The Gay Movement, After Marriage

On the night of June 26, two days before the gay pride parade would overtake Manhattan in honor of the 40th birthday of the Stonewall riots that are popularly imagined as the birth of the gay rights movement, a group numbering a couple of dozen mostly gay men and women found themselves crammed into the Read More

The Case Against Gay Marriage, On Air

ALBANY—The sleepy opposition is finally stirring, as a national group has releases this advertisement making the case against efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.
The National Organization for Marriage, a New Jersey-based group that has campaigned across the country to stop or repeal the legalization of same-sex marriage, produced the ad, which Read More

In Final Push, Pride Agenda Releases Another Ad

ALBANY—Continuing to lobby aggressively for same-sex marriage, the Empire State Pride Agenda unveiled a new television ad this morning, featuring a Rochester family with a gay son and straight daughter.
The ad shows a kitchen table discussion with Karen Schuster and her children Luke and Jessica, in which she says Luke should have “the Read More

Gay Lobby Rules

ALBANY—The message was clear to anyone who was at the Capitol on April 28: the pro-same-sex marriage lobby is an organized force you don’t want to reckon with.
More than 2,000 people packed the Empire State Convention center. Organizers communicated via radio head set. Advocates sat at tables marked by legislative district—the Senate district Read More

Gay Lobby Rules

ALBANY—The message was clear to anyone who was at the Capitol on April 28: the pro-same-sex marriage lobby is an organized force you don't want to reckon with.

More than 2,000 people packed the Empire State Convention center. Organizers communicated via radio head set. Advocates sat at tables marked by legislative district—the Senate district Read More

Gillibrand Headlines ESPA Fund-Raiser

Here’s the invite for a fund-raiser the Empire State Pride Agenda is hosting, with Kirsten Gillibrand as the keynote speaker, tomorrow in Rochester.
It’s particularly significant because Gillibrand, before she became a senator, was not at all an advocate of gay rights. That she would support same-sex marriage was a condition of her appointment Read More