West Hollywood Allows Throuples, Foursomes, to Legally Register as Domestic Partners
The ordinance gives registered partners limited local protections, including hospital visitation and rental safeguards, but does not create marriage rights.
- On Tuesday, West Hollywood's five-person City Council unanimously approved a polyamorous registry introduced by Mayor John Heilman, granting multi-partner households official recognition with hospital visitation rights and tenant protections.
- Christina Fialho, founder of Rewrite the BiLine, brought the polyamory protection concept to Councilmember Chelsea Lee Byers in early 2025, building on the city's March anti-discrimination ordinance adding 'family or relationship structure' as a protected class.
- Per the ordinance, three or more individuals can register with the city clerk if the relationship is consensual and members are not related by blood, though the law provides limited benefits compared to marriage or state domestic partnerships.
- Megan Katz, a 51-year-old West Hollywood librarian, criticized the ordinance for excluding existing couples, saying the language "bars registering of couples who have already declared other partnerships." Byers indicated she would pursue amendments to include twosomes.
- West Hollywood joins Somerville, Cambridge, Berkeley, and Oakland in recognizing multi-partner relationships, as supporters describe such measures as vital steps to address service barriers in housing, healthcare, and education that traditionally assume dual-income or nuclear family structures.
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Modern-Day Sodom and Gomorrah: California City Moves to Legally Recognize Polyamorous Partnerships - Charisma Magazine Online
The battle over marriage just reached an entirely new level. West Hollywood, California, has unanimously approved an ordinance allowing polyamorous relationships involving three or more adults to receive official recognition as domestic partnerships, further challenging the traditional and biblical definition of marriage and family. According to the New York Post, the City Council voted in […]
West Hollywood allows polyamorous people to register domestic partnerships
West Hollywood’s City Council approved an ordinance this week allowing people in polyamorous relationships to register as domestic partners. While the law does not confer the same rights as marriage or state domestic partnerships, it does offer certain protections to people in multi-partner relationships, the Los Angeles Times reports. Related Polyamory isn’t legally protected in the US. Why not? According to the outlet, the law creates an off…
Throuples Get Legal Recognition In California City
People in polyamorous relationships will be able to register their partnerships with West Hollywood after the California city’s council unanimously approved new legal protections Monday. The measure, which takes effect on December 2, creates a registry for relationships involving three or more adults, including throuples and groups of four or more. Registration does not create a marriage or a domestic partnership recognized under California law.…
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