County Clerk Kim Davis repeatedly said that she would not issue licens to any upl, gay or straight, “Unr God’s thory.”
Contents:
- RIGHTS COLLI AS TOWN CLERK SISTEPS ROLE GAY MARRIAG
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- ‘YOU’RE MAKG ME THE BRI?’ A HICCUP FOR GAY UNNS
RIGHTS COLLI AS TOWN CLERK SISTEPS ROLE GAY MARRIAG
"Thank you to Governor Cuomo and the New York State Divisn of Human Rights for their work on this settlement, " they said a statement provid by the state agency said the Root settlement is the latt se volvg gay 2014, the agency said reached a settlement wh Victor, Ontar County, after allegedly nied a spot on a lol planng board to an attorney bee she was gay. More:Same-sex marriage: NY town clerk rejects license, sparks outcryMore: New York to ban gay nversn therapy. 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. ”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.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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.
McConnell that he would figure out a way to, he beme the first print of FREE, for Fight Reprsn of Erotic Exprsn, which was among the untry’s earlit llege anizatns for gay rights.
‘YOU’RE MAKG ME THE BRI?’ A HICCUP FOR GAY UNNS
The group fought to hold gay and lbian danc on mp and forced rporate recers to pledge not to discrimate McConnell joed him and was promised a posn at the Universy of Mnota rearch his first year of law school, Mr. 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.