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Sunday, June 08
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Source: Concord Monitor , Manchester Union-Leader , Reuters V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, was united in a civil union ceremony with longtime partner Mark Andrew yesterday afternoon at St. Paul's Church in Concord. Attorney Ronna Wise, a justice of the peace, performed the private ceremony before about 120 friends and family. Robinson and Andrew, a state employee, live in Weare and have been together 20 years. The day marked the five-year anniversary of the New Hampshire election that, once ratified, made Robinson the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican church...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Associated Press via IHT , Concord Monitor , Newsday CA marriage case The final hurdle to marriage ceremonies this month for gay and lesbian couples was cleared away today when the California Supreme Court rejected a bid to delay last month's ruling recognizing full marriage equality in the state. The Supreme Court says its ruling will be final at 5 pm on June 16. The justices were divided 4-3 on whether to rehear their earlier decision, the same split that unfolded when the gay marriage case was decided in May . The denial clears the way for gays and lesbians...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Manchester Union Leader RINDGE, NH -- Police and Franklin Pierce University officials are investigating a number of anti-Semitic and anti-gay pamphlets in residents' mailboxes along with separate reports of graffiti swastikas in student dorms and a classroom on campus. The flyers in town mailboxes, which also contain some anti-gay language, could be related to the formation of a gay and lesbian club at Conant High School in neighboring Jaffrey, according to Rindge Police Chief Michael Sielicki. He said posters at the school promoting the group have been torn down, and he suspects the...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: The Guardian It is fitting that Bishop Gene Robinson spent much of his Easter enduring the wintry conditions of the Great North Woods of New Hampshire, performing his ministry to small but loyal congregations. For although he is one of the few bishops who could claim to be a household name across the world's Anglican communion, he has been all but frozen out by the head of his church, the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the first bishop to speak openly about having a homosexual relationship, he has heard fellow Anglicans describe gays as "lower than beasts". London's The...
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Sunday, January 13
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Source: Associated Press via Boston Herald CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Nearly 100 same-sex couples have been joined in civil unions since they became legal in New Hampshire on New Year’s Day. William Bolton, director of the state Vital Records Administration, said 183 civil union licenses have been issued since Dec. 10, when the paperwork became available; most -- 171 -- were issued to New Hampshire residents. The licenses are valid for 90 days. Officials know of 95 ceremonies that have taken place and 63 happened on Jan. 1, the day the civil unions law went into effect. "I think mostly people are...
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Friday, January 04
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Source: Seacoastonline.com PORTSMOUTH, NH -- Jim Verschueren leaned his elbow on the shoulder of his partner of two years, Carlo Nittoli, as they sat among the 250 people gathered at South Church on Tuesday to celebrate the legalization of civil unions in the state. From a Kleenex box resting on the pew next to him, Verschueren pulled two tissues -- one for him and one for his partner. They wiped away tears as the words sung by Voices from the Heart women's choir filled the church, summing up their and other same-sex couples' struggles for equal rights. "How could anyone ever tell...
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Tuesday, January 01
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Source: Associated Press via Boston Globe (AP) If the rainbow-painted deck chairs, fluttering rainbow flag and purple shutters don't make it clear, the Highlands Inn's toll-free number, 877-LES-B-INN, leaves no doubt as to whom this White Mountains resort in Bethlehem, N.H. caters to. Innkeeper Grace Newman began hosting commitment ceremonies at this self-proclaimed "lesbian paradise" -- in the 1980s. Newman says she has lost track of the number of commitment ceremonies that have happened there; she estimates about 300 couples have honeymooned at the inn after getting civil unions...
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Tuesday, January 01
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Source: WCAX-TV News and Manchester Union-Leader Concord, New Hampshire -- While many people were celebrating the new year with champagne and parties, more than a dozen couples in New Hampshire were doing something they've long been denied-- getting a civil union. At the stroke of midnight, New Hampshire became the fourth state to allow civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. N.H. legislators say the new law was about equality, but it was a move that caused controversy. Still, 23 couples were ready to say their "I dos" on the state house steps at midnight. They say they didn't...
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Sunday, December 30
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Source: Concord Monitor On Jan. 1, same-sex couples will be able to demonstrate their commitment to each other by entering into a legally sanctioned civil union. The state of New Hampshire will recognize this union and respect the bonds that it creates. In the course of two decades, our country has moved from criminalizing adult consensual sexual behavior to, if not embracing it, at least coming to terms with it. On this historic occasion, let's take a look back at the legal landscape we have traversed. In 1986 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Georgia statute that made it a criminal offense...
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Saturday, December 29
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Source: Associated Press via Boston Herald CONCORD, N.H. (AP) New Hampshire’s new civil unions law -- though well-intentioned -- makes a promise to gay couples it can’t keep: that all the rights, obligations and responsibilities of marriage will be theirs. In fact, they will not be treated equally, either inside New Hampshire or beyond its borders. They will fall into a separate, evolving legal class recognized by only a handful of states. And more than 1,100 federal laws will discriminate against them regardless where they live. Gay couples taking advantage of the law -- which takes effect Tuesday...
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Thursday, December 27
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Source: Seacoastonline.com While many civil rights advocates and members of the gay and lesbian community are celebrating the New Hampshire same-sex civil union law set to go into effect on Jan. 1, there are those who still oppose it. A poll taken last February by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center for the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition showed that 74 percent of residents said it wouldn't bother them if gay couples were allowed to get a marriage license from a justice of the peace. A poll conducted by the American Research Group in April, however, indicated that 42 percent...
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Thursday, November 29
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Source: Associated Press via Google WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican gay rights advocacy group accuses Mitt Romney of "Mitt-flops" in a new radio ad that criticizes the former Massachusetts governor on his tax record. The ad by the Log Cabin Republicans notes that Romney signed legislation in 2003 that increased taxes on New Hampshire residents who worked in Massachusetts. It also says Romney raised taxes on businesses, a point Romney disputes by saying he was merely closing tax loopholes. "Mitt Flops — sounds like something you'd wear to the beach, but they could cost you,"...
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Saturday, November 17
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Source: WHDH-TV CONCORD, N.H. -- The state office that oversees marriage licenses and other vital records says civil union licenses will be available at city and town clerk offices throughout New Hampshire by the first week of December. With civil unions becoming legal Jan. 1, many gay and lesbian couples have been eager to start planning their ceremonies but have been worried about whether the licenses would be available in time for New Year's Day. Mo Baxley, director for the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition, said people have been calling her office daily with questions about getting...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: Associated Press via International Herald Tribune CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP) Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson told New Hampshire voters Monday that efforts in some states to recognize gay marriage are a "judge-made controversy." Civil unions will become legal in New Hampshire on Jan. 1, giving gay couples most of the rights and benefits that married people have, except those governed by federal law. Same-sex unions from other states also will be recognized in New Hampshire if they were legal in the state where they were performed. Questioned about civil unions after...
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Thursday, October 25
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Source: Washington Post: The Trail It might have seemed like a pretty safe audience: a room full of smart, well-heeled students at Phillips Exeter Academy crowded around to hear Mitt Romney answer some questions about running for president. The famed -- and expensive -- prep school can't be foreign to Romney, whose state of Massachusetts has quite a few private campuses with ivy-covered brick buildings filled with highly-educated folks. But the teenagers did not go easy on the one-time governor from neighboring Massachusetts. Several of the questions were as tough as any the presidential hopeful...
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