Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Gay Marriage Solutn - Nymag

Contents:

• BLOOMBERG DETERMED TO GET GAY MARRIAGE PASSED
• MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMED HE GOT GAY MARRIAGE PASSED NY. HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.
• BLOOMBERG ONCE SAID BIN HAD ‘BALLS’ FOR BACKG GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE OBAMA
• GAY MARRIAGE: 'S ONLY FAIR
• BLOOMBERG ON OBAMA AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S HIS LL
• NYC MAYOR BLOOMBERG LOBBI FOR GAY MARRIAGE ALBANY
• BLOOMBERG DONAT $250K TO MARYLAND GAY MARRIAGE EFFORT
• MAYOR MIKE BLOOMBERG MAK SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• VIO: MAYOR BLOOMBERG FOR GAY MARRIAGE

BLOOMBERG DETERMED TO GET GAY MARRIAGE PASSED

Hodg cisn that swept away remag gay marriage bans. Bloomberg noted his early 2005 endorsement of same-sex marriage, sayg he later “worked to nvce Republins” to vote for the marriage equaly bill passed by the New York State Assembly addn to unveilg the LGBTQ platform, his mpaign also announced endorsements om two proment gay fashn lears, former “Project Runway” judge Tim Gunn and signer and performer Isaac Mizrahi, who both joed Bloomberg’s Natnal LGBTQ+ Learship several of Bloomberg's LGBTQ policy pots are borrowed om the much more specific bs and enomic policy sectns of his platform — like a vow to vt “billns muni across the natn to help create jobs and grow ” — many ways, the LGBTQ platform mirrors those of other Democratic printial hopefuls, highlightg how the party has alced around a general platform on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stance, former Vice Print Joe Bin, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, Sen. Activists say they will not hate to raise big bucks to n challengers to those who oppose gay marriage.

MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMED HE GOT GAY MARRIAGE PASSED NY. HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.

Diaz said that stead of tryg to strong arm lawmakers, Mayor Bloomberg should spend his polil pal and his own pal on a statewi referendum that would allow all New Yorkers to have a say on gay marriage.

Yet others said the Bloomberg admistratn's msagg on HIV wasn't effective wh the people most at risk, young gay and bisexual men of lor. "Bloomberg has employed several high-profile gay staffers as mayor and his philanthropic efforts.

Mark Glaze, a gay man, served as director of Mayors Agast Illegal Guns, a mpaign chaired by Bloomberg and Tom Meno, then mayor of Boston. Another gay man, Jonathan Capehart, now a Washgton Post lumnist, was a speechwrer for Bloomberg durg the 2001 a Post lumn published Monday, Capehart said Bloomberg has "all the quali that Print Tmp lacks: a moral re, eply held nvictns, a belief the power of ernment to addrs if not fix problems, rpect for the le of law and reverence for our mocratic stutns and the Constutn. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Gay Marriage Solutn - Nymag.

BLOOMBERG ONCE SAID BIN HAD ‘BALLS’ FOR BACKG GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE OBAMA

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.

GAY MARRIAGE: 'S ONLY FAIR

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.

BLOOMBERG ON OBAMA AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S HIS LL

” 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. So right after the mayor ma his Chatown ments, he phoned gay lears to expla his reasong. ” But otherwise Bloomberg managed to sow two days of nfn, mute the mastream gay reactn—he was both cheered and booed at the HRC dner—and ph any cisn, or marriag, away om Cy Hall’s steps.

Gay marriage is one of those moral and policy maz, like abortn or stem-cell rearch, that seem to have been signed by a mischievo polil y to torment elected officials. Bloomberg says that if the Court of Appeals l agast gay marriage, he’ll lobby the Legislature to change state law.

Gay lears vow to hold him to the promise.

NYC MAYOR BLOOMBERG LOBBI FOR GAY MARRIAGE ALBANY

The exchange was a ht of how the gay-marriage issue will shadow him. At his CNN town hall meetg Wednday night, former New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was the one who nvced state Senate Republins to vote for gay marriage 2011. "I went up to Albany, and I went to the Republins, and I sat down wh a bunch of them, and I nvced the Republins — even though I was a very liberal New York Cy mayor — I nvced them to vote for gay marriage, " Bloomberg said.

Dpe @MikeBloomberg claim that he shepherd gay marriage vote through Republin State Senate 2011, former Senator Jim Ali tells me by phone that was @NYGovCuomo who ma happen.

BLOOMBERG DONAT $250K TO MARYLAND GAY MARRIAGE EFFORT

But the gay marriage bill passed when four Republins broke ranks and joed Democrats votg for .

We reached out to three of the Republins who voted for gay marriage, Jim Ali, Mark Grisanti, and Steve Saland. Former Republin State Senator Mark Grisanti echo Jim Ali’s claim that @MikeBloomberg was NOT the drivg force behd 2011 gay marriage vote, was @NYGovCuomo.

Former Republin State Senator Steve Saland also creds @NYGovCuomo for his gay marriage vote, and not @MikeBloomberg. Bloomberg, clarg that “near-equaly is no equaly” for gay upl, livered an uncharacteristilly forceful and sweepg speech on Thursday which he lled on New York to “lead the Amerin journey forward” by legalizg same-sex marriage this year.

MAYOR MIKE BLOOMBERG MAK SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE LAW

He voked the rt at the Stonewall Inn the Wt Village almost 42 years ago, wily viewed as the birthplace of the morn gay rights movement, as an example of the role that New Yorkers n play shapg history.

Last week he went to Albany to lobby Republin senators, and on Wednday he hosted a star-studd fund-raiser for gay rights advot at the Upper East Si headquarters of his foundatn. Bloomberg was troduced by a niece, Rachel Tiven, who is gay.

At one pot, he said that he had grown tired of tryg to expla to gay iends, relativ and staff members why the ernment was nyg them the right to wed.

VIO: MAYOR BLOOMBERG FOR GAY MARRIAGE

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mayor Stat Case, Emphatilly and Personally, for Gay Marriage. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has an opn on the ntroversy over Chick-fil-A’s stance on gay marriage. Stunts at those and other lleg have lnched petns on tryg to keep Chick-fil-A off their Redd, an anonymo er claimg to be a Chick-fil-A manager strsed that Cathy don’t speak for everyone the bs on the gay marriage issue.

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