Kath Sands, former professor of religion at UMass-Boston, and her partner Linda Krieger, an attorney, have a marriage license in Massachusetts. But last year, they moved to Honolulu, where they both teach at the university–Kath in American Studies, and Linda at the Richardson School of Law. Linda grew up in Hawaii, and so it was [...]
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Married in Massachusetts… Not in Hawaii …
March 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: DOMA · Gays and Religion · Hawai'i · Massachusetts · civil rights · civil unions · family rights · lgbt family · marriage equality · religion
Civil Rights-Civil Unions for Hawai’i
February 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Patricia A. Gozemba
Honolulu, February 22–Misguided Christian fundamentalists, many of whom are politicians, rallied approximately 2,000 of their flock to the Hawai’i state capitol to try to give credence to the point that the downfall of civilization is epitomized by the granting of the civil right of civil unions to same-sex couples. Across town, LGBT people [...]
Tags: Hawai'i · civil unions · family rights · videos
The Obama Family Supports LGBT Families
January 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments
The Obama Family is not threatened by our families. Now we have partners to work with. Finally, LGBT families are gaining credibility and respectability at the level of the White House.
At the very moment that Barack Obama legally became president, 12:01 p.m. on January 20th (even before the swearing in), the Obama [...]
Tags: family rights · lgbt family


