Also, a good time would be when my partner and I have moved to Park Slope or the West Village, so we don’t have to worry about Hasidim, Pakistanis and/or Russians spray painting anti-gay graffiti on our front gate, slashing the tires of our car or attacking us on the way to the subway station as efforts to legalize same-sex marriage get them all riled up.

@AJD What would a good time be?

Mmm, latinos.. errr… doesn’t look good… doesn’t look good at all for gay marriage.

Well at least we’ve done some progress. Hearing about openly gay leades seems to be more common nowaydays. We just need some way of convincing the consevative ‘aleluya-praise-the-lord’ republicans to acknowledge some separation from church and state.

I live in Brooklyn with my partner, and I’m not talking about hip and liberal Park Slope or Cortelyou Road. I’m talking about a neighborhood that’s largely Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish, Pakistani and Russian. On the floor above us lives my partner’s brother and his family, who are very conservative Christians. Needless to say, we’re not necessarily closeted, but you won’t see us holding hands and wearing rainbow T-shirts, either.

Not only that, but large parts of the city, especially Staten Island, are strongly Republican. And a lot of New Yorkers who vote Democratic aren’t necessarily pro-gay. The same goes for Upstate and Western New York.

I commend Patterson for being on our side, but this really isn’t the time.