Richard Adams is 92 and not dead.
Posted on 12/25/2012 5:39:26 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Richard Adams, an early figure in the push for gay marriage decades before it reached the center of the national consciousness, has died at the age of 65.
After a brief illness, Adams died in the Hollywood home he shared with Tony Sullivan, his partner of 43 years, attorney Lavi Soloway told The AP.
Adams and Sullivan met at an L.A. gay bar called The Closet in 1971, but their life and relationship would soon be on display for a global audience.
They were granted a marriage license in 1975, but for years fought in vain to see it recognized as the idea of two married men was still strange and foreign.
They were subjected to anti-gay slurs even from government agencies.
"They felt that the most important thing was their love for each other, and in that respect they won," Soloway said. "No government or law was ever able to keep them apart."
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I went to a supposed “gay wedding” in Allentown PA in 1971.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the so-called “celebrants” killed each other shortly thereafter.
And no “gay marriage” ever conceived a child.
That was what his life was all about???? Nice waste a-hole!
Richard Adams is 92 and not dead.
They stopped giving the true cause once they went full steam in mainstreaming homosexuality.
The days of the constant warnings of the AIDS epidemic went away once they received the federal funding for research and such that they were petitioning for.
My guess is he choked to death.
Not sure what you’re driving at.
At the time I posted reply #11, this post had no link associated with it.
Has it ever reached “the center of the national consciousness”??
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/12/richard-adams-dies-gay-marriage-pioneer-was-65/
Folks, I swear I put a link in the post...maybe because I was posting w/a mobile device it didn’t take?
Prayers for a misguided soul.
I’m sure he died with a well-packed stool.
That’s okay. Apparently the mod fixed it.
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