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| County settles suit by elderly gay couple |
| 29 Jul 2010 |
Clay Greene, a 78-year-old gay man, said Sonoma County forced him and his 88-year-old partner into separate nursing homes, denied the couple's relationship, sold off their possessions and kept them apart until the partner died.
The county denied violating the men's rights. But on Friday, Greene's lawyers said the county and a nursing home had agreed to a $653,000 settlement with Greene and the estate of Harold Scull, his partner of 20 years.
"This victory sends an unmistakable message that all elders must be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of their sexual orientation, and that those who mistreat elders must be held accountable," said attorney Amy Todd-Gher of the National Center for Lesbian Ri… |
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| Sonoma County No. 2 'gayest' area in U.S. |
| 29 Jul 2010 |
That's according to a demographer at the University of California Los Angeles, who crunched census numbers to find areas with the highest percentage of residents living in same-sex relationships.
Not surprisingly, San Francisco led the list with 12.4 same-sex couples per 1,000 households.
The Santa Rosa Metropolitan Area ÷ in effect Sonoma County ÷ was No._2 with 7.63 gay couples per 1,000 households, a rate 56 percent greater than the national average. Sixty-three percent of Sonoma County's same-sex couples were men.
The statistics were compiled by Gary Gates, a researcher at UCLA's Williams Institute, a think tank on sexual-orientation law, who based his findings on data from the U.S. Census B… |
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