Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time
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Together from 1953 to 2013: 60 years.
Eric Marcoux (born 1931)
Eugene Woodworth (1929-2013)

Eugene Woodworth (1929 – December 21, 2013) was a former professional ballet dancer who married his partner Eric Marcoux (born 1931) in 2013, after 60 years together.

Biography

Eugene Woodworth met Eric Marcoux through a mutual friend on June 13, 1953, in Chicago.<ref name="Oregon Live 2013">cite journal|title=Northwest love stories: For 60 years, 'there wasn't anything else'|journal=Oregon Live|date=2013|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2013/01/northwest_love_stories_for_60.html|accessdate=22 December 2017</ref> Woodworth was a professional ballet dancer, and Marcoux had just left a Trappist monastery. Woodworth later became an in-house repairman for Tektronix, while Eric taught art and Tibetan Buddhism.<ref name="OPB 2013" /><ref name="Oregon Live 2013" /> Later in life they participated in Friendly House's Gay and Grey program.<ref name="Oregon Live 2013" />They lived in Northwest Portland.<ref name="Oregon Live 2013" />

Woodworth hoped to pass his Social Security benefits to Marcoux. When Woodworth was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and given just weeks to live he decided to marry Marcoux even if gay marriage was not yet legal in Oregon. They married just over the state line in Washington.<ref name="OPB 2013" />

Eugene Woodworth married his partner, Eric Marcoux, at Clark County Courthouse on December 13, 2013, after 60 years together. He died 8 days after, on December 21.<ref name="OPB 2013">cite journal|last1=Gustafson|first1=Jordana|title=Eugene Woodworth Dies Days After His Marriage In Washington State|journal=OPB|date=2013|url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/eugene-woodworth-dies-days-after-his-marriage-in-washington-state/|accessdate=22 December 2017</ref>

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