‘The Weddg Heard ’Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage’ outl how Jack Baker and Michael McConnell fought for marriage equaly.
Contents:
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- FROM “PARTNER” TO “HBAND”: MEET ONE OF THE FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL N.L.
- ‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE, MAKG A BOLD STATEMENT FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY
- BOOK TELLS THE LOVE STORY BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * first married gay couple *
Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.
This week, the inic children’s show dropped a very special episo lled “Fay Day, ” troducg two gay dads, Frank and Dave (the brother of Na, who works as a bike store owner on the street), and their dghter, Transcript[MUSIC PLAYING]. AdvertisementSKIP Jimenez for The New York TimMay 16, 2015MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the fight over same-sex marriage began earnt, long before gay upl began lg up for marriage licens, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell cid to year was 1967. Homosexualy was still classified as a disorr, sodomy was illegal nearly every state, and most gay men and lbians lived fearful om the age of 14, eyeg young men his father’s barbershop, Mr.
Lynn uple, now their early 70s, spoke this month a rare terview the hoe they share here, nearly half a century after they joed their liv and earned a place the history of gay rights, helpg to make Mnota an early center of gay Baker said he was proud that the Supreme Court this year heard the very same nstutnal arguments of equal protectn and due procs that he had intified as a law stunt 2013, when the Mnota Legislature thorized same-sex marriage and a state senator announced, “Today, love ws, ” Mr.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
"Same Street" is celebratg Pri Month by gog where ’s never gone before. This week, the inic children’s show dropped a very special episo lled “Fay Day,” troducg two gay dads, Frank and Dave (the brother of Na, who works as a bike store owner on the street), and their dghter, Mia. * first married gay couple *
”For a time the early 1970s, the two had starrg natnal rol as spokmen for gay equaly, pecially Mr. 26, 1971, issue on “The Amerin Fay, ” they were featured as “The Homosexual Couple.
”“Some homosexuals — a mory — live together stable, often long-lastg relatnships, like Baker’s and McConnell’s, ” the article Mr. Baker was elected 1971 as the openly gay stunt-body print of the Universy of Mnota, Walter Cronke reported on the nightly news. The uple appeared together on the fluential Phil Donahue and David Sskd by 1980, trated as the marriage issue failed to take off and unr attack by gay lears who lled them “crazi” for refg to make polil promis, they dropped out of public life.
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FROM “PARTNER” TO “HBAND”: MEET ONE OF THE FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL N.L.
McConnell threw his energy to creatg one of the untry’s earlit gay muny centers, and the uple scraped by on $75 a month om the G. SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004). "We jt wanted to make sure that the world saw the most posive si of beg a gay uple.
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‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE, MAKG A BOLD STATEMENT FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY
Enjoy an excerpt om The Weddg Heard ’Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage, by McConnell and Baker, as told to Gail Langer Karwoski.
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BOOK TELLS THE LOVE STORY BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
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Excerpt om The Weddg Heard ‘Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage, by Michael McConnell wh Jack Baker, as told to Gail Langer Karwoski, is reprted here by permissn.