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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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Civil Ceremony from Denmark
© 1998, Partners Task Force


In Denmark, as in Greenland, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, citizens are able to obtain “Registered Partnerships.” They offer a separate, but not equal, approach to gaining many of the benefits triggered by legal marriage.
Text recited when a couple signs up for a “Registered Partnership.”

As you have made an application to the Copenhagen city hall in order to get your partnership lawfully registered, your wish will now be fulfilled.

With this registration you will — with few exceptions — obtain the same social security as married people in Danish society.

Before performing the registration, the municipality wishes to remind you of the meaning and importance of the promise you are giving each other.

Registered partnership implies in general a pledge to live together in mutual affection, helpfulness and tolerance.

In recognition of this, the municipality expresses the wish that throughout your partnership, with all its changes, you will preserve the good intentions, to live together in a harmonious and meaningful fellowship.

I ask you [Name1], do you take [Name2] to be your lawful partner?

Likewise, I ask you [Name2], do you take [Name1] to be your lawful registered partner?

After you now solemnly declared your desire to enter into registered partnership with each other, I hereby ask you to sign.



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