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Members of Brooklyn’s Lambda Independent Democrats will be joining dozens of LGBT groups on Marriage Equality New York’s Lobby Day tomorrow.

Protestors will be converging on midtown Manhattan tomorrow morning to jump a bus that will take them to Albany.

We’re sure that one of the major stops on the list will be State Senator Carl Kruger (D-Brighton Beach, Mill Basin), the only Brooklyn Democrat to vote against gay marriage when it came up for a vote late last year.

Since the vote was taken, gay activists have picketed Kruger and have tried to address Kruger’s constituency at two Community Board 18 meetings only to have the meetings closed down around them.

Taking a different approach at last week’s meeting, an LGBT activist publicly announced that she was around to answer any questions board members may have about the marriage equality bill.

News of the lobby day comes as four marriage equality activists were arrested last Friday morning outside the Marriage Bureau Office on Worth Street in Manhattan.

The activists, part of the group Queer Rising, reportedly padlocked themselves to the front door, barring engaged couples from entering.

On the same day, over 20 same sex couples applied for marriage licenses at the Worth Street office but were turned down. When a member of one of the gay couples and a member of one of the lesbian couples — who never knew each other before the protest — walked up and asked for a license, they were immediately approved, organizers said,

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