When he was elected to the state senate in 1998, Tom Duane became the first openly gay individual to serve in the chamber. The Manhattan legislator was a key figure in both of the same-sex marriage votes, when it was defeated in 2009 and then passed in June of 20011. The retiring lawmaker, who is HIV-positive, talks to New York NOW about his career and his achievements including how he needed to educate his colleagues on some of the misconceptions about HIV. Watch video above.
