Cambridge leads us, once again, into the light. Former Mayor Ken Reeves, a Black gay man, is succeeded in office by an “out” and fiery Black lesbian, Denise Simmons. Simmons has been a community activist for many years and played a key role in the same-sex marriage struggle in Massachusetts. On Nov. 18, 2003, the [...]

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from the Washington Blade Online ‘Family man’ tries to overturn Wis. gay marriage ban Wants state to vote on marriage, civil unions as separate questions (AP) | Dec 10, 3:10 PM Few people took Bill McConkey seriously when he filed a lawsuit in July trying to overturn Wisconsin’s new ban on gay marriage and civil [...]

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Thank You, Mary Bonauto and GLAD for Four Years of Equality!   Four years ago today at a press conference in Boston, on November 18, 2003, Mary Bonauto of Gay Lesbian Advocates&Defenders and the Goodridge plaintiffs taught me an important lesson in American democracy. Their visionary leadership and commitment made me see that marriage equality [...]

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Take a look at Beacon Broadside, where Karen reflects on the fourth anniversary of the Goodridge decsion, and late summer adventures in Tennessee, Gerogia, and North Carolina (below, a photograph of Karen & Pat with Laurel Scherer and Virginia Balfour, in Asheville, North Carolina).    As we approach the fourth anniversary of Goodridge v. Department of Public [...]

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If you are in the Boston area, pick up the November/December 2007 copy of Boston Spirit or go to the website to order your free subscription http://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/   In this month’s issue, Pat Gozemba has a feature article on Marilyn Humphries’ two-plus decades photographing Boston’s LGBT community. Lots of pictures tracing LGBT activism since the early 1980s.

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“Gay.” “Lesbian.” “Same-sex marriage.” Words you’re not supposed to hear uttered in the Lexington Public Schools that is according to Brian Camenker and his pack at Mass Resistance. But Mass Resistance is not having its way. PFLAG gave the first of over 240 copies of Courting Equality slated to go to Massachusetts Gay Straight Alliances [...]

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At PFLAG’s Annual Meeting, President Stan Griffith presented a copy of Courting Equality to Carla Yengo-Kahn for the Lexington High School Gay Straight Alliance. Author Pat Gozemba (left) noted that the donation of a copy of the book would be made to each of the 241 GSAs in Massachusetts thanks to a generous donation to [...]

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  On July 28, we celebrated marriage equality with Denise, a parent participant in Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE). Denise read Courting Equality in one afternoon, after her neighbor Orlando Del Valle lent her a copy. She was among many lesbian and gay families who gathered for Family Pride Week. Courting Equality drew [...]

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Pat Gozemba (left) of Salem was embraced by David Wilson, one of the original plaintiffs in the landmark same-sex marriage lawsuit. The pair celebrated after the vote outside the House chamber. (Boston Globe photo John Tlumacki) June 14, 2007 will become a historic day in the annals of equality in this state and in this [...]

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CE authors were happy to discover that their op-ed on marriage equality ran in The Columbian, a local newspaper in the not-so-blue region of southern Washington State. Here’s the text:  Three years ago on May 17, lesbian and gay residents of Massachusetts filed for the first legal marriage licenses in the United States.     With [...]

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