Indiana woman who fought state’s gay marriage ban loses battle with cancer
Indiana woman who fought state’s gay marriage ban loses battle with cancer
‘If my life is cut short because of ovarian cancer, I want our children to know that their parents were treated like other married couples in their home state, and to be proud of this.'
MUNSTER, Ind. — A terminally ill woman whose desire to have her same-sex marriage recognized by Indiana before she died helped galvanize efforts to overturn the state’s gay marriage ban has lost her battle with cancer.
Niki Quasney died Thursday, gay rights advocacy group Lambda Legal said Sunday. She was 38.
Quasney and Amy Sandler challenged Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage as Quasney neared the end of a years-long battle with ovarian cancer.
The couple from Munster, which is in northwest Indiana and just south of Chicago, obtained a civil union in Illinois in 2011 and married in Massachusetts in 2013, and they wanted Sandler listed as Quasney’s spouse on her Indiana death certificate to ensure that Sandler and the couple’s two young children received the death benefits to which married couples are entitled.
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Hopefully by June this will be a memory for the LGBT community. Unfortunately that not going to help this lovely couple.
Niki and Amy.
Niki 
Ovarian cancer is horrible. She didn't need another battle to go along with that.
