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Yay..! Friday it wasthe single stroke of the pen it was made okay to have the gay marriages (gas/lesbian's/bi) in new York state! senators met in albany (that is the state capital and voted it is okay for the marriages tyo happen. Then the empire State Building (very important building in the new york boundary- LIT UP with all colors of the rainbow that is the symbol of the pride and joy in being gay (gay/lesbian/bi's. I sent case of wine to governon Komo who signed into LAW this right. Yay!
click mouse on the blue part (bellow) to see whole article http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...uickly/241027/
ps yes I know this should be in the other areas of the board but as long as you descriminate and cage me in the Introduction Form then that is where my threads go Think about it
How Did the Empire State Building 'Go Rainbow' So Quickly?
By Nicholas Jackson
Jun 25 2011, 12:01 AM ET 20
Less than an hour after the New York legislature passed a marriage equality bill 33 to 29 during a late session on Friday, Twitter started filling up with messages about how the Empire State Building had "gone rainbow." "OK, pictures of rainbow Empire State Building are getting me misty," screenwriter Diablo Cody wrote. "A rainbow shines on the Empire State and the Empire State building tonight!," another tweet read. And another: "Empire state building goes rainbow. Go us!"
A lot to celebrate. But wait a minute. How was the staff at one of the most iconic buildings in all of New York able to so quickly light up the exterior with the colors of the Gay Pride flag?
As it turns out, those responsible for the building have been prepared. And not necessarily because they anticipated that the bill would finally pass on Friday night. They were ready to flick the switch because the lights had been changed or installed more than six months ago when the building was last seen sporting that fabulous purple and red glow. Not for Gay Pride, which is celebrated in June across the United States, but for a Furthur show, according to Phish message boards.
A rock band founded in 2009 by Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, members of the Grateful Dead, Furthur played at the Madison Square Garden in November of last year. The Empire State Building was made to shine like a rainbow at night in honor of Jerry Garcia, the Dead's frontman until he passed away in 1995 at the age of 53.
Chris Frederick, the managing director of Heritage of Pride, the organizers responsible for NYC Pride, wrote in to note that his group negotiated with the building months in advance. "We typically always do lavender but for the first time ever we were able to have them do rainbow," Frederick said. "It was our decision to turn it rainbow and coincidentally it was the right decision."
My assumption here, though I do not have proof of this as the building's management is famously tight-lipped about its decisions to illuminate the Empire State Building (see the Mother Teresa controversy), is that Heritage of Pride was only able to plan for a rainbow building this year (despite the upgraded lighting system, which still has limitations, that was installed in 2007) because of the no-expenses-spared nature of the Jerry Garcia tribute in November.
By Nicholas Jackson
Jun 25 2011, 12:01 AM ET 20
Less than an hour after the New York legislature passed a marriage equality bill 33 to 29 during a late session on Friday, Twitter started filling up with messages about how the Empire State Building had "gone rainbow." "OK, pictures of rainbow Empire State Building are getting me misty," screenwriter Diablo Cody wrote. "A rainbow shines on the Empire State and the Empire State building tonight!," another tweet read. And another: "Empire state building goes rainbow. Go us!"A lot to celebrate. But wait a minute. How was the staff at one of the most iconic buildings in all of New York able to so quickly light up the exterior with the colors of the Gay Pride flag?
As it turns out, those responsible for the building have been prepared. And not necessarily because they anticipated that the bill would finally pass on Friday night. They were ready to flick the switch because the lights had been changed or installed more than six months ago when the building was last seen sporting that fabulous purple and red glow. Not for Gay Pride, which is celebrated in June across the United States, but for a Furthur show, according to Phish message boards.
A rock band founded in 2009 by Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, members of the Grateful Dead, Furthur played at the Madison Square Garden in November of last year. The Empire State Building was made to shine like a rainbow at night in honor of Jerry Garcia, the Dead's frontman until he passed away in 1995 at the age of 53.
Chris Frederick, the managing director of Heritage of Pride, the organizers responsible for NYC Pride, wrote in to note that his group negotiated with the building months in advance. "We typically always do lavender but for the first time ever we were able to have them do rainbow," Frederick said. "It was our decision to turn it rainbow and coincidentally it was the right decision."
My assumption here, though I do not have proof of this as the building's management is famously tight-lipped about its decisions to illuminate the Empire State Building (see the Mother Teresa controversy), is that Heritage of Pride was only able to plan for a rainbow building this year (despite the upgraded lighting system, which still has limitations, that was installed in 2007) because of the no-expenses-spared nature of the Jerry Garcia tribute in November.
ps yes I know this should be in the other areas of the board but as long as you descriminate and cage me in the Introduction Form then that is where my threads go Think about it
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