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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.


Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples
Demian, director    206-935-1206    demian@buddybuddy.com    Seattle, WA    Founded 1986

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An Indispensable Guide for Gay & Lesbian Couples
A Cornucopia of Information for Same-sex Couples
by Demian
© January 2003, Demian



A rich array of information and advice for same-sex partners. This 64-page booklet answers the most common among hundreds of questions addressed to the Partners Task Force since it was founded in 1986.

Its chapters are devoted to validation, family life, getting support, legal precautions, marriage, sex and domestic partnership. Sprinkled throughout are powerful quotations and images that affirm same-sex partners.

Dedicated to the proposition that all families are created equal.

The Indispensable Guide dispels myths — such as gay relationships being short-lived — with data from Partners National Survey of Lesbian & Gay Couples. It also contains annotated lists of resources for couples, including political and social organizations, employers providing domestic partner benefits, and over 70 books, tapes and films.

Written in 1993 by Demian and Steve Bryant, the jam-packed guide has become popular among same-sex couples, libraries, schools, counselors, parents of gay and lesbian children, and religious leaders who use it to prepare couples soon to undergo commitment ceremonies.

This 64 page Guide booklet is no longer available. Please see the updated, and
greatly expanded, 140-page “Operating Manual for Same-Sex Couples” by Demian.

Purchase via Amazon.

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