Tag Archives: New Jersey

Thanks to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey, eHarmony has been forced to drop their “no gays, no way” policy and beginning next year gay folks can use the service. Internet matchmaker eHarmony.com will provide same-sex matching services in 2009 under the terms of a settlement reached today in New Jersey. The online dating service, founded in 2000 in California, …

Aaron, Chris and I are in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey at the Jefferson Diner, where their dessert carousel featured pies the size of basketballs. If you’re gonna be at Hillside Campground this weekend, stop by Site 62 and say “Hello.” (Yes, I’m live-blogging from a NJ diner. Sophistication!)

Disgraced former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey told the judge presiding over his divorce trial that he can’t pay alimony because he’s broke and owes his boyfriend $250K. Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday said he owes a quarter-million dollars to his boyfriend, but wants to pay child support for the daughter he has with his estranged wife, as well …

Well, this is a fascinating development. A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey’s assertion that she was naive about her husband’s sexual exploits. The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he and the couple even had a nickname for …

Oh brother. Whether or not Dina Matos McGreevey knew her husband, former Gov. James E. McGreevey, was gay should not matter because there was a marriage that produced a child, and thus no fraud was perpetrated, McGreevey alleged in divorce papers released today. But Matos McGreevey contends there was fraud, and wants to be paid $605,999 in damages based on …

On the one-year anniversary of civil unions becoming legal in New Jersey, a state commission has released a report saying that civil unions don’t work and that gay couples in Massachusetts don’t have the same legal difficulties faced by those in New Jersey. The commission found that many companies in the state that are self-insured, and thus regulated by federal …

Among today’s Oscar nominees is Freeheld: The Laurel Hester Story, nominated for Best Short Documentary. Laurel Hester was the Ocean County, New Jersey cop who upon her diagnosis with terminal lung cancer in 2005, battled the authorities to have her police pension assigned to her partner after her death. After a long, ugly fight with county officials, Hester finally won …

New Jersey, which has not executed a prisoner since 1963, officially abolished the death sentence today. The first state to ban capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976, New Jersey joins 13 others states and the District of Columbia with their ban. Earlier this year a New Jersey study concluded that the cost of defending death penalty …

Via Pam’s House Blend comes news that New Jersey is getting so close to having the votes necessary to approve same-sex marriage, even the “family values” crowd is ready to throw in the towel. From Blue Jersey: Last week Garden State Equality chairman Steven Goldstein projected that they are just a few votes short of a majority in support of …

Here’s why the PATH station on Christopher Street disgorges hordes of LGBT youth every night. New Jersey has become a national beacon for gay equality. It boasts some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the country, and recent legislation makes it one of only three states that recognize same-sex civil unions. Gay marriage, some say, is just around the corner. …

After pressure from NJ Gov. Corzine and Lambda Legal, UPS has reversed its previous stance denying benefits to the partners of civil-unioned employees. The lawyer representing the UPS employees for Lambda Legal said, “UPS is joined by hundreds of employers around the state in hearing that civil unions are different from marriage and that is to be expected when people …

The governor of New Jersey is demanding that UPS abide by state law and offer domestic partners benefits to the civil unioned. UPS says that under its federal collective bargaining agreement, union employees’ benefits are covered by federal laws that only recognize fully married couples. Non-union UPS employees do have access to domestic partners benefits in New Jersey. In Massachusetts, …

UPS is refusing to grant spousal benefits to gay couples who have civil unioned in New Jersey, saying that they can only do so for couples that are married, as the company does for married gay employees in Massachusetts. UPS joins a growing list of New Jersey companies refusing to recognize state law requiring full benefits be granted to the …

Early figures are showing that gay couples in New Jersey aren’t exactly rushing to be civil unioned. Only 229 couples have applied for licenses in the first month (although not all municipalities have reported in), which some activists say is indicative of a feeling that gay marriage will eventually come to the state, causing many couples to wait. If true, …

Congratulations to Daniel Gross and Steven Goldstein, the first gay couple in New Jersey to have a civil union ceremony. Today New Yorkers have another reason to move across the Hudson, besides the cheaper real estate.

The Attorney General of New Jersey has announced that gay unions performed in other jurisdictions will be recognized as such, even if other the unions were called “marriage”. Activists consider this partially good news. On the one hand, gay people married in Massachusetts, Canada, Spain, etc, will have all the rights and privileges of “civil union” couples in New Jersey. …