Eighteen SDNYC Endorsed Candidates Win Races in Sept. 2016 Primary Election

SDNYC congratulates the following endorsed candidates on winning primary election races yesterday!

  • NYS Senate District 16 - Toby Ann Stavisky
  • NYS Senate District 18 - Martin Dilan
  • NYS Senate District 25 - Velmanette Montgomery
  • NYS Senate District 33 - Gustavo Rivera
  • NYS Senate District 38 - Jamaal Bailey
  • NYS Assembly District 29 - Alicia Hyndman
  • NYS Assembly District 42 - Rodneyse Bichotte
  • NYS Assembly District 44 - Robert Carroll
  • NYS Assembly District 46 - Pamela Harris
  • NYS Assembly District 55 - Latrice Walker
  • NYS Assembly District 66 - Deborah Glick
  • NYS Assembly District 67 - Linda Rosenthal
  • NYS Assembly District 69 - Danny O'Donnell
  • NYS Assembly District 72 - Carmen de la Rosa
  • NYS Assembly District 78 - Jose Rivera
  • NYS Assembly District 85 - Marcos Crespo
  • NYS Assembly District 86 - Victor Pichardo
  • NYS Assembly District 87 - Luis Sepulveda

Click here to view the New York Times's report on all the results from yesterday's primary.

SDNYC Statement re: Council Member Cabrera

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Eunic Ortiz, President, Stonewall Democrats of NYC
646-588-8483 | eunicortiz@gmail.com

NYC Council Member Fernando Cabrera Continues History of Anti-LGBTQ Antics

Cabrera Caught Making Public Statements Against Transgender Community and
Comparing Same-Sex Marriages to Child Marriage

New York, NY – Council Member Fernando Cabrera made international news in 2014 when a video of him praising Uganda’s anti-LGBT laws became public YouTube. Time and time again, after the video was widely viewed, the Council Member pleaded that he was not against the LGBT community and that he supported his LGBT constituents.

The Council Member continues to use his public personal Facebook page to consistently say and share anti-LGBT and anti-abortion comments and articles. Cabrera went as far to defend anti-equality legislation, including calling for the shutdown of Planned Parenthood, lambasting Caitlyn Jenner’s transition, and equating same-sex marriage to marrying children.

“The consistent stream of anti-LGBT and anti-abortion comments and views by Council Member Cabrera are disgusting and do not represent the views of all New Yorkers,” said Eunic Ortiz, President of Stonewall Democrats. “Fernando Cabrera’s social media posts confirm his oppressive views towards our community. As a citywide LGBT Democratic organization in New York City, we believe that Cabrera’s positions on marriage equality and other progressive issues, including reproductive healthcare and choice, make him an unacceptable and dangerous choice for our community. His values are not New York values.

“The Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC is urging Bronx residents in the 33rd state senate district to reject candidate Fernando Cabrera, who has made it clear that he is not in favor of equality for LGBT, women, or New Yorkers of color.”

In June 2015, Cabrera posted an article titled “Former Johns Hopkins Chief of Psychiatry DESTROYS ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner”. In the comments on Facebook, Cabrera goes as far as to compare the concept of homosexuality with incest and pedophilia: “Redefinition of marriage has no logical stopping point. Its logic leads to the effective elimination of marriage as a legal institution. If marriage is just between person(s) who just love each other, why not polygamy or marrying a daughter/son or a thirteen year old?”

Cabrera has also continued rhetoric on his public personal Facebook page that “Redefinition of marriage has no logical stopping point...why not polygamy or marrying daughter/son or a thirteen year old?”, “Equality’ is an insufficient argument in support of SSM” (referring to same-sex-marriage), and that “there is no research to support the biological original of homosexuality”. He has also compared Planned Parenthood to the Nazis, and called for the organization to be shut down.  

 All of these statements indicate an attitude that is not only hateful, but downright dangerous for the LGBT individuals and other members of the community that he claims to represent.

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See below for documentation of Cabrera's recent use of offensive language and endorsement of Anti-LGBT practices.
(click thumbnails below to enlarge images)

SDNYC Lew Todd Scholarship Annoucement!

Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC is pleased to join with The LGBT Social Science & Public Policy Center at CUNY’s Hunter College to announce that Dean Gailey has been selected as the recipient of SDNYC Lew Todd Scholarship for the 2016-2017 school year! 

The SDNYC Lew Todd Scholarship was created in memory of SDNYC founder, Lew Todd and is awarded to an undergraduate student at CUNY who has demonstrated commitment to improving LGBT lives through engagement in research, policy, volunteerism, or advocacy. To learn more about the scholarship, visit SDNYC.org/scholarship.

Each year this scholarship is made possible in large part thanks to generous supporters like you. See below for two ways you can help support the SDNYC Lew Todd Scholarship today!

1) Donate directly on Hunter College's website (You must select the SDNYC Lew Todd Scholarship Fund from the “Designation” drop down menu to ensure the contribution gets to the correct scholarship)

2) Donate via SDNYC's paypal account (Click the “special instruction” button to note that the contribution is for our scholarship or send us an email with date of the contribution and the amount donated.)

About This Year’s SDNYC Lew Todd Scholarship Recipient: Dean Gailey is a senior at Hunter College, double majoring in Women and Gender Studies and Human Biology. They are a JFEW Eleanor Roosevelt Scholar and a fellow with the LGBT Social Science & Public Policy Center at Roosevelt House, researching nursing education policy for LGBTQ populations. Dean has presented on nonbinary and transgender representation in undergraduate health curricula and restructuring medical documentation to better accommodate trans and nonbinary patients. In the future, Dean hopes to utilize their multidisciplinary studies in social justice, human rights, and public health to support a future role as a leader in LGBTQ healthcare, advocacy, and education.

GOTV with SDNYC!

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Day Trips to P.A. to GOTV for Hillary Clinton!

Saturday, Sept. 17th | 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM | Bus Leaves & Returns from Union Square*
Saturday, Sept. 24th | 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM | Bus Leaves & Returns from Union Square*
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As voters in a Democratic State, we know that this election the best thing New Yorkers can do is go to our neighboring battleground state of PA to GOTV for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign and for Democratic Candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress. SDNYC is a proud sponsor of these trips. We hope to see you on the bus and look forward to working with you to make sure that this election P.A. Goes. Blue.

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