Kitty Lambert & Cheryle Rudd first couple to marry under NYS law passed in June
Kitty Lambert announced on her Facebook page that, ” it is official!!!!! Cheryle Rudd and I will be the first LGBT couple married! We are getting married at Niagara Falls with 1,800 of our closest friends and family.”
Ms. Lambert and companion Cheryle Rudd both are trailblazers and pioneers in the local Western New York Region at the forefront of the struggle for the rights of same-sex couples, helping to usher in the Marriage Equality law passed in New York last month when Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation.
The couple is both active in the Stonewall Democrats of WNY group, a voice of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) community in Buffalo, New York..
Especially for Women in Buffalo, New York 
To say that Kitty and Cheryle are “active” is quite an understatement!!! They are the founders of OUTspoken for Equality, the largest LGBT advocacy group in Western New York, from scratch. Basically they showed up with a banner to the Pride Parade one year, and built a large local movement without any outside funding. This is a grassroots campaign in the purest sense, built by lots of dedicated volunteers with astoundingly few resources. OUTspoken can mobilize people to rally, lobby their legislators, and participate in other activities to make their voices heard in ways that the large statewide LGBT groups haven’t been able to match here in Western New York.