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Monthly Archives: May 2009
MYD Director of Event Application Deadline TOMORROW!
Reminder that Our Event Director position is currently open! More details HERE Applications are due TOMORROW May 30th Click to download the application HERE Contact me, Taylor Stirek (secretary [at] gomyd.com) to submit your application and ask any questions! Have a great weekend!
Photo of the Week: New Past Times
Yet another angle of Times Square’s new pedestrian-friendly look. Photo by John Niedermeyer
Speaker Quinn Hustles From Albany to NYC
NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn had a busy day yesterday, first delivering our letters to State Senators’ offices in Albany and then hightailing it back to NYC for a rally to protest California’s Prop 8 decision: Towlroad
“Suprema” Sotomayor
MYD is 110% with the Daily News: Barring the very remote possibility that something untoward crops up, let’s get on with the making of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, alumna of Cardinal Spellman High School, giving the Bronx pride of place along with Brooklyn (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Queens (Antonin Scalia) on the world’s most august judicial panel.
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MYD Delivers The Goods
Yesterday, MYD Prez Al Benninghoff and NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn took a trip to Albany. There, they hand-delivered a stack of over 1,500 letters from New Yorkers across the state asking their State Senators to support marriage equality. For the past week, newyorkequality.com has been the focus of MYD’s grassroots campaign to get a marriage equality bill passed. The site launched last Tuesday, and to date, over forty thousand people have visited. The site is simple: look up the info for your State Senator, and either send a handwritten letter yourself, or MYD will print out the one you type up and hand-deliver it to your Senator in Albany. As you can tell from the photo, a lot … More >>
Photo of the Week: Come on, New York.
Photo by Oliver Cast members from the musical Hair demonstrate at Broadway Impact’s Equality rally last Sunday at 6th ave and 45th st. On Tuesday, MYD and an alliance of progressive orgs launched newyorkequality.com, a web site dedicated to giving New Yorkers the tools they need to make their support of marriage equality heard. Through the site, New Yorkers can find out who their State Senator is and send them a letter, a proven method of swaying legislators. As of this morning, NYE had received 40,757 visitors which had resulted in over 1,500 letters to Senators across the state. The site has garnered links and praise from far-flung corners of the blogosphere, our New York neighbors, and like-minded progressive (here … More >>
