How did Mayor Bloomberg arrive at his plex posn on gay marriage? Very quickly—and very refully.
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‘Suck up’ New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), left, and Mike Bloomberg, then a mayoral ndidate, march the cy's gay pri para 2001. 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.
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“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.
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?
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” 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. 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.