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    SEATTLE -- Bruised or not, she says she'll marry her beloved building as planned come Sunday.

    Babylonia Aivaz's bride-to-be is a 107-year-old warehouse that sits at 10th and Union in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. She has been planning to enter into what she described as "a gay marriage" with the building.


    "If corporations can have the rights as people, so can buildings," said Aivaz, referencing a Supreme Court decision on political advertising. "I'm doing this to show the building how much I love it, how much I love community space and how much I love this neighborhood. And I want to stop it from gentrification.”
    The building had been slated for demolition for some time, but Aivaz expected the wedding to precede the demise of her beloved one. But demolition crews began their work on Thursday.


    When Aivaz learned demolition work was under way, she rushed over to the site and changed into her wedding dress on the street.
    She was then seen climbing on the equipment and trying to get in the way of the demolition. But minutes later, she left, telling a KOMO News photographer that she was expected at work. So far, demolition crews have torn down the warehouse's awning. A mix-use apartment building is planned for the site.


    Aivaz has invited the public to her planned wedding on Sunday. She created for the event a Facebook invitation open to the public.

    "Yes, I'm in love with a 107 year old building! Yes, ITS A GAY MARRIAGE! How is that possible? Well there must obviously be a deeper story," she wrote.
    Aivaz said back in December, she and 16 other "activists" linked arms and occupied the warehouse "for a cause in which we believed strongly. That cause was COMMUNITY SPACE."

    "We strung up lights. We adapted toilets. We removed pounds and pounds of unecessary building materials. We fed 200 people. We dreamed. We dreamed. We dreamed. I was and am constantly transformed by this whole event," she said.

    In spite of Thursday events, Aivaz remained spirited about her planned wedding. She described the event as a community potluck, and asked attendees to "BRING FOOOOOOOOD~."


    Out of her mind?


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    Default Re: Woman set to marry building undeterred by demolition work

    Yes. But to each own.
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    Default Re: Woman set to marry building undeterred by demolition work

    It doesn't make sense. A corporation is not a building so that theory don't work. Gay marriage? building doesn't have a vagina, hell not a person, so also don't work. It is just an odd thing.


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    Aw, less crazy than what I thought. There are people the have sexual relaltionships with inanimate objects like buses and picket fences :s

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    Default Re: Woman set to marry building undeterred by demolition work

    i saw part of this on the news and wanted to know what was up thanks for the article

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    I have no opinion one way or another about this silly woman and her publicity stunt/so-called "activism". If she wants to marry a building, I don't give a flying fuck.

    I do, however, take issue with her calling it a "gay marriage". Not only is this a straight up nonsensical statement to make, it's also offensive towards the GLBT community's struggle for the same human rights as anyone else. She both demeans a very real civil rights issue with her sensational use of a "buzz word" topic, as well as feeds into the (ridiculous) argument to which the uber-conservatives reduce every gay marriage debate:

    "If you let two men or two women marry each other, what's next? They'll be people wanting to marry sheep, dogs,...buildings!"
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    Ha this is nothing, only the tip of the iceberg, much stranger has happened. If you dont believe me just look up objectum sexuals. I just watched a show the other day about them, I didnt know how deep this goes for ppl but now I know and all I can say is "wow, really?"

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    Default Re: Woman set to marry building undeterred by demolition work

    There's a documentary about this, where people have relationships with inanimate objects. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/marri...-eiffel-tower/
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    Default Re: Woman set to marry building undeterred by demolition work

    That is the issue I have with it as well Natalllia.


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    Default Re: Woman set to marry building undeterred by demolition work

    For those who haven't actually read the article, there is no apparent sexual component to this "marriage"; it's not a case of someone having a fetish for inanimate objects. She supposedly did this to bring attention to the demolition of older buildings in her area. Here are some links if you're interested (video and short article):

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1241520.html

    http://www.komonews.com/news/local/1...TUI&hpt=us_bn7

    **Second link is to article quoted by the OP.
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