Shortland Street - Maia and Jay’s Civil Union

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Shortland Street - Maia and Jay’s Civil Union

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On Valentine's Day 2006 Shortland Street featured its first civil union, between lesbians Jay Copeland (Jaime Passier-Armstong) and Maia Jeffries (Anna Jullienne). The ceremony was flush with pink decor and took place in Parnell’s Rose Gardens. Alas it was picketed by Serenity Church protestors and the union later ended — after Jay had an affair … with a man! In 1994 Shortland Street had earlier broken mainstream ground for the LGBT community with a lesbian kiss, between Dr Meredith Fleming (...

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2006

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lesbian / civil union / wedding / marriage / ceremony / parnell / pi / gardens / protest / christian / church

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