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LI GLBT Expo in Melville draws thousands

Originally published: September 30, 2012 6:55 PM
Updated: September 30, 2012 8:09 PM
By EMILY C. DOOLEY emily.dooley@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Michael and Terrence Sheperd of Jackson Heights, with their 6-month old daughter Madison. The dads wear the NOH8 (No Hate Campaign) logo offered at the fourth annual Long Island GLBT Expo in Melville. (Sept. 30, 2012)

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The Long Island GLBT Expo marked its fourth anniversary Sunday, drawing more than 3,000 people who met vendors, took photos as part of an anti-hate campaign and checked out a new same-sex-wedding website.

At Hilton Long Island in Melville, the expo attracted all ages from Suffolk and Nassau counties, Manhattan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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