Long Island Gay Couple Charged With Trespassing In Marriage License Protest

[WillParkinson]

(Oyster Bay, New York) A middle-aged gay couple was charged with trespassing when they refused to leave the town clerk's office after being refused a marriage license.

Dan Pinello, 58, and Lee Nissensohn, 50, entered the building about 3:30 Monday afternoon.

Town Clerk Steven L. Labriola told the couple he was "precluded by law" from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

"We're not trying to make statements here, we're trying to do our jobs," he later told Newsday.

Pinello and Nissensohn have been together for 15 years but say New York's ban on same-sex marriage treats them like strangers.



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