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."
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MASS. ISSU MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAY COUPL
Massachetts begs issug the natn's first state-sanctned marriage license applitns to same-sex upl. In Cambridge, gay and lbian upl began lg up Sunday to fill out license applitns begng jt after midnight. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports. * gay marriage cambridge ma *
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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.
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. * gay marriage cambridge ma *
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. Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts.