Warehouse fiancé: US woman to ‘gay-marry’ historical building
Published: 28 January, 2012, 18:14
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TAGS: Thrills&Spills, Protest, Human rights, USA
Seattle has an interesting choice about how to spend this Sunday: a barbeque, an Occupy event or Babylonia Aivaz’s wedding…to a 107-year-old building. And Aivaz needs to do it quick: demolition of the warehouse has already begun.
Babylonia says she hopes to save the abandoned building for a community center. The Occupy activist has to stand up to developer Seawest, which would rather use the space for a luxury apartment complex. Aivaz firmly opposes this act of gentrification, which she says would hit the poorer members of the neighborhood with increased rent.
“If corporations can have rights as people, so can buildings,” the “bride” told American Komonews, referencing a Supreme Court decision on political advertising. “I’m doing this to show the building how much I love it, how much I love community space and how much I love this neighborhood. And I want to stop it from gentrification.”
Aivaz says she fell head over heals with the building after joining a 200-strong Occupy Seattle protest inside the building last month.
“Yes, I’m in love with a 107-year-old building! Yes, it’s a gay marriage! How is that possible? Well there must obviously be a deeper story,” Aivaz wrote in her Facebook invitation to the wedding.
In December, Aivaz and 16 other activists “Occupied” the warehouse, believing this piece of heritage should be reclaimed as community space.
When demolition began this week, Aivaz put on her wedding dress and went to the site, climbing equipment to attract attention to her cause. Despite the cranes still towering gloomily at the spot, Aivaz says the ceremony is going to take place on Sunday at 1pm, with anyone willing invited to attend. And afterwards, the party can always carry on at an Occupy event planned for the evening.
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This is so stupid, it has nothing to do with gay marriage, if anything it is just playing into the hands of the people who don't want equal rights for gays, I really do not understand why she would put the word gay at all.
One should never forget the old Roman maxim “DIVIDE AND CONQUER” …applies so very much to the society itself.
Give them “freedoms” by which you will actually divide them.
Give them “democracy” by which you will actually antagonise them instead unite them. In doing so let them fight each other, and they won´t even know what for they fight making sure you will weaken them and finally benefit from them all.
More freedoms, gay pride parade marches, with witch you will actually provoke a serious confrontation between gays and straights - if the gays are more important than the straight. You never seen ´a straights pride parade march` have you? Had it come time to be PROUD to be gay? Common sense?
Use the very foundation on which the society is build being told so till now by the church’s moral dogs, namely the marriage - as the fundamental family unit upon which is build the society. Then divorce them, rip off the man, and even deny his right to see his children so you the lawyers, judges and social workers can earn a dollar more.
Screw the morals and ethics having endured the tests of times. Twist, pervert and destroy everything in the society… serve and obey ME for I am YOUR master 666.






Sounds like she may be suffering from an edifice complex.