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President Obama to Attend Marriage Equality Celebration Fundraiser

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

President Barack Obama will attend a fundraiser celebrating the passage of gay marriage in New York.

The Wednesday event in New York City is being billed as a “small reception to celebrate the progress in the LGBT community,” the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six reported.

This is the first time Obama has attended a gay fundraiser in New York since lawmakers approved a gay marriage law in June. Five additional states – Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Iowa – and the District of Columbia allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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From Minnesotans United for All Families – Fundraising Request

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

I’m really excited about this one, folks. This year, when you “Give to the Max,” you can help us educate Minnesotans about the importance of fairness when it comes to marriage for same-sex couples!

Give to the Max is a special day each year where Minnesota donors flood GiveMN.org to give to their favorite nonprofits. Last year, this amazing campaign generated more than $10 million for hundreds of organizations doing great work.

To capitalize on this amazing outpouring of support, we’ve joined with our partners at Freedom to Marry to start a joint Minnesotans United Education and Research Fund to help educate Minnesotans on why marriage matters.

Click here today to “Give to the Max” to the Minnesotans United Education and Research Fund. We need your help to educate Minnesota about fairness for every family!

Giving to this special fund on this special day can turbo-charge your contribution in two key ways.

During every hour of Give to the Max Day – November 16 – GiveMN.org will choose one donor during that timeframe and give $1,000 extra to the nonprofit of his or her choice.
Moreover, if our special fund is one of the top-performing nonprofits across the state, we’ll be eligible to receive a grant worth another $5,000, $10,000, or even $15,000!
Plus, just by being a part of this fantastic statewide effort, you’ll help us get our cause in front of thousands of die-hard donors who can help us build even more resources well into the future.

But we can’t do any of it – not raising extra funds or the important work of making Minnesota more fair – without your tireless support. Please “Give to the Max” this week to help us reinforce our Minnesota values across our state.

I’ve been a proud supporter of Give to the Max Day for years now, and I am thrilled that our organization is going to be a part of it this week.
I hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, November 16 to help push our movement to ever greater heights.

Thanks,

Richard Carlbom
Campaign Manager
Minnesotans United for All Families

Minnesotans United Education and Research Fund is a program of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide based in New York and Washington.

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NY: Donors Raise $1.25 Million for Pro Marriage Equality GOP Senators

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

As the State Legislature this year debated the legalization of same-sex marriage, a group of wealthy financiers who support both gay rights and Republican causes offered a reassurance to Republican lawmakers: Stand with us now, and we will stand with you later.

This week, the four Republican state senators who provided the decisive votes to pass the marriage bill are to get a big financial boost from those donors, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. A fund-raiser planned for Thursday night in Manhattan is expected to raise about $1.25 million to help finance their re-election bids next year.

The senators have come under heavy criticism from conservatives since they cast their votes in June. A national group that opposes same-sex marriage has purchased billboards in each of their districts, vowing to unseat the lawmakers, and the senators have been eagerly raising money in an effort to defend themselves against possible challengers.

Full Story from The New York Times

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NY: Gay Community Gives Back to Democrats Who Voted for Marriage Equality

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is set to headline a pricey fundraiser for the cash-strapped Senate Democrats. All but one of the 30 Senate Dems voted in favor of gay marriage. The Nov. 2 cocktail reception (see the invite below) will cost attendees between $1,000 and $25,000 per person.

In addition to key gay political leaders like Quinn and bill sponsors Sen. Thomas Duane and Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, major gay rights groups like the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Human Rights Campaign are also listed as key sponsors.

Meanwhile, Mayor Bloomberg, who personally lobbied for the bill, will headline an Oct. 13 New York City fundraiser for the four Republicans who voted for the measure. Without those votes, the bill would have failed for the second time in recent years.

Full Story from the NY Daily News

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NY: Prop 8 Play Raises $1 Million for Marriage Equality

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The premiere Broadway performance of the new play based on the trial over the constitutionality of California’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, raised over $1 million for the fight to win marriage equality.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group formed specifically to challenge the 2008 voter-approved amendment, announced in a newsletter to supporters that the staging of Black’s 8 wowed a sold-out audience.

The play is based on the 13-day trial held last year in San Francisco which resulted in federal Judge Vaughn Walker, now retired, declaring the ban unconstitutional. Proponents of Prop 8 appealed the ruling, and gay and lesbian couples in California remain barred from marrying.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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NY: Mayor Bloomberg to Host Fundraiser for Pro Marriage Equality GOP Senators

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will co-host a fundraiser for the four GOP senators who voted in favor of the New York marriage equality bill.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation’s most strident opponent of marriage equality, has promised to unseat the four GOP senators whose votes made equal marriage a reality in New York and has said it will commit two million dollars to that end.

Enter New York City’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, keeping a promise he made during last summer’s push to make same-sex marriage legal in New York State that he would help Republican senators who voted in favor of the law that made the state the 6th and largest state to allow same-sex nuptials.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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NOM Fundraiser Falls 98% Short

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

How much money can the National Organization for Marriage dredge up to push their radical bigoted agenda? Apparently not as much as they though. The way that this was set up was that for every Facebook like, Twitter follow or text message, NOM would get $1 from a wealthy donor.

Well, NOM had better hope that the donor is going to cough up the money anyway since they managed to get a total of 931 new Facebook likes and 298 Twitter followers from 6/24 until 9/1.

There is no accounting for the number of text messages, but it seems unlikely that they will have gotten as many as 98,771 text messages. As NOM Exposed points out “Now, there is always the text message factor to up the tally. But that one’s a total long shot, considering the comparable time consumption of the act, the text number’s lack of prominence, the requirement of a SMS-capable phone, and the relative impracticality of receiving SMS updates rather than Twitter or Facebook notices.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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NY: White House Says President Obama Will Mention Marriage Equality Bill at Fundraiser Tonight

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

President Barack Obama will be in New York City on Thursday evening to attend a trio of fundraisers in a campaign swing through the state.

Obama’s first scheduled event in New York is at 7 p.m. at the Democratic National Committee’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Gala at the Midtown Sheraton.

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LGBT advocacy groups, still awaiting action in the New York state Senate on a marriage equality bill, were hoping Obama would take a stand on the issue, but White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Thursday afternoon that the President plans to “mention” the pending marriage equality bill in the New York legislature, but won’t come out either for or against the legislation. “I’m sure he will mention it and I think make the point that, as he always has, that he believes that this is something that states should be able to decide. And that’s one of the reasons, because of the — that the President believes that we should withdraw from our participation in DOMA cases, because he believed it was unconstitutional.”

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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NY: President Obama to Speak at Gay Fundraiser as Legislature Debates Marriage Equality

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Talk about timing. President Barack Obama is about to hold a gala fundraiser in New York City on Thursday for gay supporters — his first as president — just as the New York state Legislature stands on the brink of legalizing gay marriage.

The coincidence of timing and place will inevitably spotlight the piece of Obama’s record that causes greatest consternation for the gay community: his failure to endorse gay marriage.

After getting off to what gay activists viewed as a slow start on their issues, Obama won over many by repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military and by instructing the Justice Department to stop defending in court a federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Full Story from The Washington Post

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Will President Obama “Evolve” on Marriage Equality at LGBT Fundraiser Next Week?

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Next Thursday, June 23, Barack Obama will be in New York for a high-priced fund-raiser for LGBT leaders. Tickets start at $1,250 each and go up to $35,800, a pretty steep cost for a community whose signature issue at the moment is marriage equality — something Obama doesn’t yet support. It’d be an awkward ask at any moment, but this will be especially dicey: By next week, New York’s legislature may well have passed a historic same-sex-marriage law.

In the next few days, Obama will almost certainly be asked about his famously “evolving” stance on marriage rights for gay men and women. New York would be the sixth state in the nation to allow same-sex nuptials and by far the largest. New York City is also a gay rights hub, which is no doubt why he chose it for this fund-raiser. It would be an excellent chance for him to announce that he has “evolved” all the way to marriage equality. But would he ever do that?

It’s not unthinkable. If he doesn’t announce his support of marriage equality, Republicans could use New York’s law to bash him anyway. Master strategist Karl Rove used the 2003 Massachusetts court decision that legalized same-sex marriage as a galvanizing force to drive conservatives to the polls in the 2004 presidential election, even though opponent John Kerry wasn’t actually in favor of it. It’s questionable how well this tactic actually worked when it came to election results, but there’s no doubt that the rhetoric and the scare value of a lurking “homosexual agenda” steered voters away from the issue for a while.

Full Story from NY Magazine

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