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Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples Online from 1995-2022 Demian and Steve Bryant originally founded Partners as a monthly newsletter in 1986. By late 1990 it was reformatted into a bi-monthly magazine. Print publication was halted by 1995 when Demian published Partners as a Web site, which greatly expanded readership. In 1988, the Partners National Survey of Lesbian & Gay Couples report was published; the first major U.S. survey on same-sex couples in a decade. In 1996, Demian produced The Right to Marry, a video documentary based on the dire need for equality that was made clear by the data from the survey mentioned above. The video featured interviews with Rev. Mel White, Evan Wolfson, Phyllis Burke, Richard Mohr, Kevin Cathcart, Faygele benMiriam, Benjamin Cable-McCarthy, Susan Reardon, Frances Fuchs, Tina Podlodowski, and Chelle Mileur. Demian has been the sole operator during the last two decades of Partners. Demian stopped work on Partners Task Force in order to realize his other time-consuming projects, which include publishing the book “Operating Manual for Same-Sex Couples: Navigating the rules, rites & rights” - which is now available on Amazon. The book is based on the Partners Survey mentioned above, his interviews of scores of couples, and 36 years of writing hundreds of articles about same-sex couples. It’s also been informed by his personal experience in a 20-year, same-sex relationship. Demian’s other project is to publish his “Photo Stories by Demian” books based on his more than six decades as a photographer and writer. |
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Resolution of Immediate Witness in Support of the Right to Marry for Same-sex Couples Unitarian Universalist Association and UU Ministers Association BECAUSE the first Principle of Unitarian Universalism is to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person; and BECAUSE marriage is held in honor among the blessings of life; and WHEREAS many states, the Congress, and the President of the United States are acting to void the recognition of same-sex marriages and to deny “full faith and credit” to such marriages formalized in Hawaii or any other state that sanctions them; and WHEREAS the debate about extending legally recognized marriage to same-sex couples has focused on the objections of certain religious communities; and WHEREAS the Unitarian Universalist Association has adoped numerous Resolutions over the last twenty-six years supporting equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons, including support for Ceremonies of Union between members of the same sex; and WHEREAS the UUA Board of Trustees and the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association have voted their support for the right to marry for same-sex couples; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Unitarian Universalist Association adopts a position of support of legal recognition for marriage between members of the same sex; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Unitarian Universalist Association make its position supporting legal marriage between persons of the same sex known by means of press and other public media; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Unitarian Universalist Association urges its member congregations to take an affirmative position in support of the value of marriage between any two committed persons, whether of the same or opposite sexes, and to make those positions known in their home communities. Approved at the Indianapolis General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association by the 400+ members of the UU Ministers Association, and by the Unitarian Universalist Association itself, as represented by several thousand delegates from churches around the country in the summer of 1996.
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