Newspapers take notice of gay marriage announcements.Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - When Zandra Rolon and Lori Rogers seized the opportunity for gay couples to marry in San Francisco and exchanged vows last week, they didn't just tell their friends about it. They put it in the local paper. ``People don't have much exposure to same-sex marriages, and I think we should have an equal right not only to publicly celebrate, but also to publicly announce,'' said Rolon, a chiropractor chiropractor a practitioner in chiropractic. chiropractor A health professional trained in chiropractic; chiropractors do not perform surgery or prescribe drugs; of 50,000 licensed chiropractors in the US, many practice 'straight' chiropractic, ie from Watsonville. Newspapers in this city and beyond are grappling with how to deal with announcements from some of the more than 3,300 same-sex weddings that have been held in the past two weeks. In the past few years, an increasing number of newspapers around the country have been running announcements of gay commitment ceremonies and civil unions. But the San Francisco weddings led some newspapers to rethink things. At the Santa Cruz Sentinel The Santa Cruz Sentinel is a daily newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, covering Santa Cruz County, California, and owned by MediaNews Group Inc. Aside from its main office in Santa Cruz, the Sentinel , which has been publishing same-sex unions for about 15 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time burst of weddings in San Francisco prompted a change: ``Now these go under `weddings' instead of `celebrations,' '' editor Tom Honig said. Gay marriages - including Rolon and Rogers' - made up half of all the marriage announcements in Sunday's paper, Honig said. He said there has been little response to the announcements in the liberal Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern community, though one reader did accuse the paper of moving the gay marriages above the straight ones. But Honig said: ``There just aren't that many weddings going on this month. We put them all in, in no particular order.'' At The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, however, editors placed a story about gay marriage at the top of its weddings and celebrations Sunday section, and included an announcement by two Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. doctors - surgeon Helen Cooksey and breast cancer researcher and author Susan Love. The newspaper has been running gay commitment ceremonies for years. The Register-Guard publishes wedding announcements for couples who hold a marriage license recognized as a legal document in Lane County. However, the newspaper is reviewing its policy. As of this month, 223 newspapers around the country either run same-sex union announcements or say they would be willing to do so if asked by a local resident. |
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