The opponents come face to face on Beacon Hill
By Kevin Joy, Globe Correspondent, 3/30/2004
A few minutes after lawmakers voted to ban gay marriage in Massachusetts, a man who identified himself as Chauncy Chance rollerbladed around in front of the State House dressed in only a white hard hat, a Patrick Swayze T-shirt, and cutoff jean shorts.
"It's sad to see people are so hateful. This is who I am," said Chance, a musician from Jamaica Plain, blading past a man holding a sign that read: "Homosexuals Are Possessed by Demons."
"Get some treatment, honey," a woman told Chance.