Friday, January 1, 2010

Gays to get Hitched in New Hampshire


Today, gays and lesbians can & will marry in the NH. It is all official today and many couples will really bring in the new year with their love ones.

New Hampshire officials began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on October 3. As of Wednesday, 29 lesbian and 11 gay couples had secured marriage licenses, which expire after 90 days.

Stephen Wurtz, acting director of the state's Division of Vital Records, told On Top Magazine that the state does not impose a waiting period for a marriage license, predicting the number of same-sex weddings on the law's first day would not be possible.

In an email, Wurtz said the state has recognized 809 gay couples in the past 24 months since a civil unions law went into effect. In its first month, January 2008, 174 gay couples tied the knot, but since then the number has steadily decreased, with only 6 civil union licenses issued so far in December.

Couples joined with a civil union can apply for a conversion to marriage or a new marriage license, but all civil unions will automatically convert to marriages on January 1, 2011. The state will no longer issue civil union licenses after December 31, 2009.

Happy New Year!

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1 comment:

Kyle Leach said...

V, there will be many more marriages to come throughout the year. Many GLBT folk in NH are waiting for their yearly anniversaries to tie the knot. Hopefully, Stan and I will be married later this month and then we are going to have our official celebration in October, when our anniversary comes around. We don't mind if our marriage date and anniversary date are different.

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