Gay groups turn out gay teacher

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/story/6475664p-6330549c.html

The local Board of Education was not swayed by a show of force from the gay community Tuesday night and again declined to grant benefits to the domestic partner of sixth-grade teacher Roberto Deane.

The board arrived to picket signs handed out by the gay-rights organization Garden State Equality, a group that claims 10,000 members in the state. The signs, carried by many of the 60 supporters on hand, said there are 875,000 LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) New Jersey residents and they “love to vote.”

Deane, an openly gay teacher here for almost a quarter-century, requested benefits for his domestic partner, Herb Russell, at the board's May meeting. Although the board can legally grant such a request at any time, Deane was told in May that such a change would come only through collective bargaining in the next teacher contract.

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