Triumphant NY governor hailed at gay pride parade

This year, the revelry went beyond floats, music and dancing. It included wedding plans.

"We've been waiting to get married in Central Park for years, and now we got here just in time for history to be made," said Bryce Croft of Kettering, Ohio, who attended the parade with her partner, Stephanie Croft.

The two women are not yet legally married although they share the same name, and they are planning to move to New York and get married. They were in a restaurant when they learned that the same-sex marriage bill had passed.

"We cried over dinner, right into the mozzarella sticks," Stephanie Croft said.

Throngs of cheering supporters greeted Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he led off the parade two days after signing the historic bill that made New York the sixth state to extend full marriage rights to gay couples.

"New York has sent a message to the nation," Cuomo said before the march down Fifth Avenue. "It is time for marriage equality."

Revelers hoisted signs that said "Thank you, Gov. Cuomo" and "Promise kept."