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June 24, 2011

Update: 33 Ayes, 29 Nays — Marriage Equality PASSED

In an extended New York State Senate session, a few issues still remain on the agenda, from the “non-controversial” to the very controversial: raising statewide property tax cap, allowing of Yellow Taxi Medallion status to about 1,500 livery cabs, and, again, passing marriage equality.

Here, the LIVE video: Democrat and Republican senators will be making their cases about where they stand on gay and lesbian couples being allowed to marry in the Empire State. So far, 31 of 62 senators have publicly endorsed the legislation — but that’s one shy of a majority. Though the live feed may not be a gripper, more than 32,000 people at time of publishing are tuned in, on a Friday night at 9:30 p.m., and many millions more are waiting to see whether New York will become the sixth state, in addition to Washington, D.C., to allow sax-sex couples to marry.