I was reading the paper today, looking for the advice columns, when I happened upon an article about a gay wedding planner. I searched for it online, and first found a new article interviewing two gay rights activists of different generations.
If you still have the paper, the articles are pages C1 and C3 of the Metro Section and E10 of the Arts & Style section of the Washington Post.
The article about the interview was columnist Robert McCartney. He talked with Frank Kameny, who he says picketed the White House and "forced the American Psychiatric Association to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental illness". The other was Rich Madaleno, a Maryland state senator, who hopes the signing of the bill will press home to straight couples that gay couples are no different. He raises two adopted children with his partner.
The other article, by Ellen McCartney, is about Rob Gillan, the founder of D.C.'s Gay Wedding Planners, and the shocking number of inquiries he's received when "setting up a company focused on gay weddings". Also mentioned is Kathryn Hamm, who runs the site GayWeddings.com.
As a girl who can only recall fantasizing about how she would design her wedding to her wife, I think this is a wonderful thing to work for. Let's just cross our fingers that no Prop 8 problems crop up in DC as they did in California.
