Article: Gay Couples Prepare for Civil Unions

ROSS SNEYD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-30-2000
Gay Couples Prepare for Civil Unions

HARTLAND FOUR CORNERS, Vt. (AP) -- Pierre Fournier has been in a committed relationship for the last 12 years, but marriage plans have always been on hold because his partner is another man.

That's all about to change.

Late Saturday afternoon, Fournier and Richard Waddell will stand before 45 friends and neighbors in the lush gardens behind their house and recite vows of commitment they wrote together.

With that simple ceremony, they will be among the first same-sex couples in the country whose relationship receives the official sanction of a state government under Vermont's landmark civil unions ...

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