A New York state judge in Manhattan ruled today that denying gay couples licenses to marry violates the State Constitution, and she ordered the city to begin issuing licenses in March unless a higher court intervened.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/ny...-marriage.html
Interesting fact of the case: one of the plaintiffs is the son of an interracial couple that moved to California in 1966 when California was the only state whose courts had declared laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.