It’s their 28th Anniversary!!! 🌈🤵🏻♂️💙🤵🏻♂️🥂✨ Some days they can’t believe it’s been 28 years but also… they’ve lived so much life together. Once they found their groove…things just clicked, life got easier, & this thing turned into forever. Yeah, so 28 years sounds about right and without a doubt, they’ll be right here for the next 28 years.❤️🏳️🌈
It’s their 28th Anniversary!!! 🌈🤵🏻♂️💙🤵🏻♂️🥂✨ Some days they can’t believe it’s been 28 years but also… they’ve lived so much life together. Once they found their groove…things just clicked, life got easier, & this thing turned into forever. Yeah, so 28 years sounds about right and without a doubt, they’ll be right here for the next 28 years.❤️🏳️🌈
PJ & Thomas, and Thomas & PJ. It feels bittersweet going through all the years and seeing where they’ve been, how far they’ve come, and how much more life they still have together. It somehow feels like a lifetime ago and just yesterday when he was 19 and falling in love with the boy with the big brown eyes and curly hair. What a wild ride it’s been so far. He wonder where the next 16 years will take them? 🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️💫
Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman spent more than two decades building a life together and much of it helping people the rest of society too often ignored.
Now, the husbands have died just four days apart.
Jayson, 48, suffered a heart attack at their Queens home on June 28.
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They trained volunteers to approach unhoused people with dignity, listen to them and make sure they knew they were not invisible.
Their organisation’s future is now uncertain, but volunteers are discussing how to continue the work.
Jayson and Jeffrey leave behind something far larger than a charity.
They leave a community that learned compassion from the way they loved each other and everyone around them. 🕊️❤️
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Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman spent more than two decades building a life together and much of it helping people the rest of society too often ignored.
Now, the husbands have died just four days apart.
Jayson, 48, suffered a heart attack at their Queens home on June 28.
#GayCouple
After meeting Jeffrey in 2004, he began rebuilding his life.
Together, they founded Backpacks For The Street, eventually leading nearly 40 volunteers in distributing more than 180,000 backpacks filled with food, socks, hygiene products, flashlights and other essentials across New York City.
But their real mission went beyond supplies.