Advocates Laud Post for Gay Announcement

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WASHINGTON -- It wasn't the typical bride and groom photo in The Washington Post "Weddings" section -- but rather the smiling faces of two women, happily announcing their marriage after 18 years together.

A gay-rights advocacy group hailed the nuptials notice in the Post as the first announcement of a legally married same-sex couple in a major U.S. newspaper. The announcement appeared in Wednesday's "Engagements, Weddings and Anniversaries" section.

Evan Wolfson of the New York-based group, Freedom to Marry, said the Post "treated this couple the same as any other married couple and ran their joyous news on the wedding page."

The couple, Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch of Takoma Park, Md., were married in Toronto on June 27. Although the Price-Murdoch marriage is believed to be the legally recognized gay marriage carried in a major paper, The New York Times and other papers have been running announcements of civil unions and notices of various kinds of ceremonies held by gay couples.

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