Denise Simmons and Mattie Hayes Getting Married

Posted 1 year ago at 7:12 am. 1 comment

Next Sunday, Cambridge, Massachusetts mayor E. Denise Simmons will marry her long-time partner, Mattie B. Hayes, in a ceremony at the predominantly African American St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church.  Simmons, who was recently involved in the controversy surrounding the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., notes, “I believe this may be the very first African-American church to hold a same gender wedding, and that’s something that just wouldn’t have happened years ago.”