Governor Andrew Cuomo didn’t exactly say it in so many words when he called — the message he left on our answering machine had a sort of rote, campaigny feel about it — but I had the impression he gives my family a lot of the credit for helping to push marriage equality to passage in New York. For years, my partner Erika and I have wanted to tie the knot in New York — the state where we live, where we met, where we first got to know each others’ families, where we spent summers on Fire Island, where our sons, now 7, were born
