Gay Widower Who Fought Texas For Accurate Death Certificate Dies
Jay Stone-Hoskins, the gay widower who forced Texas to provide accurate death and birth certificates to same-sex couples, died Saturday, according to a close friend.
Jeremy Liebbe, executor and trustee of the estate, reported on Facebook that Stone-Hoskins, a 37-year-old former police officer who’d been diagnosed with terminal cancer, died in his sleep sometime between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m.
“It is with a heavy heart I report that Jay Stone-Hoskins passed away yesterday morning,” Liebbe wrote Sunday. “After publicly fighting a legal battle to legally validate his marriage while privately fighting his own personal health battles, Jay has rejoined his one true love James Stone-Hoskins.”
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, Jay Stone-Hoskins filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the state after he was denied an accurate amended death certificate for his late husband for six weeks. James Stone-Hoskins took his own life in January after the couple married in New Mexico last year.
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