Argentina Second Same Sex Marriage, Harold Ford Receives Less Than Hospitable Reception From Those He Wronged, Fight Back New York New Gay Political Action Committee, Maryland AG Fights For Gay Rights, Alexander McQueen Funeral, Terry Richardson And Jersey Shore

On Tuesday, Judge Elena Liberatori approved the marriage of two men in Buenos Aires in what will be Argentina’s second same sex marriage. In December, despite repeated opposition from authorities, Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Bello married in the provincial capital of Ushuaia.

Democrat New York Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. spoke Wednesday night in Manhattan, a stop on his “listening tour,” at the Stonewall Democratic Club in the West Village, and the crowd was less welcoming. Ford, there to explain why, when a Tennessee congressman, he voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, is now on record as being in favour of legalizing same sex marriage. Ford has yet to formally announce his candidacy, this tour meant to inform that decision.

A report on the formation of a new political action committee based in New York State, that intends to single out senators who voted against a bill that would have legalizing same sex marriage, or who on record opposing gay rights. Fight Back New York, a well funded, well represented organization has marked disgraced Democrat Hiram Monserrate for its first target. Monserrate, a convicted criminal, was expelled from the Senate, but has filed as a candidate in a special election being held to fill his seat.

On Wednesday, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, a Democrat, issued an opinion that the state will recognize same sex marriage performed elsewhere, and that all of its agencies should begin affording same sex married couples that same benefits and rights as opposite sex married couples immediately. The fifty page opinion, written over nine months, argues that “the starting principle in state law is that a marriage that is valid in the place of celebration remains valid in Maryland.”

A private funeral service was held Thursday in London for Alexander McQueen, the designer found hanged earlier in February. The service attracted several of McQueen’s favourites, including Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, most of whom wore McQueen in homage.

Terry Richardson photographs pop cultural oddities – the men from Jersey Shore – for an upcoming Interview feature, forgetting that one of the boys – Ronnie – likes to employ homophobic slurs in everyday situations.