OH: Cambridge Paper Rejects Gay Wedding Announcement

A daily newspaper is refusing to publish the marriage announcement of a same-sex couple. While it is not the first time an Ohio newspaper has refused to honor gay and lesbian couples, this time the pair are legally married.

Bryon Humphrey-Elkins, 36, and Darrell Humphrey-Elkins, 23, were married in Connecticut on December 11. The couple lives in Columbus and wanted to run the announcement in their hometown newspaper in Cambridge, about 60 miles east, where both have family.

Bryon said his sister Tina Elkins called the Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian to place the announcement shortly after their wedding and spoke to the paper’s lifestyle editor, Pam Harmon. Harmon made arrangements with Elkins and asked for a photograph.

Full Story from the Hay People's Chronicle
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