From: Lez Get Real
6/28/10-by Paula Brooks Tennessee Department of Motor Vehicles
officials have denied a new driver’s license to a Tennessee
woman who recently married her partner and wanted identification
with her new legal name. Traci Turpin, of Knoxville, who was
married her partner in Washington, D.C. last week,Â
returned to her home in Tennessee, where she set about changing
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