New York beme the sixth and largt state to legalize same-sex marriage after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill to law late Friday night. Gay weddgs will beg 30 days.
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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. * when was gay marriage legalized in ny *
Nathaniel Brooks for The New York TimJune 24, 2011ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, makg New York the largt state where gay and lbian upl will be able to wed and givg the natnal gay-rights movement new momentum om the state where was marriage bill, whose fate was uncerta until moments before the vote, was approved 33 to 29 a packed but hhed Senate chamber.
Nathaniel Brooks for The New York TimThe approval of same-sex marriage reprented a reversal of fortune for gay-rights advot, who jt two years ago suffered a huiatg feat when a same-sex marriage bill was easily rejected by the Senate, which was then ntrolled by Democrats. Cuomo, a Democrat who pledged last year to support same-sex marriage but whose early months office were domated by tense battl wh lawmakers and some labor unns over spendg Cuomo ma same-sex marriage one of his top prri for the year and ployed his top ai to ordate the efforts of a half-dozen lol gay-rights anizatns whose fdg and disanizatn had part been blamed for the feat two years new aln of same-sex marriage supporters brought one of Mr.
VioMore than 1, 000 supporters of same-sex marriage gathered at the Stonewall Inn, a birthplace of the gay rights movement New York's Wt Village neighborhood, to celebrate the bill's Senate Republins, even brgg the measure to the floor was a eighted cisn. Díaz legalizatn of same-sex marriage the Uned Stat is a relatively recent goal of the gay-rights movement, but over the last few years, gay-rights anizers have placed at the center of their agenda, steerg money and mcle to dozens of state pals an often uphill effort to persua New York, passage of the bill reflects rapidly evolvg sentiment about same-sex unns.
NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * when was gay marriage legalized in ny *
Many of them were approved the past few years, as same-sex marriage moved to the ont le of the culture war and policians ployed the issue as a tool for energizg their New York uld be a shift: It is now by far the largt state to grant legal regnn to same-sex weddgs, and one that is home to a large, visible and polilly fluential gay muny. Supporters of the measure scribed the victory New York as pecially symbolic — and poignant — bee of s rich place the history of gay rights: the movement’s foundatnal moment, June 1969, was a rt agast police at the Stonewall Inn, a bar the Wt Albany, there was elatn after the vote.
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Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.