- NYC Domestic Partnership Certificate #168,
March 4, 1993
NYC is one of the few cities that has formal
DP registration; essentially it means that Jeff and I can visit
one another in hospital, heaven forbid, and we would
have inheritance rights to a rent-controlled apartment if only
one of us had one...
-
"Wedding Certificate," April 24, 1993
This was from the 'mass wedding' at
the MOW, in front of the IRS, along with a thousand other choked-up
same-sex couples. Just like those Moony marriages, but with
more designer clothes. Strange scene.... half-crackpot, half-brazen
and half-deeply-moving. (Yeah, that's 150%, I know, but it was
kinda like that.) The mythical Reverend Troy Perry did honors
(could that be his real name?); altogether a stirring ceremony,
and more political than religious, thank God. Jeff's sister
Lisa 'gave him away' [to me!], witnessed the event, shed tears,
photographed, and was our gracious surrogate extended family.
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