Note that among the collection of right-wingnuts, religious loonies, garden variety bigots, and cynical political opportunists who signed on to the lawsuit brought by Arizona's scary-fundy "Christian" (Dominionist?) Alliance Defense Fund to block Governor Patterson's directive recognizing same-sex marriage are five (5) Republican legislators. Might they be from YOUR district?

Maybe they should hear about how their Constituents don't want their tax-dollars spent on their elected representitive's personal religious escapades. Also remind them that you will remember this little mis-adventure of theirs come re-election time.

o State Senator Martin J. Golden (R) Brooklyn
o State Senator Serphin R. Maltese (R) Queens
o State Assemblyman James N. Tedisco (R) Schenectady-Saratoga
o State Assemblyman Daniel J. Burling (R) Warsaw
o State Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb (R) Canandaigua
o Michael R. Long, Chairman. Conservative Party of New York State
o Shaun Marie Levine, Executive Director. Conservative Party of New York State
o Duane Motley, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Jason Mcguire, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Stephen P. Hayford, Esq., Coalition to Save Marriage in New York
o William C. Banuchi, Sr. Marriage & Family Savers Ministries
o Angel D. Rodriguez, (affiliation unknown)
o Piyali Dutta, (affiliation unknown)
o William Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Nicole Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Frances Vella-Marrone, Brooklyn Conservative Party

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Ms. Denise Penn
DenisePenn (at) aol (dot) com
949.498.8771

May 15, 2008

The American Institute of Bisexuality (ABI) applauds today's California Supreme Court ruling that the state may no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage. AIB also congratulates and thanks lead counsel NCLR, Lambda Legal, the ACLU and Equality California who have been fighting for this victory for four years on behalf of all of us.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lewis v. Harris: New Jersey Marriage Equality Case

October 25, 2006 Trenton: The New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition is thrilled by the recent decision of the State Supreme Court which recognizes that providing to "committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts" is mandated under the State Constitution. The New Jersey State Supreme Court has upheld equal rights for the all citizens. By leaving the "name to be given to the statutory scheme that provides full rights and benefits to same-sex couples, whether marriage or some other term, is a matter [left to the legislature]" we look forward to a speedy process that reflects the diversity of New Jersey. We have faith that all fair-minded citizens of NJ agree with the Court's decision. ( Read more... )

GLAAD, NGLTF, and Freedom to Marry have collaborated on an ad campaign promoting marriage rights for “gay and lesbian” couples entitled “Marriage Matters.” It talks about the discrimination faced by “gays and lesbians” and how they are working to protect “gay and lesbian families.” Many organizations have co-signed the ad but not one bi organization was invited to sign. ( Read more... )

Bialogue is in the process of sending the below letter, signed jointly by many bi organizations, to lesbian, gay, and straight leaders on the marriage equality issue in NY State. We noticed that bis were being left out of the conversation on marriage so we decided to be proactive about being included in the dialogue. 

In the letter we ask : "While engaging in the debate over the marriage issue we request that you use language such as “access to marriage for same-sex couples” instead of “gay marriage,” “same-sex couples” instead of “gay and lesbian couples,” “LGBT families” instead of “gay and lesbian families,” and talk about the right for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to marry the person they love, or the right for everyone to marry the person they love.( Read more... )

A large crowd gathered at New York City's Sheridan Square in The Village tonight to protest the NY State Court of Appeals decision to deny same-sex marriage rights to New Yorkers.

( read full text of Ms. Lambert's report and comments )

The New York Court of Appeals today ruled by a 4-2 margin that the state Constitution does not guarantee a right to marriage for same-sex couples. The court did not rule that the state should not or could not allow same-sex marriages, only that the state constitution did not require that it allow them. They further indicated that state lawmakers, not the courts, are better suited to consider the issue.

The worst part of the ruling was when they asserted that being against same- sex marriage cannot be regarded as bigotry and cannot be compared to laws prohibiting interracial marriage which were later overturned!

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( read letter from Executive Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda )

RALLY TONIGHT: Thursday, July 2006 at these Locations in NY State!!

New York City
Start time: 6:00 PM
Location: Sheridan Square (Christopher Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan), site of the historical Stonewall uprising
Rain location: LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street

( more rally locations around NY State )