A Thursday benefit for New Jersey-based civil rights organization Garden State Equality turned into more of a celebration of the state’s recent ruling to allow same-sex marriages. The event, a reception held at Watermark followed by a film screening of the documentary film “Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement,” at Porta, brought about 150 members of the […]

Gay marriage will now be legal for good in the state of New Jersey. Political news website politickernj.com reports the Governor Chris Christie’s administration has dropped its appeal of Judge Mary C. Jacobson’s September ruling, which granted same-sex partners the right to a civil marriage  in New Jersey beginning Monday. “In light of the N.J. […]

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 […]