Congratulations, New York !!!

[Steven_Draker]

NEW YORK SAYS "I DO"

 

"In a historic vote with far-reaching implications, the New York state Senate passed the marriage equality bill on Friday,

making New York the sixth and most populous state in addition to Washington, D.C. to offer civil marriage for same-sex couples."

 

http://www.advocate.com/uploadedImages/ADVOCATE/NEWS/2011/2011-06/2011-06-22/NYMarriage_Passes.jpg

 

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/24/New_York_Passes_Marriage_Equality_Bill/

[Poolboy21409]

Thank God that sanity finally won out in that State. 44 more to go!!

[BaronArtz]

I am very proud to be a New Yorker on a historic day like this!

[+ beethoven]

I am THRILLED that our legislalture, so often a source of disgust and shame over the past decades, has done someting right! What a wonderful gift for Pride Week!

[Rick Munroe]

Thanks, Steven! It was a really exciting, emotional day!

[Guest Rich.]

It was a really exciting, emotional day!

 

Munroe, you no-good, two-timing, low-life slut. You promised ME your hand. AND after I swallowed'n'all. Shame on you. Varlet.

 

Sincere congrats. New York. From your British cousins!

 

Richard

[Decatur Guy]

This more than doubles the number of people in the U.S. who live in a same-sex marriage state. Over 11% of the U.S. population now lives in one. Plus there's just the momentum of the sixth state being the Empire State.

 

I think it will be a LONG time before we see this in the Deep South, but I suspect a few more states will go the way of the "Gay Six" pretty soon. At some point, I think all of the West Coast and Northeastern states from Maryland on up will have it.

[Guest Bauer]

I am THRILLED that our legislalture, so often a source of disgust and shame over the past decades, has done someting right! What a wonderful gift for Pride Week!

What a wonderful development following the LGBT fundraiser for the President. It is truly a feather in the cap for those who shook the President's hand and had their photo taken with him, as they handed over their check.

 

I would've thought it would be top of the news on Daddy's splash page yesterday but it wasn't.

[Steven_Draker]

Thanks, Steven! It was a really exciting, emotional day!

 

You're welcome, Rick. I'm really glad and happy for you, guys.

 

Someone literally woke me up last night with this great news. I see that it made the international news today - all the channels here marked the event.

 

I hear it was quite emotional in New York. Keep up the good work, folks.

 

I would've thought it would be top of the news on Daddy's splash page yesterday but it wasn't.

 

Probably because the news came late on Friday, but I'm confident that Daddy will find a way to mark the event in one way or another.

 

Cheers, Steven ~

[Epigonos]

If we all want to thank someone it should be the Governor of New York - Andrew M Cuomo. While the President prevaricated and stalled on the issue Cuomo when out and made it happen. He twisted arms, convinced Republican money men to support the bill and neutralized the Catholic Church. ANDREW CUOMO is the hero of the moment.

[Justice]

Wow! Just wow. I'm still shaking. I cried tears of joy when I read the first of the many google and yahoo news alerts that appeared on my BlackBerry. Congratulations and thanks to EVERYONE who made this happen.

[Diverdan]

What a wonderful happening.. and in time for Pride Week. Maybe this will be the stimulus for others to move forward to provide "equal protection under the law" . Maybe some day all will in fact be equal in this country.

[+ deej]

I would've thought it would be top of the news on Daddy's splash page yesterday but it wasn't.

 

The splash page each day is published around midnight, EST, the night before. It hadn't happened yet.

[Guest Bauer]

Probably because the news came late on Friday, but I'm confident that Daddy will find a way to mark the event in one way or another.[/color]

Steven, I was actually talking of the dinner.

 

Best Regards.

[leigh.bess.toad]

And with Monday being the 42nd anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, it is an amazing tribute. It should electrify the Pirde Parades tomorrow, both in NY and SF. Happy pride to all who are going. Thank you Andrew Cuomo and the four Republican senators and all the democrats who voted for it.

 

But Decatur Guy I'm afraid is right. Here in Virginia, with our neanderthal attorney general and governor, the only way it will have any actual effect is for DOMA to be ruled the unconstitutionl law it really is. Full faith and credit are simply empty words as it stands now.

[Steven_Draker]

Steven, I was actually talking of the dinner.

 

Sorry, Bauer. I misunderstood your post and spoke too fast. My apologies.

 

Epigonos, thanks for the clarification and THANK YOU, Andrew M Cuomo !

[Guest Bauer]

Sorry, Bauer. I misunderstood your post and spoke too fast. My apologies.

 

Epigonos, thanks for the clarification and THANK YOU, Andrew M Cuomo ! [/color]

No Steven, really. The way I wrote the entry, it was oh so easy to misunderstand or to be misunderstood. Mea culpa. I was just surprised that the LGBT pre-vote dinner didn't make the splash.

 

Sadly, this vote which came upon the heels of that fun draiser isn't all to the benefit of queer folk, at least not to those not so queer (cuir) who are high earners. They took it on the chin, as the NYT reported:

 

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/how-gay-marriage-will-change-couples-financial-lives/

[Guest Bauer]

FYI: On Thursday, Ron Reagan substituted in for Chris Matthews on the "Hardball with Chris Matthews" show on the NBC/Universal subsidiary MSNBC. Reagan took umbrage on that show with a segment on "The Daily Show" (Comedy Central's show with John Stewart). The segment called appropriately enough "Puppet Theater" showed Senator John McCain, on Wednesday's Comedy Central Daily Show as just that -- as a puppet.

 

Not that that idea is a laughing matter, (albeit a Washington laughing matter) to the congresses of New York State.

 

Just in terms of how the thing went down ... without so much as a splash and a burn.

[Decatur Guy]

 

But Decatur Guy I'm afraid is right. Here in Virginia, with our neanderthal attorney general and governor, the only way it will have any actual effect is for DOMA to be ruled the unconstitutionl law it really is. Full faith and credit are simply empty words as it stands now.

 

It's going to be a long time before the South relents on this. Probably not in my lifetime.

 

Virginia and North Carolina would probably be the first two states in the old Confederacy to go that way.

[Guest Bauer]

SALON.COM reporting this the morning of the LGBT fundraiser, (the day before the vote)

 

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/06/23/puppet_john_mccain

 

Of course there is no direct tie-in. Just a story of foreigners and wild fires, which the land of ground zero of 9/11 has no real need to heed in any way manner shape or form.

[Michael Wayne]

amazing news! I love you NEW YORK! My first love is a New Yorker and even though I have not spoken to him in several years I am sure somewhere in the Big Apple tonight my ex Danny is having one hell of a celebration party! To think when he and I were dating in the 90's that this day would even EVER be possible was a stretch. Thank you Gov. Cuomo too.

[Guest Rich.]

Actually, I've decided I'm holding out for legalised Gay Marriage, you know where you can finally do 'it', in a Church. I can't wait to see Munroe walk up the aisle in a WHITE leather jumpsuit, to a hymn of mass hysteria! I mean WHITE, c'mon, really?

 

Richard

[Steven_Draker]

Gay Marriage in a Church

 

I've decided I'm holding out for legalised Gay Marriage, you know where you can finally do 'it', in a Church.

 

which is legal and doable in Sweden ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8321502.stm

[Guest Rich.]

I've got the home, SD, you bring the stocks!

 

Richard

[uwsman2]

Not all churches are opposed to same-sex marriage. You can have a church wedding in NYC. Just call the gay switchboard here and find out which churches will do it.