Patricia A. Gozemba
Peter Hayashida and Michael Olman are two amazingly creative and accomplished guys whom Karen and I had the pleasure of meeting in Hawaii about five years ago–at a traditional Korean Christmas dinner orchestrated in large part by our mutual friend Rochelle. We bonded with these LA guys around our mutual desires to live in […]

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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 grace, leadership, and love as […]

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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 could actually apply […]

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    Aaron Toleos is my new hero. On June 7th at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention, Toleos stood up for all of us and confronted Massachusetts Senator John Kerry about his continuing lame position on marriage equality.
    The next day, the Boston Sunday Globe reported the David and Goliath scenario this way:
A delegate was escorted off […]

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Pretty big numbers. Pretty huge victories. We are becoming part of “We the people.” 
As Massachusetts celebrates four years of marriage equality, 60 million Americans now live in three states where gay marriages are recognized. California’s high court and New York’s governor made it possible for millions more Americans to opt for marriage–and have their marriages recognized and […]

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In a recent Bay Windows article, I wrote about Rosanne Schembri and Lisa Berg, a California couple longing to marry. Here are some photos of them that did not make it into the newspaper but tell an important story about who we are and our desires to have our civil rights.
1979
 

 On September 1, 1979, the […]

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