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Friday, June 13
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Source: Newsday , Long Island Catholic , NY1 , Catskill News NY marriage rulings Calling him "just plain wrong," Bishop William Murphy has blasted Gov. David A. Paterson for ordering state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, Newsday reports. In a column in The Long Island Catholic , Murphy said the governor "has decided to circumvent the legislature, the courts and any testing of the will of the people" when he issued the administrative order. The column was published along with a similar joint letter signed by eight New York bishops as...
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Monday, June 09
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Source: Newsday Hampstead, NY -- Charges were dropped Monday against a gay couple charged with trespassing when they sought a marriage license . Newsday reports that Dan Pinello, 58, and his partner Lee Nissensohn, 50, left a courtroom in Hempstead after a prosecutor said they posed no threat. A dozen protesters had gathered at the courthouse for the Roslyn couple's court appearance. Pinello, a political science professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said he was "ecstatic," and Nissensohn, a dentist, said he hoped the case would draw attention to gay rights issues. "Hopefully...
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Sunday, June 08
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Source: Albany Times Union , Virtue Online SPECULATOR, NY -- The conservative-led Episcopal Diocese of Albany staked out its defense of what it calls "tradition marriage" on Saturday -- a move that comes as gay unions have gained new ground in California and New York. The hundreds of clergy and lay delegates who converged for their annual convention in this lakeside Adirondack community resoundingly approved a resolution that lays down this rule: Only heterosexual marriages can be celebrated in the diocese. Emotions ran high as delegates debated the issue, according to the conservative...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Associated Press via IHT , Concord Monitor , Newsday CA marriage case The final hurdle to marriage ceremonies this month for gay and lesbian couples was cleared away today when the California Supreme Court rejected a bid to delay last month's ruling recognizing full marriage equality in the state. The Supreme Court says its ruling will be final at 5 pm on June 16. The justices were divided 4-3 on whether to rehear their earlier decision, the same split that unfolded when the gay marriage case was decided in May . The denial clears the way for gays and lesbians...
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Thursday, May 29
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Source: Newsday , New York Times , Associated Press NY marriage rulings Jeffrey Friedman and Andrew Zwerin, together 23 years since meeting in a high school chemistry class, refer to each other as "husband." Newsday reports that the Rockville Centre couple is now planning to fly to California in October, with their 4-year-old son and other family members, to make their relationship official in the wake of recent State Appellate Court rulings and Gov. David A. Paterson's executive order recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages. Equality advocates and couples like Friedman and Zwerwin...
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Wednesday, May 28
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Source: New York Times , NY1 NY marriage rulings ALBANY -- New York doesn't yet allow same-sex couples to marry in the state, but it could soon grant full recognition to the marriages the state's gay and lesbian couples who are wed in Canada, Massachusetts, or California. New York Times reports that Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. In a directive issued on May 14, the governor's legal counsel said gay couples "should be afforded the same recognition...
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Thursday, May 15
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Source: Lower Hudson Journal News , AP via Newsday CARMEL, N.Y. -- Unmarried residents of New York's suburban Putnam County could soon have an opportunity to enroll in a domestic partner registry. A committee of county's legislature has voted to advance the proposal. The registry would allow unmarried couples -- gay or heterosexual -- to document their commitment in order to facilitate hospital visits, health benefits and other rights that come with marriage. Patricia McElroy of Patterson has been trying to get the Putnam Legislature to take up the issue since February. She wrote to county...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: New York Daily News , New York Times blog , Village Voice A lesbian who was booted from the ladies' room at a Greenwich Village restaurant because she looked too much like a man, settled her suit today for $35,000. Under the terms of the settlement, the restaurant will also have its employees receive gender sensitivity training and dress in gender-neutral outfits. The restaurant will also pay $15,000 in legal fees to Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed the suit, asserting that their client was the victim of gender discrimination. Khadijah Farmer of Brooklyn was...
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Monday, May 12
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Source: Staten Island Advance , New York Daily News , New York Times "Family values" Congressman Vito Fossella is embroiled in controversy that started with a DWI-arrest in Virginia last week. photo: Staten Island Advance On May 1, a five-term Staten Island congressman was arrested in Alexandria, Va. for drunken driving. His blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit, according to police. That's never a good news for any politician, but many have survived similar arrests. What is threatening the political future of GOP Rep. Vito Fossella isn't the arrest itself, but his ride...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: " href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/NEWS/80506041" mce_href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/NEWS/80506041">Poughkeepsie Journal, Empire State News , News8 ALBANY -- New York's highest court Tuesday sent back to a lower court a case involving whether Monroe County has to recognize a marriage between two women. The Court of Appeals refused to hear the case involving Patricia Martinez, an employee of Monroe Community College. She sued the county after it refused to grant benefits...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Newsday , 1010 WINS , WABC News , Gay Financial Network Dan Pinello and Lee Nissensohn asked for a marriage license, but were given trespassing tickets WINS photo by Mona Rivera Frustrated by lack of progress on a marriage equality bill in the state legislature, a gay New York couple turned to act of civil disobedience. They refused to leave the Oyster Bay, N.Y., town clerk's office on Long Island Monday until they were given a marriage license. Although the state of New York doesn't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the protesters, Dan Pinello, 58, and Lee Nissensohn...
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Saturday, April 26
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Source: Providence Journal , Arizona Republic , Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Modesto Bee , Seattle Times , Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum The school's namesake peak overlooks the entrance to Mount Si High in Snoqualmie, WA. Only about 100 anti-gay demonstrators showed up at the school Friday, despite a month of promotion of the demonstration by national anti-gay groups. seaQwa photo: Robin Evans Throughout the country yesterday, tens of thousands of students at thousands of schools quietly observed a day dedicated to tolerance and respect. A few of the students who participated in yesterday's...
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Monday, April 14
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Source: CBC News , Broadway World , St. Catherine's Standard , Calgary Herald Nathan Cuckow, left, and Chris Craddock, as Feminem and T-Bag, are creators and stars of the gay hip hop opera Bash'd. photo: Bash'd blogspot A gay hip hop opera that opened in an Alberta gay bar with a serious look at anti-gay violence first started as a couple of rap parodies about bath houses and parodies. It grew into a rap-operatic love story that toured the fringe festival circuit in Canada and is now headed for the cradle of rap, New York City. Bash'd!, performed by Edmonton actors Chris Craddock...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: Advocate , New York Daily News NY marriage rulings In accepting his New York Leadership Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on Monday night, newly installed governor David Paterson announced that he would continue to push for full marriage equality for LGBT New Yorkers, according to a Task Force press release. Paterson was given the award ""for his unequivocal advocacy for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) New Yorkers," according to a press release. Paterson also said in a video-taped address to the banquet that he favors legislation...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: 13WHAM TV , WHEC TV Rochester, NY -- Police Chief David Moore said four Rochester Police Officers accused of responding inappropriately to an alleged gay bashing attack last June will go back to work Tuesday. The officers were suspended after an internal police investigation into their handling of a reported gay bashing incident. Five people claim they were victims of a hate crime on June 1, 2007 on S. Goodman Street. They claim they were attacked while walking home from a bar because some members of their group are gay. The alleged victims claim the officers who responded to the scene...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, NY -- A Rochester woman has been acquitted of a felony hate crime charge alleging that she and another woman attacked two lesbians outside a Park Avenue bar. [see Qnews summary ] Monroe County Court jurors late Thursday acquitted Yalidsa Ortiz, 27, of third-degree assault as a hate crime for the alleged attack on June 27, 2006. Ortiz’s lawyer, John L. DeMarco, told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the dispute was motivated by hate. The jury also found Ortiz not guilty...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: New York Times During the final 10 minutes of many Rangers home games, the spotlights focus on Section 407 as Larry Goodman, a longtime season-ticket holder, pumps up the crowd with a goofy dance. Kevin Jennings said he stopped attending Rangers games for a month because of homophobic epithets shouted at players. As Goodman’s routine is broadcast on the giant monitors above the ice, a familiar chant picks up momentum. “Ho-mo Lar-ry!” the crowd shouts. “Ho-mo Lar-ry!” The chant is one example of what several gay hockey fans describe as a toxic atmosphere during Rangers games and that Madison...
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Wednesday, March 19
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Source: Associated Press via Newsday , AFP , Financial Times A gay man from the New York on Tuesday voiced outrage against Poland's President Lech Kaczynski for publicly using a video of his marriage to bash the EU's proposed charter of rights. "Of course I am outraged that the president and his party would use images of Tom and I, of a very sacred moment for us as a couple," Brendan Fay told Poland's commercial Radio Zet broadcaster. Kaczynski used a prime-time televised address Monday to argue the EU's proposed Charter of Fundamental Rights, linked to the bloc's...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: PinkNews , Associated Press , New York Times The resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York today, after he was linked to a prostitution ring, has pushed David Paterson into the limelight. When he's sworn in Monday as governor, Paterson will become the first African-American to be governor of the state and the first blind governor in US history. He has also been actively fighting for gay rights for more than two decades. "David Paterson is a terrific, progressive guy, extremely LGBT-friendly," Ethan Geto, a Democratic analyst and LGBT activist, told The Advocate...
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Wednesday, March 05
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Source: New York Times On the way home from work in Rochester, Patricia Martinez stopped at a liquor store and bought a small bottle of Champagne to celebrate her marriage to another woman. The wedding took place in Canada nearly four years ago, but it wasn’t until Feb. 1 that a New York appellate court declared it valid in the state. [see Qnews summary ] Last week in Manhattan, a State Supreme Court justice, ruling in a divorce proceeding, recognized the Canadian marriage of two New York City women, known publicly as Beth R. and Donna M. — or Mom and Mommy to the two young children they had been...
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Sunday, March 02
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Source: New Yorker The New Yorker has now published to the web the excerpt of a book by his daughter about the late Bishop Paul Moore, who was a major force for social justice and religious tolerance in the Episcopal Church. [see Qnews summary ] The author, Honor Moore was appropriately named by her parents, because she honors her father in the book, A Bishop's Daughter . He was, she says, "a force of imagination that flared and coruscated, an instrument of transformation." The book is -- even in this brief eight-page excerpt -- a remarkable memoir of a remarkable man, but it is also...
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Sunday, March 02
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Source: New York Daily News New York -- Several years ago, two men ran groundbreaking political campaigns with the same goal in mind - to become the first openly gay person elected to public office in Queens. Neither Edward Sedarbaum in 1998 nor James Van Bramer in 2001 achieved that distinction, but both helped to further the dream. Next year, however, that dream could finally come true -- perhaps more than once. At least five openly gay or lesbian Queens residents are eying runs for City Council in 2009, setting the stage for a possible watershed year for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Gay City News and Advocate The New York City Department of Health is reporting a 60% increase in the number of syphilis cases in 2007 over the previous year in 2006, with much of that growth occurring in gay and bisexual men "Whichever way you choose to spotlight it or put your magnifying glass on it, syphilis is increasing in New York City," said Dr. Susan Blank, assistant commissioner in the department's Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease Control. The health department will report 927 syphilis cases in 2007 compared to 578 cases in 2006. Syphilis cases went from 621...
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Thursday, February 28
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The New Yorker this week publishes an excerpt from the new book “The Bishop’s Daughter” to be published in May. Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. The article is not available online, but the magazine offers an audio interview with the author who talks about her father’s public service and private life. See also: A more complete synopsis of the New Yorker article When she was a child, Honor Moore writes that she accepted her father as a force of imagination that flared and coruscated, an instrument of transformation. At seminary, he...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: New York Daily News , Associated Press via Newsday , New York Times Hot-tempered Philadelphia ex-anchor Alycia Lane got some good news Monday when prosecutors let her off the hook for smacking a cop. The out-of-work anchorwoman from the City of Brotherly Love no longer faces felony assault charges for a December run-in with a female cop she called a "[expletive] dyke." "I'm just so glad it's over," a smiling Lane said outside Manhattan Criminal Court. An organization for gay police officers isn't nearly so happy about the legal wrangling. The New York City...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: Canada.com and Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Adamant that Canadian views on same-sex marriage shouldn't be allowed to define American law, a New York county is appealing a recent landmark state court ruling that forces the border state to fully recognize gay couples wed in Canada. In a unanimous Feb. 1 decision that drew attention across the U.S. for its precedent-setting potential, a New York appeals court ordered the Monroe County Community College in Rochester to grant full spousal benefits to two women legally married in Canada in 2004. On Friday, Monroe County's top political...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: ABC News In what appears to be the first ruling of its kind, a New York judge will allow a lesbian couple who married in Canada to sue for divorce. Though New York does not allow same-sex marriages, a state trial court judge refused to dismiss a divorce and child custody suit brought by a woman, identified only as Beth R., against her former partner Donna M. Beth R. and Donna M., described as in their 40s and working in the media industry, were married in Toronto in 2004. They have two daughters, both born to Donna M. Donna M. had argued that her 2004 marriage should be invalid in New York...
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Wednesday, February 06
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Source: Democrat & Chronicle Rochester, NY -- A Rochester woman charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking a lesbian couple wants to go to trial, but a co-defendant is pondering whether to plead guilty. A lesbian couple told police they were attacked while leaving a Park Avenue bar on June 12, 2006. A grand jury indicted Ortiz and Vega on charges that the assault was committed as a hate crime. Update (3/28/08): Ortiz found not guilty at trial Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr reviewed grand jury testimony, found insufficient evidence to support the felony charge, and reduced it to a misdemeanor...
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Wednesday, February 06
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Source: Advocate , Hunter College press release , and msnbc Among many historic events last night, one news organizations decided gays, lesbians, and bisexuals exist and asked them to identify as such in the exits polls. A solid majority of those polled preferred that Sen. Hillary Clinton be their next president. NBC exit polling found that among the 4% of California voters who identified as GLB, 63% voted for Clinton, 29% for Obama, and 1% for Edwards. In New York , 7% of voters self-identified as GLB and 59% voted for Clinton, 36% for Obama, and 3% for Edwards. New York and California were the...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: Gay Financial Network , WHEC-TV , and New York Times Rochester, NY -- A New York appellate court ruled Friday that valid out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples must be legally recognized in New York, just as the law recognizes those of heterosexual couples solemnized elsewhere. Lawyers for both sides said the ruling applied to all public and private employers in the state. Even though gay couples may not legally marry in New York, the appellate court in Rochester held that a gay couple’s 2004 marriage in Canada must be respected under the state’s longstanding “marriage recognition rule...
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