Two Key West men leading the fight for gay marriage in the Florida Keys will also lead the Fantasy Fest parade, part of the island city's 10-day costuming and masking festival that began Friday.
Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones will serve as the parade's grand marshals after the couple won a ruling from a Monroe County judge that overturned Florida's statewide ban on same-sex marriage for residents of the Keys.
However, they still can't marry because Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi appealed the ruling and recently requested a final verdict from the Florida Supreme Court.
"Being chosen as grand marshals for Fantasy Fest is a great honor towards our fight for marriage equality and it's a great opportunity to stand up as one human family here in Key West and show the rest of the state, if not the world, that equality needs to be for everybody," Huntsman said in a statement.
Huntsman and Jones will head the Fantasy Fest Parade through Key West's historic downtown Saturday night. The procession typically draws more than 60,000 people to watch costumed marching groups, street dancers, bands and decorated motorized floats.
