Gay marriage legalized NY a ago. A look back to 2011

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The New York State Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage on Tuday, but the measure still fac an uphill battle the state Senate.

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GAY MARRIAGE PASS FIRST VOTE NEW YORK STATE

The law will take effect 30 days, makg New York the sixth state where gay and lbian upl n wed and givg the gay-rights movement new momentum. * gay marriage passed in ny *

In 2009, a Marriage Equaly Bill had passed the New York Assembly, but fell short the 2011, galvanized by those loss, gay-rights activists at the Human Rights Campaign, Marriage Equaly New York and New York Pri Agenda doubled down, blanketg the state wh operativ to drive home marriage equaly through postrds, lls and emails and 150, 000 nstuent ntacts wh their the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 cisn Obergefell v. “When you e out as gay, you mourn the life that your siblgs have or n have, ” Koke says. Bely was behd bar, “probably mixg Cosmos, ” at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Si when "every gay person sudnly packed to this bar and there was a feelg of like the war had end or somethg, like you wanted to see a sailor wh the girl Tim Square.

O'Donnell, the brother of actrs Rosie O'Donnell, says he still gets thanks om people whose marriag his bill ma said marriage hasn't changed their daily life, except one tangible way, one that up repeatedly when talkg wh gay married upl. How would Turley and his fiancé, Peter Thie, like to move up their September weddg and p the momento Obergefell week by gettg married that Sunday, by the ernor, ont of the gay-rights temple Stonewall Inn?

”They married June 12, 2016, their favore New York Cy rtrant, on the day the world woke to the news that a gunman had killed 49 people and wound 53 more a mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. “The ia of a gay uple beg equal to any other uple has gone om beg sort of ntroversial to beg pretty borg most settgs, ” Schlse says. "In a weird way, I thk people who are unfortable wh gay folks generally, 's actually easier for them to jt hear, 'OK, so they're married, ' rather than havg to expla 'Well, they live together, but they're not married, but they're lovers.

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Gay marriage legalized NY a ago. A look back to 2011 .

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