Cuomo Seeks Health Benefits for Gay Workers’ Partners
New York would become the second state to provide health benefits to the partners of homosexual state workers under a plan announced by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
Cuomo made the announcement Tuesday at a reception commemorating the 1969 Stonewall riots at a New York City gay bar, considered the beginning of the gay rights movement.
State officials said they did not know how many people would be eligible or how much the plan would cost. Details must be negotiated with unions representing 162,000 state workers.
New York would become the second state, after Vermont, to offer homosexual partners the same benefits as spouses of state workers, said Dick Dadey of the Empire State Pride Agenda, a statewide gay lobby.
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