Gay marriage row hits New York
By Timothy Williams in New York
March 05, 2004
THE fight over gay marriages reached the largest city in the US as about three dozen same-sex couples asked for licences and were turned down.

One applicant warned: "This isn't going away."
Couples in a New York suburb were also rejected, but across the country in Portland, Oregon, a line of at least 100 hopefuls snaked around a building as Multnomah County handed out licences to gay couples for a second day.