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Maine
ruling benefits same-sex parents - Gay.com (Nov 5, 2003) Same-Sex
Parenting Gets a Nod in Maine - Gay Financial Network (Nov 5,
2003) Maine
Upholds Co-Parenting for Gay Couples - 365Gay.com (Nov 4, 2003)
Anti-Gay
Ballot Initiative Fails in Maine - PlanetOut - January 2002 Gay
Rights at Stake, State by State - San Jose Mercury News - August 2001 Maine
Poll: Majority Back DPBs - GFN.com - April 2001 Maine
State Employees Get DPBs - GFN.com - March 2001 Pro-gay
initiative defeated in Maine - Advocate - November 2000 Gay-Related
Measures on State Ballots - MSNBC - AP - October 2000 Four
States to Grapple With Gay Measures on Election Day - Gay Financial
Network - October 2000 Gay
Rights Debated - Bangor Daily News - October 2000 Maine
Set to Pass Homosexual Rights Provision - CNS News - October 2000 Maine Question 6 FAILS (November 2000)- Do you favor ratifying the action of the 119th Legislature whereby it passed an act extending to all citizens regardless of their sexual orientation the same basic rights to protection against discrimination now guaranteed to citizens on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodation and credit and where the act expressly states that nothing in the act confers legislative approval of, or special rights to, any person or group of persons? Election Results for Question 6 - Bangor Daily News Secretary of State's Voter Guide
Madeleine and Naomi Winterfalcon, in front of the East Haven Municipal Office in Vermont, where they received their civil union certificate. Congratulations to Madeleine
Winterfalcon Madeleine Winterfalcon and Naomi Winterfalcon of Standish, Maine were united in East Haven, Vermont on August 17, 2000. Rev. Brendan Hadash, who is a minister with the Unitarian Universalist Church in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, officiated the civil union ceremony. Madeleine commented, "We had no idea how great having this ritual would make us feel." She said, "Even though it is not recognized in Maine (we live in Standish), we have received recognition (and gifts!) from our friends and family. Thank you, Vermont!" Editorial Note: Naomi Winterfalcon wrote a moving letter to the Times Argus newspaper in Vermont. You can read it here.
Martin Swinger and Brian Kaufman at the municipal office in Brattleboro, Vermont. Congratulations to Martin
Swinger While enjoying a leisurely drive back to their home in Augusta, Maine, nationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Martin Swinger (Scrapbook, BearNaked) 'eloped' with his partner of 15 years, Brian Kaufman (a musician and psychology professor at the University of Maine at Farmington). They wrote, "Meandering back to Maine after a concert tour in Pennsylvania and New York, we passed a house whose owner had painted "My government is gay but I'm not!" and decided at that moment to see if we could 'become union members." The first town office we came to in Wilmington had already closed for the afternoon, but the clerks kindly explained the process to us and suggested we might find the town office still open in Brattleboro. Driving madly but safely, we reached Brattleboro in time to complete the paperwork and arrange for Justice of the Peace John Burgess to perform the ceremony in his backyard as soon as he returned from his cardiac fitness class. We enjoyed a honeymoon dinner at China Palace in Keene, NH and then returned to Zipper, our puppy waiting for us back in Maine."
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