Today, the New York Senate may consider its marriage equality bill (list of Senators and their positions here) and a committee of D.C. City Council is going to act on its bill.
Equality is moving.
Vigilance is still needed, but equality is taking steps forward.
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Chris Geidner is the senior political writer at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found here, and you can follow him on Twitter.