If others want to characterize it, that is up to them.”Judge Feinman was a past president of the Association of Supreme Court Justices of the State of New York. He was the former president of the International Association of L.G.B.T.Q. Judges and a member of the Richard C. Failla L.G.B.T.Q. In a statement after the death, Governor Cuomo called the judge a “friend and role model to countless L.G.B.T.Q. rainbow flag flying from Albany’s City Hall on the day of Judge Feinman’s swearing in and feeling “like such a barrier had been melted away.”

Source: International New York Times April 01, 2021 21:22 UTC