User talk:DoctorBob3

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DoctorBob3, you are invited to the Teahouse!
Hi - I'm Steven Goldstein, associate professor of law and political science at Rutgers University in Newark and the founder of Garden State Equality. I'm being played by Steve Carell in the upcoming movie "Freeheld." I had noticed someone created a Wikipedia page about me that had wrong information. I took it down and instead put up correct information about me - not overboard, believe me, as I know Wikipedia is not for hagiographic press releases - but simply correct information.

In fact, the information I took down, that you or someone else seems to have put back up, overpraises me. It says I'm credited with making New Jersey the first state to have gay unions. No one has ever credited me with that, thank goodness, because New Jersey was not the first state to have same-sex unions of any kind - far from it.

If we can put the correct information back up, I'd be grateful. I list it below - what I had posted. I can source it entirely. If you wish to reach me, I'm at stevengoldstein.email@gmail.com, www.facebook.com/stevengoldstein and mobile (917) 449-8918

Thanks so much, Steven

Steven Goldstein (b. 1962) is a civil rights leader and the founder of New Jersey's statewide organization for LGBT equality, Garden State Equality. He is to be played by Steve Carell in the upcoming film, Freeheld, which chronicles Garden State Equality's grassroots battle, led by Goldstein, to allow dying police officer Lt. Laurel Hester to leave her death benefits to her partner Stacie Andree. The Freeholders, county officials for whom Lt. Hester worked and whose safety she helped to protect, had denied her the right to pass along her benefits as they would have done if she were married to a man. Their resistance came before New Jersey won marriage equality, which, had it been law during the 2005-2006 battle for Lt. Hester, would have left them no choice but to treat Hester and Andree equally. In January 2006, the Freeholders relented, voting to allow Lt. Hester to pass along her death benefits to Andree. Lt. Hester died the next month.

Goldstein led Garden State Equality as Chair and Executive Director from the time he founded the organization in 2004 until 2013. Today he is an associate professor at Rutgers University in Newark, where he holds a joint appointment at the Law School and in the Department of Political Science. He teaches legislative advocacy, civil rights and social justice, and other courses in public law and American politics. He is also Deputy Vice Chair of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.

In September 2002, Goldstein and Daniel Gross, a couple since 1992, became the first same-sex couple ever to be included in the wedding announcements of The New York Times, marking their wedding in Montreal and civil union in Vermont the next day. In February 2007, they became the first same-sex couple to enter a civil union in New Jersey. In October 2013, Goldstein was the religious officiant at the first same-sex marriage in New Jersey. Goldstein had attended rabbinical school in mid-career, then took leave to lead Garden State Equality and its campaign for marriage equality.

From the time Goldstein founded Garden State Equality, the organization has won campaigns to make New Jersey one of two U.S. states — the other's being California — with a collection of statewide laws that include marriage equality, transgender equality, an anti-school bullying law, paid family leave for same-sex couples and a ban on so-called "reparative therapy" targeting LGBT youth.

Before Garden State Equality, Goldstein was communications director for the late U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and a counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, working for then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Goldstein also won 10 regional Emmy Awards as a television producer.

A native of New York City, Goldstein is a graduate of Brandeis University, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Columbia Law School. Goldstein and Gross are longtime residents of Teaneck, New Jersey.

DoctorBob3, I'm Steven Goldstein
You've edited my page a few times, notwithstanding that I am being meticulous in providing sources and am keeping my Wiki page - which I hadn't even set up - short and hype-free. I'm playing nicely by all the Wikipedia rules. You just added a subjective description of me - where it said civil rights activist and professor, you added LGBT, as in LGBT civil rights activist and professor. It is true that I have worked on LGBT civil rights extensively, but so, too, have I worked on other civil rights issues - as reflected in some of the sources in my footnotes. I corrected it. It is a minor difference, but more accurate without your adjectival description. Thanks so much. StevenGoldsteinNJ (talk) 04:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)Steven Goldstein,

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Undelete
An article you worked on or cited is being deleted and you should state your opinion about it. Deletion_review/Log/2018_May_7 --Thetechgirl (talk) 21:37, 7 May 2018 (UTC)