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 Women's Voices
Tibby Middleton and Barbara Kenny |
Magazine Features Lesbian Couple with Mormon Roots
They have been together for 40 years
By Seba Martinez
January 2006
Tibby Middleton and Barbara Kenny, a lesbian couple who recently relocated
from Virginia to Maryland, were featured in the cover story of the December
18 issue of The Washington Post Magazine. Tibby was raised
a Mormon, and the couple met as high school students at East High in
Salt Lake City in the mid 1950s.
The couple has been together for 40 years. But now Barbara is sick, and the Affirmation of Marriage Act, a law recently passed in Virginia, bars her partner from visiting her in the hospital or make any decisions for her.
"Virginia must be the most backward state in the union," says Becky Reed, a Stafford County lawyer and longtime friend. In the late 1970s Reed wrote Tibby and Barbara's first attempt to create a legal relationship—a deed that put their home in both their names.
Over the years the couple has spent thousands of dollars drawing up legal documents in hopes of obtaining some protection under the law. The Affirmation of Marriage Act may render many of those documents void.
To read the story and see additional pictures, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301549.html  .
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www.affirmation.org
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