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Source: New York Times , New York Daily News , Gay City News ALBANY -- Money from gay rights supporters poured in from across the country to several tight Senate races after a pledge from New York Democratic leaders that their party would legalize same-sex marriage if they won control of the State Senate...

Source: New York Times , New York Daily News The squabble for control of the New York State Senate continues, and with it, a battle over marriage equality in the state. Three Democrats  who have refused to back the rest of their party’s pick for Senate leader are calling for a referendum,...

   ::    Gay and lesbian couples walked together across the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday in a symbolic " Wedding March " to urge the state Legislature to pass a bill legalizing  marriage equality. A bill allowing gay/lesbian couples to marry cleared the lower house of the...

Source: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin , Albany Times Union , Reuters NY marriage rulings New York -- A state trial court judge today tossed out a suit challenging New York Gov. David Paterson's directive in May to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries. Justice...

Source: New York Sun , Associated Press via Newsday , New York Post NY marriage rulings A New York trial judge seems poised to uphold Governor David Paterson's pro-gay marriage policies against an attack from a Christian legal group, New York Sun reports. The Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund has...

Source: Buffalo News , Canada.com , WNED AM NY marriage rulings Joy Higgins, left, and her partner, Jeanne Kornowicz, with their daughter. Photo via Buffalo News BUFFALO, NY -- An American lesbian couple married in Canada has won a landmark case against a New York insurance company over spousal health...

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...

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...

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...

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...