Gay marriage: 's only fair | Michael Bloomberg | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE: 'S ONLY FAIR
• MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMED HE GOT GAY MARRIAGE PASSED NY. HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.
• BLOOMBERG DETERMED TO GET GAY MARRIAGE PASSED
• BLOOMBERG ONCE SAID BIN HAD ‘BALLS’ FOR BACKG GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE OBAMA
• IS NEW YORK MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG GAY?
• MIKE BLOOMBERG, JEAN MOUTOSAMY-ASHE STAR IN NY GAY MARRIAGE ADS
• MIKE BLOOMBERG'S GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORT CSED HURRINE SANDY, PASTOR CLAIMS

GAY MARRIAGE: 'S ONLY FAIR

As a mayor, I know that legalisg same-sex marriage has sharpened New York Cy's petive edge the global enomy, bee has ma an even more attractive place to live and work – not jt for gay men and women, but for all people who want to live a tolerant and ee muny. And jt as young civil right activists the 1950s and 1960s end s of discrimatory laws agast Ain-Amerins, today's young people will do the same for gays and lbians. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Gay Marriage Solutn - Nymag.

As a momento lotn the history of gay civil rights, the rner of Chrystie and Grand is unlikely to rank wh the Stonewall.

MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMED HE GOT GAY MARRIAGE PASSED NY. HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.

Last March, the mayor told a group of gay journalists that he believed same-sex marriage should be legal. “I told the mayor, ‘No matter what you do, you have to e out for gay marriage. On Saturday night, Bloomberg was schled to speak before 1, 000 people at a Waldorf-Astoria gala for the Human Rights Campaign, the untry’s largt gay-and-lbian anizatn; Queer Eye’s Carson Krsley would show up drsed as SpongeBob SquarePants.

Bloomberg’s Chatown statement supportg gay marriage took about 90 sends to liver, but pped a antic 36 hours of behd-the-scen bate, passnate lobbyg, legal arna, polil lculatn, and pure dumb luck. The siwalk at Chrystie and Grand won’t be add to gay-tour maps. One of Sheekey’s ntacts lled to say that appeared Lg-Cohan was gog to open the door to gay marriage the cy.

BLOOMBERG DETERMED TO GET GAY MARRIAGE PASSED

If Bloomberg accepted the judge’s cisn permtg gay marriage, there’d be a stampe on the cy clerk’s office.

If, on the other hand, Bloomberg cid to appeal Lg-Cohan’s orr, he’d ve the wrath of many liberals and gays, a reactn sure to be stoked by Bloomberg’s Democratic adversari. “If I’m pro–gay marriage, then why am I sayg one thg while my lawyers are fightg urt? ” The lawyers argued that the cy had a legal obligatn to fend s actns—and that, as happened San Francis and New Paltz last year, the lower-urt cisn was likely to be overturned, voidg any gay-marriage license Bloomberg might issue, pecially sce three urts upstate have led agast such documents.

Capehart also happens to be gay, and once took the mayor to a weekly gay night at a downtown rtrant. Sheekey reached out to the lears of gay-rights groups, surveyg their reactns until well past midnight Friday. ” Before Judge Lg-Cohan’s lg, Skyler drafted a speech for the HRC gala wh no mentn of gay marriage; Bloomberg had some rewrg suggtns.

BLOOMBERG ONCE SAID BIN HAD ‘BALLS’ FOR BACKG GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE OBAMA

So right after the mayor ma his Chatown ments, he phoned gay lears to expla his reasong. ” But otherwise Bloomberg managed to sow two days of nfn, mute the mastream gay reactn—he was both cheered and booed at the HRC dner—and ph any cisn, or marriag, away om Cy Hall’s steps.

Gay marriage is one of those moral and policy maz, like abortn or stem-cell rearch, that seem to have been signed by a mischievo polil y to torment elected officials. Bloomberg says that if the Court of Appeals l agast gay marriage, he’ll lobby the Legislature to change state law. Gay lears vow to hold him to the promise.

IS NEW YORK MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG GAY?

The exchange was a ht of how the gay-marriage issue will shadow him. At his CNN town hall meetg Wednday night, former New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was the one who nvced state Senate Republins to vote for gay marriage 2011. "I went up to Albany, and I went to the Republins, and I sat down wh a bunch of them, and I nvced the Republins — even though I was a very liberal New York Cy mayor — I nvced them to vote for gay marriage, " Bloomberg said.

Dpe @MikeBloomberg claim that he shepherd gay marriage vote through Republin State Senate 2011, former Senator Jim Ali tells me by phone that was @NYGovCuomo who ma happen. But the gay marriage bill passed when four Republins broke ranks and joed Democrats votg for .

MIKE BLOOMBERG, JEAN MOUTOSAMY-ASHE STAR IN NY GAY MARRIAGE ADS

We reached out to three of the Republins who voted for gay marriage, Jim Ali, Mark Grisanti, and Steve Saland. Former Republin State Senator Mark Grisanti echo Jim Ali’s claim that @MikeBloomberg was NOT the drivg force behd 2011 gay marriage vote, was @NYGovCuomo.

Former Republin State Senator Steve Saland also creds @NYGovCuomo for his gay marriage vote, and not @MikeBloomberg. Bloomberg, clarg that “near-equaly is no equaly” for gay upl, livered an uncharacteristilly forceful and sweepg speech on Thursday which he lled on New York to “lead the Amerin journey forward” by legalizg same-sex marriage this year.

MIKE BLOOMBERG'S GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORT CSED HURRINE SANDY, PASTOR CLAIMS

He voked the rt at the Stonewall Inn the Wt Village almost 42 years ago, wily viewed as the birthplace of the morn gay rights movement, as an example of the role that New Yorkers n play shapg history. Last week he went to Albany to lobby Republin senators, and on Wednday he hosted a star-studd fund-raiser for gay rights advot at the Upper East Si headquarters of his foundatn.