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The "life partner" of a gay man who died of AIDS has the same right as a family member to remain in the couple's rented apartment, a State Supreme Court justice ruled yesterday.
Citing an emergency bulletin from the state's Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Justice Helen E. Freedman in Manhattan reversed her previous decision and ruled that Michael Brown, 31, may stay in the $161-a-month, one-bedroom apartment at 262 W. 22nd St. where he had lived with the late Robert Hayes for eight years. Hayes died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in February, 1985.
"The uncontroverted evidence is that his {Brown's} relationship to Robert Hayes was indeed as close as that of a family member," Freedman wrote in her...