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there were strict laws

about dressing like women.

She always had a loud,

loud, loud mouth.

The wallpaper would curl off the

walls when she started cursing.

Liz was the center

of every scene,

and she had a lot of energy.

She was a great dancer.

He had a portable record player,

and he would play records

over and over...

Judy Garland or Carmen Miranda

and all of that.

He loved that,

and then I remember

at the gay firehouse

on Wooster Street,

Liz saying this Vietnam veteran

was in love with him,

and I saw this guy,

and he was short.

I said, "He's tiny next to you.

"What are you going to do

with him? He's tiny."

"Oh, but he loves me,"

and blah, blah, blah.

He was sort of a troll,

and he loved her.

There's a troll that loved her.

WOJTOWICZ:
OK. After I first met

Ernie, I started to court him.

I knew that he sold his body

because he told me about that

to support himself.

We had a relationship.

We got closer

and closer together.

I fell in love with him

more and more,

and that's why I wanted

to get married,

and he was against us

getting married,

but, like I said, I convinced

him into getting married.

EDEN:

[Telephone rings]

BIFULCO:
I got a phone call

from my priest,

the guy who married me.

He says to me,

"Carmen, there's going to be

"a wedding coming in December.

You're going to get

an invitation for this wedding."

I go, "Who's getting married?"

He says, "Are you ready

for this? You ready?"

and he told me,

"John is going to get married

to someone in the Village."

I said, "What do you mean,

getting married to someone?

What kind of marriage?"

and he told me,

"He's marrying a guy,"

who was Ernie.

OK. You ready?

Testing 1,2,3,4,5, right?

Action?

OK. Now, in the old days,

this bar was called

What's In A Name Caf, OK?

We had the wedding reception

here and the wedding.

A gay priest came in, right?

He did the ceremony.

We were married.

GAA filmed it

for the archives, OK?

The cops from the 6th precinct

over here came out and say,

"What the f*** is going on

out there?"

EDEN:
And the cops came out,

congratulated us,

thinking we were all girls.

The whole wedding party

was all guys,

and when we came out for

the reception, they found out.

They said, "Hey, we didn't know

this was all happening."

I said, "Neither

did the priest."

WICKER, VOICE-OVER: I didn't

know John, but I heard

there was going to be

this wedding, and I said,

"I have to videotape this,"

because, first of all,

I don't think I'd ever heard

of a gay wedding at that point,

and not only was it

a gay wedding,

but the mother was going

to be there,

which was also sort of like,

"Oh, wow, what would

the mother be like?"

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