New York Senate vot to legalize same-sex marriage w for gay rights advot - The Washgton Post

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• NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• N.Y. BE SIXTH AND LARGT STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• NEW YORK 6TH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT: HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS; JUSTICES, 6-3, LEGALIZE GAY SEXUAL CONDUCT IN SWEEPING REVERSAL OF COURT'S '86 RULING
• THEY FOUGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE. A LATER, ADVOT REFLECT ON THE 'HERCULEAN FEAT.'
• NEW YORK SENATE VOT TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE W FOR GAY RIGHTS ADVOT

NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

N.Y. BE SIXTH AND LARGT STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

“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.

NEW YORK 6TH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

Their pch was about tn, Sabato rells, about the rights that married heterosexual upl had that gay partners lacked whout the benef of marriage. People celebrate the legalizatn of same-sex marriage New York outsi of Stonewall Inn Manhattan, where the gay rights movement is nsired to have started 1969.

THE SUPREME COURT: HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS; JUSTICES, 6-3, LEGALIZE GAY SEXUAL CONDUCT IN SWEEPING REVERSAL OF COURT'S '86 RULING

Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, himself a gay legislator, spearhead the first succsful vote on same-sex marriage eher hoe Albany, workg wh Assemblywoman Deborah Glick to pass a bill om then-Gov. That sort of was the begngs of the New Yorkers for Marriage Equaly (vio) 9 – The meetgCuomo holds a Red Room meetg on March 9 wh gay rights advot, lawmakers and other stakeholrs to assert his mment and to gge Cohen, then-secretary to the ernor: That meetg tak place, and the ernor basilly nvass everybody, and he says, “Look, I don’t know if we n get this passed, and I’m not dog this unls everybody at this table agre we should do this, and if you agree we should do this, then I’m gog to personally” – you know, he was sayg he would personally manage this om the Send Floor.

Gay weddgs will beg 30 state Senate voted late Friday favor of a gay marriage bill, which was backed by four Republins and 29 Democrats the GOP-ntrolled Senate. Thomas Duane, a rights advot are hopg the vote will galvanize the movement around the Uned Stat and help rega momentum after an almost intil bill was feated here 2009 and siar measur failed 2010 New Jersey and this year Maryland and Rho New York is a relative lateer allowg gay marriage, is nsired an important prize for advot, given the state's size and New York Cy's ternatnal stature and s role as the birthplace of the gay rights movement, which is nsired to have started wh the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village 1969.

I'm so exhsted and so proud that the New York State Senate fally stood on the right si of history, " said Queens teacher Eugene Lovendky, 26, who is gay and said he hop to marry then repeated a chant he had screamed durg a prott at a fundraiser for Print Barack Obama last night: "I am somebody. ""I have never be prour to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today wh the passage of marriage equaly, " Cyndi Lper said a effects of the law uld be felt well beyond New York: Unlike Massachetts, which pneered gay marriage 2004, New York has no rincy requirement for obtag a marriage license, meang the state uld bee a mag for gay upl across the untry who want to have a weddg Central Park, the Hamptons, the romantic Hudson Valley or that honeymoon hot spot of yore, Niagara York, the natn's third most populo state, will jo Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the Washgton pal district allowg same-sex upl to five months 2008, gay marriage was legal California, the biggt state populatn, and 18, 000 same-sex upl shed to tie the knot there before voters overturned the state Supreme Court lg that allowed the practice. "Gay upl gallery wept durg Saland's urt challeng New York are all but certa, the state -- unlike California -- mak difficult for the voters to repeal laws at the ballot box.

THEY FOUGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE. A LATER, ADVOT REFLECT ON THE 'HERCULEAN FEAT.'

Changg the law would require a nstutnal nventn, a long, drawn-out stickg pot over the past few days: Republin mands for stronger legal protectns for relig groups that fear they will be h wh discrimatn lawsus if they refe to allow their facili to be ed for gay climactic vote me after more than a week of stop-and-start negotiatns, mors, closed-door meetgs and tratn on the part of advot. Onle discsns took on a nasty turn wh sults and vulgari pepperg the screens of opponents and supporters alike and secury was beefed up the pol to give senators easier passage to and om their nference night before, Print Obama enuraged lawmakers to support gay rights durg a fundraiser wh New York Cy's gay muny. The vote also is sure to charge up annual gay pri events this weekend, culmatg wh paras Sunday New York Cy, San Francis and other ci.

NEW YORK SENATE VOT TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE W FOR GAY RIGHTS ADVOT

Dpe New York Cy's liberal Democratic polics and large and vol gay muny, prev efforts to legalize same-sex marriage failed over the past several years, part bee the rt of the state is more nservative than the bill's succs this time reflected the powerful support of Cuomo and perhaps a change public attus.

Opn polls for the first time are showg majory support for same-sex marriage, and Congrs recently repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that barred gays om servg openly the the week leadg up to the vote New York, some Republins who opposed the bill 2009 me forward to say they were supportg for reasons of nscience and a duty to ensure civil rights. Prsure to vote for gay marriage also me om celebri, athlet and New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Republin-turned-pennt who has long ed his own fortune to help bankroll Republin mpaigns and who personally lobbied some uncid lawmakers.

To legalize gay marriage, breathg life to the natnal gay rights movement that had stalled over a nearly intil bill here two years ago. At New York Cy's Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village pub that spawned the gay rights movement on a June night 1969, Stt Redstone watched New York sign the historic same-sex marriage law wh his partner of 29 years, and popped the qutn. " "We always treat our homosexual brothers and sisters wh rpect, digny and love, " the bishops stated Friday, "We worry that both marriage and the fay will be unrmed by this tragic prumptn of ernment passg this legislatn that attempts to refe the rnerston of civilizatn.