Jimmy Van Bramer, above left, will be representing parts of western Queens in the City Council starting in January. As a gay man who has been with his partner for 11 years, Van Bramer is unhappy with the State Senate's defeat of the Marriage Equality Act, which would have given gay and lesbian couples the right to marry in New York State.

The bill passed the State Assembly for the second time Tuesday night and had the support of Governor David Paterson, but after two-and-a-half hours of debate on Wednesday, all 30 Republicans voted against the measure, along with eight Democrats.

Democratic Senator George Onorato, who represents Van Bramer's district of Sunnyside, Queens, voted against the bill.

"As I saw each of the senators vote no, each individual vote was a little dagger in the heart of, I think, all LGBT people and all people who believe in fairness and equality," said Van Bramer.

Yet Van Bramer called the vote only a temporary setback.

"I do believe that at the back of my mind was that this could happen, and one day I too could be married," said Van Bramer. "This will definitely come back, this will definitely happen. The march toward full equality is a long one."

Someone who agrees with Van Bramer is Daniel Dromm, above right, another gay man elected to the City Council last month. Dromm will represent Jackson Heights, Queens, which is also the district of Democratic Senator Hiram Monserrate, who voted against the measure.

"It's unacceptable to us to have a senator who represents what is perhaps the largest LGBT community in the borough of Queens, to vote against marriage equality," said Dromm.

Dromm said he felt hurt on a personal level by the Senate vote.

"Any time civil rights are denied to people, it does hurt. It hurts in your heart, it hurts you on that level," said Dromm. "It also hurts you on a professional level, to think that people who are entrusted with voting for the public right to civil rights and equal rights was violated."

Both councilmen-elect say they will be mobilizing in the community to oust the senators who voted against the bill in the next election.

In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, most locals who spoke with NY1 Thursday morning said they were disappointed with their district's Democratic Senator Martin Golden voting against gay marriage.

"I'm disappointed. I have a lot of gay friends, and they should have equal rights like anybody else," said a local.

"I don't believe in same-sex marriage. I believe in heterosexual [marriage]. You know, man and a woman," said another.

One resident told NY1 that Golden's vote does not affect what the senator has done for the area, but other locals said they would consider Golden's stance on same-sex marriage if he should run for re-election.

"I think that everyone has a right to live how they want. I don't think they have a right to choose who anybody lives with, or who they marry. It's their own personal business," said a local.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city's highest-elected gay official, also lashed out at Albany lawmakers Thursday. She had backed the bill and wants to wed her longtime partner, Kim Catullo.

Quinn grew emotional when asked to explain the bill's lopsided failure. She refused to connect the bill's failure to this year's political upheaval in the State Senate or the recent defeat of Dede Scozzafava, a moderate upstate Republican Congressional candidate who supports gay marriage.

"My father is 83 years old and Kim's father is 83 years old... How a room full of people who have never met me don't think it is fair to raise the likelihood that her father and my father can see us dance at our weddings?" said Quinn. "I do not really care about a coup. I do not care that people ganged up on Dede Scozzafava, who is a courageous woman. What I care about is that my life is not any better today."

Meanwhile, Marriage Equality New York hosted a rally in Union Square Thursday night, one day after the long awaited same-sex marriage bill was rejected by a vote of 24-38.

On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Times Square and said they want to hold city politicians who voted against the bill responsible.

The vote came in the wake of a new poll that finds a slim majority of New Yorkers in support of legalizing gay marriage.

In a Marist College survey of 805 registered voters statewide, 51 percent say they support same-sex marriage and 42 percent oppose it.

The same poll found that 61 percent of surveyed New York City voters supported gay marriage

The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.