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N.Y. Allows Same-Sex Marriage, Becoming Largest State to Do So

Cuomo Signs Bill as 4 G.O.P. Senators Join 29 Democrats

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL BARBARO

The law will take effect in 30 days, making New York the sixth state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the gay-rights movement new momentum.

A Sense of Euphoria Settles on the West Village

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS and ADRIANE QUINLAN

After the vote in Albany, crowds gathered, screamed and embraced outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn, where the gay rights movement was born 42 years ago.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York signed a same-sex marriage bill into law late Friday in his office at the State Capitol.