1st Licenses Issued for Same-Sex Civil Unions
After receiving their civil union license, Lidia Agramonte and Maria Gomez had all the same rights as a married couple in Connecticut. But they couldn’t find words to describe their union.
“The hardest thing is, what do you call yourself, civilized?” said Agramonte, 47, a social worker from New Britain. “There are no words for it yet.”
The women were the first in line at Hartford City Hall as a new law allowing same-sex civil unions took effect. City halls in Hartford, Stamford, New Haven and half a dozen small towns held special weekend hours to issue certificates to couples who said they waited for years to be legally recognized.
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