It’s Wedding Day in New York!

It's a big day in the Empire State. At the stroke of midnight, marriages between same-sex couples became legal in New York. And, shortly thereafter, couples began getting married.

Over at AMERICAblog Gay, Tim Beauchamp wrote about the first weddings in Niagara Falls.

We'll be covering the day's festivities over at AMERICAblog Gay. So many couples were making plans to get married to day in NYC that Mayor Bloomberg instituted a lottery, capped at 764. But, fortunately, all 823 couples who applied were told they could get married today.

No surprise, there will be protests by homophobes, led by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Whatever. They're days of blocking equality are coming to an end. The trendline is moving in our direction -- and fast. New York is a tipping point. The haters know it. We know it.