A lol gay rights activist lnched a publicy stunt that beme so much more. Congrs uldn’t help but notice.
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JAM O’KEEFE’S GAY MARRIAGE STUNT PROV WHY WE SHOULDN’T LEGISLATE LOVE
* gay marriage stunt *
Over many of the years between, whether gays and lbians should be permted to marry was the most divisive social qutn the untry. (To the extent that there were active disagreements about the topic, they were aired wh gay and lbian legal circl, where differenc persisted on both the prciple and strategy of pursug marriage rights.
) Not a sgle major gay-rights group formally embraced marriage rights for s re nstuency until the Hawaii Supreme Court May 1993 gave unexpected blsg to the e, the unexpected oute of the legal procs that Bill Woods began that morng Honolulu. The history of gay activism Oahu, Hawaii’s most populo island, was largely the story of Bill Woods’ g-out. Soon Woods’ public profile was extribly lked wh his stat as a gay man.
In 1972, he found a gay social-service anizatn he lled the Sexual Inty Center bee he didn’t thk the proment, largely straight psychologists and lawyers whose volvement he sought would flock to serve on a board whose name bore an explic reference to homosexualy.