Gary Parker

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.)

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.

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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.

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