After fighting for the right to gay marriage for nearly 35 years, gay rights activists were elated by the Supreme Court’s decision last month making same-sex marriage legal across the country.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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7/8/15
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After years of grass roots organizing, legal battles, marches and protests same sex marriage has been declared the law of the land.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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7/1/15
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Q: What effect does the United States Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Windsor have on the New York estates of individuals who were married to same-sex spouses?
A: In Technical Memorandum …
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By Jayson J.R. Choi
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9/11/13
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Last week, the Supreme Court declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, and Long Island residents seemed particularly pleased by the decision.
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By Amanda McKelvey
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7/8/13
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Whether you agree with it or not, the highest court in the land has spoken on two monumental issues that will impact our society for a lifetime.
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7/3/13
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Last week, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to announce support for same-sex marriage.
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5/17/12
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Malvernites Therese Lendino and Laura Casini started the next chapter of their lives where the first began — on Queens Boulevard, near Borough Hall and the Criminal Court House. It was there …
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By Lee Landor
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8/1/11
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Members of the Rockville Centre Tea Party held a protest outside State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos’s district office on Front Street on July 15, prompting a spontaneous counterprotest by …
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Aaron Axelson
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7/20/11
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With a vote in the Senate of 33-29, New York became the sixth state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage — but the nine senators from Long Island, all Republican, voted against the bill, …
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By Mary Malloy
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6/29/11
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“New York needs same sex marriage — now” (May 26-June 1) I couldn’t disagree more, and most likely whoever wrote that editorial is a homosexual or bisexual. However the majority of New Yorkers are still most likely of the Judaic-Christian beliefs, although I realize with both legal and illegal immigration comes also their religious beliefs.
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6/2/11
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