{"id":277039,"date":"2026-06-24T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277039\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:56:09","slug":"local-lgbtq-leaders-mark-15th-anniversary-of-new-york-state-marriage-equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277039\/","title":{"rendered":"Local LGBTQ leaders mark 15th anniversary of New York State Marriage Equality Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 LGBTQ leaders held a press conference in Rochester Wednesday to mark the 15th anniversary of New York State\u2019s Marriage Equality Act and celebrate the law\u2019s impact on LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One activist said it was a fight for health insurance that marked the start of her journey for marriage equality. Ann Tischer, an LGBTQ advocate, shared how her activism began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBess and I were accidental activists. I needed health insurance so we started advocating for benefits from Bess\u2019 employer. Things escalated from there, until we started working for marriage,\u201d Tischer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local leaders also stressed the continuing importance of protecting marriage equality as Pride Month continues.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/marriage-equality-act\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marriage Equality Act<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/lgbtq\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LGBTQ+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 LGBTQ leaders held a press conference in Rochester Wednesday to mark the 15th anniversary of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1360,106496,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-277039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-lgbtq","tag-marriage-equality-act","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}