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.