Not Sisters
Bobbi and Gerri first introduced themselves as sisters when we moved into an apartment one floor below them. But the headline above their picture in the Park Slope Patch nine years later reads, “Park Slope Couple First Same-Sex Couple to Wed in Brooklyn.” The picture caption reads, “After 48 years of coupledom, on Sunday morning Barbara Pilgrim, 83, and Geraldine Whitsett, 76, finally tied the knot.” I later learned that they had arrived at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall at 5:30 a.m. on July 24, 2011, the first day weddings were held after the Marriage Equality Act went into effect in New York. Sisters. How did I fall for that? They invited me to a party to celebrate their marriage and make more formal vows in front of a minister and a... Read more...
