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A little good news, courtesy of the chosen family law center. Legislation has been

introduced in Berkeley, California and Oakland, California that would ban

discrimination based on family and relationship structure.

This comes after Somerville, Massachusetts last year amended its anti-discrimination laws to include

family or relationship structure as a protected class.

Meaning landlords, employers, public servants, the police can't discriminate against people

based on their being in an open relationship or in thruples or quads,

just like they can't discriminate against people based on their race or their religion

or their sexual orientation or their gender.

And the year before in 2022, a court in New York ruled that Thruples, at least when it comes

to housing law and renewing leases, have the same legal rights couples do.

Steps in the right direction. And reading about these cases, the law in Somerville,

the ruling in New York, the proposed new legislation in Berkeley and Oakland, giving me a little

deja vu. It's taking me back to the first domestic partnership registries

for same-sex couples that passed in the early 1980s, and then the enactment of civil unions. A decade later, same-sex couples we couldn't get married. There wasn't support for gay

marriage then, but there was a recognition that gay relationships existed and our relationships

were kind of sorta like family relationships and we needed

some form of recognition under the law to protect people who were in these already

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