These gay men became ‘father and son.’ Now they want to get married but can’t.
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These gay men became father and son. Now they want to get married but cant.
By
Yanan Wang November 5
@yananw
For 45 years, Nino Esposito and Drew Bosee have been married in almost every sense of the word. Both retired, they spend their days in the garden and the kitchen, where Esposito kneads his own Italian bread. There isnt a day that one will leave the house without the other, not for doctors appointments or groceries or anything else.
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Esposito, 78, and Bosee, 68, sought to change that in 2012 before Pennsylvania legalized same-sex marriage in 2014, before the Supreme Court did the same for the entire country last summer. The legal route they chose seemed to be the most favorable one available at the time, and it was one that had been taken by many same-sex couples frustrated with the courts longstanding refusal to recognize their love.
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They walked into the courthouse three summers ago wearing black suit jackets, khaki pants and colorful ties. They came out, for legal purposes, as father and son. But of course all it really meant all that really mattered to them was that they were now officially kin.
The adoption process was easy. Three years later, after Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his opinion for the Supreme Court in
Obergefell v. Hodges, declared that the enduring bond of marriage should be available to all persons, whatever their sexual orientation, Esposito and Bosee have found that claiming their newfound right to be husband and husband is a lot trickier.