Long Island village registers first queer couple
There was no walk down the aisle, no elaborate ceremony and no wedding vows. The two men, wearing matching blue jackets and white roses over their hearts, just signed a Village of North Hills logbook in Long Island, New York. But the simple act of putting their names on a notarized affidavit, to so appear in the village's new domestic partners registry, symbolically bound John Hirsch and Herbert Leiman together. For the men, who have been together 36 years, it was another step beyond a private partnership contract entered in 1988 before their rabbi in Great Neck, and a Vermont in 2000. "OK, your registration number is zero, zero, one. ... It's a great honor for me to be the person to register you," said Mayor Marvin Natiss. Newsday
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