Vito Russo participated in this "Zap!" with The Gay Activists Alliance. Links to original video footage from 1971 are below.
The Gay Activist Alliance decided to occupy NYC's Marriage License Bureau, June 4,1971, after the City Clerk threatened to arrest the minister of a local gay church for performing "Services of Holy Union" which the City Clerk said were the equivalent of gay marriage. Gay marriage was not yet one of the LGBT movement's goal in 1971 but the activists felt they couldn't stand by while a city official threatened the Church of the Beloved Disciple with legal action. They decided to take over the NYC Marriage License Bureau and throw an engagement party for two gay couples.
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