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.
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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.
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.
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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.