Hundreds of gay couples with their family, friends and supporters line up in front of the NYC Marriage Bureau in Lower Manhattan

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Hundreds of gay couples with their family, friends and supporters line up in front of the NYC Marriage Bureau in Lower Manhattan in New York on Sunday, July 24, 2011. Because the Gay Marriage Act becomes law on this Sunday the City of New York took the unprecedented move of opening up the Marriage Bureaus in the five boroughs on a Sunday to marry gay couples who entered the lottery and chose to marry on the first day. (© Frances M. Roberts)

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