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March 1991

Gardener’s Supply Offers Partner Benefits

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he March issue of OITM
announced that Gardener’s
Supply Company had just

' expanded its benefits
package to rec-
ognize

domestic partnerships. The
expansion was not limited to
same-gender partners, but also
included non—married heterosexu-
al partnerships. At the time, how-
ever, the company could not find
an insurer to provide partner cov-
erage at an afiordable cost,
leaving the partner to
find insurance

self or herself and be reimbursed
for part of the premium by the
company. The change in policy
was brought about when two
employees, Margaret Waring and
David Graver, approached man-
agement with a request to equal-
ize the benefits received by mar-
ried employees.

Gardener’s Supply is a
major garden gadget and tool
company located in the lntervale
off Riverside Drive in
Burlington. In

1991 it had

been in busi-

ness for 9 years
and had 153
employees.

interview, Will Raap,
the company’s CEO,
recalled that “it was just
the right thing to do. We
have always had a strong com-
mitment to diversity and equity
in benefits and pay. Because of
where we are, we have a good

, number of gay employees. We

were presented with a need and
we said, let’s serve the need.
Really, it’s just an extension of
who we are.”

 

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Also in March 1991:

V The US was at war with
Iraq, and Gene Barfield wrote of
concerns over official monitoring
and censorship of communica-
tions from gay and lesbian serv-
ice members.

V Rep. Vi Luginbuhl (R-

, South Burlington) and Sen. David

Wolk (D-Rutland) introduced
bills to ban discrimination in
employment, housing, public
accommodations, insurance and
banking. _

V In Dykes to Watch Out
For, Mo" and Lois are back from
another anti-war demonstration,
Sparrow’s spirituality circle is
lighting incense and visualizing
world peace, and Clarice swears
she’s “gonna impeach [George
Bush the elder’s] death worship-
ping ass.” A

V And Vermont’s Pride
Day celebration would be held in
Montpelier again that year. '

  
   

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