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Hundreds showed up in Times Square on a rainy Wednesday night and stood behind a large banner labeled "Crime Scene" to express publicly their outrage at the State Senate's defeat of same-sex marriage in New York State.

"Well, this is a crime scene. What they did in Albany today was a crime," said a protester.

"We are beyond words, feelings about 38 senators telling me that because the person I love is not the gender they believe it should be, I can't marry that person," said another.

"As a gay woman who is also black, I felt very disturbed at the trend this country is taking and not recognizing the rights of all of its citizens," said a third.

"We don't want anything special. After 17 years we just want to be married," said one partner.

"We just want to have the same rights as everyone else - to be able to visit loved ones in the hospital, inheritance," said the other.

Many protesters said they want to hold the lawmakers who voted against the Marriage Equality Act accountable. They said they want to focus on Democrats who some say were supported with campaign contributions and at the polls, yet still voted no.

"I feel absolutely betrayed. The state Democratic Party told the LGBT community if we gave them a majority, we will get marriage," said a protester.

"Those people are in trouble. We're going to go to their districts, we're going to mobilize their people, we're going to shut down their malls, we're going to stop the shopping," said another. "And we're going to do everything in our power to get them out of office."

Following the Wednesday rally, organizers said another rally was already planned for Thursday afternoon in Union Square, and that others will follow. They said they won't rest until the right to marry is theirs.