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May 24, 2012
The Voice Talks Black Voter Support for Gay Marriage with Michelangelo Signorile on Sirius [AUDIO]
We're approaching, if not looking in the rearview mirror at, a watershed moment in American civil rights history. A majority of the American public now supports marriage equality for same-sex couples. And, despite what detractors have been saying and predicting, this includes black people, too. An ... More >>
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May 23, 2012
Black Pride: Majority of African Americans Support Gay Marriage, Says ABC News. The Voice Speaks to Their Pollster, Gary Langer
Maybe they should have called Barack Obama the homosexual "Black Abe Lincoln." Buried in the polls showing that Obama's same-sex marriage support has had no effect on his own re-election prospects (debunking the myth that his gay support would hurt him) and that it seems to have moved "strong supp ... More >>
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May 21, 2012
The Obama Effect: From the NAACP to 50 Cent, Black Leaders Back Gay Marriage
It's fair to call it the Obama Effect: leaders in the black community, old and young, political and cultural, are coming out of the closet to back same-sex marriage. And they are a motley crew, from the legacy NAACP, to the rapper 50 Cent, who just a couple years ago suggested that if you're a man " ... More >>
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May 16, 2012
Manny Pacquiao's Not As Much Of A Homophobe As 'Examiner' Makes Him Out To Be . "Journalist" Comes Clean
Manny Pacquiao's feeling the heat from the homosexual community over comments he apparently didn't even make.The "journalist" who published an article that attributed a quote from the Bible calling for the death of homosexuals to Pacquiao has since backed off his claim that Pacquiao's the one who re ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Mike Bloomberg Gives North Carolina A Tutorial In How Same-Sex Marriage Won't Lead To The Apocalypse
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave the commencement address at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill yesterday, during which he explained to the audience how same-sex marriage won't instantly lead to the end of moral society as we know it.Last week, as you may recall, North Carolina vote ... More >>
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May 13, 2012
Rightbloggers: Obama's Gay Marriage Move Means He's Trying to Win, Or Lose, Or Destroy America, Or Something
As everyone has heard by now, Pride Week came a little early to the White House as President Obama said, "I think same sex couples should be able to get married." He didn't push any legislation, and he said legalization should be left up to the states. But he is a U.S. President who has endorsed gay ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
The Voice Talks Gay Marriage and Race on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show [AUDIO]
After publishing our piece yesterday "5 Reasons Why Touré Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama," we had the chance to talk about the president's new support fo marriage equality with WNYC's Brian Lehrer. We took calls from black listeners and talked to Lehrer about the many reasons why we b ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
5 Reasons Why Touré Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy We like the idea of Touré, but as a person and concept, he's got two sides. There's the Good Touré, who writes beautifully, gave us a nice shout out once, and frolics around the Brooklyn neighborhood we both live in with ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
"Obama Actually Betrayed The Gay Marriage Cause"
That's what one writer says. Before you start screaming "foul" en route to resuming your gay-victory celebration, kindly check out the article by Roger Stone. It makes some points. "Once Gay Americans are through celebrating President Barack Obama's 'personal' support of Gay marriage equality, t ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
Gay Republican Group: Obama Was...Right?
After President Obama came out for same-sex marriage yesterday, it didn't take the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's oldest and most prominent group of gay Republicans, long to pile on him. They called the timing "offensive " and "callous." But in a press release issued today titled "Campaigning ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
President Obama: Will He Come Out Today For Gay Marriage?
Update: President Obama has indeed come out of the closet, telling ABC news that he does, in fact, support the right for same-sex couples to get married. Read our report, with reactions from New Yorkers, here. It's been a rough few days for President Obama on the gay marriage question, although he ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Barack Obama, "The Leader Of The Free World," Endorses Same-Sex Marriage; New Yorkers Share Reactions With The Voice
President Obama has told ABC news that he supports the right for same-sex couples to get legally married. Obama told ABC, in an interview where he appeared relaxed and calm (even if he'd been pushed into this moment due to Joe Biden's loose lips on Sunday, Andrew Cuomo's bro-date yesterday, and the ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg On Obama's Gay Marriage Stance: 'Ask the President'
Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a strong supporter of same-sex marriage, decided not to take a position today on President Obama's stance on marriage equality, which has made headlines this week. But Bloomberg is still a big fan of gay marriage! After a reporter from BuzzFeed asked the mayor -- who was ho ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
At Last! North Carolina Becomes Final Southern State to Constitutionally Ban Gay Marriage!
North Carolina made history today. Not only did voters approve a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but they made the Southern States of Bigotry set complete, in becoming the last holdout state south of the Mason-Dixon to do so! But wait -- it gets better! North Carolina didn't just stop at b ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
100 & Single: Buy An Adam Lambert Album, Strike A Tiny Blow For Gay Rights
About a year ago, the movie Bridesmaids opened in the U.S. and was the subject of a rather unusual awareness campaign. Female movie fans, largely independently of the film's producers, compelled women to go see the film in its opening weekend and defy common Hollywood wisdom that non-rom-com movies ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
GENDA: A Quick Update on Transgender Rights Legislation
As the Empire State Pride Agenda starts to mobilize lobbying efforts in Albany, it has become clear that the group will once again focus on GENDA, the Gender Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This decision, however, has prompted questions about the general direction of the organization, which is ... More >>
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May 6, 2012
Going Rogue! Joe Biden Endorses Gay Marriage, Will & Grace, and a Dick Cheney Style Of Out-Gaying His Boss
Video via ThinkProgress. When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate almost four years ago, he did so knowing Biden was notoriously volatile when it came to predicting what would spill out of his mouth. Well, while the president was probably lacing up for some golf this Sunday morning, ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
NYCLU Pushes Legislation To Curb Discrimination Against Transgender New Yorkers
New Yorkers are legally protected against discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, or disability -- which means people who fall under any of those categories cannot lose access to homes, jobs, and other services because of their racial, sexual, or physical identities. Currently, howe ... More >>
News
May 2, 2012
Kate Bornstein's Amazing Voyage
America's gender outlaw takes us on a wild tour of trans-formation
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April 4, 2012
Calling Gay People "Cupcake" Is Offensive -- As MTA's Learning The Hard (Litigious) Way
Reginald Jenkins, a former coach cleaner for the Metro-North Railroad, is described by his attorney as a "proud gay man." So, when he claims some of his co-workers started shouting "kill them faggots dead" while shuttling people to and from last year's Gay Pride Parade, he didn't find it nearly as a ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
MTA Disputes Claims Of Disgruntled Gay Employee Allegedly Called "Cupcake"
The MTA vehemently denies allegations made by a disgruntled gay former employee who claims his co-workers shouted "kill them faggots dead" at him while shuttling people to and from last year's Gay Pride Parade. When he complained to his supervisor, Reginald Jenkins claims he was called "cupcake."Sin ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Live Free Or Die! New Hampshire Gays Don't Have to Blow Anyone To Keep Marriage Equality
The National Organization for Marriage spent a quarter million dollars lobbying in New Hampshire. Republicans held majorities in both of the Granite State's legislative bodies. And the latest tool in stopping delaying same-sex marriage equality is to "let the voters decide" on whether queers should ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Gay Republicans! WTF Are They Thinking?
I recently heard about a gay porn star who's Republican and who has publicly backed Romney, and my thoughts were: *I'm sure Romney's thrilled. [Rolls eyeballs] *WTF? Can a gay person in their right mind really back any Republican, knowing that their campaigns are generally based on demeaning LGBT ... More >>
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March 17, 2012
Irish Queers Protest At St. Patrick's Day Parade
As the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade marches up Fifth Avenue today, an annual protest will take place. The group Irish Queers will call out the NYPD's participation in the event, which they say on their website "was redesigned so that anti-gay bigots could parade using the church's special right t ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
I'm The Poster Boy For "Liberal Hate Speech"
And it's all thanks to remarks I made on TV in 2009 about Carrie Prejean, the bible thumping Miss California who got into a big mess with the pageant system when it turned out she'd done some not very holy photos and an alleged video. People tell me that Sean Hannity's show, for one, still uses me ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
City Unveils First-Ever LGBT Senior Center
Roger Mácon, a 64-year-old Jamaica, Queens resident, has been out of the closet for many years. But he didn't realize there were many other seniors in the city like himself that are openly gay and lesbian, too -- until he found a network of LGBT seniors through an organization called Services and ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Gay Marriage Just Got Crabs! Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality
The Maryland Senate just passed a marriage equality bill, 25-22, putting the Chesapeake Bay State en route to becoming the seventh in the nation (plus the District of Columbia) to allow same-sex couples the right to marry. Maryland is the third state in as many weeks where both houses of its legis ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
Did Matt Heinz, the Openly Gay Democrat Running for Gabby Giffords's Seat, Have a Three-Way With Sheriff Paul Babeu? We Ask Him on Facebook.
Our colleagues at the Phoenix New Times had the story of the holiday weekend for anyone interested in Republicans, homopolitics, outing, immigration, and other sundry subjects we love to write about. Monica Alonzo's gripping tale of how Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu allegedly threatened his Mexica ... More >>
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February 18, 2012
SSM Update: NJ Gov Follows Through On Promise To Veto Bill, Maryland On The Road To Equality
On Thursday, we told you about the passage of a bill in New Jersey's Assembly that would make same sex marriage legal in the state. N.J. Governor Chris Christie promised that he would veto the bill when it landed on his desk, and he held true to his word. The New York Daily News says that Christie w ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
SSMpalooza: Jersey Legislature Passes Gay Marriage, Giving Second Governor Named Chris Chance to Sign Equality Law In One Week
Who knew this was possible? As New Jersey's Assembly just passed a marriage equality bill 41-33, this week is turning out even gayer for marriage than last week was. A couple days ago, in the happier half of A Tale Of Two Governor Chrises, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed marriage equality into law for ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Yetta Kurland Chats with the Voice on WWRL About the Big, Fat Gay Marriage Week [AUDIO]
With advances in same-sex marriage equality on the march in the states of Washington, Maryland and New Jersey, this week could possibly shape up to be as historically gay as last week was for the institution of marriage. To discuss what all of this state-by-state activity meant for same-sex couple ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Despite Fears Of People Marrying Bacon, Washington State Legislature Passes Marriage Equality Bill
It's turning out to be a very, very gay week for marriage. After the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California's Prop 8 is unconstitutional, the House of Representatives of the State of Washington just passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage equality, 55 yay to 43 nay. Governor C ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Chris Geidner of Metro Weekly On What Today's Prop 8 Ruling Really Means
We admit it. We're very interested in the goings on with same-sex marriage across the nation, but we're not attorneys here at The Village Voice. Fortunately for us, our friend Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly is (or used to be, before he gave it all up for the far better paying field of journalism). We ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Christine Quinn, Activists Address The Stonewall Inn After Prop 8 Ruling
Marriage equality supporters gather outside of the Stonewall Inn tonight to hail the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. There were many of the same people present who were at a rally the first time a federal court ruled the California voter ref ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Washington State on the Road to Same-Sex Marriage Equality, Perhaps Within a Week
The Washington State Senate passed a bill paving the way for same-sex marriages last night. Before the vote was taken, same-sex marriage watchers believed that it could be a very tight vote. However, it ultimately passed comfortably 28 to 21. It will now move on the Washington's House, where it is e ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Same-Sex Marriage Takes New York By Storm in 2011, Tosses Salad in Iowa in 2012
Happy New Year. We're kicking things off here this January by taking a quick look at how same-sex marriage affected life in New York in 2011, and how it's shaping up primary politics in Iowa in advance of tomorrow's caucuses. Gay marriage, of course, just became official in New York last ye ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
21 Voice Stories from 2011 That Melted Even This Grizzled Journalist's Heart to Report
James WorrellLooking back, 2011 has been quite a year, especially on the gay rights front, one of our major beats. Like the cardiac organ caught in a bear trap accompanying Jen Doll's "Plight of the Single Lady," there were times when, objective reporter or not, the stories we were reporting ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
Rick Perry and the Curious Case of Gay Griping
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military's discriminatory ban barring homosexuals from serving openly, was signed out of law a year ago this month. After an exhaustive implementation review by the President, the Joint-Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of Defense, it officially ended almost three months ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Is New York's Marriage Equality Act In Legal Jeopardy of a Repeal?
When the Marriage Equality Act passed in the New York State Senate on June 24, 2011, Governor Andrew Cuomo quickly signed it into law. When it went into effect 30 days later, same-sex couples had the right to enter into civil marriages and receive the same legal protections afforded opposite- ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Iowa Still Ground Zero on Gay Marriage
More than two years before New York got its shit together last summer, the über-progressive state of Iowa made same-sex marriage legal in 2009. The decision came from the state's Supreme Court, which drew from their state constituion's long history of being way ahead of the curve on civil ri ... More >>
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October 22, 2011
BREAKING: Politician Admits to Behaving Like Politician
In 2009, New York State Senator James Alesi voted against the same-sex marriage bill. Two years later, Alesi, along with three other Republicans, voted "yes" on the Marriage Equality Act, sparking many to wonder what made him change his mind. A day after that vote, Alesi told our own Steven T ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the Anti-Violence Project, Named "Champion of Change" by the White House (Q&A)
Sharon Stapel, the Executive Director of the New York Anti-Violence Project, was named a "Champion of Change" for her work with domestic violence in the LGBT community, the White House announced yesterday. "[I]n honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Valerie Jarrett will join White Hou ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Tea Party Audience Boos Gay Soldier at GOP Debate
Last night was the night of the Fox-Google GOP debate, notable for the just-like-getting-a-gchat beep that went off whenever anyone talked too long, as well as a moment in which Stephen Hill, a gay soldier serving in Iraq, asked Rick Santorum whether he'd circumvent the progress that's been made for ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Bites the Dust Today (For Real This Time)
It's had a long, zombie-like death, but Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military's policy of barring homosexuals from serving openly, is finally over for real. If you're confused and thought that this happened already, you've got good reason to be. The judicial, legislative and executive branche ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
David Weprin: First Political Victim of Same-Sex Marriage Backlash?
When we last saw Brian Brown, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, he was bawling tears in the Capitol in Albany, dismayed that the Senate had just passed the Marriage Equality Act. Judging from the above tweet, Brown has something to be quite gleeful about tonight: their ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Michele Bachmann Thinks Questions on Gay Families Aren't "What People are Concerned About," David Gregory Commits Act of Journalism!
In this week's Village Voice cover story, we take a long look at why the choice for gays and lesbians to marry (or not) is important. When recent Iowa Straw Poll winner Michele Bachmann stepped into the ring at Meet the Press yesterday, it was a doozy in terms of holding the presidential hopeful acc ... More >>
News
August 10, 2011
Maybe I Do And Maybe I Don't
Gays get the freedom to marry—and for some, the freedom not to
Blogs
August 4, 2011
Mitt Romney as Opposed to Gay Marriage as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum
We've been watching reactions all day about the fact that Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed a National Organization for Marriage pledge to eradicate gay marriage in the United States, in the event they become President. There is little newsworthy about this development, except to se ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Kitty Lambert, First Wed New York Lesbian, Will Join Former NOM Operative Louis Marinelli on Marriage Equality Tour
This just in: if politics makes strange bed fellows, same-sex marriage makes them all the stranger. Kitty Lambert, one half of the first same-sex couple married in New York State just after midnight Sunday, will be joining Louis Marinelli on the National Organization for Marriage Equality Tou ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Midtown Mayhem As Anti-SSM Groups Send Mixed Messages
Esther ZuckermanSame-sex Sunday was anything but a day of celebration for the groups that remain adamantly opposed to gay marriage, and whose protests collided in midtown in the afternoon. A rally organized in part by the National Organization for Marriage, but where the main draw seemed to b ... More >>
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