Same-Sex Marriage at Uneasy Milestone in Massachusetts ; Party, Division Mark Ruling's Anniversary

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BOSTON - In the year since Massachusetts became the only state to permit gays and lesbians to wed, nearly 6,000 same-sex couples have traded marriage vows.

To commemorate the May 17 anniversary, many of those couples plan to waltz at a gala party at Boston's swank Copley Plaza Hotel and pose for a group photograph outside the Massachusetts statehouse. Among other festivities around the state, the Boston suburb of Belmont plans an ice cream social.

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Same-Sex Marriage at Uneasy Milestone in Massachusetts ; Party, Division Mark Ruling's Anniversary

But those celebrations occur against a sobering national backdrop for supporters of same-sex marriage: A powerful coast-to-coast backlash has meant that rather than emerging as the legal trendsetter on marriage for gays and lesbians, ...

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