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Duval Street Walk of PrideFest flag
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NEW BRIEFS n NATIONAL SAME-SEX MARRIED EMPLOYEES GET BREAK IN MASSACHUSETTS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —Cambridge
will soon start making payments to same-sex married public employees to defray the cost of what city officials call a discriminatory federal tax. Te city, beginning in July, will pay
quarterly stipends to city employees in a same-sex marriage who must pay federal taxes on the value of the health benefits their spouse receives from the city. Federal law requires employers to calculate the value of the benefits received by a same-sex spouse as taxable income to the employee, while health benefits of an opposite-sex spouse are not taxable. Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights
Campaign, a national lesbian and gay civil rights organization, said the city of Cambridge is the first community in the nation to start the practice. Te stipend will cost the city about $33,000 per year.
A PUSH TO LEGALIZE ALBANY, N.Y. — Former chairman
of the Republican National Committee is pushing GOP senators in Albany to legalize gay marriage. Former Chairman Ken Mehlman, who presided during the administration of President George W. Bush, says he met privately with several senators but wouldn’t say how many or who he spoke with. More than a half-dozen minds need
to be changed in the Senate for a crucial vote on same-sex marriage. Te measure supported by the Assembly was defeated in 2009 in the Senate which was then controlled by Democrats. Mehlman, who last August openly
acknowledged he is gay, said Republican senators that he spoke with are keeping an open mind. No immediate action is planned in the Senate.
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