the first of many

Our college newspaper, The Ithacan, has printed a story about gay marriage, and Corey and I are featured prominently. I'll post the first couple paragraphs here:

Created Equal?
Same-sex couples fight for the rights that come with being legally wed
By Stacey Coburn - Accent Editor

March 18, 2004

When Corey Rothermel ’96 walked into his 8 a.m. poetry class in the fall of 1993, he knew the moment he saw Douglas Nesff ’96 that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with him.

It was almost a year until the two began dating, but they have been together ever since.

On March 10, they traveled six miles from their Oakland, Ca., home and got hitchednearly 24 hours before the San Francisco Supreme Court ordered a cessation of the gay marriages that the city’s clerk had been performing since Valentine’s Day.

The couple had been discussing having a big marriage ceremony with friends and family there — perhaps even at Ithaca College’s own Muller Chapel — for some time, and did not initially plan to participate the marriages in San Francisco. But as media fervor increased, the two decided to be a part of history.

Click here for the rest of the article

or here to download the pdf (so you can print it out and hang it on your fridge).

There are more articles on the way, and I will keep posting them. More stories, too, but not tonight. Board meeting at church, so I was out until after 10pm. Bedtime for me!

Posted: Fri - March 19, 2004 at 12:11 AM

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