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Chris Hughes & Sean Eldridge
Jun. 30th, 2015 09:04 pm
Chris Hughes (born November 26, 1983) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin. He is currently the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012. In 2009 Hughes attended President Barack Obama's first state dinner with his husband Sean Eldridge, Political Director of Freedom to Marry. Hughes and Eldridge announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry. They married on June 30, 2012. The couple bought a $2 million residence in the 19th District of New York with the reported purpose of permitting Eldridge to run for the Congressional seat there. The couple was featured on the cover of The Advocate magazine's "Forty Under 40" issue in May 2011, and they were profiled in the New York Times in May 2012. Eldridge and Hughes announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry. They married on June 30, 2012 and reside in Shokan, New York. The couple met in November 2005 through a college acquaintance of Eldridge’s at a brunch in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Eldridge was working as a customer service manager for a moving company in Somerville, Mass., and Hughes was a senior at Harvard, and already a founder of Facebook. Hughes grew up in Hickory, North Carolina, as the only child of Arlen "Ray" Hughes, a paper salesman, and Brenda Hughes, a public-school teacher. He was raised as an evangelical Lutheran. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In 2006 he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.
Sean Eldridge is an American investor and political activist. He and his husband, Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, fund advocacy groups and Democratic candidates across the U.S. They attended Barack Obama's first state dinner in 2009. The couple was featured on the cover of The Advocate's "Forty Under 40", and they were profiled in the New York Times in May 2012. They announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry. They married on June 30, 2012.
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Sean Eldridge (born July 31, 1986) is an American investor and political activist. He is the president of Hudson River Ventures, an investment fund that focuses on small businesses in the Hudson Valley region of New York. He is also a prominent advocate for environmental protection, LGBT equality and campaign finance reform. He and his husband, Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, fund advocacy groups and Democratic candidates across the U.S. They attended U.S. President Barack Obama's first state dinner in 2009. The couple was featured on the cover of The Advocate magazine's "Forty Under 40" issue in May 2011, and they were profiled in the New York Times in May 2012. Eldridge and Hughes announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry. They married on June 30, 2012 and reside in Shokan, New York. The couple met in November 2005 through a college acquaintance of Eldridge’s at a brunch in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Eldridge was working as a customer service manager for a moving company in Somerville, Mass., and Hughes was a senior at Harvard, and already a founder of Facebook. Born in Canada, Eldridge grew up in Toledo, Ohio and attended public school in Ottawa Hills. He studied at Deep Springs College and then graduated from Brown University, where he helped organize the national Students for Barack Obama campaign in 2007. He then enrolled at Columbia Law School but left to join Freedom to Marry after the New York State Senate voted against legalizing same-sex marriage in the state in December 2009.
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Paris K.C. Barclay (born June 30, 1956) is an American television director and producer, and the President of the Directors Guild of America. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is currently among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed over 130 episodes of television to date, for series such as NYPD Blue, ER, The West Wing, CSI, Lost, The Shield, House, Law & Order, Monk, Numb3rs, City of Angels, Cold Case, and more recently Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, Weeds, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Good Wife, In Treatment, Glee, and Smash. He is married to Christopher Mason. A few years back they decided to come home a day early from their month-long stay in Boston. Incredibly, their previously scheduled flight turned out to be none other than one of the planes that flew into the World Trade Center on 9/11. “After that, Paris and I came to the conclusion that we needed to make a difference in the world,” Mason recently told The Advocate. “For us it came to adopting some kids.” The couple now has two sons they adopted from the Los Angeles foster care system. Barclay and Mason, who works as an executive in the food industry, married in 2008, after 10 years together. 
Currently, Barclay is executive producer and principal director of FX’s highest rated series ever, Sons of Anarchy, which aired season five in 2012. and is currently in production on season six. Unusual for a series in its fifth season, Sons of Anarchy continues to rise in the ratings.
Ilene Chaiken (born June 30, 1957) is an American television producer, director and writer. Chaiken is best known as being the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the television series The L Word. Chaiken's partner is LouAnne Brickhouse, VP of production at The Walt Disney Company, and they live in the Hollywood Hills area of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Chaiken is co-parent to twin daughters Tallulah and Augusta (b. 1995) with her former partner, English architect Miggi Hood. "A mutual friend said I had to meet LouAnne, describing her as attractive, smart, and stylish — and that she knew all the good clubs and parties. One night I was out with the great film director Garry Marshall, and he asked about my love life. I told him there was nobody rocking my world. He said, "If she were available, LouAnne would be perfect for you.""
Jesse Archer grew up in the beaver state of Oregon, which inspired him to get around. He has since lived and worked in Los Angeles, Paris, Buenos Aires, Capetown, and New York City. He enjoys long distance running, gummi bears, and impromptu cartwheels. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia, and works for DNA Magazine.
Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Openly gay, Panych married his longtime partner, Ken MacDonald, in 2004. Ken MacDonald met Morris Panych at work more than 30 years ago (as of 2013). Set-designer MacDonald was toiling away in the props-and-costumes department of the Belfry theatre company in Victoria, BC, when a colleague began dishing about an up-and-coming actor who had been cast in the production they were working on. “I looked over the balcony and said to my friend, ‘Oh, he looks good!’ MacDonald says. The “he” in question was, of course, Panych, fresh out of theatre school and still honing his acting chops. “I was actually in a relationship at the time,” the designer confides. “But we became really best friends and just started hanging out. We just had great fun together, and yes, he was very sexy. I never expected that friendship to go there, but then we fell in love.”
Morris Panych was born in Calgary and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia. His plays include Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2003); Vigil (adapted for the British stage as Auntie and Me); Lawrence & Holloman; The Ends of the Earth; Earshot; 7 Stories; Dishwashers; Still Laughing: Three Adaptations by Morris Panych (2009), Panych's adaptations of The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, Hotel Peccadillo by Georges Feydeau and Mauric Desvallières, and The Amorous Adventures of Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler; The Trespassers (2010) Gordon (2011) and In Absentia (2012). (Picture: Ken MacDonald)
Larry McKeon (June 30, 1944 – May 13, 2008) was an American politician who served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Chicago. Serving from January 1997 to January 2007, he was the first-ever openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly and was also HIV-positive. Ray Korzinski represents the great love of McKeon’s life: the couple met in Chicago in the ’80s. Both had recently fled abusive, alcoholic relationships; both were in recovery; and both were hauling some heavy baggage. Korzinski had been largely ostracized by his immediate family, McKeon recalls. After the two men had lived together for five years, Korzinski tested positive for HIV. The virus complicated Korzinski’s bout with a rare form of lymphoma, which he attributed to exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam. Korzinski died 12 weeks after learning that he was infected with HIV. It was during those last few weeks of Korzinski’s life that McKeon discovered that he, too, was HIV-positive. “He felt a lot of guilt,” McKeon said. “He thought he had it and passed it to me. We talked about it before he died. “It doesn’t matter who did what, or when. It just is.” 
Aaron Shurin (born 1947) is an American poet, essayist, and educator. Since 1999, he has co-directed the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
Allen Young (born June 30, 1941) is an American journalist, author and editor who is also a social, political and environmental activist.
Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps on 30 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola. He is known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments and his loyal fanbase, the Wolfpack. Wolf's styles range from Electronic Pop to Baroque Chamber music. On 31 December 2010, Patrick Wolf announced via Twitter that he was set to enter a civil partnership with his boyfriend William Charles Pollock. In 2008, after relationships with both men and women, he met William Charles Pollock, who works at BBC 6 Music, by chance, at a Christmas party. It was "love at first sight". Wolf was at a low ebb, after touring relentlessly and experiencing bouts of depression that led him to contemplate quitting the music industry altogether. His songs at the time reflected his state of mind – melancholic and aggressive, with tortured, complex lyrics – and his performance persona became increasingly outrageous as he took to the stage dripping in feathers and spray-painted silver.
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About the author and where to find her: Born and raised in the north-west of England, K.C. WELLS always loved writing. Words were important. Full stop. However, when childhood gave way to adulthood, the writing ceased, as life got in the way. K.C. discovered erotic fiction in 2009, when the purchase of a ménage storyline led to the startling discovery that reading about men in love was damn hot. In 2012, arriving at a really low point in life led to the desperate need to do something creative. An even bigger discovery waited in the wings—writing about men in love was even hotter…. 
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Author Bio: I have always been a romantic at heart. I believe that while life is tough, there is always a happy ending just around the corner. I started reading traditional historical romances when I was a teenager, then life and law school got in the way. It wasn’t until I picked up a copy of Bertrice Small and became swept away to Queen Elizabeth’s court that my interest in romance novels became renewed.
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