How did Mayor Bloomberg arrive at his plex posn on gay marriage? Very quickly—and very refully.
Contents:
- MIKE BLOOMBERG BAFFL WH MPAIGN AD SHOWG HIM EATG 'BIG GAY ICE CREAM'
- BRIAN WILLIAMS, MARA GAY MAKE ABSURD MATH FLUB ABOUT MIKE BLOOMBERG’S WEALTH
- BLOOMBERG DETERMED TO GET GAY MARRIAGE PASSED
- GAY MARRIAGE: 'S ONLY FAIR
- MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMED HE GOT GAY MARRIAGE PASSED NY. HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.
- GAY MARRIAGE BOOSTS NYC'S ENOMY BY $259 LN FIRST YEAR
MIKE BLOOMBERG BAFFL WH MPAIGN AD SHOWG HIM EATG 'BIG GAY ICE CREAM'
* michael bloomberg is gay *
Yet others said the Bloomberg admistratn's msagg on HIV wasn't effective wh the people most at risk, young gay and bisexual men of lor. "Bloomberg has employed several high-profile gay staffers as mayor and his philanthropic efforts. Mark Glaze, a gay man, served as director of Mayors Agast Illegal Guns, a mpaign chaired by Bloomberg and Tom Meno, then mayor of Boston.
BRIAN WILLIAMS, MARA GAY MAKE ABSURD MATH FLUB ABOUT MIKE BLOOMBERG’S WEALTH
Another gay man, Jonathan Capehart, now a Washgton Post lumnist, was a speechwrer for Bloomberg durg the 2001 a Post lumn published Monday, Capehart said Bloomberg has "all the quali that Print Tmp lacks: a moral re, eply held nvictns, a belief the power of ernment to addrs if not fix problems, rpect for the le of law and reverence for our mocratic stutns and the Constutn.
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NBC’s Brian Williams and New York Tim edorial board member Mara Gay reported that Mike Bloomberg spent $327 trilln on his doomed printial bid. Williams and Gay ced a sce-leted tweet om eelance journalist Meka Rivas, who wrote Bloomberg spent $1 ln per U. “Somebody tweeted recently that actually wh the money he spent he uld have given every Amerin a ln dollars, ” Gay said Thursday eveng on Williams’s show.
BLOOMBERG DETERMED TO GET GAY MARRIAGE PASSED
The tweet was displayed by MSNBC as Williams and Gay offered mentary — seemgly unaware of the avalanche of rrectns on Twter. Gay, dubbg Bloomberg a “billnaire wh good tentns, ” add: “It’s an credible way of puttg . 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.
GAY MARRIAGE: 'S ONLY FAIR
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. Bloomberg was troduced by a niece, Rachel Tiven, who is gay. At one pot, he said that he had grown tired of tryg to expla to gay iends, relativ and staff members why the ernment was nyg them the right to wed.
MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMED HE GOT GAY MARRIAGE PASSED NY. HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mayor Stat Case, Emphatilly and Personally, for Gay Marriage. 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.
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.
GAY MARRIAGE BOOSTS NYC'S ENOMY BY $259 LN FIRST YEAR
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.