NY Observer > Gary Parker http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/26917/feed Articles from Observer.com en At Gay-Rights Protest of Golden, Some Democrats Are Warned Too http://www.observer.com/2008/golden-protest-includes-insults-warning-democrats

Here are the highlights from yesterday’s press conference where a number of gay activists from Brooklyn criticized Republican State Senator Marty Golden for joining a lawsuit to block state agencies from recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside New York.

At the event, activist held signs calling Golden a “bigot,” and accused him of “homophobia,” primarily for signing onto this lawsuit.

They also announced a plan to put pressure on six legislators from Brooklyn -- Dov Hikind, Nick Perry, Steve Cymbrowitz, William Colton, Peter Abbate, and Annette Robinson -- who voted against same-sex marriage last year. (Two legislators, Alec Brook-Kransy and Carim Camara, abstained.)

As the clip above seems to show, those six legislators won’t get hit with the kind of rhetoric that Golden got hit with (although activist Allen Roskoff tries.)

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/golden-protest-includes-insults-warning-democrats#comments Politics Alec Brook-Krasny Allen Roskoff Annette Robinson Dan Willson Dov Hikind Gary Parker Karim Camara Martin Golden Nick Perry Peter Abatte Same-Sex Marriage Steve Cymbrowitz Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:12:59 -0400 Azi Paybarah 71061 at http://www.observer.com Quinn's Pride http://www.observer.com/2007/quinns-pride

A reader sent along this photo of Christine Quinn (nice boa!) flanked by Rosie Mendez and Gary Parker of Lambda Independent Democrats, which honored Quinn right before the LGBT Pride Parade in Brooklyn this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/quinns-pride#comments Politics Christine Quinn Gary Parker Lambda Independent Democrats Rosie Mendez Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:14:55 -0400 Azi Paybarah 55007 at http://www.observer.com Pressing Hillary on Gay Marriage http://www.observer.com/node/30444 New Jersey is going to rule any minute now on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.

Just in time to make Hillary Clinton's 5 p.m. meeting with gay activists really interesting.

One of meeting's organizer's Gary Parker told me this afternoon the marriage question would just be one of the issues discussed. But the press release from Lambda Independent Democrats, one of the group's attending the meeting, reads:

"In Wake of New Jersey's Gay Marriage Ruling, LGBT Leaders Will Press Clinton on Marriage Equality"

Another indication that LGBT leaders don't intend to go along quietly with her current position.

Press release after the jump.  read more »

-- Azi Paybarah ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/30444#comments Politics Gary Parker Hillary Clinton Lambda Independent Democrats New Jersey Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:30:41 -0400 Observer Staff 30444 at http://www.observer.com