This Says It All...
Tom Lang and Alexander Westerhoff spent all day at the Massachusetts State House on Friday holding an 8' x 4' sign which reads, "Thank You Massachusetts for 5 Years of Equality. Lang and Westerhoff who have been together for 21 years and who were married on the first day of legal recognition, May 17, 2004 by The Reverend Peter J. Gomes of Harvard, make holding this Thank You sign their anniversary tradition.
"We have held this sign on our anniversary for five years now and have vowed to be at the Massachusetts State House every year on or about May 17th to say thank you," Lang says. "This day to us is a day of thanks and we want all those who made this possible to know that we will never forget that on May 17th, 2004, at least in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts my husband and myself and all other gay people became one step closer to being full American citizens."
Tom Lang, Director of
KnowThyNeighbor.org