Wis. same-sex couples sign up as domestic partners
(Madison, Wis.) Same-sex couples in Wisconsin have started signing up for the state’s new domestic partnership registry.
Monday was their first chance to sign up and obtain dozens of the same legal protections as spouses.
Fifty-six-year-old Janice Czyscon (SIZE’-kon) and her partner of 29 years, 57-year-old Crystal Hyslop, arrived at the Dane …
Tags: Domestic Partners, Domestic Partnership, Dozens, First Chance, Janice, Legal Protections, Madison Wis, Madison Wisconsin, Same Sex Couples, Sex PartnersSanjaya Malakar: I’m Not Gay
American Idol alum Sanjaya Malakar says despite what people may say, he isn’t gay.
“Like, yeah, a lot of people want me to be their gay best friend, and I make a really good gay best friend. But I don’t like guys, so it confuses people,” Sanjaya said on Tuesday’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Sanjaya’s sexuality came up after jungle-mate Janice Dickinson asked him to put guy-liner on, and he obliged.
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Miami hospital kept woman from dying partner’s bedside
The gay marriage debate has earned a lot of headlines in the last year, but here’s a story in our own backyard that shows the kind of struggles people face when they have no legal claim to their partner.
The New York Times reports Janice Langbehn of Washington was unable to be by the bedside of her dying partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond. During a Florida vacation, Pond collapsed with an aneurysm and was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital trauma center, where doctors refused to let Langbehn visit her. Pond died without seeing Langbehn or the couple’s three adopted children.
Gay rights groups, who say same-sex partners often are barred from hospital rooms because they aren’t “real family,” are watching the federal lawsuit in Florida, according to the New York Times.
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Appeals court: No parental rights for lesbian mom
(New York City) A New York State appeals court has ruled that the former partner of a New York City woman has no legal parental rights to a child she helped rear.
The case involved two women, Debra H. and Janice R., who had a civil union in Vermont and then …
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