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Asbury Park

Same-sex marriage license application begins today

'I'm really excited that Asbury, again, is at the forefront of marriage equality'

By Jill Bartlett


Asbury Park Deputy City Clerk Kiki Tomek will begin to accept applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples Friday, city officials confirmed. “The City of Asbury Park intends to follow the Order entered on September 27, 2013 by the Honorable Mary C. Jacobson, A.J.S.C., in the case known as “Garden State Equality, et als vs. Paula Dow, […]

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Oct 18, 2013
Asbury Park

City residents were lead plaintiffs in LGBT marriage case

Friday ruling allows same-sex couples the right to wed starting Oct. 21

By Jill Bartlett


For Asbury Park residents Daniel Weiss [shown above, at right] and John Grant [left], same-sex marriage rights are not just a matter of politics — they are a matter of life and death. The Asbury Park residents were married in Connecticut in 2010, and served as the lead plaintiffs in Lambda Legal’s lawsuit that argued barring same-sex […]

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Sep 30, 2013