who are grandmothers with 12 grandchildren between them -- have been together for more than a decade, and had long been fighting for the right to marry.
Buffalo Mayor Paul Dyster performed the ceremony, which was attended by some of the state lawmakers, whose vote last month made it possible.
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