It’s Legal!
Last Friday was the beginning of the Gay Pride Festival in New York City. I was lucky enough to have the next day off from the hospital and my very good friend Bennifer and his boyfriend Mariano bussed up from Washington D.C. to Pride it up and visit me in Crooklyn.
At some point in the evening, we ended up at the Duplex, an awesome piano bar in the West Village. After having some drinks we wandered outside and ran into a massive mob of people, rainbow flags and cops on horses. We eventually realized that gay marriage had just been legalized in New York, and we were standing right in front of the Stonewall Inn. This was the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which are widely considered to be the single most important events leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United States.
And there we were, jumping up and down in the streets, screaming, hugging, laughing and crying. A moment in history. A moment frozen in time.
Oh, and during all of the celebration, I somehow lost my iPhone.
So, the good news is that I was dead center in the middle of a celebration that will forever go down in history. But the bad news is that my iPhone was sacrificed.
I’d say it was a fair exchange. 
Anyway, yay, yay, yay for New York joining the “smart states!”
Photos: I lost all of the photos on my phone, but I swiped these two awesome ones from Bennifer and Chris.