The Baltimore Pride festival will host a mass same-sex wedding with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake presiding over the ceremony,
writes the AP in a story that ran in the Washington Post. The June 16 event will take place in Druid Hill Park.
The mayor has officiated other same-sex marriages since gay marriage became legal Jan. 1. Event planners and marketers in the wedding industry said last year that
legalizing gay marriage would boost business.