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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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Mayoral Proclamation, Ithaca, N.Y.
1998


WHEREAS, February 12, 1998 has been designated as the National Freedom to Marry Day; and

WHEREAS, Ithaca is a city that celebrates the diversity of its population, including people of all sexual orientations; and

WHEREAS, Ithaca has long been a leader in recognizing the rights of lesbian and gay, bisexual and transgender people; and

WHEREAS, the City of Ithaca currently recognizes same gender relationships through domestic partnerships, but realizes that this does not offer the legal benefits and responsibilities of marriage; and

WHEREAS, the City of Ithaca looks forward to the day when none of its residents will be excluded from the right of civil marriage, and

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Alan J. Cohen, Mayor of the City of Ithaca, New York, do hereby proclaim February 12, 1998 as:

FREEDOM TO MARRY DAY

in Ithaca, New York and encourage all Ithacans to support efforts to make same gender marriages legal in New York State.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the City of Ithaca to be affixed this 6th day of February 1998.

Alan J. Cohen, Mayor


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