During his onstage interview this afternoon, James Randi announced that ten days ago he married his partner of 27 years, artist Jose Alvarez, whose real name is Devyi Pena. This was presaged by a slide in Michael Shermer’s talk this morning, which, when touching on gay marriage, showed a picture of Randi and Alvarez in tuxes with carnations in their lapels.)
When asked by the interviewer about his “news,” Randi raised his hand, displaying a wedding ring, and said it was not for decoration: he and Alvarez had gotten married in Washington, D.C. a bit more than a week ago. Randi flew there; Alvarez, who can’t fly because he’s restricted due to a legal conviction, drove up. D. C. is the closest place to Florida where gay couples can be legally married. The audience gave Randi a standing ovation.
The discussion itself involved two filmmakers who have made a documentary on Randi that will soon be released; they screened several clips from the movie. The last one showed Randi returning home after a long trip, displaying his new silver-headed cane (“I guess I’ll have to find some silver cane-head polish,” he said) and being embraced lovingly by Alvarez. It was a very touching scene, and many people teared up.
I hope to meet Randi at the speakers’ reception tomorrow after my talk. He really is amazing, and was hugely entertaining in the conversation.
Mazel Tov!
Took the words right out of my mou…er, fingers!
Most Amazing news of the day.
b&
Wow 27 years! Impressive! Great for Randi and Alvarez!
Aww, he’s no longer available. 😉
Congratulations, Randi!
Congratulations Randi!
It’s about time too 🙂
Powerful stuff!
Good or Randi!
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Give me a choice between Goode and Randi, and I’ll pick Randi every single time.
Cheers,
b&
That’s so cool! Hooray for the Amazing Randi, and many more happy years to the happy couple.
How nice!
Glad to see this announced publicly!
Jerry you might want to edit that. You say “James Randi announced that ten days ago he married his partner of 27 years” but then you say “he and Alvarez had gotten married in Washington, D.C. a bit more than a week ago”.
It would be nice to know the actual day they did marry.
I heard from a friend on July 4 that they were getting married on Thursday 4 July or Friday 5 July (and I announced it at the JREF Forum).
But still, yay, Randi and Deyvi! 🙂
That is fantastic. I am very happy for them.
Congrats to them both.
Congratulations to “Randi et al”!
Ah, this time it warrants gender specification (well, meaning implied, but for practice):
Randi et alii.
Wouldn’t that be “Randi et alius”, since there’s only one other person involved? 😉
Congratulations to both!
That’s fantastic! (and thanks to the death of DOMA, I hope this takes care of a certain immigration issue)
Congratulations to both of you, I wish you many, many more years happy together, best of luck!
I’m SOOO Happy for you!!! 😀 How Wonderful!!!
I’m so happy for you both and happy it was now possible. May you each live 100 years so that you can enjoy your union to the fullest. Many blessings from Brigitte Grisanti .