by Patricia A. Gozemba
Draft a constitutional amendment that is divisive and sweeping in its possibilities for endangering committed and established relationships of all Floridians, straight and gay, and call it the “Florida Marriage Protection Amendment.” Make sure that it’s ambiguous enough to ultimately be able to do away with domestic partnerships that are recognized […]

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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 for LGBT […]

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Greater Boston PFLAG (Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays), at their annual meeting on Sept. 24th at 7 pm, will donate Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First legal Same-Sex Marriages to all Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs) in Massachusetts public schools and offer it to all public high school libraries. Lexington High […]

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 The majority of Democratic presidential candidates and even some folks who consider themselves fair-minded pretend that supporting civil unions–the separate but equal remedy for gay family relationships– gives us our civil rights. Across the country, however, LGBT experience in domestic partnerships, reciprocal beneficiary relationships, and yes, civil unions, has demonstrated  that it just isn’t so.
CA is […]

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Is it a surprise to anyone that the NJ  poll conducted between Aug. 8-10 shows twice as much support for gay marriage as there is opposition? 63% favor same-sex marriage.  And just to quell the timid hearts of legislators, 72% of those polled (that’s 9% more than are in favor of marriages over civil unions) also […]

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Beth Robinson c0-counsel in the landmark Baker case that essentially won equality in the Vermont courts in 1999 but lost it to a new invention called “civil unions” in the Vermont legislature in 2000 continues to push for full marriage equality. In the August 12th issue of the Rutland Herald, she sensibly defends the Vermont legislature’s […]

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The story below from Indiana illustrates one of the disastrous dilemmas that committed same-sex couples face in not being able to have a legal relationship with each other. In Massachusetts, some of the most convincing arguments put forth by our legislators as they debated whether to support our Supreme Judicial Court’s decision allowing same-sex marriage […]

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    Cynthia Laird of the Bay Area Reporter makes the connection between our struggle in Massachusetts for marriage equality and the continuing struggle in California. She sees Courting Equality as a way for gay marriage advocates to share strategies that worked and to take heart that full equality is not just a hope. Laird is particularly impressed […]

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Yesterday I responded to a great article that Mary Zeiss Stange wrote in USA Today. Stange asserted that Martin Luther would have supported gay marriage. In Massachusetts, the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry would probably agree. Look next Monday, July 16th in USA Today for the responses to Stange’s article. Hope this letter […]

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The City of Cambridge honored Pat Gozemba, Karen Kahn, and Marilyn Humphries with a special proclamation at their May 7, 2007, meeting. The proclamation notes that Courting Equality includes a photo of the first couple married in Cambridge, Tanya McCloskey and Marcia Kadish, and City Clerk Margaret Drury. The Council congratulated the authors on a […]

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