Four members of Queer Rising chained themselves together and attempted a blockade of Manhattan’s marriage bureau on the morning of February 12 after several same-sex couples entered the bureau and were denied marriage licenses.
“The system is broken,” said Alan L. Bounville as he stood at the entrance of the bureau chained to three other men. “We the people have the power to fix the system.”
Arrested with Bounville were Jake Goodman, Gabriel Yuri Bollag, and Justin Elzie. The four were arraigned late in the day on February 12 and each was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct, a violation, and one count of obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor.
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