I have seen the following picture on nearly a dozen sites in the last hour. Yahoo, Mashable and even The Trevor Project are posting the photo, claiming that it was taken last night at Niagara Falls. With the photo showing up on Lance Bass' Twitter feed last night, the world has just assumed it to be true. Some have even credited Bass with the photo.
Regardless of when the photo was taken, I think it is still a wonderful symbol for marriage equality in New York. It just upsets me when people take something at face value, when the truth could have been discovered in one Google search in less than a minute. Ugh.
Well, Lance Bass didn't take the photo. Turns out, the photo isn't even from last night. If any of these "journalists" would have done 30 seconds of research, they would have discovered that the photo was taken by Mykelle Nicole, in June of 2008. You can see the original on Nicole's Flickr page. It's one out of a series of pictures taken in Niagara Falls that night. I recommend taking a look at her page. She's quite talented.
Regardless of when the photo was taken, I think it is still a wonderful symbol for marriage equality in New York. It just upsets me when people take something at face value, when the truth could have been discovered in one Google search in less than a minute. Ugh.
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