vg \ " coupons lTVl0UNTAlNl°R"3EM EDWORG ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ’ ' ‘ ' ' ' ‘ ’ ‘ ' ' ‘ ° ‘ ’ ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' D ' _ - _ ‘ ‘ — ‘ A ' ‘C """""""""""""""""""" _ ' want The red ea ct 1'rea11nen1'? Join now . ‘ ._5oras little as $25 ' discounts 0 special gift! ’our Community-Owned Grocery Store 802-863-3659 ‘ 82 South Winrroski Avenue, Burlington wWw.citymarkct.coop (3:x::;n R:-as-‘ Cc-op We welcome F.I3'l', (lA'l‘Scratclz, Kn ight 8t (I(T(IaslI Cards and manuf~.u.1urers’ coupons. Pastoral Counseling Jungian orientation Psychoanalysis Individuals & Couples River Road, Putney VT 802-387-5547 9 Center Court Northampton MA Janet Langdon, Mdiv, NCPsyA jliesl@sover.ne't Con/cg Country FROM THE CONNECTICUT RIVER TO THE CANADIAN BORDER REAL EST./\'l‘l'3 AND INSURANCE 179 Main Street * Derby Vermont 05829 phone (803) 766-?.4()l * 800-E43-240l fax 766--473i * e~n’1all~mick@rcalcstatevcrmontcom I Log onto V\’\V\V.l'(.‘.il (‘S 3 L‘V£‘I‘lI1()l] /\/~/\ 6 90 Main Street ’ - P.O. Box 875 Burlington. VT 05402 ""“"“"""""’””"“""""“ 802-863-251 7 8: DANON, PC fax: 802863-0262 -—--attorneys ,4 inio@bi§ckwoogI§w.grg Providing legal services addressing issues important to LGBTIQA individuals and families — adoptions. wills, estate planning, employment and education issues. civil rights, personal injuries, and small business matters. WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH ////////////////////////////// Cherokee Nation Upholds LesbianMar,riage ast December, the highest L court of the Cherokee Na- ’ tion upheld the marriage of a lesbian couple for the second , ' time in two years, stating the, ' marriagehad harmed no one-and therefore could not be invalidated. Dawn McKinley and Kathy, i Reynolds"-, a same—sex couple. who had‘ been together for several years, obtained a,mar- riage license from the Cherokee Nation in May of 2004. The i , ' couple from Owassolmarried in . a ceremony shortly thereafter. Both members of the Cherokee ’ Nation, the couple applied for the license following a medi- cal emergency in which Dawn_ was refused the right to visit . Kathy in a hospital because they were not related. Another member of the Nation then filed a petition to invalidate the marriage. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) defended the couple before the Judicial Appeals Tribunal of the Cherokee Nation which dismissed the challenge last V August. It was determined that the marriage had not harmed the person bringing the law- suit and therefore there was no reason to deny legal union to McKinley and Reynolds. Members of the nation’s Trib- i al Council later filed another pe- tition to invalidate the marriage. The NCLR sided with McKinley ‘ and Reynolds again before the tribunal. On December 22, . 2005, the couitfor the second time upheld the marriage. . . Prof. Brian Gilley, an as- sistant professor of anthropol- ogy at UVM and of Cherokee ancestry, told the court that- there was “overwhelming ‘ evidence” of the historical WOMEN'S HISTORYCCMONTH Another First for Martin and Lyon . 1.‘4§§.El£‘.%.¥.1dtP ' i r;,'L'y”*dn mzadefii’-st — again — when they be_- came the nation's first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco on February 12, 2004. Their marriage was revoked a few months later, along with the nearly 4,000 others performed for same-sex couples in San Francisco. The lesbian couple had been together for 51 years when they were, briefly, married. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon count many “firsts” among their accomplishments. Both were young journalists when they met ir1 1950 at a Seattle pub- lishing house where they both worked. They became friends and later became romanti- cally involved, moving together to San Francisco in 1952. Along with several other les- bian couples, Martin and Lyon were founders of the Daughters of Bilitis, established in 1955 as the country’s first organiza- tion to work specifically for lesbians’ social and political rights. The DOB was somewhat discreetly named after “Songs of Bilitis,” a book by Pierre Louy that included lesbian love poems. Membership in the DOB, at least at first, was secret. The couple later founded “The Ladder,” the first na- tionwide lesbian newsletter in the U.S. Lyon, using a pseudonym, first edited The Ladder, and was later suc- married in 2004. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had been together 51 years when they presence of same-sex relation- ships among most Native North American tribes, including the Cherokee, and that those rela- tionships “historically shared - in the institution of marriage.” According to Lena Ayoub, the N CLR staff attorney who represented McKinley and "Reynolds, ‘the ruling sets a precedentfor any future _ same-sex Cherokee couple seeking the right-to many. According to a Workers World article by Stephanie _ I Hedgeeoke, Indigenous First , Nations recognized by the U.S. have the legal status of “domes- tic dependent sovereigns.” As . such, members of these First Nations are under federal ju- risdiction but not subject to state or local laws. Currently in ’ the U.S., state law determines the conditions of marriage. V ceeded in that role by Martin. Lyon and Martin joined the National Organization for Women in the 1960’s. How- ever, the couple left NOW, an organization of mostly heterosexual women, in the late 1970's over “homophobic concerns.” They rejoined NOW in 1988, at which time they » received a warmer welcome from their straight sisters. In 1972, Lyon and Martin were primary organizers of the Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club, established in order to help lesbians get elected to public office. In 1973, Lyon and Martin pub- lished their book “Lesbian Love and Liberation." They also wrote “Lesbian/Woman” together, and Martin later wrote “Battered Wives." In their later years, Mar- tin and Lyon (born in 1921 and 1924 respectively) have worked on issues related to aging. They were named as delegates to the White House Conference on Aging in 1995. In 2003, filmmaker Joan E. Biren released a documentary film called “N 0 Secret Anymore — The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.” The couple was also honored when the Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services in San Francisco was named after them. V