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Contents:
- WHEN GAY MARRIAGE CAME TO MASSACHETTS
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CAMBRIDGE, MA
- THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI
WHEN GAY MARRIAGE CAME TO MASSACHETTS
An Amerin cy has stepped up to help s gay and lbian married employe pay the "n't get married" tax penalty: Cambridge, Massachetts, where the first legal same-sex marriag took place seven years ago. * cambridge ma gay marriage *
In this climate of fear, Cambridge, the only cy Ameri that has had three openly-gay mayors, took the lead and claimed this issue. Brian Le, one of the origal sponsors of the amendment to ban same-sex marriage has sce said, “Gay marriage has begun, and life has not changed for the cizens of the monwealth, wh the exceptn of those who n now marry. The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens.
LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CAMBRIDGE, MA
The champagne is chilled, the k are osted, and gay and lbian upl across Massachetts are ready to make history Monday by sayg "I do." * cambridge ma gay marriage *
Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts. The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference. “I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife.
THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI
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While the nod did not note the marriage tone, did ce Cambridge’s iendls toward gays and lbians, cludg through s culture and entertament as well as how that iendls had impacted the cy’s enomy. “The progrsive cy, often jumbled together wh Boston, is also home to a thrivg gay- and lbian-owned bs scene which many belong to the Greater Boston Bs Council. Moira Barrett (L) and Johanna Schulman, of Cambridge, ri a r on June 12, 2004 durg the 34th annual Boston Gay Pri Para Boston, Massachetts.
Bee they’re a homosexual relatnship, the value of that health verage is nsired taxable e by the feral ernment.
Of the thoands of legally married gay and lbian upl Massachetts, none n receive the feral benefs offered to heterosexual married upl bee the feral ernment don’t regnize same-sex marriag. The Rise of a Gay and Lbian Movement. The Moraly of Gay Rights: An Exploratn Polil Philosophy.