Maggie Gallagher, the board chair of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), has threatened Republicans who voted for a gay marriage law in New York with a “bloody mess.”
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26 Jul 2011
Big Gay Ice Cream Shop!
Queerty reports on the Big Gay Ice Cream shop!
New Yorkers have much to celebrate: first we got gay marriage, now we have gay ice cream! The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, popular mobile purveyor of gourmet cones and queer cheer since 2009—is almost ready to open its first brick-and-mortar store at 125 East 7th Street. Partners Bryan Petroff and Doug Quint just need to finish all the last-minute touches—like the unicorn mural festooned with 6,000 Swarofski crystals. (Yeah, it’s that gay.)
US Republican Tim Pawlenty hates on the gays again.
A US Republican presidential candidate, the former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has opened his mouth to spout more gay hate. The Republican front runner took a slice at gay marriage on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, show. No coincidence that this was the first day of marriage equality in New York.
Lawsuit filed over New York same-sex marriage law - CNN.com
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, centre, officiates a same-sex marriage on Sunday.
Conservative groups on Monday filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court challenging the legality of the state's same-sex marriage law, reported CNN. The lawsuit, in which New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom (NYCF) is the primary plaintiff, seeks an injunction on the Marriage Equality Act, claiming that open meeting laws were violated, campaign contributions were promised, and Senate rules on debate were violated in order to enact the law, which took effect on Sunday.
Justin Timberlake supports New York gay marriage law
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Singer turned movie star Justin Timberlake has said that he is "stoked" about the passage of New York's Marriage Equality Act, allowing lesbian and gay couples to legally wed.
Same-Sex Marriages Legal In New York.
Josh Haner/The New York Times
Sephanie Spahr-LaFroscia (left) and Theresa LaFroscia (right) finished up paperwork before they were married on Monday at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau in the Office of the City Clerk.Clerk’s offices in hundreds of rural and suburban towns across New York began offering marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples for the first time on Monday, even as a conservative group filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s Marriage Equality Act and nullify the same-sex marriages, reports the New York Times.
19 Jul 2011
New play about gay marriage ban to get on Broadway
A new play about the battle over same-sex marriage in California by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk" is slated for a one-night-only reading on Broadway, reports the AP news agency.
Dustin Lance Black's play "8'' about Proposition 8 will be performed for a fundraiser at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Sept. 19. Casting will be announced later.
Republican presidential hopefuls play down social issues
So the former top dog in New York, Rudy Giuliani, the man most credited as cleaning up New York when he was mayor and help the city to heal after the devastation on 9/11, is telling the US republican party to keep out of gay marriage and other social issues.
It’s believed he was about to officiate at a gay wedding in New York sometime after the 25th July, but was ordered by the GOP not to, or face being completely dropped by the party. He’s now getting his own back, by, speaking sense. Keep out of the gay marriage debate, for he knows if they continue to gain more votes outside the key demographic of staunchly right wing Christians.
Here’s a report from CBS
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is considering another presidential run, urged Republicans on Sunday "to get the heck out of people's bedrooms and let these things get decided by states."
"We'd be a much more successful political party if we stuck to our economic, conservative roots," Giuliani told CNN.
At least as far as the 2012 GOP presidential candidates are concerned, however, Giuliani needn't have bothered with the warning.
Guided by polls that show that Americans' top concern by far is jobs at the economy, as well as pressure from the Tea Party to focus on the debt and deficit, the Republican candidates have thus far largely tiptoed around divisive social issues. It's a far cry from 2004, when then-President George W. Bush, seeking a second term, loudly backed a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.
Exhibit A: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann. Opposition to same-sex marriage was central to the political rise of the ostensible social conservative flamethrower; in 2004 she called it "the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, 30 years." Bachmann has suggested nearly all gay people were abused, cast homosexuality as a choice and deemed it "personal slavery" and "part of Satan."
But Bachmann has repeatedly declined to answer questions about her beliefs on gay rights since becoming a presidential candidate, opting instead to focus on fiscal issues. While she has made token gestures toward social conservatives - signing, for example, a controversial "values" pledge opposing same-sex marriage and pornography - she has not sought to spotlight those beliefs. In her first debate, Bachmann even stumbled over the question of a federal marriage amendment, first saying she doesn't "see that it's the role of a president to go into states and interfere with their state laws" before later clarifying support for a federal amendment.
She's not alone. Consider Mitt Romney, who shifted right on both gay rights and abortion between his time as Massachusetts governor and his 2008 presidential campaign. Romney, who is casting himself as the candidate to get the struggling economy back on track, has also kept the focus squarely on fiscal issues in the current campaign; not coincidentally, he refused to sign the "values" pledge. Romney backs a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, but you would hardly know it: He only talks about the issue when forced to do so.
Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain and most of the other GOP candidates also declined to sign the "values" amendment. Only Rick Santorum, perhaps the only candidate running a campaign geared primarily toward social conservative voters, joined Bachmann in signing on. It's not that the other candidates want to alienate social conservatives - Romney, Pawlenty and Cain released statements stressing their social-conservative credentials even as they vowed not to sign the pledge. But they also don't want to be seen as focused on them, since polls show social issues are relatively unimportant (and potentially alienating) to most voters.
All this doesn't mean that social issues are receding entirely from the political landscape. Social conservative leaders have been pressuring the candidates to pay more attention to their issues, and any candidate who wants to compete in Iowa - the key first-in-the-nation voting state where 60 percent of 2008 GOP caucus-goers identified as born-again Christian - has to spend some time showing up their social conservative credentials. And among rank-and-file lawmakers on the right, abortion, at least, remains potent: House Republicans pushed abortion legislation as one of their first acts after they took over Congress.
But for Republican candidates for national political office in 2012, social issues have thus far been something to play down, not play up. That's partly a function of shifting social mores, particularly on gay rights issues. But it's mostly a function of the economic landscape. With the recovery sputtering and unemployment over 9 percent, most Americans aren't looking for a president to fight the divisive social issue battles of the past. What they are seeking instead is someone who can help them put food on the table in the future.
Republican presidential hopefuls play down social issues - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
18 Jul 2011
American Churches Face ‘The Gay Debate’
After same-sex marriage becomes legal in New York on July 24, gay priests with partners in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island will head to the altar. They have to – simple as that. They have been ordered to but their bishop, who has given them a nine month time limit. If they are not married by then, it’s time for them to hit the road!
16 Jul 2011
It pays to support Gay-Rights!
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who led the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, received $60,000 in campaign money from one of the state’s leading gay-rights groups, according to campaign finance records filed Friday with the State Board of Elections.
15 Jul 2011
Broadway Will Celebrate New York’s Gay Marriage Law
Some of the first gay marriages in New York could very well be it a of a show. Quite literally they will be a jolly sparkly theatrical event.
13 Jul 2011
New York Town Clerk Quits Over Gay Marriages
A town clerk in western New York has resigned in a bid to avoid being forced to sign marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples. The clerk has cited religious objections to same-sex marriage marriage.
Laura Fotusky, was the town clerk in Barker, on the western side of New York state told the media before her employers that she had sent in her resignation. She’ll step down on 21st July, just three days before New York becomes the sixth and largest state in the US to allow gay nuptials.
The current New York governor and supporter of equality Andrew Cuomo signed the same sex marriage law last month. The bill was narrowly passed in the Republican-led state Senate, after a small number of republicans went against GOP orders and voted to approve the bill. Its approval in New York has been seen by many as a catalyst for gay marriage elsewhere.
Much of the debate in New York focused on the scope of protections for those opposed to same-sex marriage. The new law exempts religious groups from performing same-sex marriages but does not extend those protections to individuals, including government employees.
Fotusky stated in her letter that she said she believes the Bible takes precedence over man-made laws. "The Bible clearly teaches that God created marriage between male and female as a divine gift that preserves families and cultures. Since I love and follow Him, I cannot put my signature on something that is against God," she wrote, "I would be compromising my moral conscience if I participated in the licensing procedure,"
According to New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative Christian nonprofit group that circulated Fotusky's letter to the media, she is the first clerk in the state to resign over objections to same-sex nuptials.
But she is not the first to raise concerns. Two weeks ago, the town clerk in the Syracuse suburb of Volney cited her own religious objections and requested that outside help be brought in to sign same-sex marriage licenses.
Cuomo, who had made the legalization of same-sex marriage a top priority this year, told reporters on Tuesday that he agreed with Fotusky's decision to resign because government workers have a responsibility to enforce the law.
"When you enforce the laws of the state, you don't get to pick and choose the laws," Cuomo said.
“Of course, she is entitled to hold her views, in respect of religion. However, being held up as a champion of religious freedoms by Constitutional Freedoms is a dangerous thing. She and they mat well believe “bible takes precedence over man-made laws” I therefore expect them to call for the death penalty for anyone who works on a Sunday and will sell their first born daughters in to slavery – both of which are both laws as per the bible” Said gay rights commentator Jason Shaw.
8 Jul 2011
New York’s Mayor Will Do Same Sex Marriage.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will officiate at the wedding of two city officials on July 24, it’s been announced. Bloomberg who has done so much for the cause of equality in respect to marriage, will officiate at Jonathan Mintz, the city's consumer affairs commissioner, and John Feinblatt, a chief adviser to the mayor, wedding.
7 Jul 2011
Who's the Bride and Who's the Groom?
Gay Marriage Quandary: Am I the Bride or Groom? A question a few faced on forms in New york, which was quickly sorted out.
On the first day that New York State allowed same-sex couples to start the process to get a marriage license this week, reports ABC, Sandra Rodriguez-Diaz and her lesbian partner Miriam Soriano had to make an "awkward" choice on the application form: Who was the bride and who was the groom?
New York Will Open City Office On A Sunday For The Gays?
30 Jun 2011
New York Republican Senators–Can They Bank on Gay Support?
As an outsider I marvel at the power of the news that the recent gay marriage success in New York has had. Little ripples of encouragement have reached far and wide. There is no doubt this is a massive step forward in the battle for equality and acceptance.
One of my regular contacts told me this should be taken as a clear message of what can be achieved when ‘we’ as a community work as one, toward one goal. It’s clear that a great many people came together to make a stand from hard-core gay rights campaigners, to celebrities, to politicians, to equality groups as well as millions of individuals.
29 Jun 2011
Milestones of the 42nd anniversary of Stonewall riots
It’s hard to contemplate that some forty two years ago this very week the eyes of the world looked to New York and the horrible scenes of brutality to gay people. It was an uprising, a fight back, a time to make a stand, it was what has become known as The Stonewall Riots, many claim it was the birth place of the gay pride movement, at least in America. It also spurred on gay people in other nations, that the time to stand up for equality had finally come.
25 Jun 2011
New York Marriage Equality
Article first published as Gay Marriage Lands In New York on Technorati.
This article was first published on Technorati written by Jason Shaw
There’s a party still going on in New York city, following the Friday night vote that saw the state become the sixth one to legalize gay marriage.
Yes, in a landmark ruling and display New York become only the sixth state in the USA where gay couples can legally wed, however, just this one state doubles the number of Americans residing in a state equality, at least as far as marriage goes.
The New York Senate have been discussing and debating the issue for a number of hours over the last couple of days and finally on Friday night came the vote that saw them approve the same-sex marriage bill by 33-29 at the New York state Senate building in the sate capitol in Albany.
New York legalises gay marriage
Late on Friday evening, New York became the sixth US state to legalise gay marriage.
After days of negotiation over protections for religious groups, senators voted 33-29 to pass the bill. Governor Andrew Cuomo then signed it into law. Thirty days must pass before the first ceremonies can take place.New York is America’s third most populous state and the breakthrough doubles the number of gay Americans who can marry in their own state.
As New York has no residency requirement, gay couples from other states are expected to take advantage of the law.
24 Jun 2011
President Obama & The New York Gays
US President Obama took a step closer to confirming his support for gay marriage in America, and in New York when he spoke at a fund raiser meeting. The battle is being a fierce one in New York currently and the president seemed to wow the assembled gay and lesbian donors Thursday night
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