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Contents:

• FIRED GAY JUDGE BREAKS SILENCE, PLEDG TO CONTUE ONLYFANS
• PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
• FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE CONFIRMED FOR NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT
• PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK HIGH COURT, DI
• GROUNDBREAKG GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT DI AT 61
• NEW YORK’S HIGHT URT WEL FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
• NY JUDGE ACCED OF MAKG RACIST, ANTI-GAY REMARKS URT
• FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TAPPED TO LEAD NY APPEALS COURT
• PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NY’S HIGHT URT, DI AT 61
• GAY NYC JUDGE CHALLENG FATHER'S WILL

FIRED GAY JUDGE BREAKS SILENCE, PLEDG TO CONTUE ONLYFANS

Feman, the first openly gay jurist to serve on New York State’s hight urt, the Court of Appeals, died on Wednday at a Manhattan hospal.

“Certaly my entire reer has been about promotg equal accs and equal jtice for all, ” Judge Feman rpond, alludg to his own experience as a gay man, “and I hope I add to the diversy of perspectiv that the urt nsirs.

He was sworn on June 21, 2017, durg Gay Pri a statement after the ath, Governor Cuomo lled the judge a “iend and role mol to untls L. He beme so taken by French culture that he would take his niec and nephews to Paris on their 16th worked as a legal tern Upper Manhattan as a Columbia unrgrad, he attend the Universy of Mnota Law School on a full scholarship and helped found an associatn of gay stunts there.

PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61

More about Sam RobertsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: Pl Feman, 61, Trailblazg Gay Appellate Judge.

Cuomo named the first openly gay judge to the New York Court of Appeals last week, the news thrilled gay rights advot, many of whom had been disappoted by the state’s hight had bter memori of the urt’s 2006 cisn Hernanz v. Feman, an associate jtice of the Appellate Divisn of the State Supreme Court Manhattan, to fill the seat left open by the ath of Judge Sheila Abd-Salaam April was a watershed for gay New Yorkers.

”“I n’t stop thkg back to 2006 when I argued the Hernanz se and we lost such a vastatg way, ” said Roberta Kaplan, a proment gay rights lawyer who has known Jtice Feman sce the late 1990s.

FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE CONFIRMED FOR NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT

“It was om this experience that I first me to tly appreciate how beg a lawyer is a helpg profsn and that helpg people n be a source of great satisfactn, ” he told the earned a full scholarship to the Universy of Mnota Law School, where he was a founr of an associatn of gay stunts.

PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK HIGH COURT, DI

Kaplan, the lawyer, law school, Jtice Feman anized gay stunts. He was active the gay rights movement New York Cy the 1990s, servg as the print of the L.

GROUNDBREAKG GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT DI AT 61

He threw out a lawsu that tried to block the velopment through a landmark signatn, sayg the firefighter who brought the actn lacked also ma wav 2007 when he took a stand agast the sealg of rerds civil s, even when both sis want to keep documents secret after a civil rights advot, however, Jtice Feman’s experienc as a gay man matter almost as much as his legal acumen. Person on the bench who brgs the life experienc, ” said San Sommer of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, who has argued four gay rights s before the urt. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 22 of the New York edn wh the headle: State Senators Confirm First Openly Gay Judge For New York’s Top Court.

NEW YORK’S HIGHT URT WEL FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE

What to KnowPl Feman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s hight urt, died recently after steppg down bee of his health, state officials announced Wednday.

Pl Feman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s hight urt, died recently after steppg down bee of his health, state officials announced Wednday. The state Senate nfirmed Pl Feman to the state Court of Appeals 2017, makg him the first openly gay judge on the state’s hight urt. In 2011, Alison Nathan beme the send openly gay woman to serve on the feral bench, after Judge Deborah Batts, and what is arguably the untry’s most fluential jurisdictn.

Pl Oetken beme the first openly gay man on the feral bench. In 2007, former Assemblyman Matthew Tone beme the first openly gay public official elected on Staten Island, New York Cy’s most polilly nservative borough. Last year, he ma history aga as the first openly gay Surrogate’s Court judge elected the state.

NY JUDGE ACCED OF MAKG RACIST, ANTI-GAY REMARKS URT

“Who would have thought an openly gay, liberal, Democrat like me would w an island-wi race?

One week after abptly retirg om New York's Court of Appeals due to illns, Judge Pl Feman, the first openly gay person to serve on the state's hight urt has died. MANHATTAN (CN) — One week after abptly retirg om New York's Court of Appeals due to illns, Judge Pl Feman, the first openly gay person to serve on the state's hight urt has died. “The first openly gay person to serve on the Court of Appeals, he was a lifelong champn of fairns, progrs, equaly, and jtice - the very rnerston of our state's history and our untry's mocracy.

Feman also served as mentor to younger generatns of gay jurists through LGBT Bar NY’s Hank Henry Judicial Fellowship Program, which aimed to ensure that openly gay and lbian ndidat were nsired for appoted judicial posns. Feman beme the first openly gay judge nfirmed to the New York Court of Appeals.

FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TAPPED TO LEAD NY APPEALS COURT

Senator Brad Hoylman, one of five openly gay members of New York’s State Legislature who urged the ernor to appot an LGBT person to the Court of Appeals, lled the nfirmatn “an important perspective that has been missg on the urt. “It at a time when gay rights are unr asslt om Washgton, DC and LGBT people and their fai feel unr siege.

Two of the seven ndidat remend to take the open seat were openly gay. A New York judge allegedly ma vile bigoted remarks while on the job — cludg sayg homosexualy is an “abomatn, ” claimg Hispanic people have “ceful tras” and accg her lleagu of sleepg their way to the top, new urt papers claim.

The IG found that Thompson lled four other judg “gay racist f—-ts” who were “all f—kg each other” and “tryg to me and get me, ” acrdg to the papers filed by the Office of Court Admistratn as seeks to uphold the spensn. “I hate the gay whe men … beg gay is an abomatn to mankd, ” Thompson, who was elected to a 14-year term 2018, allegedly said of other judg. The OCA’s urt papers lay out dozens of other homophobic, racist or otherwise appropriate and offensive ments that Thompson allegedly ma before she was benched by New York Chief Admistrative Judge Lawrence Marks.

PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NY’S HIGHT URT, DI AT 61

Brooklyn Surrogate’s judge allegedly ma homophobic and racist ments about people while Harriet. She was also acced of meang urt workers’ looks, swearg repeatedly and g racist and anti-gay slurs.

The appallg ments clud once sayg a gay judge was “fat now, om all of the evil of what he’s dog” and cricizg a black judge for havg blond hair, the OCA claimed. Succeedg the first female pridg jtice of the same bench, the woman appoted Monday to lead an upstate New York appeals urt marks the first openly gay judge to hold the tle state history. (CN) - Succeedg the first female pridg jtice of the same bench, the woman appoted Monday to lead an upstate New York appeals urt marks the first openly gay judge to hold the tle state history.

GAY NYC JUDGE CHALLENG FATHER'S WILL

The New York Associatn of Lbian and Gay Judg held s annual dner on January 17th at the Try Place Rtrant lower Manhattan. Judge DeLizzo, who liv on Staten Island wh his partner and two children, is the first openly gay Staten-Island-based judge New York. She is currently a member of the Bronx Women’s Bar Associatn, the Puerto Rin Bar Associatn, and the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Law Associatn of Greater New York.

Judge Milsap is volved wh several civic and profsnal anizatns, cludg the Metropolan Black Bar Associatn and the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Judg.