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Deb Tevyaw, Pat Baker Never Got to Enjoy Equality

Deb Tevyaw, Pat Baker Never Got to Enjoy Equality

By Bob Plain on May 14, 2012

Deb Tevyaw and Pat Baker would have benefited greatly from Gov. Chafee’s executive order recognizing same sex marriages from other states. The two women married in Massachusetts in 2005 and resided in Rhode Island. But after impassioned efforts on behalf of marriage equality last session, they didn’t get to testify together this year, or watch [...]

Posted in Civil Rights / Liberties, Featured, LGBT, Rhode Island | Tagged Deb Tevyaw, gay marriage, Marriage Equality, pat baker, teresa paiva weed | Leave a response

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