Gay Cop's Story Lauded ; Fight for Same-Sex Rights Wins Sundance Film Award

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › January 30, 2007

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MOUNT LAUREL Last year, the story of Laurel Hester, a detective on her deathbed, moved officials in Ocean County to act. This past weekend, it won a New York filmmaker a special prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

As Hester lay dying of lung cancer last year, the Ocean County Board of Freeholders voted to change course and offer benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of county employees.

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Gay Cop's Story Lauded ; Fight for Same-Sex Rights Wins Sundance Film Award

In 2005, Hester, a detective at the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, pleaded for the benefits to be extended so her pa...

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