INDIANA WOMAN WHO FOUGHT GAY MARRIAGE BAN DIES OF CANCER
Source: AP
MUNSTER, Ind. (AP) -- 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.
At the time, Indiana didn't allow same-sex marriage and refused to recognize such marriages obtained elsewhere.
FULL story at link.
FILE - In this 2011 file photo, Niki Quasney, left, poses for a photo with Amy Sandler, in Munster, Ind. Lambda Legal announced Sunday that Quasney of Munster died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. She was 38. Quasney and Sandler had challenged Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage as Quasney battled terminal ovarian cancer. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Jeffrey D. Nicholls) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE OUT
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I wish her great peace and her loved ones fond memories.
May she rest in power
Peace and comfort to her wife and family.
*Correction: It says they married in MA in 2013. Still an incredibly sad story.
