"I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens," Jamey Rodemeyer wrote Sept. 9. "What do I have to do so people will listen to me?" Just over one week later, Jamey, 14, was found dead outside his home of an apparent suicide.

Residents used a free-flowing public forum during Monday's Ledyard town board meeting to share their views on town clerk Rose Marie Belforti's refusal to sign same-sex marriage licenses.

The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage continues its sore loser campaign aimed at New York state lawmakers who supported the Marriage Equality Act that legalized same-sex marriage in the Empire state.

The town clerk of Ledyard, N.Y. -- Rose Marie Belforti -- has finally responded to the controversy over her recent decision to not sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples, and wondered if there was another agenda that would result in allowing marriage between non-humans.

Just weeks after same-sex marriage was legalized in New York state, a new poll suggests growing support for marriage equality in the Empire state, and more than six in ten do not want the legislation to be overturned.

Marking the first full weekend of marriage equality in New York state, 24 gay and lesbian couples on Saturday wed in "pop-up" chapels in New York's Central Park.

Lambda Legal on Thursday filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Sizzler Restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, on behalf a woman who was targeted because "she did not conform to the stereotypes of how a woman should look," according to the complaint.

After legalizing same-sex marriages last month, New York State now has joined Massachusetts in challenging the federal governments Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

The Wall Street Journal on Monday called out the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for what it calls “deceptive advertising” in its sore-loser campaign entitled “Let the People Vote.”

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, N.Y. -- A so-called christian family values group has filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn New York's same-sex marriage law less than twenty four hours after it [...]

About a dozen protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., gathered outside of Manhattan Clerks office this morning to protest the legalization of marriage equality in New York State.

At 12:01 a.m., July 24, 2011, New York became the sixth and most populous U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo -- who just 30 days ago signed the state's Marriage Equality Act into law -- on Sunday morning, issued an Executive Proclamation, declaring July 24, 2011 as a "Day to Commemorate Marriage Equality" in the Empire State.

NIAGARA FALLS — New York State ushered in same-sex marriage at 12:01 a.m. with the wedding of a Buffalo couple, punctuating the end of a long fight for gay-rights activists.

Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples in New York will say "I Do" on Sunday, as the state's Marriage Equality Act takes effect in just one hour.