We are approaching the one year anniversary of the passage of Marriage Equality in New York State. 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law on June 24th, 2011 ending years of struggle and enabling couples to legally marry in New York and share the same rights as heterosexual couples ...

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The end of DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) is a historic day for both lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals serving in the military, and the rest of the community. Not only will it increase access to services and rights for LGB service members and their significant others, but ...

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As we progress on from the recent legalization of marriage for same sex couples New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a brief to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.

As the New York Times report states this is in conjunction with an existing case where a surving same ...

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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 ...

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The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund has announced earlier this morning that the city of New York has adopted a new policy created to ensure that transgender people have equal access to marriage licenses!

The policy was adopted as part of an agreement to resolve possible legal action involving a ...

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Edith "Edie" Windsor, who shared her life with her late spouse, Thea Spyer, for 44 years, filed a lawsuit against the federal government for refusing to recognize their marriage. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the "Defense of Marriage Act", a federal statute that defines marriage for all federal purposes ...

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Rochesterians!: Join other marriage equality supporters in Rochester this Sunday afternoon, September 26th, for our city's first ever Annual Wedding March!

Supporters all across the state will be marching for the freedom for all to marry, as other events have been organized in Buffalo, Albany and NYC.

The following ...

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According to the Associated Press, David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree, a gay couple from Wyoming, are suing their state for marriage equality. Wyoming, ironically dubbed "The Equality State," defines marriage as "between a male and a female person."

But here’s where the story gets interesting: Roderick,25, and ...

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The religious right loves to paint marriage equality as something nasty. They want the world to hear the word gay and think sex. Well I think these photographs, posted by the Boston Globe, present marriage equality as what it really is: all about love. From all races, religions, nationalities, and ...

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Yesterday an article in the NY Times reported the latest turn on the legal battle over Prop 8.

A three-judge panel in a federal appeals court extended the stay on same-sex marriage since (& despite) Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling to lift it, while it decides whether the ban on gay ...

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