A document from the Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby of Texas announcing the Vermont Supreme Court ruling on gay and lesbian couples to have equal benefits as heterosexual couples living in Vermont. However, same-sex couples still do not have right to marry and may still face discrimination.
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A document from the Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby of Texas announcing the Vermont Supreme Court ruling on gay and lesbian couples to have equal benefits as heterosexual couples living in Vermont. However, same-sex couples still do not have right to marry and may still face discrimination.
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Dennis Vercher Collection (The Dallas Way) (AR0789), University of North Texas Special Collections
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LGBT Collections
Publications pertaining to issues relevant to the LGBT community. The collection includes The Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper for the gay community in North Texas that has been published since 1984.
Named for journalist and activist Dennis Vercher. These materials, which include correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial documentation and press releases, relate to LGBT activism, legislation and HIV/AIDS.
[Press Release: Vermont Supreme rules same-sex couples entitled to same benefits afforded to married couples],
text,
December 19, 1999;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc948365/:
accessed May 21, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.