Because Paperwork & Signed Documents Are Not A Protection From The Politics Of Hate…

From The Bilerico Project: Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions

Without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold’s possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold’s lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.

Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing home. Because of the county’s actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property. The only memento Clay has is a photo album that Harold painstakingly put together for Clay during the last three months of his life.

Separate Is Not Equal

If they could face it
I could take it
In their eyes
Oh I know I’d make it
Their tiny minds
And sacred cows
Just fake it
If only then and only then
They would understand
Elton John – All The Nasties

UPDATE!
Their names are Harold Greene and Clay Scull. The name of the case is “Greene v. County of Sonoma et al.”
The case is being handled by National Center For Lesbian Rights

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