OR: Activists Gather to Support Domestic Partnership Law
By Jason Reed | Daily Emerald
Many gay and lesbian rights activists mark July 4, 1965, as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement.
In front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia that Fourth of July, the first demonstration for gay and lesbian rights was held by activists carrying some of the first signs painted with rainbows and advocating equal rights.
Forty-three years later and some 2,800 miles to the west, activists will be gathering again, this time in Portland, to show their support for gay and lesbian rights Tuesday.
Domestic partnerships were legalized in Oregon by the state legislature in 2007, then quickly taken away in January, only to be reinstated a month later.
The legal rights granted by the legislature could be revoked again this fall.
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