Marriage equality has finally come to New York.
With a margin of four votes our representatives in Albany have passed what we as a community have all been waiting so long for.
I am ecstatic and have been texting furiously to get the word out. Success!
This fight for social equality has taken some interesting turns and although It is not a perfect bill it represents decades worth of hard work on the part of many members of the lgbt community, family, and friends.
What a worthwhile fight and amazing way to head into the month of Gay Pride in Rochester!
I suspect we will be writing much more on this issue as well as the legal and financial protections that marriage equality brings!
What will be the wedding anthem of the year?
Jason (my partner---who I have always referred to as "my husband" just to be subversive but will now actually legally BECOME my husband! YEAH!) were watching the Senate vote live on TV on Friday night and I have to confess that Iw as surprisingly overcome with emotion during Senator Saland's speech in the Senate chamber when it became clear that he intended to become the needed 32nd vote in favor of marriage equality. It was an amazing thing to wake up on Saturday morning and realize that in a span of a short few hours so much had changed and that, finally, our lives and our relationships/families had been legitimized in a way they never had before. I am certain that I am still "glowing" with excitement over it and I have been getting emails and texts from friends and family and acquaintances all over congratulating us!