Portland: Largest US city with openly gay mayor
Two months ago, Sam Adams, a Portland city commissioner and the mayor-elect, rallied a crowd of gay rights activists as part of a national series of protests against California’s new ban on same-sex marriage.
Speaking into a bullhorn, he urged the protesters to continue pushing for legal same-sex marriage in all 50 states, but he urged them not to embark that day on an unauthorized march.
“This community is watching us, the nation is watching us,” he said. “They are going to judge us for what we do today, and today we do not have a permit to march — not because the city won’t let us but because this happened so quickly we couldn’t get the paperwork in.”
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