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 *
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.
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.
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 *
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.
Ten years ago this weekend, a major civil rights tone Ameri: for the first time same sex upl were granted marriage licens here May 17, 2004, jt after the stroke of midnight, the cy of Cambridge led the way, issug the natn's first marriage licens for same-sex a timele of gay marriage Massachetts and hear a profile of Mary Bonto, the wng attorney the Goodridge se. GutsSan Shepherd and Marcia Hams, the first same sex uple Massachetts to get a marriage Isaacson, -chair of the Massachetts Gay and Lbian Polil StoriSan Shepard:"We've always said that a lot of ways this was a much more profound day for [our son] and he keeps reeratg that as time go by. We're ed to beg gay, we've been gay all our liv and we love our children and I thk this was extremely liberatg for all of our children.
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