by Pat Gozemba Karen and I had a great time at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem on a panel focused on same-sex marriage that was part of the educational program of the beautiful exhibit “Wedded Bliss.” Here’s what The Salem News had to say about the panel.   Expert panel discusses same-sex marriage By [...]

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Gov. Deval Patrick, Katherine Patrick, Diane Patrick march in Pride What a Difference a Governor Can Make by Patricia A. Gozemba Bay Windows Contributor Thursday Jun 19, 2008 The First Family of Massachusetts raised the celebratory level of the 2008 Pride Parade in Boston to dizzying new levels. During Pride Week, the Patrick family showed enormous [...]

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Day One Guest Blogger: Lisa Berg Beverly Hills District Office of the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk It was amazing. It was exciting. It was history! I went to the Beverly Hills District Office of the L.A. County Registrar Recorders office to be a part of the very first day that any homosexual couples [...]

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In a historic ruling, today the California Supreme Court ruled that California’s separate but equal system of relationship recognition is unconstitutional. California grants the rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples under its domestic partnership law. The word “marriage” however has been reserved for heterosexual couples. Now California joins Massachusetts, granting marriage equality to [...]

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James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, a right-wing evangelical group, figures that it has enough power and money that it can lie and get away with it. To a certain extent it is true. One of his so-called “researchers,” Glenn Stanton, released a paper in early March 2008 distorting the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) stance on [...]

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Martin Luther King, Jr. repeatedly asked, “How long?” How long until justice will come? Just so our gay marriage allies in California like Molly McKay and Davina Kotulski, a couple for 12 years and activists for 10 years on this issue, continue their fight for the civil right of marriage. King, an inveterate worker in [...]

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My point—and I have one—is that there is a connection between murder and love in the current highly charged culture war going on in California around the issue of marriage equality. Ellen almost makes the point.   Today the CA Supreme Court will hear a landmark case that seeks to bring marriage equality to millions [...]

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 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 [...]

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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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