Stairs: ?????, Harry Greener
Back Row: Guy Gordon, Megan Saunders, ?????, Eileen Greener, Dave Riley, ?????, Steve Lawrence, Ray Mannino, ?????, Scott Wolan, ?????, Eddie Dorfman
Middle Row: ?????, Terry ?????, Shelly Greenberg, Chris Huebner, Tom Cleeves, Jim Dunlap
Kneeling: ?????, Terry Pochert, Rosa Ybarra, Wanda Doerner, ?????,?????, Lynn, Chris Dunlap, ?????
Can you help name some of those we missed? Please leave your comments at the bottom of this page.
Celebrating at the City of Phoenix’s Clerks Office.
We were fortunate to meet George Takei and his partner Brad Altman at the HRC dinner this past March, 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona. A handshake, a hug and a word of encouragement from George and Brad helped make our same sex marriage fight here in Arizona, just a bit easier. But our struggle pales in comparison to the personal story of Mr. Takei during World War II. Take sixteen minutes of your time to learn about his struggle and how he now fights for equal rights throughout this great land we call home, a land we call America.
As a child, George Takei, his siblings and parents, all United States citizens, were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during World War II. Seventy years later, Takei looks back at how the experience shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.
Our brief encounter with George with his husband, Brad:
WXYZ: Celebrating the coming of the new near just before midnight on December 31, 1981, after the 11pm news. Yes, those are real typewriters in the foreground.
Back Row: John Armand, Steve Kremer, Wanda Doerner, Barbara Horner, Dayna Eubanks, John Gross, Diane Charles
Kneeling: Terry Pochert, Rick Eyler
Photo from Terry Pochert collection
[Story originally appeared August 4, 2014]
Jason Barry from CBS 5 in Phoenix, Arizona, writes, “A major ruling on same-sex marriage in Arizona is expected any day now.
A lawsuit challenging the state’s gay marriage ban is making its way through federal court.
Terry Pochert and Joe Connolly, of Maricopa, are one of seven couples leading the charge to give same-sex couples the right to marry in Arizona.
“To me, it’s very simple,” said Pochert. “Two people love each other, and are committed to each other for a lifelong relationship. We just want the same rights that any other couple in a long term relationship would have.”
In 2008, Arizona voters amended the state constitution to include the definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman.
Other states did the same. …”[1]
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