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It's been 41 years since the first Boston Pride. We take Pride for granted now -- if there are men in in harnesses dancing on floats, it must be June. But Pride wasn't always so mainstream; in fact, it wasn't even always Pride. In its earliest incarnation was a nameless Provincetown march, organized by nascent "homophile" groups to mark the first anniversary of the explosive Stonewall revolt.

GLAD is tweeting that Judge Joseph Tauro ruled today that the Defense of Marriage Act -- which defines marriage as between one man and one woman -- does violate the equal protection clause in the Constitution. He also issued a decision in a similar case brought by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. I wrote about these cases last month.