Legal same-sex marriages begin Connecticut [video]
”We decided that we wanted to hold out for the real thing. Parties are fun, but it’s not about the celebrating piece of this. It’s about honoring the magnitude of the rights that we will be granted, and we wanted to jump in and take advantage of that right away.”
Peg Oliveira who legally married her new wife Jennifer Vickery in New Haven, Connecticut on Wednesday, November 12, 2008. (NY Times)
”We… think about the heartbreaking vote in California, knowing that a justice movement is not won or lost by one case or one vote. Connecticut sends a message of hope and promise to lesbian and gay people throughout the country who want to be treated as equal citizens by their government.
Bennett Klein, a lawyer for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which litigated the Connecticut court case that led to legal gay and lesbian marriages beginning this week. (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-marriage13-2008nov13,0,6138711.story)
”In my lifetime, I’ve seen it go from ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ to today, when we have a love that can be declared on the steps of New Haven City Hall.”
Garret Stack who married John Anderson, his partner of 28 years, in Connecticut. (Boston Globe)
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