Gerry Studds among first gays to wed By KAREN ESCHBACHER The Patriot LedgerThe first openly gay member of Congress, former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, quietly married his long-time partner one week after same-sex marriages became legal. Studds and Dean Hara, who have been together since 1991, applied for a marriage license on May 18 and were married in Boston on May 24. The Rev. Thomas Green, a minister in the United Church of Christ, officiated at the ceremony in his apartment on Beacon Hill., across from the Boston Common. Although Studds wears a wedding ring, until now the marriage has...