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.”

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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.

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