{"id":13551,"date":"2011-06-24T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2011-06-24T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T03:05:00","slug":"marrige-equality-wins-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13551","title":{"rendered":"Marrige Equality Wins In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a very happy camper right now. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/25\/nyregion\/gay-marriage-approved-by-new-york-senate.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=all\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed, and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born. <\/p>\n<p>The same-sex marriage bill was approved on a 33-to-29 vote, as 4 Republican state senators joined 29 Democrats in voting for the bill. The Senate galleries were so packed with supporters and opponents that the fire marshals closed them off. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the measure described the victory in New York as especially symbolic \u2014 and poignant \u2014 because of its rich place in the history of gay rights: the movement\u2019s foundational moment, in June of 1969, was a riot against police inside the Stonewall Inn, a bar in the West Village.<\/p>\n<p>     On Friday night, as the Senate voted, a crowd jammed into the Stonewall Inn, where televisions were tuned to the Senate hours before the vote began.  Danny Garvin, 62, said he had been at the bar the night of the riot, and came back to watch the Senate debate Friday. On the streets where police beat gay men in 1969, on Friday crowds cheered, as police quietly stood watch. Bernie Janelle, 53, turned to her partner of 16 years, Cindy Hearing, and said, \u201cI\u2019m going to propose to her on Sunday.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rachel Maddow pointed out on her twitter feed that this more or less doubles the number of Americans living in areas with marriage equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a very happy camper right now. From the New York Times: Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed, and giving the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13551\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13553,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions\/13553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}