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...MARRIED. PHYLLIS LYON, 79, and DEL MARTIN, 83, founders of the U.S.'s first lesbian organization, 49 years ago; becoming the first to take advantage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's instruction to the county clerk's office to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses (in defiance of a Californian law); in San Francisco. Hundreds of couples have followed suit. Opponents of the licenses are seeking a restraining order to prevent the city from granting more...
...bags of Cheetos. Her presence, along with the smell of Cheetos, will somehow make my copy much better. Brooks thinks this is a great idea, but I fear it won't go over well with my wife. That's when Brooks suggests her hot friend Valeria, who is a lesbian. And it is right then that I finally see just how valuable a muse Brooks...
...California, for example--and they didn't cover much. You could get a certificate suitable for framing and the assurance that a hospital within city limits would let you visit a sick partner. That was about it. FORTUNE 500 companies were only beginning to allow partners of gay and lesbian employees to buy into health insurance plans. Most big cities didn't offer their employees such arrangements; in 1993 plans to extend health benefits to same-sex partners of city employees in Atlanta and Seattle caused great public consternation...
...marriage was discrimination, they argued--even if it was a cushy, Vermont-syrup discrimination. For those attorneys, civil unions were, as the court itself said, a "type of labeling." The Massachusetts lawyers wanted no half measures: "It was always about marriage," says lead attorney Mary Bonauto of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders...
...marriage. In fact, some 20 states have already introduced (or are expected to introduce) such amendments, according to the Human Rights Campaign. "I fear all this will create a backlash so much more powerful than our community is prepared to handle," says Matt Foreman of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force...