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Richard Adams Dies; Gay Marriage Pioneer Was 65
The Hollywood Gossip ^ | 12/24/12 | Free Britney

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; obituary; sodomy; vanity
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


21 posted on 12/25/2012 7:57:04 AM PST by onedoug
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To: windsorknot

And no “gay marriage” ever conceived a child.


22 posted on 12/25/2012 7:58:21 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: SoFloFreeper

That was what his life was all about???? Nice waste a-hole!


23 posted on 12/25/2012 8:00:44 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Richard Adams dead?

Richard Adams is 92 and not dead.

24 posted on 12/25/2012 8:01:21 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - Rene "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: upchuck
A learned, thoughtful observation.. or experience?
:-)
25 posted on 12/25/2012 8:02:29 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUSt. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dems care!)
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To: kenmcg
Of oourse they don’t give the cause of death.

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.

26 posted on 12/25/2012 8:12:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: SoFloFreeper

My guess is he choked to death.


27 posted on 12/25/2012 8:13:14 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: JSteff

Not sure what you’re driving at.

At the time I posted reply #11, this post had no link associated with it.


28 posted on 12/25/2012 9:28:07 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Has it ever reached “the center of the national consciousness”??


29 posted on 12/25/2012 9:29:19 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: upchuck

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?


30 posted on 12/25/2012 10:50:08 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Prayers for a misguided soul.


31 posted on 12/25/2012 10:54:44 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m sure he died with a well-packed stool.


32 posted on 12/25/2012 10:57:29 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s okay. Apparently the mod fixed it.


33 posted on 12/25/2012 11:32:28 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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