Longtime West Hollywood Politico John Duran Marries Longtime Partner Mark Morris

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Longtime West Hollywood Politico John Duran Marries Longtime Partner Mark Morris

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On May 3, civil rights and defense attorney John Duran and Mark Morris, his partner of 27 years, were married in West Hollywood before family and forever friends. The wedding was officiated by Duran’s first legal and political mentor, attorney Diane Abbitt, an image that softly represented an arc of defiant LGBTQ+ love through California history from MECLA to LIFE AIDS Lobby to ANGLE to EQCA. “I think one of the most painful lessons that we learned around HIV and AIDS and around Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski’s story was that our relationships without legal protections would be really painful if a partner is sick, hospitalized, or dies. And we learned those very painful lessons and realized that equality of marriage was gonna be the remedy that we would seek long term,” Duran says during our conversation. After the Supreme Court scuttled women’s reproductive rights and eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, ending marriage equality may be next on the Trump/Project 2025 agenda.

For editorial and historical context: When Is a Kiss More Than Just a Kiss? When It’s Been ‘Forged in Fire’ https://karenocamb.substack.com/p/when-is-a-kiss-more-than-just-a-kiss

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