Domestic Partner Benefits Books
The Domestic Partnership Organizing Manual for Employee Benefits by
Sally Kohn (1999).
If you want to convince your employer to offer domestic partner benefits,
there's nothing that can compete with this thorough manual. It includes
suggestions for how to argue your case, how to organize with other
employees, lists of employers that already offer the benefits, a variety of
ways to define domestic partnership, sample policies, and other resources.
The Manual is put out by the Policy Institute of the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force, but the information contained within applies to
unmarried partners of any sexual orientation.
You can download the manual from the web for free.
Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an
Unmarried Couple, by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller (2002).
This book by the founders of the Alternatives to Marriage Project contains
a chapter on domestic partner benefits, which includes
advice on organizing for DP benefits at your workplace and responses to
common arguments against the benefits. It's also the only book that
specifically addresses how to convince an employer to expand a gays-only
policy to include different-sex couples (it can be done!).
You can support AtMP by buying this book from us
online.
Domestic Partner Benefits Links
Human
Rights Campaign's Employers with Domestic Partner Benefits
This site links to regularly updated lists of companies that offer domestic
partner benefits. While most employers that offer domestic partner benefits
make them available to both same-sex and different-sex couples, a small
minority have same-sex-only policies
How to Achieve
Domestic Partner Benefits in Your Workplace
A thorough guide for organizing at your job.
Universal Health Care
Action Network
You don't think health benefits should be linked to a person's employment
or relationship status? This national organization includes resources,
links to local efforts, and information about the national movement for
health coverage for all people.
Domestic Partner Registries Links
City & County Domestic Partner Registries
This list, divided by state and city, provides information about who is
eligible to register, and websites or contact information for each registry
for more details.
City & State Domestic Partner Registries
A chart by San Francisco's Human Rights Commission, comparing city domestic
partner registries as of 2000 (some information may no longer be current).
Chart includes information about how to register, who is eligible, and
what, if any, rights the registration grants domestic partners.
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