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New Yorkers Protest Maine Vote

OurScene TV’s Blake Hayes filed a video report from New York City’s Union Square, where hundreds of people gathered to protest the vote in Maine Tuesday that overturned marriage equality in that state.

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OurScene TV’s Blake Hayes filed a video report from New York City’s Union Square, where hundreds of people gathered to protest the vote in Maine Tuesday that overturned marriage equality in that state. Among those at the protest was New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn, who turned the crowd’s attention to the current effort to get the New York legislature to pass a marriage equality bill. “When you leave here tonight and you leave the organizing meeting, put on your daily planner 'Call, e-mail Albany' every single day until they pass the bill,” Quinn told the crowd.

See the video report here.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: jayden harmison
    Date posted: 11/6/2009 9:25:37 PM
    Hometown: atlanta, ga

    Comment:

    LOL! I heard that in the Castro the protest turned into a giant party. **Sigh.**

  • Name: Javier
    Date posted: 11/6/2009 11:39:58 AM
    Hometown: Boston

    Comment:

    I hate how lazy New Yorkers are, cant even leave town to protest something. That is why places like Massachussets and heck, even Iowa, get civil rights advancements first. Places like San Francisco and New York are just full of "activists" who are looking for an reason to hang out rather than change things.

  • Name: Jimmy D.
    Date posted: 11/6/2009 10:42:13 AM
    Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

    Comment:

    Sorry calling it something with the same benefits is STILL DIFFERENT. I want the SAME THING and SAME NAME. NOTHING LESS!

  • Name: Mark
    Date posted: 11/6/2009 3:49:01 AM
    Hometown: Tesuque

    Comment:

    Marriage --- I will settle for nothing less than full equality. end of story

  • Name: scb part deux
    Date posted: 11/6/2009 12:39:21 AM
    Hometown: Raleigh Durham

    Comment:

    scb, how many threads are you gonna post you stupid ass comment on? Post it once, not in every freaking place you can. Spam much? Why don't you just post it up your ass where it belongs.

  • Name: scb
    Date posted: 11/5/2009 9:55:42 PM
    Hometown: winston salem

    Comment:

    I think people would be more tolerate if it isn’t called “marriage” for gay people. Word “Marriage” has been for a longggg timeeee is between man and woman. Why do we fight to get a word “marriage”. If we call it “civil union” or “holy union” or even “living partner” or “partner in life” whatever you call it as long as we can get the same benefits in The State and Federal level and same protections like the word “marriage”, I think people would care less and would support it. I do not know why we stuck in the word “marriage”. Even the bible say marriage is not for everyone. If I am straight, I would feel unease too if gay people call it marriage. That’s why there are words called male, female, straight and gay just to distinct one another. It would be easier on the paper work if the question is “what is your status?” single, married, divorce, civil union or slut..I thought gay people are more creative than straight people. I thought they would come out with words like va va boom or entrechoquer or fondre, attache, liaison instead of “marriage”.



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