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Bookmark or Share- Domestic Partner to Get Pension - The New York TimesTOMS RIVER, N.J., Jan. 25 - For more than a year, Lt. Laurel Hester has been fighting two almost intractable foes: lung cancer and the Ocean County freeholders, who had refused repeatedly to...
- Freeeheld: A bittersweet tribute to Laurel Hester’s landmark caseFreeheld is based on Laurel Hester, a veteran lesbian police lieutenant from Freehold, N.J., who, upon learning she was dying of lung cancer, fought a landmark battle to permit her domestic...
- Lieutenant Who Won Pension Rights for Her Domestic Partner Dies at 49A New Jersey police lieutenant who last month won a long campaign to pass on pension benefits to her domestic partner died on Saturday. The lieutenant, Laurel Hester, 49, had lung cancer, and...
- Gay icon Laurel Hester dies | PinkNewsWritten by Marc Shoffman. Save for later. A gay rights icon who spent her last years campaigning to have her pension benefits extended to her partner has died of cancer. Laurel Hester was a member of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. She died at the Point Pleasant home she shared with her partner, Stacie Andree.
- Laurel Hester - WikipediaLaurel Anne Hester (August 15, 1956 – February 18, 2006) was a police lieutenant with the Ocean County, New Jersey Prosecutor's Office, who came to national attention with her deathbed appeal for the extension of pension benefits to her domestic partner.
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