By Georgina Brennan

IRISH gay activist, Brendan Fay, who was married in a civil ceremony in Canada in July 2003, is heading up a lobby exercise in Ireland to extend marriage rights to gay couples.

As part of that, Fay and his partner, Tom Moulton, are being featured all this week on the Reuters Times Square billboard until July 14th at 5:13 p.m. The submission of the picture was sent in to the “Nationwide” Life Comes at You Fast Project by Marriage Equality founder Jesus Lebron in celebration of the third anniversary of Fay/Moulton marriage.

The billboard script reads, “Tom, Brendan wishing you legal recognition of your Canadian Marriage in the U.S, Jesus Lebron.”

The picture beaming to the world on the billboard comes on the heels of New York banning legal marriage to gay couples.

Fay and Moulton will be on vacation in Ireland next week but will use the time to meet with members of the Irish government to ask them to join Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Massachusetts and Canada in extending marriage rights to gay couples.