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New Jersey Senate Defeats Gay Marriage Bill
The New York Times
1/8/2010
1/8/2010 "The State Senate on Thursday rejected a proposal that would have made New Jersey the sixth state in the nation to allow marriages involving same-sex couples. The vote was the latest in a succession of setbacks for advocates of gay marriage across the country.

New Jersey’s Governor, Champion of Inequality
The New York Times
6/28/2011
"New York’s approval of same-sex marriage was a testament to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political courage. In the New Jersey governor’s office, it is good sense that is in short supply on this issue.

New York High Court Hears Argument in Lambda Legal Case to Protect Parent-Child Relationship Between Child and Non-Biological Mother
2/17/2010
(New York, February 17, 2010) - Today, Lambda Legal argued before the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of a non-biological mother after an intermediate appeals court denied her right to seek custody and visitation with, and provide financial support to the child she has parented with her former same-sex partner.

New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere
The New York Times
5/29/2008
5/29/2008 "David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.

Newfield asked to give up rights challenge
Ithaca Journal
7/23/2008
7/23/2008 "One of the nation's leading legal advocacy groups for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has urged the Newfield Central School District to reconsider its successful jurisdictional challenge of human rights law protection for students on the grounds that it will end a method of addressing discrimination for LGBT students.

NJ will be civil to some same-sex marriages
The New Jersey Star-Ledger
2/17/2007
2/17/2007 "Same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts or in foreign countries will automatically be recognized as civil unions in New Jersey starting Monday, Attorney General Stuart Rabner ruled yesterday...

No ENDA Without Trans Protections
Gay City News
10/4/2007
10/04/2007 "For the past week, a passionate and emotional debate has been raging in the gay and lesbian blogosphere and on LGBT gay leadership list-servs about the decision by the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives to remove protection for the transgendered from ENDA, the proposed federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

No Visiting Rights for Hospital Trauma Patients
The New York Times
9/30/2009
9/30/2009

North Carolina Ruling Jeopardizes Same-Sex Families
Keen News Service
12/29/2010
12/28/2010 "The North Carolina Supreme Court on December 20 voided the adoption by a lesbian mother of the child who she and her former partner, the biological mother, were raising together. The ruling jeopardizes the legality of all other such 'second-parent adoptions' in the state.

Nurses apologize to woman who couldn't visit dying partner
The Los Angeles Times
11/22/2009
"Several nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital have personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a lesbian from Washington state who said that a Jackson social worker wouldn't allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007.

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