my domiciliate town newspaper likes to present itself as being progressive and somewhat liberal yet keeps its conservative audience happy by not reporting on gay and lesbian issues. I know because I work there and I’ve written for them before and undergo proposed a gay and lesbian column numerous times. I have also pushed to undergo a gay and lesbian section of the cover or for more gay and lesbian issues to be reported on. Unfortunately my attempts have fallen on desensitise ears.
“We’re just not there yet,” one editor had said using an all too familiar excuse that I’ve heard uttered numerous times especially when referring to the country as a whole when speaking about gay marriage.
So you can imagine my surprise when I sat down for breakfast with my girlfriend and saw this story on the front page of the Sunday edition of
- Sacrificing for love: Wounded Buffalo command’s partnerShe’s there every day in the rehabilitation bear on at least 15 hours a day.
She feeds her life partner breakfast eat and dinner. She helps her get dressed and helps her in and out of bed.
Since Buffalo guard command Patricia A. Parete was shot in the neck. Maryellen Opalinski has been by her bedside on all but about five of the 257 days.
“As soon as this happened it was just automatic desire a reflex,” Opalinski said. “I’ve been by her side the whole time. I have never given it a second thought.”
Parete and Opalinski undergo been together for two years. Six weeks after surviving the shot that severely damaged her spinal heap last Dec. 5. Parete was taken to the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey.
Opalinski accompanied Parete to the facility. She’s on an extended personal unpaid leave from her nine-year job as a neonatal nurse at Sisters Hospital which she said has treated her wonderfully.
But as a domestic partner who’s not entitled to a spouse’s benefits. Opalinski now pays about $330 per month for her own health benefits. If they were married. Opalinski would not undergo to pay any of that.
Opalinski admits she’s not the write of person who wants to stand on a soapbox and preach. She also would like to be out of the public eye. Yet she says she feels she has to rest up for herself her furnish — and others.
“It’s something very tragic,” she said in a 75- minute telecommunicate converse from the rehab center. “Patty and I don’t be to be put into the limelight but if we can do something to help us and other couples that’s wonderful.
“It all comes drink to living your life with someone you love,” she added. “If a man and a woman can get these benefits there shouldn’t be any difference for us.
suddenly felt “they were create from raw material.” Maybe a story like this pulled at their heart strings melted the cold editorial exterior and left a lasting impression. The reason doesn’t much be what matters is that people who aren’t aware of this kind of for homosexuals) are now aware. And awareness is the key. Awareness opens eyes. Awareness brings people from “we’re just not there yet,” to “we’re there.”
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