Fight Back New York Ups the Ante

After same-sex marriage was voted down earlier this year in the New York state legislature, Tim Gill, a software entrepreneur and openly gay philanthropist created Fight Back New York with his own money and has vowed to back pro-marriage equality candidates with hundreds of thousands in an effort to get them elected to the state’s Senate this coming November.

Advocates for LGBT equality have set their sites on bringing the issue back to the Senate floor as early as next year, and will added support, it could pass. Three months ago, the state’s legislature reject a gay marriage bill by a vote of 38 to 24.

Alex Navarro-McKay, a spokesperson for the group stated:

“There is definitely a theme of punishment in our work.”

Fight Back NY will be targeting the eight Democrats who voted against the bill as well as all 30 Republicans who voted no.

Earlier this week Gill’s group claimed victory when a candidate who supports marriage equality won a special election to succeed Hiram Monserrate, one of the state’s Senators who voted against the marriage bill and was expelled from the state’s Senate after he was convicted of assault.

In a statement Fight Back said, “One down, seven to go.”

However, equality’s biggest foe, Maggie Gallagher, the president of NOM, countered by saying gay rights advocates are out numbered and out financed.

Gallagher retaliated:

“They (equality advocates) are no longer are persuading people that gay marriage is a good idea. I don’t think it’s very credible to claim that this victory is some sort of bellwether for the popularity of gay marriage in elections in New York.”

Hopefully the group will be able to prove Maggie wrong and her money will become the wasted funds!

Elton John’s Ex Committed Suicide

A former gay lover of  singer Elton John committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a lorry it’s been revealed this week.


Elton says he’s been deeply affected and traumatized by the death of a man he had a relationship with,  before he met and married David Furnish.


“Years back I had a relationship, and I had absolutely no idea in the world he was going to do this… he threw himself under a truck,”  said the 64 year old singer,   “There was so much grief.”

Jason Shaw.
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Cynthia Nixon Wins GLAAD Award

It’s great news for Sex And The City star and lovely lesbian Cynthia Nixon as she wins top award from GLAAD in New York  yesterday.      ’m so pleased for her,  as recently the out lesbian actress has spoken out loud and clear in support of gay and equal rights. Not least her recent declaration of support for Fight Back New York,  see here. Nixon get the Vito Russo award. “We are bringing marriage back to its fundamentals and revitalizing it from its roots up,” ” she said as she accepted the honorary award at what was the 21st annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards.


Other notable award recipients included the outspoken Joy Behar, who gains a Excellence in Media award, mainly for her attitude in bring gay rights up on daily talk show ‘The View’   which I miss greatly over here in the UK.     While The Oprah Winfrey show got best talk show episode for “Ellen DeGeneres and Her Wife Portia De Rossi”

Cynthia Nixon is Fighting Back…Are You?

“I’m supporting Fight Back New York so we can finally show these anti-equality senators that there are consequences to their actions. That they can lose their seats for voting against our rights. Read more

Buffalo Rising: LGBT’s March On

Congratulations on the good news that for the first time in the history of New York State a LGBT organization will be allowed to march in a Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.

More at: Buffalo Rising!

Will LGBT’s be allowed to March in Chicago’s parade this year?

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