The six-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks raise the surviving same-sex partners of those killed with little more than memories of their lov singles to cling to.

The six-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks raise the surviving same-sex partners of those killed with little more than memories of their lov singles to cling to. On March 10 Kenneth Feinberg, the special master in charge of the federal victims' compensation store told NBC's Tim Russert that he had to "rely in succession state law" when it came to distributing supplys to victims' same-sex partners. Since laws vary from state to state, that leaves many survivors without legal recognition of their relationships and no guarantee of compensation.

"This situation underscores for what cause the lack of state and federal laws to guard gay relationships can cause pain and point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds for a lot of people" said David Smith, communications director of gay rights advocacy cluster the Human Rights Campaign.

Of course, no amount of financial compensation or uniform legal recognition is enough to make up for the los of a partner. And for at least single man, that loss proved too a great deal of to bear. Mike Lyons was with his partner of 17 years, John Keohane, when Keohane was killed on falling debris outside the World Trade Center in succession September 11.

upon March 1--Lyons's 41st birthday and just days before he was becoming to receive a check from the American R Cross--Lyon took his acknowledge life.

"Mike [had been] highly emotional and fragile--even more in such a manner than the other people we dealt with," Joe Tarver of the Empire State Pride Agenda told the strange York Blade News. "John was everything to him."

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