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Gays in teh Burbs

by: Rosi Efthim

Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 10:03:52 AM EDT

Over the weekend, AP (via The Record) had an interesting article about 2010 census figures showing a 3-% rise over the past decade in NJ households headed by same-sex partners. Many are couples raising kids.

John and Michael Galluccio are the folks behind my currently favorite tee shirt in all of Jerseyland - WTFNJ? (a chunk of the profits fund Garden State Equality). That name sound familiar? The Galluccios won a landmark 1997 court case to become the first gay couple in NJ to jointly adopt a child - Adam, now 15.

Michael Galluccio's on his local school board. Nearly 25% of North Jersey households headed by male couples and almost a third headed by lesbian couples have related kids. Gay couples come in all flavors the same way straight couples do, but once you look up and find gay-headed families in the 'burbs, place of worship, school board, and in every job, and town in New Jersey, you get how the NJ Senate blew it big-time representing Jersey on this issue.

Disclosure: I'm on the GSE board (it's big). I'd be writing this, even if I wasn't. GSE ranked 83 NJ munis by how many GSE members (who are both gay & straight) each has. Whoa, my little town of Flemington (pop. 4500) has more GSE members than Hawthorne (pop. 18,000)? Bite me, Jeff Gardner, is my little town in crimson red Hunterdon gay-friendlier than yours?

Want to see the list? It's after the jump.

Rosi Efthim :: Gays in teh Burbs

1. Maplewood-South Orange
2. Montclair
3. Jersey City
4. Asbury Park-Ocean Grove-Neptune
5. Collingswood
6. North Bergen
7. Newark
8. Lambertville
9. Red Bank
10. Union City
11. Cherry Hill
12. Trenton
13. West Orange
14. Ewing
15. Burlington
16. New Brunswick
17. Nutley
18. Princeton
19. Hoboken
20. Gloucester Township
21. Bloomfield
22. Edison
23. Clifton
24. Highland Park
25. Atlantic City
26. Rutherford
27. Moorestown
28. Millburn
29. Long Branch-West Long Branch
30. Passaic City
31. Camden
32. Madison
33. Washington Township (Gloucester County)
34. Hamilton
35. Cliffside Park
36. Westfield
37. Lawrence
38. Edgewater
39. Summit
40. Morristown
41. Haddonfield-Haddon Township-Haddon Heights
42. Somerville
43. West New York
44. Bernards Township
45. Hillsborough
46. Cinnaminson
47. Mount Laurel
48. South Brunswick
49. Fort Lee
50. Paramus
51. Paterson
52. Bridgewater
53. Montgomery Township
54. East Amwell-West Amwell
55. Hackensack
56. Woodbridge
57. Plainfield
58. Flemington
59. Kearny
60. Teaneck
61. Glen Ridge
62. Cape May City
63. Toms River
64. Belleville
65. Marlton-Evesham
66. Secaucus
67. Livingston
68. Sewell
69. Delran
70. Lyndhurst
71. Palmyra
72. Freehold
73. Vineland
74. Bayonne
75. Harrison
76. Weehawken
77. Sayreville
78. West Deptford
79. Pennsauken
80. Willingboro
81. Voorhees
82. Englewood
83. Hawthorne

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Gays in teh Burbs | 9 comments

I demand a recount! (0.00 / 0)

xox

by: Jeff Gardner @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 14:15:19 PM UTC

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Jeff Gardner, I challenge you! (0.00 / 0)

Get the # of Hawthorne members of Garden State Equality up to the # of members from Flemington.

Shouldn't be hard - you have 4 times the population we have, and Flemington's in the heart of conservative darkness. So to speak.

Kidding. All in fun. But I dare you.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 14:43:57 PM UTC

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this list is rigged! (0.00 / 0)

clumping Neptune, AP and Ocean Grove together is nudging Cherry Hill out of the too 10.

I demand a recount!

activist for hire.

by: Jay Lassiter @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 15:11:52 PM UTC

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well technically (0.00 / 0)

Ocean Grove IS part of Neptune. Asbury is their own municipality though.

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by: tabbycat31 @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 15:19:18 PM UTC

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Ah, the gay is strong with this (0.00 / 0)

Cherry Hill.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 15:32:43 PM UTC

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Same-Sex Couples in NJ (0.00 / 0)

A 2010 Census policy shift encouraged same-sex couples to label themselves as husband or wife even if their relationship is not recognized by law. 24,112 New Jersey couples self-identified -39% male and 71% female.

The Williams Institute provides further data: The top five counties and cities with the largest number of same-sex couples were Hudson, Hunterdon, Essex, Monmouth, and Camden, and Ocean Grove, Lambertville, Asbury Park, Collingswood, and Upper Montclair.

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." - Sen. Ted Kennedy

by: Bill Orr @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 16:03:14 PM UTC

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Harumph... (0.00 / 0)

...no Somerset (Franklin Twp., Somerset County). Gay village we're not, I guess. :-(

by: Alex @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 17:42:05 PM UTC

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used to be some gay women in Griggstown (0.00 / 0)

but that's quite a while ago.

by: denniscmcgrath @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 18:41:06 PM UTC

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y'know, actually, come to thnk of it (0.00 / 0)

The Den, which is prob. NJ's oldest continuously operating gay bar, is in Somerset. And I used to live in Hempstead Gardens off 27. But that's not enough to tilt the balance. I'm not so sure about Trenton as #12 - ahead of West Orange? Hmmm.

by: denniscmcgrath @ Mon Aug 15, 2011 at 18:43:00 PM UTC

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