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Matisse DuPont (left)
Massoud Bagheri (right)

Flyer produced by MassEquality.org, a coalition of local and national organizations dedicated to defending equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Massachusetts.

Sticker produced by the Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts.

EqualMarriage.org stickers produced by the Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts.

Information card for services by Justice of the Peace E. Denise Simmons.

Letter from Justice of the Peace Denise Simmons to Libby Bouvier and Andrea Devine thanking them for the honor of being able to officiate their marriage ceremony on June 4, 2004.

Sample wedding vows for a same-sex marriage ceremony, produced by Queer Nation. Writing on the item notes that these may be from 1991, but it is likely that these were produced as part of a Queer Nation demonstration at the Holy Cross Cathedral in…

Sticker, likely from 1990 or 2001, produced by Queer Nation about an action related to same-sex marriage at the Holy Cross Cathedral on Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sleeve insert for DVD of the Cambridge Community Television production, "Mass Matrimony." The cover text reads: "This DVD covers the first same sex couples allowed to file for marriage licenses in the state of Massachusetts, including footage of…

Program book for event commemorating the 20th anniversary of when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's ruling in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, which legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, took effect.

Bookmark created and distributed by Representative Liz Malia reminding people about the Constitutional Convention related to Marriage Equality scheduled to be held at the Massachusetts State House on June 14, 2007. From The History Project's Marriage…

We just got married a couple of years ago. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Kim Crawford and Executive Minister Beth Robbins at Arlington Street Church on October 26, 2022. It was just the four of us and Greta. Pictured, left to right: Greta the…

Roberta and I got married at Fanizzi’s restaurant in Provincetown over Thanksgiving weekend in 2004. It had always been my dream to have a party with both friends (queer family) and biological family, and that came true at our wedding. My family is…

This documents the story of our wedding, starting with when we waited outside Cambridge City Hall with friends to get our wedding licenses. Cambridge opened at midnight to make this happen. It was a momentous, joyous occasion. I don't recall when I…

Lisa and Deb Levheim Marriage.

My partner, Esther ("Terry") Carson Bremer, and I grew up in the 1940s and 1950s, hearing that gay people were either dreadfully sick or big sinners. We first became a couple in 1975. We lived joyfully because we had found each other, but our early…

Mark and I married ourselves around the dining table on January 1, 1996 in Kittery, Maine. Then, when marriage equality became a reality, we drove from our home in Tucson, Arizona, got married at the home of friends in San Diego. It was such a…

My wife (Sarah) and I had planned a destination wedding in Florida, but were convinced that we needed to have a Massachusetts marriage license. On the anniversary of our first date, which was a Monday, we brought our wedding outfits to work with us…

On the first day we could go to Boston City Hall and get a marriage license we waited in line. Inga was pregnant with our twin daughters. We had a ceremony on May 23rd and the girls were born on June 9, 2004.

The first day marriage licenses were available to us in MA - May 17, 2004. Peter Muise and Tony Grima wait in line for a marriage license at Boston City Hall. Note the sign - Boston knew there would be a big rush for these licenses, and made…