Woman Wants to Marry Seattle Building
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Babylonia Aivaz is scheduled to marry a warehouse on Union and 10th in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA.(KOMO News/ABC News)
A Seattle community rights activist is going to the extreme to try and save a building in her neighborhood: she’s marrying it.
Babylonia Aivaz has invited the Seattle public to attend what she calls the “gay wedding” to the building on Sunday. The building is an abandoned warehouse that is in the process of being demolished, according to ABC affiliate KOMO. Aivaz hopes to save the space for a community center.
“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,” Aivaz wrote on her Facebook invitation to the wedding.
In December, Avaiz and 16 others held a protest at the building, circling around the property and linking arms to fight for dedicated community space, according to the report. The warehouse is slated to be demolished and turned into a mixed-use apartment building.
But Aivaz wanted to go further.
“If corporations can have the rights as people, so can buildings,” Aivaz told KOMO. “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.”
When demolition work began on the building this week, days ahead of the planned wedding, Aivaz went to the site of the work and changed into her wedding dress, climbing on equipment to draw attention to the cause.
She said the wedding would go on as planned Sunday.
Aivaz could not be reached for this story.
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Women marrying buildings?What’s next? Women marrying women? Women marrying men? This is only going to get worse! Stop ALL marriage! Before it’s too late!
Posted by: Turdmidget | January 27, 2012, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
This woman’s actions are beyond ridiculous!
Posted by: Clifton Palmer McLendon | January 27, 2012, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
This woman is on the crazy train, and she’s the laughing conductor!
Posted by: Manda | January 27, 2012, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
The most absurd part of this entire charade: she’s got a Facebook page for it. The minute you create a facebook page, you automatically cancel out any legitimacy and lose my interest completely. Bring on more news about Demi and her whippits. It’s more interesting than the story of this ugly bride – the “story” being that she’s marrying the building to “save” it, but in actuality, she’s been unsuccessful in finding a person willing to marry her.
Posted by: thatwasobvious | January 27, 2012, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm
Never met her, but I love this woman.
She’s a prime example of everything that’s right with this world on a grand scale.
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Posted by: Peccavi | January 27, 2012, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
as a gay man engaged to my partner of 4.5 years, this woman is an insult to people fighting for marriage equality. This woman is an idiot – don’t associate yourself with gay marriage and make us look bad. You are on your own with this one… and without sympathy from me.
Posted by: CLarsen | January 27, 2012, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
I am gay and married, so i obviously support gay marriage. This is NOT a gay wedding. This is ridiculous. She is giving us a bad rep.
Posted by: ALAN | January 27, 2012, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
Sometimes these are the things people have to do to draw attention to their cause. She did a good job because before today I’d never heard of her or her cause. Which by the way is noble. So Kudos to her for getting national attention.
Posted by: Joyce | January 27, 2012, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
Get the net, this one os ready for the loony bin.
Posted by: Norah Rose | January 27, 2012, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
The next thing you know people will be marrying lego blocks….it is a slippery slope.
Posted by: Nat Reader | January 27, 2012, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
LOL, Sheattle…
Posted by: Michael | January 27, 2012, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
Can it support her?
Posted by: Fred | January 27, 2012, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
Obviously, she’s a size queen
Posted by: BitterOldMan | January 27, 2012, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
Can anyone say….LOCO. This is news? Maybe she should be evaluated by Lindsay Lohann.
Posted by: BrianM | January 27, 2012, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
this is worse, or possibly just an extension of gay marriage. one is as looney as the other.
Posted by: oneliberalguy | January 27, 2012, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
Did the building consent… or is this a forced union?
Posted by: BILL TERRY | January 27, 2012, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
what the heck is this woman going to do, when a giant storm comes rolling through and blows your significant other away.
Posted by: suzy | January 27, 2012, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm
MARRIAGE EQUALITY!!
Posted by: brad | January 27, 2012, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
This is why everyone hates gays. They do this type of crap.
Posted by: Straight Joe | January 27, 2012, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Its time to move past the antiquated morally bigoted notion that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Thanks to the progressives and gay rights advocates we should be able to embrace this alternative to the old fashioned “traditional marriage” . Why can’t we marry who, or what we love for that matter?
Posted by: spitman | January 27, 2012, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
I would think the building needs to incorporate to achieve real person-hood in the eyes of the Supreme Court before she could marry it.
Posted by: MathKath | January 27, 2012, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Babylonia, what an appropriate name because she sure was ‘babbling’ a lot of ‘balonia’… Just goes to show that all the rain in Seattle has diluted their brains to mush…..
And ABC, I certainly wish you’d turn off that damn autoplay on the your videos, or at the very least, if you insist on autoplay, put the video at the top of article not down where you have to scroll half a page to get to it to shut it off. Very irriatating…..
Posted by: The Teleman | January 27, 2012, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
I can’t believe how many humorless losers are complaining about this. This is a brilliant piece of street theater, and Babylonia is a beautiful person! What a creative way to draw attention to a cause.
Posted by: Fancy Turkey | January 27, 2012, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm
I like how she had to explain why she was doing it. I figured everyone would know this was street theater to draw attention to her cause, that nobody would be stupid enough to think she was sincerely and legitimately trying to enter into a legal contractual marriage with a building.
Then I read some of the comments here. How the hell do you people survive? Are you the reason they put the “do not eat” warnings on cans of rat poison?
Posted by: Beaucoup Butter | January 27, 2012, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
This is not gay marriage… Thanks for belittling the love I share with my partner… You just dealt a huge blow to any chance we had of being a legally recognized family anytime in the near future. I hope you’re happy.
Posted by: Nina | January 28, 2012, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
What an idiot.
Posted by: A Cynic | January 28, 2012, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
love how she cant remember half of what shes trys to say … WHOA DUDE … this is why even POT is harmful … then again maybe she’s on medical marajuana … becasue THINKING HURTS HER.
Posted by: Drew | January 29, 2012, 7:04 am 7:04 am
Can’t we get her some help from a mental professional? This isn’t good for her, it should really inspire some therapy.
Posted by: john | January 29, 2012, 10:58 am 10:58 am
Well, this is just the beginning; . . . keep it up legislatures and Governor Gregoire; you started this
now we will see more outrageous things getting married because YOU decided to change the definition of marriage!!!
Posted by: Monica | January 29, 2012, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
The old building is her sugar daddy! LOL
Posted by: dave | January 29, 2012, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
I just read most of the comments on there, and omg, you people are ridiculous. Whether she was literally going to try to marry the building or not, she’s not like a freak that is actually in-love with this building. She was just trying to come up with a way to stop the demo. Perfectly fine building that could do something good for the community like a community center, but instead they want to make ANOTHER damn apartment building? Like Seattle needs another one of those. There are enough vacant houses, condos, and appts for rent without having to waste more money on building another one. I vote for the community center! Although, this demo was for last month, so it already probably happened :-( This poor chick risked her reputation to save a building for her community and its sad how no one sees it and all they see is, omg, it looks bad for the gays? Really, that’s all you can think about, is yourself? If anyone is being selfish, its you!! She’s thinking of everyone but herself, to save this building so it could be used by all, not because she’s in-love with it, that’s ridiculous for anyone to even think that. Maybe everyone should READ what was actually going on, pull your heads out of your asses, instead of assuming and thinking of the worse.
Posted by: Crista | February 3, 2012, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm