Date Posted: 05-25-12
May 21 st 2012
"Robin Gibb, one of the remaining Gibb Brothers who formed the world acclaimed band the "Bee Gees" died of cancer
today aged 62 years. Alongside his twin brother who died in 2003, aged 53 years old from complications with a twisted
intestine, and surviving eldest brother Barry, aged 65 years old, the band provided decades of chart hits and brought
disco music into vogue with songs like "Night Fever", "Stayin' Alive" and "Jive Talkin'" which all featured in the film
phenomenon "Saturday Night Fever". Robin, a talented song writer, wrote among Bee Gees hits the classic "How
Deep is Your Love" and again a song from the movie that made John Travolta a household name! Younger brother
Andy Gibb who performed as a solo artist died in 1988 from heart failure aged just 30 years old.
As singer-songwriters the Bee Gee song book is one filled with musical gems such as "Massachusetts" "How Can You
Mend a Broken Heart" and in all the band selling in excess of 200 million albums and singles. Their songwriting skills
for others including "Heartbreaker" and "All the Love in the World" for Dionne Warwick, "Woman in love" for Barbra
Streisand, "Chain Reaction" for Diana Ross, "Islands in the Stream" for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, "If I can't
have you" for Yvonne Elliman, "Come on over" for Olivia Newton-John and "Immortality" for Celine Dion "
"Another tragedy in the musical world in the untimely passing of the very talented Robin Gibb who together with his
brothers brought music to life in the 1970's and 1980's in an amazing way! His memory will never be forgotten through
the musical smash hits of the band he and brothers Maurice and Barry created the irreplaceable Bee Gees and their in
inimitable unique musical sound! As well as his memory living on in the songs written for other musical artists!
My thoughts are with Robin's family and friends at this very sad time in musical history"
With love from,
Diana xx
Date Posted: 06-01-12
Happy Birthday Marilyn / Norma - Jeane ..
17 / 6 / 2012
Rodney King has died 21 years after that fateful night that his beating by four white Los Angeles Police
officers was captured in shocking detail on videotape making him such an enduring figure, name, and most
importantly, a symbol. It was not simply that King was the center of recent press attention with the
commemorations of the twentieth anniversary of the L.A. riots and author of a modestly successful book,
"The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption". King was the near classic protean tragic figure
of interest and curiosity precisely because there was so much tragedy, followed by triumph, and in the end,
the travesty of the way his life ended. Rodney King was believed to have been smoking weed prior to being
found drowned in his own swimming pool this morning, aged 47 years old
The tragedy was the beating. Those few brutal, savage, and violent moments, catapulted King, a marginally
employed, poorly educated, ex-con, into a virtual global household name. It cast the spotlight on one of the
nation deepest sore spots, police abuse, brutality and misconduct against African Americans, minorities
and the poor. It turned the LAPD into the national poster symbol of a lawless, out of control, big city racist
police force. King was the most unlikely of unlikely figures to spotlight this deep national sore, to launch a
painful national soul search, and in the coming months, become the trigger for the most destructive urban riot
in modern U.S. history. King, of course, was only the centerpiece for the colossal tragedy that engulfed a city
and nation.
The warning signs that L.A. was a powder keg were there long before the Simi Valley jury with no blacks
acquitted the four LAPD cops that beat King. There was the crushingly high poverty rate in South L.A., a
spiraling crime and drug epidemic, neighborhoods that were among the most racially balkanized in the
nation.
The triumph was that King lived long enough to see the issue of police misconduct especially that of the
LAPD, become the focus of intense discussion, debate, and ultimately reform measures that transformed
some police agencies into better models of control, accountability, the reduction of use of force violence,
and more emphasis on community partnership. The recent spate of police shootings of young unarmed
black and Hispanic males in some cities under dubious circumstances shows that the job of full police
reform is still very much a work and progress, and there is wide room for backsliding. The irony here is that
the very day that King died thousands took to the streets in New York City in a silent march sponsored by the
NAACP to protest the stop and frisk tactics of the New York Police Department that allegedly targets mostly
black and Latinos for unwarranted stops and searches.
The fact remains, that the King beating and the subsequent riots permanently raised awareness that police
abuse is a cancer that must be excised. There was personal triumph for King as well. His magnanimous
statement "People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?" at a press conference the
third day of the riots to help staunch the violence, his utter lack of any expression of public bitterness toward
the LAPD and with the exception of a few minor scrapes with the law, his relatively low profile, softened
some of the anger and vilification, some of it borderline racist, that King got from a wide swatch of the public
At the time of his death Rodney King had attained a partial rehabilitation in terms of his bad guy image, his
name was eternally synonymous with a pantheon of transformative figures at the center of the many
monumental events in the history of the U.S.A.. This the triumph and tragedy of Rodney King.
"I personally commend Mr. King for bringing to light and to public attention the existing reality of
prejudice within a system which is existing to protect people and not conversely to abuse and persecute
them. Prejudice does, as it always has done, exist but examples such as this man's personal experience of
systematic abuse need to be exposed and recognised. Rather ironic that in a racial attack such as this that
in the jury, who aquitted the white defendents accused of the crime, there was no black face amongst
them!"
My condolencies to Mr. Kings girlfriend and family at this very sad time.
With love from,
Diana
Date Poted: 07-16-12
LOS ANGELES – A YouTube video by a young gay man whose partner died in a tragic fall, which painfully
illustrates the second-class citizenship of LGBT couples who cannot legally marry, has gone viral on the
Internet.
As of today, more than 640,000 people have viewed the video titled “It Could Happen To You,” resulting in
almost 15,000 likes and 260 dislikes.
Shane Bitney Crone’s heart-wrenching story is told in a 10-minute video that outlines how unmarried gay
couples are treated unfairly and unequally when one of the partners dies without an ironclad will.
Crone was madly in love with Tom Bridegroom, and they were a couple for six years before Bridegroom fell
off a roof to his death during a photo shoot in May 2011. Crone, 26, was born in Montana and moved to L.A.
to pursue a career as an actor, according to IMDb.com. Bridegroom was the host of MTV’s “The X Effect” in
2006 and 2007, and appeared as himself in 2008 in two episodes of “The Janice Dickinson Modeling
Agency.”
The couple were engaged to be married, but California’s Proposition 8 prohibits marriage equality. Although
Prop 8 was declared unconstitutional, the appeals process is currently ongoing in court.
Crone’s story puts a face on the issues, and he writes this in the preface to his video:
“It has been said that sharing personal stories is one of the most effective ways to change people's hearts
and minds. This is my story and I hope you are inspired to share it with others.”
In the video, Crone shares how Bridegroom’s family from Indiana, who were hostile toward their son after he
came out, manipulated the grieving partner, cut communications with him, threatened to harm him if he
attended the funeral, and refused to furnish information about Bridegroom’s death, autopsy and burial.
“Had Tom and I been legally married, many things would have been different. Losing a loved one is
devastating enough, but to then be rendered legally insignificant only makes the pain worse,” Crone says in
the video.
His ordeal has inspired Crone to fight back.
“I need to fight for what’s right. I need to fight for what I believe in and I can’t just stand back any more. Maybe
that’s why this all happened, maybe this is part of the reason, to open my eyes and inspire me to want to
make a change and fight for equality,” he says in the video.
“I just don’t know if people will listen. I guess no one’s going to listen if I don’t talk. So I’m talking.”
" Shane and Tom's story is one that has moved me emotionally naturally but also really makes such a
powerful statement about equality needing to being something recognised and respected. The manner in
which Shane has been treated by Tom's parents is shameful and despicable but far worse is the horror
that as the law stands they have been able to do so and he rendered powerless to stop them. It also
presents the fact prejudice is the reality today as it always has been and not something confined to the
colour of people's skin or the nation they come from.
If two people of the same sex love each other, why ought they not be able to marry? One religious
arguement is that it mocks the meaning of matrimony. As in my experience a groom marrying a bride he
doesn't love does that, doesn't it? Then there is the arguement that marriage is most ostensibly a unity
engaged upon for the procreation of children even if ultimately, as mine proved to have done, it ends in
divorce with the children sired in that marriage being the ultimate victims of its having failed! These days
many young people of the opposite sex shy away from marrriage and instead live together and sire
children in their relationship and likewise same sex partnerships adopt children and provide them with a
more healthy and happy upbringing than some opposite sex couples do.
So it is a subject that calls for a great deal of debate and I am appreciative of this but never the less for
Shane to suffer the loss of the one he loved and who loved him is painful enough for him still, made
evident by the video made by him in tribute to Tom and their years together, but to then be so
appallingly treated by the family of his loved one that surely in the eyes of God and of anyone who
attends any church ought to be, if it isn't, seen as a sin--as what gives them the right to sit in judgement?
I'll let Shane tell their story below ...
My loving condolencies to you Shane and I hope the hurt you feel from your mistreatment is something
that heals with time knowing Tom loved and loves you as he knew you loved and knows you love him and
that the loss of himm though something that will never be forgotten by youm will become more bearable,
more tolerable over time --which is as they say is a healer."
With love from,
Diana xx
An American Love Story
By Shane Bitney Crone | Huffington Post
Co-founder, Bridegroom and Bitney
Just over a year ago, my partner, Tom Bridegroom, accidentally fell off a roof while taking photographs of
our best friend. He died a few hours later. He was just 29 years old.
We had been together for nearly six years when that happened and were absolutely committed to being
together for the rest of our lives. We’d bought a home together. We’d started a business together. We’d
adopted a dog together. We dreamed of starting a family when we could, and getting married as soon as it
became legal.
But marriage is still illegal in California, and because of that, Tom’s parents — who were opposed to him
being gay and opposed to our relationship as a result — had all the legal rights, and I had none.
Despite the fact that Tom no longer considered Indiana his home and had a strained relationship with his
father and had told me that he wanted to be cremated, his parents took his body back to Indiana and buried
it in a plot between their own. Even though Tom called me the love of his life and his life partner, they wouldn’
t let me come to his funeral. In fact, a family member called to warn me that his father and uncle planned an
attack if I dared show my face. Even though I was his first love and he was mine, I was not there with him to
say goodbye as he was buried. Fearing for my life, I had to ask a mutual friend to kiss the casket for me and
to tell Tom, one last time, that I loved him.
Why am I telling you all this? Because after a year of sorrow and fear I have decided to use what happened
to me to help others who might find themselves in similar situations.
A few weeks ago I made a short video about my experience (called “It Could Happen to You”), and posted it
on YouTube. Over 2.7 million people have watched my video and nearly fifty thousand have written
messages of support.
People from all over the world have written to me to tell me of how moved they have been by our story. Many
have told me that their life-long opposition to same-sex marriage was changed after seeing the YouTube
video.
Because of this response, and hopeful that we can reach even more people, I have joined with producers
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (Designing Women and The Man From Hope) and Linda Burstyn (Emmy
award-winning writer/producer for Nightline with Ted Koppel) to turn that video into a feature-length
documentary: BRIDEGROOM, An American Love Story. We hope to get it out as soon as possible so that it
can play a meaningful role in the burgeoning debate over marriage equality.
BRIDEGROOM will be much more than a tragic love story. This film will represent every person who has ever
been ostracized and condemned for being who they are and loving whom they love.
For those out there who do not think they know someone who’s been deeply hurt by laws that prevent people
from marrying the ones they love? Well, now you do, My name is Shane Bitney Crone.
Although there are millions of people who oppose me and some who have threatened me, the time has
come for me personally to step out of my comfort zone, to accept the experiences I have had, and to try to
help people as a result. We can’t change the past, but I truly believe that when people join together to spread
the message — that love is what matters in life — we can change the future so that marriage is a reality for
all.
It’s been over a year since Tom made that one wrong step — the step that ended his life and killed a part of
my own. He was beautiful. He was kind. He was generous. He would be horrified to see what happened to
me. What I’m trying to do is make sure that step was more than fatal — perhaps it was fateful as well.
Comment to DIana from a source who wishes to remain anonymous:
"The worrying thing is marriage is becoming unfashionable among heterosexuals, while gays are getting
civil partnerships and soon the gay marriages denied us for so long.
This means all those heterosexual (and gay) couples living together but not married or in a civil
partnership have no rights whatsoever if their partner dies, unless they have made out Wills naming each
other as beneficiaries, etc..
Most people don't realize this and that, in the UK at least, 'common law' partners are not recognized in
law and have no official status or rights.
Some heterosexual couples may be protected somewhat if they have children as they will both be the
parents, so indirectly related that way. This may enable them to have visiting rights in hospitals and get
information about their partner's medical condition. However I'd advise all couples, gay or straight, to put
their relationships on a legal footing if possible to prevent complications."
May 21 st 2012
"Robin Gibb, one of the remaining Gibb Brothers who formed the world acclaimed band the "Bee Gees" died of cancer
today aged 62 years. Alongside his twin brother who died in 2003, aged 53 years old from complications with a twisted
intestine, and surviving eldest brother Barry, aged 65 years old, the band provided decades of chart hits and brought
disco music into vogue with songs like "Night Fever", "Stayin' Alive" and "Jive Talkin'" which all featured in the film
phenomenon "Saturday Night Fever". Robin, a talented song writer, wrote among Bee Gees hits the classic "How
Deep is Your Love" and again a song from the movie that made John Travolta a household name! Younger brother
Andy Gibb who performed as a solo artist died in 1988 from heart failure aged just 30 years old.
As singer-songwriters the Bee Gee song book is one filled with musical gems such as "Massachusetts" "How Can You
Mend a Broken Heart" and in all the band selling in excess of 200 million albums and singles. Their songwriting skills
for others including "Heartbreaker" and "All the Love in the World" for Dionne Warwick, "Woman in love" for Barbra
Streisand, "Chain Reaction" for Diana Ross, "Islands in the Stream" for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, "If I can't
have you" for Yvonne Elliman, "Come on over" for Olivia Newton-John and "Immortality" for Celine Dion "
"Another tragedy in the musical world in the untimely passing of the very talented Robin Gibb who together with his
brothers brought music to life in the 1970's and 1980's in an amazing way! His memory will never be forgotten through
the musical smash hits of the band he and brothers Maurice and Barry created the irreplaceable Bee Gees and their in
inimitable unique musical sound! As well as his memory living on in the songs written for other musical artists!
My thoughts are with Robin's family and friends at this very sad time in musical history"
With love from,
Diana xx
Date Posted: 06-01-12
Happy Birthday Marilyn / Norma - Jeane ..
17 / 6 / 2012
Rodney King has died 21 years after that fateful night that his beating by four white Los Angeles Police
officers was captured in shocking detail on videotape making him such an enduring figure, name, and most
importantly, a symbol. It was not simply that King was the center of recent press attention with the
commemorations of the twentieth anniversary of the L.A. riots and author of a modestly successful book,
"The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption". King was the near classic protean tragic figure
of interest and curiosity precisely because there was so much tragedy, followed by triumph, and in the end,
the travesty of the way his life ended. Rodney King was believed to have been smoking weed prior to being
found drowned in his own swimming pool this morning, aged 47 years old
The tragedy was the beating. Those few brutal, savage, and violent moments, catapulted King, a marginally
employed, poorly educated, ex-con, into a virtual global household name. It cast the spotlight on one of the
nation deepest sore spots, police abuse, brutality and misconduct against African Americans, minorities
and the poor. It turned the LAPD into the national poster symbol of a lawless, out of control, big city racist
police force. King was the most unlikely of unlikely figures to spotlight this deep national sore, to launch a
painful national soul search, and in the coming months, become the trigger for the most destructive urban riot
in modern U.S. history. King, of course, was only the centerpiece for the colossal tragedy that engulfed a city
and nation.
The warning signs that L.A. was a powder keg were there long before the Simi Valley jury with no blacks
acquitted the four LAPD cops that beat King. There was the crushingly high poverty rate in South L.A., a
spiraling crime and drug epidemic, neighborhoods that were among the most racially balkanized in the
nation.
The triumph was that King lived long enough to see the issue of police misconduct especially that of the
LAPD, become the focus of intense discussion, debate, and ultimately reform measures that transformed
some police agencies into better models of control, accountability, the reduction of use of force violence,
and more emphasis on community partnership. The recent spate of police shootings of young unarmed
black and Hispanic males in some cities under dubious circumstances shows that the job of full police
reform is still very much a work and progress, and there is wide room for backsliding. The irony here is that
the very day that King died thousands took to the streets in New York City in a silent march sponsored by the
NAACP to protest the stop and frisk tactics of the New York Police Department that allegedly targets mostly
black and Latinos for unwarranted stops and searches.
The fact remains, that the King beating and the subsequent riots permanently raised awareness that police
abuse is a cancer that must be excised. There was personal triumph for King as well. His magnanimous
statement "People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?" at a press conference the
third day of the riots to help staunch the violence, his utter lack of any expression of public bitterness toward
the LAPD and with the exception of a few minor scrapes with the law, his relatively low profile, softened
some of the anger and vilification, some of it borderline racist, that King got from a wide swatch of the public
At the time of his death Rodney King had attained a partial rehabilitation in terms of his bad guy image, his
name was eternally synonymous with a pantheon of transformative figures at the center of the many
monumental events in the history of the U.S.A.. This the triumph and tragedy of Rodney King.
"I personally commend Mr. King for bringing to light and to public attention the existing reality of
prejudice within a system which is existing to protect people and not conversely to abuse and persecute
them. Prejudice does, as it always has done, exist but examples such as this man's personal experience of
systematic abuse need to be exposed and recognised. Rather ironic that in a racial attack such as this that
in the jury, who aquitted the white defendents accused of the crime, there was no black face amongst
them!"
My condolencies to Mr. Kings girlfriend and family at this very sad time.
With love from,
Diana
Date Poted: 07-16-12
LOS ANGELES – A YouTube video by a young gay man whose partner died in a tragic fall, which painfully
illustrates the second-class citizenship of LGBT couples who cannot legally marry, has gone viral on the
Internet.
As of today, more than 640,000 people have viewed the video titled “It Could Happen To You,” resulting in
almost 15,000 likes and 260 dislikes.
Shane Bitney Crone’s heart-wrenching story is told in a 10-minute video that outlines how unmarried gay
couples are treated unfairly and unequally when one of the partners dies without an ironclad will.
Crone was madly in love with Tom Bridegroom, and they were a couple for six years before Bridegroom fell
off a roof to his death during a photo shoot in May 2011. Crone, 26, was born in Montana and moved to L.A.
to pursue a career as an actor, according to IMDb.com. Bridegroom was the host of MTV’s “The X Effect” in
2006 and 2007, and appeared as himself in 2008 in two episodes of “The Janice Dickinson Modeling
Agency.”
The couple were engaged to be married, but California’s Proposition 8 prohibits marriage equality. Although
Prop 8 was declared unconstitutional, the appeals process is currently ongoing in court.
Crone’s story puts a face on the issues, and he writes this in the preface to his video:
“It has been said that sharing personal stories is one of the most effective ways to change people's hearts
and minds. This is my story and I hope you are inspired to share it with others.”
In the video, Crone shares how Bridegroom’s family from Indiana, who were hostile toward their son after he
came out, manipulated the grieving partner, cut communications with him, threatened to harm him if he
attended the funeral, and refused to furnish information about Bridegroom’s death, autopsy and burial.
“Had Tom and I been legally married, many things would have been different. Losing a loved one is
devastating enough, but to then be rendered legally insignificant only makes the pain worse,” Crone says in
the video.
His ordeal has inspired Crone to fight back.
“I need to fight for what’s right. I need to fight for what I believe in and I can’t just stand back any more. Maybe
that’s why this all happened, maybe this is part of the reason, to open my eyes and inspire me to want to
make a change and fight for equality,” he says in the video.
“I just don’t know if people will listen. I guess no one’s going to listen if I don’t talk. So I’m talking.”
" Shane and Tom's story is one that has moved me emotionally naturally but also really makes such a
powerful statement about equality needing to being something recognised and respected. The manner in
which Shane has been treated by Tom's parents is shameful and despicable but far worse is the horror
that as the law stands they have been able to do so and he rendered powerless to stop them. It also
presents the fact prejudice is the reality today as it always has been and not something confined to the
colour of people's skin or the nation they come from.
If two people of the same sex love each other, why ought they not be able to marry? One religious
arguement is that it mocks the meaning of matrimony. As in my experience a groom marrying a bride he
doesn't love does that, doesn't it? Then there is the arguement that marriage is most ostensibly a unity
engaged upon for the procreation of children even if ultimately, as mine proved to have done, it ends in
divorce with the children sired in that marriage being the ultimate victims of its having failed! These days
many young people of the opposite sex shy away from marrriage and instead live together and sire
children in their relationship and likewise same sex partnerships adopt children and provide them with a
more healthy and happy upbringing than some opposite sex couples do.
So it is a subject that calls for a great deal of debate and I am appreciative of this but never the less for
Shane to suffer the loss of the one he loved and who loved him is painful enough for him still, made
evident by the video made by him in tribute to Tom and their years together, but to then be so
appallingly treated by the family of his loved one that surely in the eyes of God and of anyone who
attends any church ought to be, if it isn't, seen as a sin--as what gives them the right to sit in judgement?
I'll let Shane tell their story below ...
My loving condolencies to you Shane and I hope the hurt you feel from your mistreatment is something
that heals with time knowing Tom loved and loves you as he knew you loved and knows you love him and
that the loss of himm though something that will never be forgotten by youm will become more bearable,
more tolerable over time --which is as they say is a healer."
With love from,
Diana xx
An American Love Story
By Shane Bitney Crone | Huffington Post
Co-founder, Bridegroom and Bitney
Just over a year ago, my partner, Tom Bridegroom, accidentally fell off a roof while taking photographs of
our best friend. He died a few hours later. He was just 29 years old.
We had been together for nearly six years when that happened and were absolutely committed to being
together for the rest of our lives. We’d bought a home together. We’d started a business together. We’d
adopted a dog together. We dreamed of starting a family when we could, and getting married as soon as it
became legal.
But marriage is still illegal in California, and because of that, Tom’s parents — who were opposed to him
being gay and opposed to our relationship as a result — had all the legal rights, and I had none.
Despite the fact that Tom no longer considered Indiana his home and had a strained relationship with his
father and had told me that he wanted to be cremated, his parents took his body back to Indiana and buried
it in a plot between their own. Even though Tom called me the love of his life and his life partner, they wouldn’
t let me come to his funeral. In fact, a family member called to warn me that his father and uncle planned an
attack if I dared show my face. Even though I was his first love and he was mine, I was not there with him to
say goodbye as he was buried. Fearing for my life, I had to ask a mutual friend to kiss the casket for me and
to tell Tom, one last time, that I loved him.
Why am I telling you all this? Because after a year of sorrow and fear I have decided to use what happened
to me to help others who might find themselves in similar situations.
A few weeks ago I made a short video about my experience (called “It Could Happen to You”), and posted it
on YouTube. Over 2.7 million people have watched my video and nearly fifty thousand have written
messages of support.
People from all over the world have written to me to tell me of how moved they have been by our story. Many
have told me that their life-long opposition to same-sex marriage was changed after seeing the YouTube
video.
Because of this response, and hopeful that we can reach even more people, I have joined with producers
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (Designing Women and The Man From Hope) and Linda Burstyn (Emmy
award-winning writer/producer for Nightline with Ted Koppel) to turn that video into a feature-length
documentary: BRIDEGROOM, An American Love Story. We hope to get it out as soon as possible so that it
can play a meaningful role in the burgeoning debate over marriage equality.
BRIDEGROOM will be much more than a tragic love story. This film will represent every person who has ever
been ostracized and condemned for being who they are and loving whom they love.
For those out there who do not think they know someone who’s been deeply hurt by laws that prevent people
from marrying the ones they love? Well, now you do, My name is Shane Bitney Crone.
Although there are millions of people who oppose me and some who have threatened me, the time has
come for me personally to step out of my comfort zone, to accept the experiences I have had, and to try to
help people as a result. We can’t change the past, but I truly believe that when people join together to spread
the message — that love is what matters in life — we can change the future so that marriage is a reality for
all.
It’s been over a year since Tom made that one wrong step — the step that ended his life and killed a part of
my own. He was beautiful. He was kind. He was generous. He would be horrified to see what happened to
me. What I’m trying to do is make sure that step was more than fatal — perhaps it was fateful as well.
Comment to DIana from a source who wishes to remain anonymous:
"The worrying thing is marriage is becoming unfashionable among heterosexuals, while gays are getting
civil partnerships and soon the gay marriages denied us for so long.
This means all those heterosexual (and gay) couples living together but not married or in a civil
partnership have no rights whatsoever if their partner dies, unless they have made out Wills naming each
other as beneficiaries, etc..
Most people don't realize this and that, in the UK at least, 'common law' partners are not recognized in
law and have no official status or rights.
Some heterosexual couples may be protected somewhat if they have children as they will both be the
parents, so indirectly related that way. This may enable them to have visiting rights in hospitals and get
information about their partner's medical condition. However I'd advise all couples, gay or straight, to put
their relationships on a legal footing if possible to prevent complications."
FOR EVER IMMORTAL TO SO MANY PEOPLE OF ALL
GENERATIONS.
GOD BLESS, ANDREW
GENERATIONS.
GOD BLESS, ANDREW
