Among the first to do so in New Jersey, three same sex couples were married just after midnight Monday morning on the steps of the Paramount Theater on the Asbury Park boardwalk. The couples were Asbury Councilwoman Amy Quinn and Heather Jensen and Steven Brunner and Daniel Baum, as well as Aberdeen couple Karen Nicholson-McFadden […]

Three Asbury Park same-sex couples had filed marriage license applications as of 10 a.m. Friday, and all of them will be married on Monday as the state Supreme Court has denied the governor’s request for a stay to a Mercer County Superior Court judge’s ruling. Asbury Park is one of few municipalities in the state to […]

The Asbury Park City Council Wednesday gave their full support to a  resolution that asks those in the state legislature to overturn Governor Christopher Christie’s veto of same-sex marriage rights. The marriage equality bill, passed by the state assembly in February of 2012, defines marriage as the “legally recognized union of two consenting persons in […]

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 […]

Several groups advocating same-sex marriage are joining together in Asbury Park this morning to kick off a statewide campaign to change New Jersey’s laws to allow such unions. A bill allowing same-sex marriages was passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature last year, but vetoed by Republican Governor Chris Christie. The New Jersey United For Marriage campaign […]

A sit-down between leaders of the gay and Methodist communities in Ocean Grove caught the attention of the New York Times today. In an A section story by Chadwick Moore entitled “In Methodist stronghold, a dialogue on gay rights”, the Times reported on how these two groups — at odds over same-sex marriage and the […]