It gives this reporter all sorts of pride to see her home state all over the LGBT news front, these days. New York has taken another step in the right direction with their most recent implementation of a policy that was supposed to have been finalized in 2008. Though we'll admit, the step they took is considered, by some, to have been a waste of the government's time due to the people it affects.

In accordance with the passing of the law that requires New York state government to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, the New York Department of Corrections has begun allowing conjugal visits to same-sex couples in the 20 state prisons that permit them. The DoC is also granting furloughs to inmates for things pertaining to their same-sex partners such as illness or death.

Executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda Ross Levi says this is an excellent show of the winds of change. “The more the state is consistent with that status of law the better off we are.”

There is no indication as to why it's taken the law over two years to make it to the state registry. We're just gonna pretend that's okay, since they finally did what they were supposed to. Or something.