More Than 1,000 Gay Couples Seek Licenses
By Associated Press

BOSTON -- More than 1,000 gay couples sought applications for marriage licenses on the first day Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to legally wed, a survey of the largest cities and towns in the state by The Associated Press showed.

Separately, a survey by The Boston Globe found that two-thirds of gays who applied for the licenses Monday were women, and 40 percent of those female couples said they had children in their households, the newspaper reported Tuesday.