For the next six years GLAmazon existed as an email list, along with the occasional gathering at the Six Arms pub in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. That same year, at Amazon, an employee wanting to connect with other LGBT Amazonians created an email list he called ‘glamazon’ – a contraction of Gay & Lesbian Amazon. Vermont ordered the state legislature to devise a law to give same-sex couples identical rights to married couples.
Nevada and Iowa banned sexual orientation discrimination.Ĭalifornia created a domestic partnership registry.įrance gave unwed mixed and same-sex couples the same rights as married couples, and the province of Ontario changed nearly 70 laws to give same-sex couples the same rights as married ones.Īnd in a landmark court case that would change the course of history, the Vermont Supreme Court in Baker v. The year 1999 was a crucial one for LGBT people.
