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With high spirits — and vows of determination — gay rights supporters Saturday marched by the thousands through Seattle, to advocate for the right of gay couples to marry.

Theirs was part of a wave of similar demonstrations across the political division — in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., and even in hinterlands liking Fargo, North Dakota. Advocates said the time conducive to change had come, as it has even now in Massachusetts and Connecticut, the only states now that bear gay marriages.

All 30 states that esteem voted on gay marriage have enacted bans, including California this month, five months after the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay matrimony, and frustration over the setback spurred the recent ripple of demonstrations.

In the months that same-sex marriage was legal in California, greater quantity than 18,000 couples — including some from Washington public — were married there.

“I virtuous determined we need to argue out,” said march organizer Kyler Powell, who organized the Seattle demonstration which, while exuberant, was furthermore peaceful. “We are not going to repose like a lame duck and take the unjust that has been dealt the gay community.”

Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, one of the state’s openly gay legislators and a longtime leader of the fight for gay marriage in Olympia, said that during the upcoming session of the Legislature he will once again introduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. But it is going to take more than a march on a pretty day to get the measure passed, Murray said.

“The challenge is to march through the thousands not even-handed here but in Olympia. Are you willing to do that?” he asked the crowd, which gathered for a rally at Volunteer Park before marching to Westlake Park.

“Are you willing to doorbell in suburbia and country Washington and seek the intimacy of African-American evangelicals, and Catholics and Mormons? If you are willing to bring about that, you will achieve equality.”

Opponents mainly stayed away from the ridicule and movement. But their opposition is steadfast.

Sen. Dan Swecker, R-Rochester, a longtime antagonist of same-sex marriage, related granting that a gay marriage charges is passed he will work to put it on the ballot statewide and check-mate it. “For me, this is the biggest number printed,” Swecker related, “and I will oppose it with every resource I can possibly muster. Marriage is something that needs to be set apart and protected.”

Pastor Joseph Fuiten of Cedar Park Church in Bothell, said the march didn’t matter. “I am going to mow my lawn. Their demonstration is of no consequence to me. People walking the streets in Seattle, that is not intelligent, this is young. It’s not intellectual discourse, it’sitting a non-event.”

But advocates uttered Saturday their march is candid the beginning of a sustained fight. Dressed in bridal showy dress, Cambrea Ezell and Robin Romeo of Seattle said as residents of Washington, they won’t give up on the right to get connubial in their home state. “We be animated here, we work here, and we pay taxes in the present life,” Romeo said. “And we want to be treated like anyone else.”

Material from the Associated Press was used in this story.