Believe it or not, Somerville was the first city in the United States to establish explicit legal protections for polyamorous and otherwise non-monogamous unions and families. Polyamory is also ...

In 2020, the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, the hipster community just north of Boston, population 81,000, recognized “polyamorous” relationships. It did so by extending domestic partnerships to ...

SOMERVILLE - Somerville may be the first city in the nation to pass protections for people in polyamorous relationships. "For the longest time people in our community have lived in the shadows of the ...

The Somerville City Council passed an ordinance on March 23 seeking to combat discrimination against polyamorous people in the workplace and in interactions with law enforcement. The bill is one of ...

The City Council, which passed the first ordinance allowing for more than one domestic partner, approves a new policy to prevent discrimination Somerville secured its place as a supportive hub for ...

On Thursday, Somerville’s City Council passed a trio of ordinances to provide protections for people in polyamorous relationships that are available in few other places in the country — if anywhere.

Jace Knight had heard about Somerville, Massachusetts, while working on a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in 2020. The small city had recently passed a law granting domestic partnership rights, ...

Everyone deserves to love freely. And Somerville residents seem to agree with that. The Massachusetts city — that’s situated northwest of Boston — recently passed an ordinance that polyamorous ...

The city of Somerville, Massachusetts became what is believed to be the first U.S. city to recognize polyamorous relationships last Thursday, after the city council passed a new domestic partnership ...