Hundreds rally in Midtown to celebrate DOMA decision, promise to fight for change in Georgia

• Joeff Davis/CL File
• It was an historic day and the Atlanta gay community celebrated with a party at corner of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue.

Yesterday morning, state Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, sat on her couch and cried.

Although Georgia's first openly gay state lawmaker was overjoyed to hear the news that the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, she shed tears. She was grateful.

"Thank you, God," she said. "Thank you, God, for making me gay. Thank you, God, for bringing me to Georgia. And thank you, God, for letting it happen today."

Yesterday afternoon, as Atlantans got off work, members of every letter of the city and metro region's LGBTQ community descended on the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in Midtown to celebrate the court's decision in U.S. v. Windsor, legalizing gay marriage at the federal level.