Domestic Partnerships and Same Sex Marriages

Carnegie Mellon University Information

  • Carnegie Mellon's Family Leave Policy for faculty.
  • A proposal submitted to Carnegie Mellon University that has yet to be acted upon by the administration.

    • What is a family?

  • A federal lawsuit against AT&T causes the New York Times to ask What is a family?
  • A March, 1992 Newsweek article examines how new definitions of couple and their impact on benefit plans.
  • A New York Times article on how couples have used domestic partner status in New York City.
  • Excerpts from an article in The Scientist that discusses attempts to get domestic partner benefits.

    • Domestic Partner Policies

  • University of Iowa cost projections for offering health benefits to domestic partners.
  • City University of New York study on domestic partnerships
  • Companies, municipalities and states which offer domestic partner benefits
  • Recognition of Domestic Partnerships by Governmental Entities and Private Employers. by Lewis Becker
  • The University of Pennsylvania agreed to extend benefits to domestic partners in December of 1993. Here is a their policy, a statement from the university and their trustees, data about the proposed costs.
  • A proposal submitted to Carnegie Mellon University that has yet to be acted upon by the administration.

    • Same sex marriages

  • Western Pennsylania Freedom to Marry Coalition homepage and Philadelphia Freedom to Marry Coalition homepage
  • Hawaiian same-sex marriage precedent
  • Press releases related to the Hawaii case, including profiles of the plaintiffs.
  • Baehr v. Lewin: Will Equal Protection Lead to the End of Prohibitions on Same-Sex Marriages?
  • A (Personal) Essay on Same-Sex Marriage by Barbara J. Cox
  • A New York Times article that discusses the effort of some states to prevent same-sex marriages even before Hawaii legalizes them. This is not new. In 1993, an Ohio Legislator proposed a law to stop Ohio State University from housing domestic partners in married-student housing.

    • Adoption

  • Newsclipping of a vermont adoption case where the court ruled that same-sex couples, as a class, could not be denied the right to adopt.

    • Other legal information

  • Tumeo v Univ. of Alaska uses an Alaskan law that prohibits discrimination based upon marital status to argue for domestic partner benefits
  • The Vermont Labor Relations Board ruling extending domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples based upon Vermont's antidiscrimination law.
  • Arbitration ruling forcing Canadian Broadcast Corporation to give domestic partner benefits.

    • Other interesting domestic partner information

  • The Queer Resources Directory homepage
  • Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples WWW site
  • Sharon Silverstein's Gay Workplace Issues page
  • The Frequently Asked Questions list from the domestic partners mailing list.
  • Rod Swift's Same-Sex Marriage Page
  • Freedom To Marry homepage
  • Western Pennsylania Freedom to Marry Coalition homepage

    • Since I don't get around to adding stuff as often as I need to, here is a directory of new information of information that I have been accumulating.

    corwin+@cmu.edu
    last update 3/11/97