10-Year-Old Gives Gay Marriage Speech Before NYC City Council

Two months ago, fifth-grader Kameron Slade wrote a speech for a school competition that his principal forbid him from delivering. The topic was gay marriage. His mother, April Grantham-Slade, told the New York Times that her son wanted to address a subject that hadn't been talked about much. Local media outlets heard about Kameron's predicament, and the 10-year-old was invited to deliver his words for the cameras of TV station NY1. The video of Kameron's speech received more than 600,000 views on YouTube, and he was ultimately allowed to speak at a special school assembly.

Yesterday City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn -- who married her partner, Kim M. Catullo, in May -- gave Kameron an even bigger platform when she asked him to deliver the speech in the council chambers. Kameron, who arrived with his parents and grandfather, looked stylish and self-assured in a gray suit. He said he felt "honored." I'm thinking his what-I-did-with-my-summer-vacation essays will be pretty interesting to read.

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