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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
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
10 Reasons Why Same-Sex Couples Want to Wed on the Very First Day
Forget the fear of laws changing - people lined up to see him the first day he came out! So why not their spouse?Some people have asked us: If same-sex marriage is here to stay, just why exactly do couples have to get married the first day, anyway? Isn't it a waste of money for the cash-strap ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Religious People are Excited for Same-Sex Sunday Weddings, Too
With self proclaimed religious values groups like the National Organization for Marriage and Westboro Baptist Church protesting this Sunday, as well as Focus on the Family going before the Senate to hail the Defense of Marriage Act yesterday, it may seem like religious people are universally ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Barack Obama Will Support Legislation Repealing DOMA
Today White House press secretary Jay Carney announced that President Obama will endorse the Respect for Marriage Act, which repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and would grant all lawfully married couples, including same-sex couples, federal marriage benefits and protections. Carney s ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
How Will the Law Recognize Your Same-Sex Marriage? The NYCLU Explains
After July 24, no oneThe New York Civil Liberties Union has created an excellent guide to what same-sex couples can expect legally after they've tied the knot. The Marriage Equality Act creates a certain level of legal equality for same-sex couples under New York State law, but in no way does ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Louis Marinelli, National Organization for Marriage Defector, on Leaving the "Dark Side"
Steven ThrasherIt was a pretty big a deal when Louis Marinelli came out for marriage equality just a few months ago on Jeremy Hooper's blog Good As You. Marinelli, 25, had been a die-hard anti-gay marriage activist, and though not exactly famous, he's probably the most significant contemporar ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Rightbloggers Not Really Enjoying This New York Gay Marriage Thing
Gay marriage has been passed in the New York state legislature, and Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature will make the Empire State the sixth state to allow same-sex couples to wed. You can imagine how rightbloggers feel about this. A few say they don't mind, but the majority fulsomely display one ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Gay Marriage Gets an Ad Campaign, May Fix the Economy
Following Friday's passing of same-sex marriage in Albany, the office of the mayor has already updated NYC.gov to provide some new info on nuptials, including the heartening headline: "New York City to Welcome All to Marry Here." It continues, "We look forward to welcoming all couples who wan ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2011
Governor Andrew Cuomo, Activists React to Marriage Equality in Albany
Sen. Tom Duane and Natasha Dillon After the VoteAfter the Senate passed same-sex marriage equality in Albany last night, the reactions were mixed: volatile, ecstatic, tearful, joyous, and outraged. There was a shared sense of history and exhaustion by people for and against the issue, as many ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Dean Skelos Calls For a Gay Marriage Vote; Religious Exemptions Finally Come Out
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has just announced that the Marriage Equality Bill will get a vote in the Senate. This comes moments after the Senate released proposed language for a "religious exemptions" amendment to the billl, which will allow religious groups and their affiliate busin ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
State Senate Takes Up Horse Racing, Memorial Flag Before Gay Marriage Equality
It was a late night yesterday for advocates both for and against same-sex marriage equality, as the New York State Senate failed to bring the issue up for debate. However, before the Senate convened shortly after midnight, they did manage to bring up numerous important issues of the day, includin ... More >>
News
June 22, 2011
Diaz Family Values
While Rubén Díaz Sr. lobs bombs against gay rights, son Rubén Jr. and lesbian granddaughter Erica run for cover
Blogs
June 22, 2011
Is the 32nd Senator Ready to Come Out of the Closet For Marriage Equality?
It's been nearly a week since same-sex marriage supporters announced they have 31 out of 32 pledged votes toward passing the Marriage Equality Bill. However, Capital Tonight just tweeted that a 32nd, unidentified Senator has been confirmed. Others, like the NYCLU, are claiming there is a 32nd ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Naked Cowboy Robert Burck Will Marry Gay Couples in Times Square for Free on July 3
Ever-ready for publicity, the Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, has thrown his support behind the movement for marriage equality in New York and declared July 3rd "Gay Marriage Day." To celebrate the holiday, Burck, who happens to be an ordained minister, will be performing free same-sex wedding ce ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Is Gay Marriage Getting Blue Balled in Albany? Senate to Vote Monday at Earliest.
Now that Governor Cuomo has given his all toward passing gay marriage equality legislation, and the Assembly has passed the measure for a fourth time, the focus is exactly back where it's been for the past two years: the State Senate. Yet after significant momentum at the beginning of the we ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Gay Marriage in New York: Over the Hump Today?
Today could be the day when gay marriage equality passes its biggest hurdle in New York State yet and actually achieves something it never has before: likely passage in the state senate. With 31 of the necessary 32 votes already publicly announced, the effort only needs one GOP senator for th ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Andrew Cuomo Introduces Gay-Marriage Bill; Another GOP Senator Announces Support
Governor Cuomo formally introduced same-sex marriage legislation today, a key victory for activists pushing for a vote in the state Senate regardless of any assurance of passage. And another Republican senator, Roy McDonald, from the Capital Region, broke ranks and announced support, giving the Marr ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
Just a Few Business Days Left For Gay Marriage
Sunday will mark the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia, the ruling which made interracial marriage legal at the federal level. The American Foundation for Equal Rights released a video marking the occasion, a key precedent in the legal battle for gay marriage equal ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
Mike Bloomberg Gives Case for Marriage Equality at Cooper Union
Mayor Bloomberg gave a forceful speech for gay marriage yesterday at the Cooper Union, placing the marriage equality debate in the context of the fights for women's suffrage, abolition, and abortion rights. He spoke of the issue nationally, but grounded it in New York's specific civil rights histor ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2011
Senator Diane Savino: More Votes Needed for NY Gay Marriage
Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino, whose impassioned speech from the floor of the New York Senate for marriage equality blew up in 2009, said last night that the new Senate effort is inching forward, but isn't nearly there yet. "As we speak, right now, we have 26 votes for this bill in the N ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Ruben Diaz's Logic? Five of Six Latino State Senators Support Same-Sex Marriage.
Last Sunday, Reverend Ruben Diaz made a big deal about the role of Latino state senators in deciding the future of same-sex marriage in New York. As he addressed a crowd overwhelmingly composed of religious Hispanics, Diaz repeatedly led the flock to believe that the issue would be made or broken by ... More >>
Blogs
May 15, 2011
Videos From Ruben Diaz Sr.'s Anti-Gay Marriage Rally
Our intrepid Steven Thrasher went and scoped out state senator Ruben Diaz Sr.'s anti-gay marriage rally in the Bronx today. You know, the one cunningly timed to coincide with the annual AIDS Walk and with Diaz's own son's Bronx Week events. The event's main speakers were Diaz and National Organi ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Marjorie Hill (GMHC) Responds to Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr.'s Anti-Gay March Plans
In response to Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr.'s plan to hold an anti-gay marriage march at the same time as the AIDS Walk, Marjorie Hill, the CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), has responded:
Blogs
April 26, 2011
Prop 8 Defenders Go After Judge for Being in Longtime Gay Relationship
A group in California filed a brief yesterday saying that only white judges should be able to rule on cases of racial discrimination, because black judges would be compromised in their desire for their own equal rights. Actually, they didn't. We made that up. But they might as well have. Wh ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Gay Marriage Activists Take on Easter, the Royal Wedding
Marriage equality activists are stepping up their game this week, protesting increasingly high profile events to demonstrate for the right for gays to marry. Yesterday, members of Queer Rising and Connecting Rainbows, along with Lt. Dan Choi, marched down Fifth Avenue in the Easter Parade. T ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Who Do We Have To Blow To Get Gay Marriage? The 2011 Version
AFTER THE JUMP: An update on the growing coalition behind marriage equality. Just who do marriage equality activists have to blow to get gay marriage in New York State? In the fall of 2009, when we asked that question, the obvious answer was the state Senate Democrats. A marriage equality ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
More George Takei! His Coming Out!
Blogs
March 4, 2011
This Week on the Gay Marriage Beat: Whoppers and Lies, Fence-sitting and Delays
A gay couple can have a whopper of a hard time just trying to order a sandwich at Burger King, let alone trying to obtain a license to get hitched. Here are six more things you should know to keep it all straight.
Blogs
February 25, 2011
This Week in Gay Marriage: Six Things You Need to Know To Keep It All Straight
There was a flurry of activity across the United States on gay marriage this week at both the state and federal levels, from the nation's capital all the way to Honolulu. It might be harder to keep it all straight than, say, Ted Haggard on crystal meth or George Rekers with a rent boy. Here's ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Obama Decides Defense of Marriage Act is Unconstitutional
Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement today explaining that President Obama will no longer "defend the constitutionality" of the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that bans gay marriages. There are two suits currently filed in the Second Circuit court challenging the law, which ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Barack Obama's Shift on Gay Marriage, and What It Means
Today's announcement that President Barack Obama's Justice Department will stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) seemed to come out of nowhere — unless you think the administration was emboldened by the election of alum Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago. ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2011
Proposition 8 Decision: We Will Decide In a Year or So
The California Supreme Court made a decision today, kind of, in the ongoing case of Proposition 8, the California ballot proposal that banned gay marriage in 2008. The California Supremes decided that they will decide something in about ten months to a year. There's nothing like justice delayed, ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2011
Scientology and Proposition 8: Debunking the Church Myth That It Stays Out of Politics
Kirstie Alley, ballot neutral.One of the most interesting things about Lawrence Wright's recent article about Scientology in the New Yorker was the way he exposed the hypocrisies and outright lies of the wacky organization's top members and spokespeople. But there's a key assertion peddled ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Prop 8 Case Sent Back to California Supreme Court
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the Proposition 8 case, Perry v. Schwarzeneger, back to the California Supreme Court. In something that could potentially aid the marriage-equality side, the federal court said the state high court needs to decide if those against gay marriage equality have st ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2010
Study Shows a Growing Support for Same-Sex Marriage
Pew Research CenterIt was a disappointing start to National Coming Out Day in New York City when gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino continued to express his blatant misunderstanding of homosexual culture on the Today Show this morning, stating at one point: "They wear speedos and grind agains ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Gay Marriage in California Put on Hold by Appeals Court
Well, that didn't last long. After his strongly worded decision rendering California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker lifted his stay last week, effective this Wednesday. Gay marriages were set to start again at 5 PM PDT tomorrow, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Ap ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Where Can Gays Marry and Adopt?
Watchdog reporter Rex Wockner knows, and he's put it all down in one handy list for future husbears and bear-ents: "Same-sex marriage is legal in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico City, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Mexico Beating the US in...Gay Marriage?
Imagine if, when Washington, D.C. started licensing gay marriages earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court had told the fifty states they had to recognize them. That's essentially what happened in Mexico yesterday. In December of last year, right around the time the D.C. city council voted to all ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
Prop 8, Michelle Obama, Ground Zero Mosque: Are Conservatives Basically The Honky Party?
Last week Judge Vaughn Walker's decision setting aside Prop 8 in California unleashed plenty of grumbling from rightbloggers. As it involves gay people, this was to be expected. There was also rightblogger outrage, also expected, that Michelle Obama and her daughters had a swell, privately-funded v ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Target Says "We Do Not Have a Political Agenda"
Yesterday we mentioned that Target has found itself in a bit of a conundrum after donating $150,000 to MN Forward, which is running ads supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate (and friend of the Tea Party) Tom Emmer, who just so happens to be anti gay marriage as well as pro Arizona imm ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2010
Gay-Marriage Rights Are Dealt Setback by Jersey High Court
Marriage-equality advocates have been dealt another blow, and this one came Monday in neighboring New Jersey, where the state's Supreme Court declined to hear an equal-protection case involving six gay couples.
News
June 22, 2010
A Gay Man Considers Joining the GOP
Is it possible that Republicans could prove to be a closer ally?
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Tom Morahan Will Not Seek Re-Election, Giving State Senate Democrats a Seat to Aim For
MorahanAs the country watches Senate primaries in Kentucky, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania today, there is news out of our own dysfunctional State Senate (now a month overdue on a budget) here in New York: Republican Senator Tom Morahan will not seek re-election. Morahan represents parts of Oran ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Gay Marriage Substitute Soon to be Officially Available in New York, But Still Not Actually Gay Marriage
No, it's not gay marriage, but New York City will soon be offering ''civil ceremonies" at City Hall to gay couples who want them and become "domestic partners" with a ceremony. One problem, however:
Blogs
April 10, 2010
Carl Kruger Supports Gay Rights After Death
It turns out Carl Kruger, one of the few Democrats in the State Senate to vote against same-sex marriage (and the only one from Brooklyn) is willing to have the state extend the legal rights married couples enjoy to same-sex partnerships after all. Unfortunately, one of the partners has to di ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Hiram Monserrate's Support on the Down-Low
We spent the final weekend before Tuesday's Special Election in the 19th Senate District in Jackson Heights and Corona, Queens. One morning, we woke up to find a Jose Peralta supporter had managed to slip inside of the co-op building to leave pamphlets under every door. The next day, even Rob ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2010
Reverend Billy Holds an "UnMarriage Until Gay Marriage" Ceremony on Valentine's Day (VIDEO)
Central Park's Bethesda Angel looked out at scores of brides wreathed in crowns of fake white hydrangea and grooms in thrift-store formalwear. "Enjoy the last two minutes of your marriage," Rev. Billy Talen of the Church of Life After Shopping yelled, as on the most romantic day of the yea ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2010
Big Day for Gay Marriage from Jersey to D.C. to San Francisco
It's a big day for gay marriage across the nation. In San Francisco, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that a potential legal revolution to overturn Prop 8 will not be televised live, though it will be YouTubed. The judge will preside over the federal trial, Perry v. Schwarze ... More >>
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