N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 10-a: Parties to a marriage

§ 10-a. Parties to a marriage. 1. A marriage that is otherwise valid

shall be valid regardless of whether the parties to the marriage are of

the same or different sex.

2. No government treatment or legal status, effect, right, benefit,

privilege, protection or responsibility relating to marriage, whether

deriving from statute, administrative or court rule, public policy,

common law or any other source of law, shall differ based on the parties

to the marriage being or having been of the same sex rather than a

different sex. When necessary to implement the rights and

responsibilities of spouses under the law, all gender-specific language

or terms shall be construed in a gender-neutral manner in all such

sources of law.