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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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Quotes: Ceremonies © November 2, 2005, Demian “To the Gay,Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered, we say that your love is sacred, your union is blessed.”
— Mission statement excerpt, Lamb of God Anglican Church, Columbus, Ohio “Marriage is a solemn and public covenant between two people. Sometimes those two people will be of the same sex. In my view, it makes it no less a marriage, and we need to be able to call it what, in fact, it is — a marriage.”
— Rt. Rev. John Palmer Croneberger, Ninth Bishop of Newark, “I see my primary role as being the shepherd of my flock, and part of my flock consists of gays and lesbians.” “On this homosexual issue, we’re not dealing with theology. Some people have a pathological dislike for homosexual sex. It’s not rational. It’s visceral. It’s communicated through our culture, through myths and legends in which religion of course is a primary agent.” “All of this fuss is a bit puzzling because same-sex blessings have been happening in the United States for years with the tacit and/or explicit consent of the bishops. What’s different here is that we are doing it publicly, openly and in the light of day.” “The word of God is a person, not a text. Where we diverge is that I would understand the Scripture as the human record of the people of God struggling to understand the direction of God in their world, while others have a tendency to see Scripture as a fax from Heaven.” “Conservatives say you cannot pick and choose but that’s exactly what they do because the same texts that condemn homosexuality condemn the eating of shellfish. I haven’t heard any conservative churchman campaign against shellfish in the last few years.”
— Michael Ingham, Anglican Bishop of greater
Vancouver, B.C. Canada,
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