irreversible damaging effects

Comments of celebration, and some inevitable criticism, began to flow late Friday night and into the Pride weekend worldwide as New York, the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, became the sixth and most populous state, in addition to Washington, D.C., to give same-sex couples the right to civil marriages through a historic vote in the Republican-led state senate.

Entertainment publicist and avowed lesbian Mona Elyafi broke up with the only man in her life -- The Marlboro Man! While quitting smoking may be good for Mona's health, it turned out to have harmful effects on her love life...that is, it appeared to turn her temporarily straight.