Barbara Taormina interviewed Courting Equality authors Gozemba, Kahn, and Humphries. Her feature appeared in North Shore Sunday on May 27, 2007:
When Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn first got together 17 years ago, they weren’t really thinking about marriage. Part of being a same-sex couple meant breaking free from typical roles and expectations.
“Marriage really wasn’t my […]

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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 marriage equality, nearly […]

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In her new column on the Huffington Post, lesbian mom Sara Whitman writes:
“My son Jake keeps flipping through Courting Equality, a book documenting the events leading to May 17th, 2004 when gay marriage finally became legal in Massachusetts. At first I thought it was because he knew some of the people pictured- now I realize […]

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If you missed the fabulous launch of Courting Equality, due to the monsoon rains or other mundane reasons, read Dana Rudolph’s comments on the evening.

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For more than twenty years Marilyn Humphries, a local freelance photographer whose images have occasionally graced the pages of this very paper, has stood near the front lines of the lesbian and gay liberation and civil-rights movement. From the Dukakis-era gay foster parenting flap to his signing the state’s gay civil rights law, from the […]

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Killian Melloy writes in EDGE Boston (May 15), “MassEquality is gearing up for a celebration of three years of marriage equality in Massachusetts. This week’s events include a book launch, an anniversary party, and civil rights lobby days at the State House.
‘Since May 17th, 2004 the Commonwealth has celebrated over 8,500 same-sex weddings,’ MassEquality […]

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