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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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What’s (Funny) in a Name?
If so-and-so married so-and-so …
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Some years ago, the TV show Laugh-In brought us a party sequence that made up fictitious marriages of famous people, purely for the fun of mixing and matching names. It depended, of course, on the female changing her last name, a custom based on the repellent idea that the male partner owned the female once they married.

We thought it would be fun to match up famous people of the same sex to see how their names would look — should they decide to follow the name changing custom, even though it no longer means what it once did.

(hint: if you don’t “get it,” say the married name out loud)
  • If Woody Allen married Natalie Wood, divorced her and married Gregory Peck, divorced him and married Ben Hur, he’d be Woody Wood Peck Hur.
  • Nog (Quark’s son on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”) with only one name, uses it twice when signing a marriage license. If he married Howard Hughes, and then Pamela Dare, he’d be Nog Nog Hughes Dare.
  • For baseball sports fans, let’s marry Boog Powell and Felipe Alou — Boog Alou.
  • If G. Gordon Liddy married Boutros-Boutros Ghali, then divorced him to marry Kenny G., he’d be G. Ghali G.
  • If Jack Handy (SNL writer) married Andy Capp (cartoon character), then married Jack Paar, and then (finally) married Stephen King, he’d be Jack Handy Capp Paar King.

Have some pseudo marriage names to share?
Just like Milton Berle’s jokes, it doesn’t matter where you got them, just as long as they are funny.
Send them to: demian@buddybuddy.com

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