First Same-Sex Marriages in Our Nation’s Capital to Take Place Today: Watch Livestream

Oddly, while battles elsewhere over marriage equality for LGBT folks have garnered great attention from the national media, here in Washington, D.C. — the nation’s capital — our journey to this moment has drawn only modest interest. All this despite the ferocious opposition launched by the religious right, which even relocated its point man, Bishop Harry Jackson, to the District of Columbia, so that he might enjoy the legal standing of of a district resident as the battle ensued.

Jackson’s role on the national stage as star homophobe is brought to you by the Family Research Council, which is led by Tony Perkins, a man with ties to hard-core racists. Jackson, who is African-American, was tapped to rally Washington’s majority-black population against same-sex marriage. But it didn’t work — perhaps because African-American LGBT folks are among the leaders who have made this happen.

Today, the Human Rights Campaign will livestream three of the first same-sex weddings to take place in Washington, D.C., beginning at 10:00 A.M. EST. One of those couples — Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend — is profiled today in the Washington Post. All three of the featured couples are African-American. Watch livestream below.

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