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• THEY FOUGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE. A LATER, ADVOT REFLECT ON THE 'HERCULEAN FEAT.'
• NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN NEW YORK CMON HARRYSTYL CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
• GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGALISED NEW YORK

THEY FOUGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE. A LATER, ADVOT REFLECT ON THE 'HERCULEAN FEAT.'

’”A group walks down Fifth Avenue durg the New York Cy gay pri march on June 26, Honda / AFP via Getty Imag fileIt wasn’t a bloodls victory, though: The four Republin state senators who crossed the aisle to support the bill all were out of office wh the next few years. Nathaniel Brooks for The New York TimJune 24, 2011ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, makg New York the largt state where gay and lbian upl will be able to wed and givg the natnal gay-rights movement new momentum om the state where was marriage bill, whose fate was uncerta until moments before the vote, was approved 33 to 29 a packed but hhed Senate chamber. Nathaniel Brooks for The New York TimThe approval of same-sex marriage reprented a reversal of fortune for gay-rights advot, who jt two years ago suffered a huiatg feat when a same-sex marriage bill was easily rejected by the Senate, which was then ntrolled by Democrats.

Cuomo, a Democrat who pledged last year to support same-sex marriage but whose early months office were domated by tense battl wh lawmakers and some labor unns over spendg Cuomo ma same-sex marriage one of his top prri for the year and ployed his top ai to ordate the efforts of a half-dozen lol gay-rights anizatns whose fdg and disanizatn had part been blamed for the feat two years new aln of same-sex marriage supporters brought one of Mr. VioMore than 1, 000 supporters of same-sex marriage gathered at the Stonewall Inn, a birthplace of the gay rights movement New York's Wt Village neighborhood, to celebrate the bill's Senate Republins, even brgg the measure to the floor was a eighted cisn.

Díaz legalizatn of same-sex marriage the Uned Stat is a relatively recent goal of the gay-rights movement, but over the last few years, gay-rights anizers have placed at the center of their agenda, steerg money and mcle to dozens of state pals an often uphill effort to persua New York, passage of the bill reflects rapidly evolvg sentiment about same-sex unns. Many of them were approved the past few years, as same-sex marriage moved to the ont le of the culture war and policians ployed the issue as a tool for energizg their New York uld be a shift: It is now by far the largt state to grant legal regnn to same-sex weddgs, and one that is home to a large, visible and polilly fluential gay muny. Supporters of the measure scribed the victory New York as pecially symbolic — and poignant — bee of s rich place the history of gay rights: the movement’s foundatnal moment, June 1969, was a rt agast police at the Stonewall Inn, a bar the Wt Albany, there was elatn after the vote.

NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

Thomas Duane, a rights advot are hopg the vote will galvanize the movement around the Uned Stat and help rega momentum after an almost intil bill was feated here 2009 and siar measur failed 2010 New Jersey and this year Maryland and Rho New York is a relative lateer allowg gay marriage, is nsired an important prize for advot, given the state's size and New York Cy's ternatnal stature and s role as the birthplace of the gay rights movement, which is nsired to have started wh the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village 1969. I'm so exhsted and so proud that the New York State Senate fally stood on the right si of history, " said Queens teacher Eugene Lovendky, 26, who is gay and said he hop to marry then repeated a chant he had screamed durg a prott at a fundraiser for Print Barack Obama last night: "I am somebody. ""I have never be prour to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today wh the passage of marriage equaly, " Cyndi Lper said a effects of the law uld be felt well beyond New York: Unlike Massachetts, which pneered gay marriage 2004, New York has no rincy requirement for obtag a marriage license, meang the state uld bee a mag for gay upl across the untry who want to have a weddg Central Park, the Hamptons, the romantic Hudson Valley or that honeymoon hot spot of yore, Niagara York, the natn's third most populo state, will jo Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the Washgton pal district allowg same-sex upl to five months 2008, gay marriage was legal California, the biggt state populatn, and 18, 000 same-sex upl shed to tie the knot there before voters overturned the state Supreme Court lg that allowed the practice.

Changg the law would require a nstutnal nventn, a long, drawn-out stickg pot over the past few days: Republin mands for stronger legal protectns for relig groups that fear they will be h wh discrimatn lawsus if they refe to allow their facili to be ed for gay climactic vote me after more than a week of stop-and-start negotiatns, mors, closed-door meetgs and tratn on the part of advot. Onle discsns took on a nasty turn wh sults and vulgari pepperg the screens of opponents and supporters alike and secury was beefed up the pol to give senators easier passage to and om their nference night before, Print Obama enuraged lawmakers to support gay rights durg a fundraiser wh New York Cy's gay muny.

Dpe New York Cy's liberal Democratic polics and large and vol gay muny, prev efforts to legalize same-sex marriage failed over the past several years, part bee the rt of the state is more nservative than the bill's succs this time reflected the powerful support of Cuomo and perhaps a change public attus. Opn polls for the first time are showg majory support for same-sex marriage, and Congrs recently repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that barred gays om servg openly the the week leadg up to the vote New York, some Republins who opposed the bill 2009 me forward to say they were supportg for reasons of nscience and a duty to ensure civil rights. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

GAY MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN NEW YORK CMON HARRYSTYL CROSSWORD CLUE

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. That set off an tensive effort among a bipartisan group of proponents the Senate — boosted quietly by a aln of fluential Republin donors and operativ, some of them gay — to fd the at least 10 Republin vot necsary that chamber to move the Senate, the legislatn was revised to addrs ncerns among some Republins that would punish or rtrict the relig eedom of stutns that refe to regnize same-sex marriag. The unexpectedly high number of Hoe Republins supportg the bill July — nearly a quarter of them — propelled her bid to cut a bipartisan al the Senate, but she urged Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majory lear, to wa until after the electns to brg to a strategy drew the ire of some progrsiv who were eager to exact a polil price om Republin opponents of the measure, but yield the hoped for rult: The legislatn passed the Senate last month wh the support of 12 Republins, exceedg the 60-vote thrhold that has trated many a bipartisan the Hoe floor on Thursday, a para of Democrats — some of them gay, many of speakg about their own same-sex marriag — stood to make the se for the measure.

“Today, we will vote for equaly and agast discrimatn by fally overturng the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act and guaranteeg ccial protectns for same-sex and terracial marriag, ” Reprentative David Cicille, Democrat of Rho Island, said on Thursday the moments before , at a ceremony to celebrate and officially transm the legislatn to Mr. Pelosi, whose speakership ends the begng of January, said that signg the bill was a ftg pstone to her tenure the post, which began 2010 wh her signg legislatn to allow the repeal of the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy agast gay and bisexual people servg openly the Reprentative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachetts and one of the first openly gay members of Congrs, was on hand to celebrate what he scribed the mise of yet another ignom piece of policy, referrg to the Defense of Marriage Act by s ials.

"Jt as Hawaii's high urt seemed poised to allow same-sex marriag, gay activists have seen their visns of legal weddgs on the beach of Mi disappear as voters approved Constutnal Amendment 2, givg the legislature power to 'rerve marriage to oppose-sex upl.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

"Rabbis belongg to the biggt and most liberal branch of Judaism the Uned Stat have voted to regnise the partnerships of gay and lbian Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanctn relig ceremoni for same-sex Print of the Conference, Rabbi Charl Kroloff, said that gay and lbian people served the regnn and rpect due to people created the image of God. "Before the lg [Supreme Court lg that laws makg gay sex a crime were unnstutnal], supporters the Hoe [US Hoe of Reprentativ] of a nstutnal amendment that would more formally rtrict marriage to the unn of a man and a woman were havg trouble attractg sponsors.

"A unty clerk issued marriage licens Friday to at least 15 gay upl, some of whom then exchanged vows outsi the urthoe, as more same-sex upl led up for a chance to tie the Mexi law f marriage as a ntract between ntractg parti but do not mentn genr. 'In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ' he wrote, 'the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl. Proposn 8 was the most expensive proposn on any ballot the natn this year, wh more than $74 ln spent by both measure's most fervent proponents believed that nothg ls than the future of tradnal fai was at stake, while opponents believed that they were fightg for the fundamental right of gay people to be treated equally unr the years ago, Californians voted 61% to fe marriage as beg only between a man and a California Supreme Court overturned that measure, Proposn 22, s May 15 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage on the grounds that the state Constutn required equal treatment of gay and lbian upl.

Cuomo signed the measure after passed a Republin-ntrolled Senate on Friday night [June 24, 2011], raisg qutns as to whether the move reflects new momentum the gay rights said the law will grant same-sex upl equal rights to marry 'as well as hundreds of rights, benefs and protectns that are currently limed to married upl of the oppose sex. Print history to fully embrace that level of civil rights for ’s announcement gave an immediate jolt to the s-long movement for gay equaly at a moment when a growg number of stat are movg to ban — or legalize — same-sex unns and as polls show a majory of Amerins support marriage rights. "Voters Mae and Maryland approved same-sex marriage on a day of electn rults that jubilant gay rights advot lled a historic turng pot, the first time that marriage for gay men and lbians has been approved at the ballot Mnota, another first, voters rejected a proposal to amend the State Constutn to fe marriage as between a man and a woman, a measure that has been enshred the nstutns of 30 stat.

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGALISED NEW YORK

"The Supreme Court stck down a key part of the feral Defense of Marriage Act on Wednday and clared that same-sex upl who are legally married serve equal rights to the benefs unr feral law that go to all other married cisn is a landmark w for the gay rights movement. Dissentg were Jtic John Roberts, Anton Slia, Samuel Alo and Clarence lg means that more than 100, 000 gay and lbian upl who are legally married will be able to take advantage of tax breaks, pensn rights and other benefs that are available to other married upl.