Zach Adamson

“It created a crisis that prompted us to move faster so we could get control of the situation before it got out of control.”

When the dust settled, all the grant dollars gone and the final report submitted, I still had no plan on paper. Had I chosen the right path?

Jim Wilke, a former rider in the International Gay Rodeos, is featured in the exhibit, and spoke at the museum about openly gay life in the American West.

“Everybody who is anybody has their weddings there,” says Zach Adamson about Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, says Charles Venable about New York City, “We wanted a civil service. There is a chapel-like room in the city clerk’s office. You’re not just handed a piece of paper, which is really nice.”

City-county councilman Zach Adamson and partner Christian Mosburg flew to Washington D.C. today, only partly by choice: The two can’t tie the knot in their home state, so they’re going where same-sex marriages are legally recognized.

Best known as one of Indy’s top florists, he helped bring the city’s LGBT festival out of the closet.

Christie Wahlert of SoBro Egg Factory: “We are in egg overload at the moment and have even begun selling them to friends and giving them away. My hairstylist got a six-pack of eggs along with her normal tip the last time I went in.”

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“Zach is the model of a modern LGBT candidate,” says one political observer. “He has done it all on his own. He didn’t wait for the party boss to tell him it was okay.”