New York Same Sex Marriage

Marriage Equality Progress Must Continue

Daniel O'Donnell | Posted 04.14.2012

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I am incredibly proud to congratulate Washington State Representative Pedersen and Senator Murray on the day Governor Gregoire signed the bill into law, and welcome them into the next stage of the fight for marriage equality.

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New York Assemblyman Set To Wed Longtime Partner This Sunday

Posted 01.25.2012

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The openly gay New York lawmaker who helped introduce the state's marriage equality law which passed last June will finally get to take advantage of h...

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AIDS Casts A Shadow Over New York's Gay Marriage Victory

New York Times | AUSTIN CONSIDINE | Posted 01.01.2012

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ON the evening of June 24, Steve Mendelsohn celebrated in the street with his friends and nearly a thousand other supporters of same-sex marriage outs...

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WATCH: 10 Moments In Gay Media History

Laurence Watts | Posted 02.04.2012

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We Should Make Marriage About Commitment

Lanae Erickson | Posted 01.11.2012

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Next April, as the cherry blossoms are flowering across the city, I will stand in front of my family and friends and make a public promise of lifetime fidelity and commitment to my partner of five years.

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Marriage Mirage

Domenick Scudera | Posted 12.24.2011

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I find it somewhat infuriating that we could travel just a short distance to some Shangri-La where gay people can wed and crowds applaud in celebration, only to return home to file separate tax forms with "single" checked at the top of the form.

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Mainline Christianity's PR Problem

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 12.08.2011

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This is not just the result of well-funded and energetic outreach by newer, more fundamentalist, denominations. It is also the result of our own complacency and lukewarmness.

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The Marriage Equality Act

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 10.09.2011

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On Friday, Aug. 5, John and I were at the New York City courthouse applying for our marriage license. What could have been just another item on our we...

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Judaic Change And Recognizing Gay Difference

Mira Sucharov | Posted 09.28.2011

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Our institutional tents need to stand wide and open for all to enter. But effective inclusion may require a delicate balancing act of sameness and difference.

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WATCH: Hasselbeck Tears Into Gay Marriage Opponents

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 09.24.2011

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck condemned people protesting outside same-sex marriages in New York on "The View" on Monday. "The View" co-host called the pr...

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Kitty Lambert And Cheryle Rudd Aim To Be First Married Under New York Gay Marriage Law, At Rainbow-Lit Niagara Falls

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 09.21.2011

NEW YORK -- Two Buffalo women plan to be the first to legally wed under the state's new same-sex marriage law, which goes into effect on Sunday, one m...

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Rudy Giuliani Warns Republican Party: 'Get The Heck Out Of People's Bedrooms'

Posted 09.16.2011

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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani warned the Republican party to "move on" from its opposition to gay marriage in an interview with Candy Crowley on...

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Elected Officials' Catholic Dilemma On Same-Sex Marriage

Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. | Posted 09.14.2011

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There are in fact two very different Catholic voices that elected officials in New York and elsewhere around the country have to navigate: the big "C" voice of the Catholic bishops, and the little "c" voices of Catholics in the pews.

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Mother-Daughter Gay Pride

Ruth Sherman | Posted 09.02.2011

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This is a deeply personal story, the most personal I have written, the most revealing. I want to share an aspect of who I am that I've discovered relatively recently, that goes very, very deep: I'm the mother of a gay child.

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WATCH: GOP Rep. Confronted About Her Stance On Gay Marriage

Posted 08.31.2011

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A Republican congresswoman was put on the defensive this week by a gay student who questioned her controversial views on marriage equality. While s...

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How We Won New York

Marc Solomon | Posted 08.30.2011

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How did we pull this historic victory off? Fresh from this triumph, I want to share my best thinking on the components that enabled us to win and what this means for the freedom to marry campaign moving forward.

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Lesbian Couple Plans Fifth Wedding In New York

Posted 08.29.2011

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Everyone really does love a wedding, especially Wendy Smiley and Madeline Davis of Buffalo, N.Y. who want to celebrate the passing of New York's same ...

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Money Was The Key Ingredient In New York's Gay Marriage Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The passage of historic legislation legalizing same sex marriage in the state of New York last Friday was owed in large part to a compel...

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While Gays Push to Marry, Heterosexuals Fear Commitment

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 08.27.2011

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Gays marrying has nothing to do with heterosexuals divorcing and the real crisis in the American marriage is not that people of the same sex want to get hitched but that people of the opposite don't want to stay together.

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Basking In Pride And Gratitude... How Often Does That Happen?

Alicia Salzer, M.D. | Posted 08.26.2011

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I am grateful that time heals and that we grow, and that our country knows how to grow with us. It is a very proud day to be gay.

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The Freedom To Marry: What's Next After New York?

Evan Wolfson | Posted 08.25.2011

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Having New York end marriage discrimination is a turning point for the country. As New Yorkers say, if we can make it here, we'll make it anywhere -- but only if the ever-expanding community of people who support the freedom to marry do the work to bring it home nationwide.

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WATCH: Celebrations Of Gay Marriage Bill Outside New York's Stonewall Inn

Posted 08.25.2011

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When news broke that New York would be the sixth state to legalize gay marriage, New Yorkers flooded the streets in jubilation. More than 40 years ...

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A New Tradition... Queers for Economic Justice and Labor walk in Solidarity at NYC Pride March

Amber Hollibaugh | Posted 08.25.2011

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For the first time in many years, New York's Heritage of Pride Parade will have an economic justice contingent in the parade. The time is right for Queers for Economic Justice and our friends to stand strong with labor, and for labor to stand strong with us.

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Jubilation!

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 08.25.2011

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There is much work ahead. But what happened in New York last night will be seen to have been as pivotal as what happened in this state, in this city, over 40 years ago, when patrons at the Stonewall Inn said, "Enough!"

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Our Next Marriage Equality Fight: Repealing DOMA

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 08.25.2011

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Last night's vote for marriage equality in N.Y. was a true bipartisan effort, with Democratic and Republican state senators coming together to support the simple proposition that every New Yorker should be able to marry the person they love. But our work is not done.

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