Mayor De Blasio Remarries Tom Kirdahy and Terrence McNally!

By: Jun. 26, 2015
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Mayor De Blasio marked the Supreme Court's landmark decision on same-sex marriage today by remarrying his college roommate, THE VISIT producer Tom Kirdahy, and his husband, playwright Terrence McNally!

Scroll down for a photo of the amazing couple and read Kirdahy's original Tweet: "We got re-married by my college roommate @BilldeBlasio @Chirlane #SCOTUS #pride #lgbt"

Kirdahy and McNally were united in a civil ceremony in 2001, then officially married in 2010 when Washington, D.C. legalized same-sex marriage. Now that the whole country has the same opportunity, they've celebrated with a third joyous (and impromptu) ceremony!

The couple just worked together on Broadway's THE VISIT, starring Chita Rivera and featuring a book by McNally. McNally is also currently represented on the Great White Way by IT'S ONLY A PLAY. His piece MOTHERS AND SONS ran last year (also produced by Kirdahy), and LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART also played off-Broadway in 2014.

Among the prolific, Tony-winning playwright's other works are PAL JOEY, LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!, AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, CORPUS CHRISTI, FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE, DEUCE, THE RITZ, MASTER CLASS, SHORT TALKS ON THE UNIVERSE, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, THE FULL MONTY, RAGTIME, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, THE RINK and more.

This week, the United States Supreme Court was faced with a landmark decision involving the legalization of same-sex marriage across the country. The high court was confronted with two questions, whether states can ban same-sex marriage and whether states must recognize same-sex marriages performed legally in other states.

This morning, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment requires individual states to license a same-sex marriage. The nine justices reviewed an appellate court's decision to uphold gay marriage bans in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.

The landmark ruling was a 5-4 decision with the majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who declared, "From their beginning to their most recent page, the annals of human history reveal the transcendent importance of marriage."


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