by Pat Gozemba

Karen and I were excited to be on one of our favorite shows this week, GAY USA. You can catch us on the web or on a variety of Cable and Dish Network TV sites. See info below.

Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn, co-authors and spouses

photo by Bill Bahlman

Hosts Andy Humm and Ann Northrop are terrific and it was a real pleasure speaking with them. Below is the message that they sent out to their list-serv subscribers:

We report this week on how Massachusetts has gotten rid of its last vestige of discrimination against same-sex couples, opening the state to gay and lesbian couples from elsewhere who want to marry there.

Our guests for our last twenty minutes are Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn, authors of “Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First Legal Same-Sex Unions” with photographs by Marilyn Humphries. They will tell us their story of witnessing and writing about the birth of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and how they decided to get married themselves after being partners for 15 years. We will also show you a montage of photos from the book, which document the victory for same-sex marriage in the context of the historic movement for LGBT rights.

You can read more about “Courting Equality” at http://www.courtingequality.com/

The Gay USA website and podcast are available at GayUSATV

“Gay USA” is seen in Manhattan on MNN on Thursdays at 11 PM on Time-Warner 34 and RCN 84 and simulcast at www.MNN.org channel 34/84. It is distributed nationally on the Dish Network (Ch. 9415) through Free Speech TV. Go to www.FreeSpeech.org for the schedule. The show now also airs on Saturdays at 11 PM on WYBE in Philadelphia.

Online video for Gay USA is available at: www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?search=gay+usa&action=search

Gay USA is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of “Gay USA” may be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” online by credit card at www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/GayUSA

Andy and Ann

Co-Hosts

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