“Gay/Lesbian Weddings in Full Swing in Argentina”

Gay/Lesbian Weddings in Full Swing in Argentina

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 06:35 AM PDT

Sergio Donoso is gay and says he loves feathers. So on this day, in Andrea Pipkin's party favors shop, he draped a white feather boa around his neck, donning plastic neon sunglasses and a goofy silver-topped hat. "I'm going with the feathers," Donoso, 38, said. "I don't care if it's gay or not, I like it, and that's it."
His advisers cooed in approval.

"Precious, just precious," Vanesa Marini said, checking off her to-do list.

And so it was all afternoon as Donoso, with Marini and her business associate, Miriam Perez, at his side, careered across the capital preparing for Donoso�s October wedding to Natalio Kusnir. The men have been partners for 17 years but now, after Argentine lawmakers in July made same-sex marriage legal, they will take the plunge.

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