UPDATE: Other newspapers have spelled "Fury" as "Furey" and have referred to Bobby Bienvenido as "Bobby Amagna" and "Bienvenido Amagna."
Youngsters Michael Fury, 62, and Bobby Bienvenido, 65, who have been together for eighteen years, were the first same-sex couple to get married at Brooklyn Borough Hall today, the first day of marriage equality in the state of New York.
Youngsters Michael Fury, 62, and Bobby Bienvenido, 65, who have been together for eighteen years, were the first same-sex couple to get married at Brooklyn Borough Hall today, the first day of marriage equality in the state of New York.
The term "youngsters" is being applied to them in comparison to Barbara Pilgrim, 82, and Geraldine Whitsett, 76, newlyweds who have been together for forty-eight years.
City Clerks’ offices throughout the state and in the five boroughs, which are normally not open on Sundays, were open to honor the law passed in Albany on June 24th, which took effect today. New York is the sixth state to recognize the legal right of same-sex couples to be joined in matrimony.
We wish these two couples and all the other couples who are going to get married a continued long and happy life together.