Pride Month is coming up in June and to celebrate, the Beekman 1802 farm is inviting 100 couples to say “I do” atop “Matrimony Hill,” inside a rainbow-colored glass house.
A man and woman who met a half century ago in the Caribbean and reunited two years ago have been married in a ceremony held in a western New York hospital where the husband is being treated for leukemia.
A downstate Assemblywoman is trying to raise the legal age of marriage in New York to 17. Currently the law allows children as young as 14 to be legally wed with parental consent and court approval.