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Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples Founded 1986. Online 1995-2022 Life partners Steve Bryant and Demian originally founded Partners as a monthly newsletter in 1986. By late 1990, it was reformatted into a bi-monthly magazine. In 1995, the print publication was foregone for publishing Partners as a Web site. In 1988, Steve and Demian released their Partners National Survey of Lesbian & Gay Couples. the first major U.S. survey on same-sex couples in a decade. In 1996, Demian directed “The Right to Marry”, a video documentary based on the dire need for equality that was made clear by our survey’s data. 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 of Partners since 2013. He stopped updating most of Partners articles in 2022, in order to finish his “Operating Manual for Same-Sex Couples: Navigating the rules, rites & rights”, which is now available on Amazon. The Manual is based on the Partners Survey, his scores of couples interviews, 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.
He is now working on “Photo Stories by Demian”; book(s), based on his more than six decades as a photographer and author. Back to the Partners Table of Contents. |
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