I have met someone I want to spend the rest of my life with. This is very much about how we want to live our lives. Besides they add wryly. Ms Quilter says marriage will give a public validity to their partnership. She has seen many longterm lesbian couples, some of whom have been together for more than 25 years, still not regarded as spouses.
Lesbian couples become invisible, certainly in the eyes of the law.
Sure, we are accepted in society as productive members. Our money is taken at restaurants and banks. We pay our taxes and we are not invisible that way. Yet we are not allowed those same rights. All of the women worry what would happen in the event of an accident or sickness as, no matter what powers of attorney they legally sign, families can overturn a homosexual partner's rights.