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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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Hispanic and Latino Same-Sex Households in Florida Introduction to the report by Jason Cianciotto and Luis Lopez by Demian © June 16, 2006, Demian This study shows that Florida’s Hispanic/Latino same-sex households are similar to Hispanic/Latino married, opposite-sex households. However, there are vast differences when considering the thousands of benefits and protections of legal marriage. Florida has also shown extraordinary hostility to lesbians and gay men when it passed, in 1977, the nation’s only law specifically outlawing adoption by “homosexuals.” Exactly 20 years later, in 1997, it passed one of the nation’s first laws against same-sex marriage. In 2006, Florida theocratic citizens attempted to place an anti-gay, anti-marriage state constitutional amendment on the ballot. It failed to gain enough signatures, however, they remain valid for four years, so could get the amendment to a vote in 2008. While immigration for Hispanics/Latinos is difficult, unlike married, opposite-sex couples who can be legally married, same-sex couples, in which one partner is a U.S. citizen, are not allowed to sponsor their partners. This study sheds light on the more than 9,000 Hispanic/Latino same-sex couples who live in Florida. It includes demographics, immigration and citizenship status, residence patterns, parenting rates, educational attainment, employment status, income, housing, and veteran status.
To better understand how anti-gay family policies specifically impact Hispanic/Latino same-sex couples and their children, information about them from the 2000 Census was also compared to Census data about white non-Hispanic/Latino same-sex couples, as well as Hispanic/Latino married opposite-sex couples, and Hispanic/Latino cohabiting opposite-sex couples.
This 2005 report is in PDF format:
Hispanic and Latino Same-Sex Households in Florida
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute is a think tank dedicated to research, policy analysis and strategy development to advance greater understanding and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. thetaskforce.org
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