Senate President Stanley Rosenberg married his partner, Bryon Hefner, in a private ceremony at Cambridge City Hall on Tuesday, his office said Friday. Rosenberg, the first openly gay leader of a legislative branch in Massachusetts, proposed to Hefner at their home in February 2015, the News Service reported. The couple began dating in 2008. “Massachusetts Senate President Stan C. Rosenberg, D-Amherst, married his longtime partner, Bryon Hefner, at Cambridge City Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts in a private ceremony on Sept. 6th, 2016,” Rosenberg’s communications director Mara Dolan said in a statement. The first same-sex marriage licenses in Massachusetts were issued at Cambridge City Hall in 2004. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito was expected to officiate Rosenberg’s wedding, but it was not immediately clear Friday whether Polito presided over the ceremony or attended. Polito, who argued against legalizing gay marriage when she was in the Legislature, said last year she was happy for Rosenberg and Hefner, and called them both friends. Rosenberg left Massachusetts on Thursday for Park City, Utah, where he is attending the Senate Presidents’ Forum, a conference that seeks to foster collaboration among state senate leaders, through Sunday.
Rosenberg married partner on Tuesday
