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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Star-Ledger , Secaucus Reporter A gay couple in Secaucus, New Jersey was awakened at about 1 am in April, 2004 by the sound of raucous partying at the firehouse next door to their house. When one of the men asked the firefighters to keep it down, they responded with outrage, according to a civil suit filed by the couple which is being tried this week in a Jersey City courtroom. When Timothy Carter returned to the house after asking the firefighters to quiet down, a drunken mob banged on the side of the house and loudly threatened to kill the men and their dogs, according to the couple....
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Sunday, May 04
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Source: New York Daily News , (Newark) Star-Ledger On Tuesday, after three years of failed negotiations, insults, and nonstop bickering over everything from Barnes & Noble parking lots to pony rides, the McGreevey divorce finally goes to trial. Legal analysts expect New Jersey's former first couple will approach new lows, even for divorce court. "I'm not going to tell you this is going to be the worst case ever in the history of New Jersey divorces," said Charles Abut, a matrimonial lawyer who operates the New Jersey Family Law blog. "But I think if you asked longtime...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: (Salem) Today's Sunbeam , (Newark) Star-Ledger , Associated Press via USA Today , Washington Blade , Crosscut (Seattle) TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey on Friday became the third state to allow workers paid time off to care for a sick family member or new child, with the signing of a law more than 10 years in the making. It's the second state after California to extend the benefits to all families, including gay couples. Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State Equality, told the Washington Blade that his state "arguably leads the way in America amongst state legislatures in advancing...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Washington Blade , Associated Press via Newsday Two teens charged with murder in the slaying of three college students in a Newark schoolyard last summer made their first appearance in adult court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty. If convicted, the youths and four other suspects could get life terms for the execution-style shootings that brought outrage and scrutiny to a city struggling to shake its reputation for violence. A fourth student survived. One of four college students shot execution style in a Newark, N.J., schoolyard in August 2007, the day before they planned to attend a...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Associated Press EAGLE, Idaho (AP) -- A cross-country move from New Jersey to this Boise suburb has cost a gay couple the company-sponsored health benefits they shared on the east coast, Associated Press reports. The 2,400-mile move west that once seemed like a chance at a fresh start, has instead delivered some hard lessons, especially about moving from a state that recognizes same-sex unions to one of the 21 states that don't. The couple was stunned when Ryan was dropped from the Konica Minolta insurance plan the two shared in New Jersey, where they were able to register as domestic...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Gay City News Drawing criticism from New Jersey's leading gay rights group, Governor Jon Corzine has nominated a Municipal Court judge with an anti-gay record to become a judge in one of that state's workers' compensation courts. "This nomination is akin to nominating Pee Wee Herman for the Nobel Prize in economics, it's patently obscene," said Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality, a New Jersey gay rights group. "Judge Zaben is not even fit to preside over 'The People's Court.'" The nominee, Steven J. Zaben, has presided, since...
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Wednesday, February 27
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Source: Philadelphia Daily News Keyontyli and Taleon Goffney have appeared in net porn videos as Keyon and Teyon photo via hotflashes.blogspot [not safe for work] Fleshbot, as usual, has an explicit gallery of very NSFW images of the pre-jailed twins Philadelphia -- TWINS Keyontyli and Taleon Goffney have been arrested for allegedly breaking into area businesses by cutting rooftop holes to gain entry. Turns out, they were also just as skilled at breaking into their second, more respectable careers -- as hardcore gay-porn stars. The 25-year-old Goffney twins, both of New Jersey, were arrested Feb...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: New York Times WEST ORANGE, N.J. -- It was part Oscar party and part civil rights rally. More than 300 people filled a theater here to standing-room-only capacity on Sunday evening to watch “Freeheld,” which won the Academy Award for best documentary short subject. The film beat out three other documentaries, “La Corona,” “Salim Baba” and “Sari’s Mother.” The nominations and winner were introduced by United States servicemen and women shortly after 11 p.m. “I’m here to watch the film because of what it could do for us,” said Doug Laverty, 40, a police officer in Passaic County who was featured...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Associated Press via Philly.com TRENTON, N.J. - Gay activists want same-sex marriage rights in New Jersey by year's end. Steven Goldstein, chairman of gay rights group Garden State Equality, said Tuesday a state report that found civil unions create a second-class status for gay couples boosts their claims that the unions don't work. It found gay couples in Massachusetts , the only state that allows gay marriage , don't experience the legal complications that those in New Jersey do. "New Jersey's civil union law segregates, discriminates and humiliates the very people...
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Saturday, February 16
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Source: Associated Press MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) -- A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a "second-class status" for gay couples, rather than giving them equality. The report stops short of recommending that the state allow gay marriage. But it does find that gay couples in Massachusetts, the only state that now allows same-sex marriage, do not experience some of the legal complications that those in New Jersey do. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the initial report, which was scheduled to be...
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Saturday, January 05
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Source: Associated Press via Newsday and Asbury Park Press TRENTON, N.J. -- Legislation to toughen the state's hate crime and bullying laws advanced Thursday. It would amend an existing bias intimidation law by adding "gender identity" and "national origin" to the list of classes of people protected under the statute. Hate crimes involve the targeting of a victim based on membership in a particular social grouping. New Jersey's current hate crime law provides protection for individuals based on "race, color, religion, gender, handicap, ethnicity and sexual orientation...
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Sunday, December 30
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Source: Asbury Park Press NEPTUNE, N.J. -- Township Committeeman Randy Bishop knows he's going to become part of New Jersey history Tuesday afternoon, but he's quick to downplay its significance. Bishop, who will be sworn in at noon Tuesday for his second three-year term on the committee, is also expected later in the afternoon to be picked as mayor for 2008. When that happens, Bishop will be one of two openly gay mayors serving this year in New Jersey, and one of only three in the state's history. But Bishop, who owns the Melrose Inn in Ocean Grove, doesn't want his sexuality to...
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Wednesday, December 26
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Source: Trenton Star-Ledger When the House of Jourdan's gala fundraiser showed up on the 6 o'clock news seven years ago, anchormen smirked at footage of strutting drag queens and gay men "voguing," a dance popularized by Madonna. There were voter registration tables and an array of HIV-prevention information at the ball. But the cameras ignored those things. "They just showed us as wild freaks dancing," recalls Bernard McAllister, CEO of the house. These days, the House of Jourdan and seven other gay "houses" in Newark are finally getting respect. The city's...
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Tuesday, December 18
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Source: Associated Press via The Advocate and DiversityInc.com Francisco Nava, a Princeton University student, is under investigation and facing expulsion after fabricating a hoax. Nava, a junior at the Ivy League school who is involved in campus religious life, claimed to have been assaulted Friday by two men off campus but later confessed that scrapes and scratches on his face were self-inflicted. He also admitted he sent threatening e-mail messages to himself and some of friends who shared his conservative and anti-gay views. Princeton Township police said that Francisco Nava was not immediately...
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Sunday, December 16
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Source: Associated Press via Newsday MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - New Jersey's well organized gay rights advocates are finding their adversaries are also getting prepared for a coming legislative debate over gay marriage. The National Organization for Marriage, established earlier this year in Princeton, made itself known over the past few weeks with radio advertisements urging people to call their lawmakers to tell them that allowing gay couples to marry would undermine the institution. The group set up in left-leaning New Jersey because it is one of a few states where there's a realistic chance...
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Saturday, December 01
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Source: New York Times NEWARK, Nov. 30 — To live in Newark often means grappling with unrelenting poverty, the anesthetizing lure of drugs, murderous gangs, a lack of decent jobs. But for gay men, lesbians and transgender people, there are additional obstacles that are seldom acknowledged: gay bashings, H.I.V., open hostility from many religious leaders and sometimes callous treatment by the police. New Jersey has become a national beacon for gay equality. It boasts some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the country, and recent legislation makes it one of only three states that recognize...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: Star-Ledger Trenton, NJ -- The state can continue to investigate whether a Methodist group in Ocean Grove violated the rights of two lesbian couples when it refused to rent them its boardwalk pavilion for their civil union ceremonies, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association as a pre-emptive strike. The association claimed its constitutional rights would be violated were it forced to allow civil unions, which conflict with Methodist doctrine, to be performed at the pavilion, an open-sided structure it...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: Newsday (with additional material from Garden State Equality ) MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Two liberal New Jersey groups are debuting pro-gay-marriage television commercials tonight. Garden State Equality and Blue Jersey are running the spots on News 12 New Jersey. The ads will run for two weeks -- longer if the groups can raise money to keep them on the air. The ads are the most public part yet of a campaign to persuade the state's lawmakers to allow gay couples to marry. New Jersey already allows same-sex couples to enter civil unions. But gay rights advocates say they don't offer enough...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: North Jersey.com Daniel Gross holds up their New Jersey Civil Union license as he and his partner, Steven Goldstein, become the first couple in the state to be united under the new law. The Record photo by Danielle P. Richards Steven Goldstein is so busy that he slides his feet into still-tied shoes, crushing the backs until they flop like oversized slippers. He reads e-mails on his BlackBerry while he's driving, even as his tires stray into other lanes. He doesn't finish sentences, remembering midthought that there's a politician to lambaste, an activist to cajole, a journalist...
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Sunday, September 23
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NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) For decades, a Methodist church group has held wide influence over daily life in the seaside enclave of Ocean Grove, deciding when you could drive your car or go to the beach, banning the sale of alcohol, and even deciding who could...
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