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TV's Mr. Sulu boldly goes for wedding licence
William Booth (The Washington Post, 18-6-2008)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- It was a lovely day for a wedding. Blue skies. Rose petals. News helicopters.
Bakers handed out creamy cupcakes to hundreds of couples waiting patiently in line. A lone protester in a devil's mask waved a sign that read: "Pervert Weddings Done Here." One of the grooms stopped, looked Beelzebub up and down, and snapped "nice costume." The mayor of West Hollywood, Jeff Prang, called the day "absolutely historic" and "truly tectonic" and "the culmination of millennia" of struggle.
It was the first full day for same-sex couples to wed in California, and the City of West Hollywood (population 40,000 and one-third gay or lesbian, according to city officials) was enjoying its role. The city's public information officers were bustling about like wedding planners. "OK," one barked, "now we go outside and do the champagne."
There were "celebrity couples," and the most famous was George Takei and his partner, Brad Altman. Takei played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek.
The couple wore suits and open shirts. Altman also wore a touch of makeup, for the cameras. There were a lot of cameras, but Takei took Altman's hand and steered him through the jostling news crews like an old pro, the smiling, nodding veteran of countless sci-fi conventions.
"Isn't this a glorious California morning to make history?" Takei said.
"This is the second happiest day of my life," Altman said, explaining the happiest day will come in September when the couple are married at a ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
The couple will honeymoon at Machu Picchu. On Tuesday, they came to West Hollywood to get their licence.
Takei gave Altman a squeeze, grinned and proclaimed, "May equality live long and prosper!" Then he raised his palm, fingers splayed in the universally recognized Vulcan greeting, and the photographers went nuts. And there you go: the new face of gay marriage.
TV's Mr. Sulu boldly goes for wedding licence
William Booth (The Washington Post, 18-6-2008)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- It was a lovely day for a wedding. Blue skies. Rose petals. News helicopters.
Bakers handed out creamy cupcakes to hundreds of couples waiting patiently in line. A lone protester in a devil's mask waved a sign that read: "Pervert Weddings Done Here." One of the grooms stopped, looked Beelzebub up and down, and snapped "nice costume." The mayor of West Hollywood, Jeff Prang, called the day "absolutely historic" and "truly tectonic" and "the culmination of millennia" of struggle.
It was the first full day for same-sex couples to wed in California, and the City of West Hollywood (population 40,000 and one-third gay or lesbian, according to city officials) was enjoying its role. The city's public information officers were bustling about like wedding planners. "OK," one barked, "now we go outside and do the champagne."
There were "celebrity couples," and the most famous was George Takei and his partner, Brad Altman. Takei played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek.
The couple wore suits and open shirts. Altman also wore a touch of makeup, for the cameras. There were a lot of cameras, but Takei took Altman's hand and steered him through the jostling news crews like an old pro, the smiling, nodding veteran of countless sci-fi conventions.
"Isn't this a glorious California morning to make history?" Takei said.
"This is the second happiest day of my life," Altman said, explaining the happiest day will come in September when the couple are married at a ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
The couple will honeymoon at Machu Picchu. On Tuesday, they came to West Hollywood to get their licence.
Takei gave Altman a squeeze, grinned and proclaimed, "May equality live long and prosper!" Then he raised his palm, fingers splayed in the universally recognized Vulcan greeting, and the photographers went nuts. And there you go: the new face of gay marriage.
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