Dan Willson

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.)

The bright line between political campaigns and public offices is one of the sacred fictions of American politics, and so Fields' communications director, Kirsten Powers, probably didn't mean for this email -- apparently directed to Borough President's office aide Dan Willson -- to wind up in reporters' inboxes: this is how i would do it.

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WHO: C. Virginia Fields with faith and community leaders WHEN: Wednesday, August 17. Press availability immediately after meeting at approximately 10:30am WHAT: Meeting to discuss next steps in developing plan to fight hate crimes WHERE: Manhattan Borough President's office CONTACT: Dan Willson, 212-669-3539 Not that anybody would think to introduce politics into an issue as sensitive as hate crimes.

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