Women Got ‘Married’ Long Before Gay Marriage | HISTORY

Contents:

• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

Massachetts' "gay marriage" cisn. Hog and mortgag for gay and lbian upl, Mortgage.

How to get married Massachetts, Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), July 2015. A legal gui for lbian and gay upl by Frerick Hertz, Nolo, 2020.

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr fay law, Thomson Rters, Annual.

GAY MARRIAGE

Morn fai: effective advocy for lbian and gay clients, MCLE, 2013. (The lol chapter of the Gay and Lbian League, fearg the unn would fuel the rightwg belief that hetero upl would explo same-sex marriage for tax breaks, tried to put an junctn on their marriage license, but the judge led that the ernment don't — and shouldn't — ask upl why they're marryg.

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. Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts.

TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

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 Stonewall rts of 1969 began wh a police raid on a popular Greenwich Village Gay Bar, the Stonewall Inn.

Famo physicians and psychologists studied what they lled “homosexualy” or “verted tennci, ” and began to prcribe medil treatments to cure people of this perceived ailment.

WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE

In 1973, anizers lnched Gay Communy News (GCN) at the Charl Street Meetg Hoe as the “Gay Communy Newsletter”. [6] Gay Communy News, “Gay Communy News, 1973 July 5 (Vol 1, No.

[7] Amy Hoffman, An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Communy News (Amherst: Universy of Massachetts Prs, 2007); “Boston & Stonewall 50: Rememberg, Celebratg, and Honorg Our … Contue readg. The Prisoner Project, started 1975 by GCN staff member Mike Riegle, provid books, legal reference, and LGBTQ+ newspapers to queer prisoners, while also publishg letters om the prisoners about homophobia, sexism, and racism wh the prison system. We get many requts om gays prison to put pen pal ads for them.

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