BY SUSANA ENRIQUEZ
Newsday.com
About five dozen people stood in a steady rain outside the Oyster Bay clerk's office Monday, holding signs and chanting "Let Dan and Lee Marry" as an East Hills gay couple applied for a marriage license.
The couple, Dan Pinello, 58, and Lee Nissensohn, 50, walked in at 3:30 p.m. and when they walked out nearly two hours later, they each had a ticket for trespassing.
The two men had been prepared to be arrested to make a point about the need for a law in New York that would allow same-sex marriage. But the couple relented and agreed beforehand with town officials to leave once they were ticketed.
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