THE NEW NIXON

So in the Democratic primary on September 13, your name will be on the ballot as a candidate for governor of New York.

Yes—because we are petitioning to get it there. Fifteen-thousand-plus signatures.

Let’s talk about marriage equality. Many LGBT people see Andrew Cuomo as a champion of it, since he helped pass the Marriage Equality Act before Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were proponents. What do you say to people who are loyal to Cuomo for this reason?

I think we need to give Andrew Cuomo credit for that. I think he stuck his neck out on that, but I think that the real credit for passing marriage equality in New York state was the LGBT community itself, and the advocates