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    EDITOR’S LETTER

    Mar 12, 2019 3 minutes
    DIANE ANDERSON-MINSHALL

    I’VE BEEN MARRIED 28 YEARS to the same person, though half that time he identified as a lesbian and for the last 14 years as a transgender man. Because we started “marrying” long before marriage equality was legal, we’ve now had five wedding ceremonies—each one a move forward in our legal protections.

    In 1985, West Hollywood become the first city in the nation to create legal status by passing a deputy editor) Jacob and I wore matching white dresses, were interviewed on national news, and our colleagues at magazine threw us a queer wedding shower I’ll always remember.

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