Massachusetts

May 17 and beyond:  Media coverage of legal same sex marriage

All of the links below are for external news organizations and relate to the wedding of the Unitarian Universalist plaintiffs in the Goodridge vs. Massachusetts Dept. of Health case; some of these links may require a username/password and others may archive stories after a period of time.

NATIONAL COVERAGE

• 5/24/04 - Boston Magazine (May, 2004 issue): "Just About Married" by John Wolfson
  
• 5/23/04 - The New York Times (Wedding Announcement): "Hillary Goodridge, Julie Goodridge"
• 5/20/04 - Bay Windows: "Four Who Fought for Marriage" by Ethan Jacobs and Laura Kiritsy
• 5/19/04 - Blackstone Valley Tribune: "Partners for life" by Jennifer Kearns and front page photo by Brennan Cipro
• 5/18/04 - CBSnews.com: "Same-Sex Couples Rush To The Altar"
• 5/18/04 - The Washington Post: "Gay Couples Marry in Massachusetts " by Alan Cooperman and Jonathan Finer
• 5/18/04 - The Associated Press (in The New York Times): "Gay Couples Celebrate Marriages in Mass."
• 5/18/04 - The New York Times: "Same-Sex Couples Wed Across Massachusetts" by Pam Belluck
• 5/18/04 - San Francisco Chronicle: "Gay wedding day in Massachusetts: Laughter, tears at rites for couples who sued to be able to marry" by Carolyn Lochhead
• 5/18/04 - Boston Herald: "Married Goodridges seal case with kiss" by Thomas Caywood
• 5/18/04 - The Associated Press (in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune): "7 pioneering couples take vows" by Jennifer Peter
• 5/18/04 - Kansas City Star: "Gay weddings begin in Massachusetts" by Miriam Hill (Knight-Ridder syndicate)
• 5/18/04 - San Jose Mercury News: "Historic Day For Gays" by Elizabeth Mehren (Los Angeles Times)
• 5/18/04 - The Associated Press (in the Chicago Sun-Times): "Gay marriage foes vow counterattack" by David Crary
• 5/18/04 - Newsweek (on msnbc.com): "I Do!" by Ron DePasquale
• 5/18/04 - Boston Herald: "Saying `I do' in style: Fashion is in attendance at Bay State's first legal gay, lesbian weddings" by Lauren Beckham Falcone and Raakhee P. Mirchandani
• 5/18/04 - National Public Radio: "Dozens of Same-Sex Couples Marry in Massachusetts" by Tovia Smith (Audio file)
• 5/18/04 - Newsday: "Second Time is a Charm" by Hugo Kugiya
• 5/18/04 - Boston Herald: "Mass. gay couples wedded to history" by Thomas Caywood
• 5/18/04 - Washington Post: "Altared State" by Philip Kennicott
• 5/1/8/04 - Los Angeles Times: "Gay Couples Tie the Knot in Massachusetts" by Elizabeth Mehren
• 5/18/04 - New York Post: "The Gay State" by Gersh Kuntzman
• 5/18/04 - Cape Cod Times: " 'Perfect day' for Orleans couple" by Jason Kolnos
• 5/18/04 - Boston Globe: "From this day, paired for life" by Michael S. Rosenwald
  
• 5/17/04 - CBSnews.com: "Mass. Crosses Historic Threshold"
  
• 5/17/04 - cnn.com: "Same-sex couples exchange vows in Massachusetts"
• 5/17/04 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Same-Sex Couples Marry in Massachusetts" by Theo Emery, The Associated Press
• 5/17/04 - Reuters: "Gay Vows of 'I Do' Sound Across Massachusetts" by Svea Herbst-Bayliss
• 5/17/04 - USA Today: "Nation's first same-sex marriages fuel debate" by Charisse Jones and Fred Bayles
• 5/17/04 - Boston Globe.com: "First Day of Gay Marriage" (slide show)
• 5/16/04 - 365gay.com: "Seven Gay Couples Who Changed The Face Of America"
  

INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

• 5/26/04 - Green Left Weekly (Australia): "Gay marriage legalised in Massachusetts" by Gina Sartori, Conor Morey-Barrett and Elizabeth Schulte
  
• 5/19/04 - Melbourne (Australia) Herald-Sun: "Nice day for a gay wedding" by Anna Cock
• 5/19/04 - The Australian: "Conservative US cringes as here come the brides" by Rodney Dalton
• 5/18/04 - China Daily: "Same-sex couples marry in Massachusetts"
• 5/18/04 - Channel News Asia (Singapore): "Landmark gay marriages held in Massachusetts"
  
• 5/18/04 - The Associated Press (in the Toronto Globe and Mail): "Massachusetts marriages make U.S. history " by Shawn McCarthy
• 5/18/04 - The Guardian (UK): "Same-Sex Couples Marry in Massachusetts" by David Crary, The Associated Press
• 5/18/04 - Toronto Star: "Making history with a vow" by David Crary, The Associated Press
• 5/18/04 - BBC News: "Gay marriages meet frosty silence" by Matt Frei
• 5/18/04 - The Calcutta Telegraph (India): "First American gay couple marries in Massachusetts" by Reuters
• 5/18/04 - China View: "Gays Vow 'I Do' Across Mass."
  
  

UU-related media coverage of Freedom to Marry in Massachusetts not directly related to the weddings of the plaintiff couples in Goodridge vs. Dept. of Public Health:

• 5/20/04 - Marblehead (MA) Reporter: "Before the weddings, a reception" by Kris Olson
• 5/19/04 - Lynn (MA) Daily Item: "Unitarian Universalists applaud the legality of same-sex marriages" by Phoebe Sweet

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