Annapolis Mayor Announces Same-Sex Benefits
Annapolis Mayor Joshua Cohen announced on June 22 that city employees in Annapolis will be able to include same-sex domestic partners on their health plans starting July 1, 2010. Annapolis will join several local jurisdictions and the state government in providing benefits to same-sex partners.
Annapolis will join over a dozen local government entities across the state that offer domestic partner benefits including, Montgomery and Howard counties, and the cites of Baltimore, College Park, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Mount Rainier and Takoma Park. Last year, Governor O'Malley extended benefits to the domestic partners of state employees.
"We applaud Mayor Cohen and his administration for their commitment to fairness," said Morgan Meneses-Sheets, executive director of Equality Maryland, the state's largest lgbt civil rights organization.
I grew up as one of those gangly, towheaded, rough-and-tumble, rural-Maryland tomboys. That’s tomboy with a "y," mind you; I hadn’t yet had my share of rough-and-tumble, grope-and-fumble encounters with tombois of the "i" variety quite yet. I never prayed to the menstrual gods for my period to arrive, didn’t beg my Mom for make-up, and (ladies, brace yourself for a painful pubescent memory) I never, EVER attended a sleepover that turned into some Judy Blume-esque breast séance with friends chanting: "We must, we must, we must increase our bust!" 
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