The U.S. Supreme Court, DOMA, and Mike Lawlor

Connecticut Public Radio | By Jeff Cohen

Published June 26, 2013 at 3:15 PM EDT

Michael Lawlor, (r) and husband, David Zakur, outside the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan.

Mike Lawlor got married over the weekend.

And while the state of Connecticut recognized his marriage to his husband, the federal government did not. Until today.

I spoke with Lawlor as he sat on a park bench across from the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court rulings were read.

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Jeff Cohen started in newspapers in 2001 and joined Connecticut Public in 2010, where he worked as a reporter and fill-in host. In 2017, he was named news director. Then, in 2022, he became a senior enterprise reporter.

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