Back 1989, Andrew Sullivan looked at an issue not unlike the on cid upon by the Supreme Court today: the right of a gay man to rema his ceased partner’s apartment. This led to his then-radil asssment of “unnventnal relatnships nventnal society”: The way to tackle the relatnships was “the legalizatn of gay marriage.” The argument for gay marriage, Sullivan wro...
Contents:
- ANDREW SULLIVAN: WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
- ANDREW SULLIVAN'S 1989 "SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE" IS STILL THE BT I'VE EVER READ
- FROM THE STACKS: ANDREW SULLIVAN ON GAY CULTURE
- ANDREW SULLIVAN ON BARACK OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE EVOLUTN
- THE TI THAT DIVI: A CONVERSATN ON GAY MARRIAGE WH ANDREW SULLIVAN AND GERARD BRADLEY
- ANDREW SULLIVAN: BEG GAY AND CATHOLIC
- ANDREW SULLIVAN: IF CATHOLICS CAN ACCEPT DIVORCE, THEY SHOULD ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE
- THE CASE FOR THE BAKER THE GAY-WEDDG CULTURE WAR
ANDREW SULLIVAN: WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
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Last month New York, a urt led that a gay lover had the right to stay his ceased partner’s rent-ntrol apartment bee the lover qualified as a member of the ceased’s fay.
ANDREW SULLIVAN'S 1989 "SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE" IS STILL THE BT I'VE EVER READ
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Chastened liberals (such as the New York Tim edorial page), while endorsg the regnn of gay relatnships, also worried about the abe of already stretched entlements that the lg threatened. The judge led that to all tents and purpos a gay lover is part of his lover’s fay, asmuch as a “fay” merely means an terwoven social life, emotnal mment, and some level of fancial terpennce.
FROM THE STACKS: ANDREW SULLIVAN ON GAY CULTURE
"That alternative is the legalizatn of civil gay marriage." * andrew sullivan gay marriage *
Gays are not the only beneficiari; heterosexual “live-togethers” also ’s an argument, of urse, that the current legal advantag extend to married people unfairly discrimate agast people who’ve shaped their liv ls nventnal arrangements. One of the worst products of the New Right’s “fay valu” mpaign is that s extremism and hatred of diversy has disguised this more measured and more nvcg se for the importance of the maral ncept of domtic partnership ignor the ncerns, ed directly attacks them, this is a py, sce one of s most important objectiv—providg some civil regnn for gay relatnships—is a noble e and one pletely patible wh the fense of the fay.
ANDREW SULLIVAN ON BARACK OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE EVOLUTN
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But for many other gays—my gus, a majory—while they don’t ny the importance of rebelln 20 years ago and are grateful for what was done, there’s now the sense of a new opportuny.
And unlike domtic partnership, harns to an already tablished social nventn the yearngs for stabily and acceptance among a fast-maturg gay marriage also plac more rponsibili upon gays: It says for the first time that gay relatnships are not better or worse than straight relatnships, and that the same is expected of them.
Legalizg gay marriage would offer homosexuals the same al society now offers heterosexuals: general social approval and specific legal advantag exchange for a eper and harr-to-extract-yourself om mment to another human beg. As has bee more acceptable for gay people to acknowledge their lov publicly, more and more have mted themselv to one another for life full view of their fai and their iends, A law stutnalizg gay marriage would merely rerce a healthy social trend. The only possible effect of this sort would be to persua gay men and women who force themselv to heterosexual marriage (often at appallg st to themselv and their fai) to fd a foc for their fay stcts a more personally posive environment.
THE TI THAT DIVI: A CONVERSATN ON GAY MARRIAGE WH ANDREW SULLIVAN AND GERARD BRADLEY
Andrew Sullivan, renowned Dish blogger, journalist, thor and activist, lost a lot of iends to HIV and AIDS on his way to beg a proment LGBTQ activist. “You n’t really talk about gay rights whout referrg to the AIDS epimic,” he said. “Durg my human rights mpaign for same-sex marriage licenc, promently the years... * andrew sullivan gay marriage *
It uld brg the sence of gay life—a gay uple—to the heart of the tradnal straight fay a way the fay n most unrstand and the gay offsprg n most easily acknowledge. Given the fact that we already allow legal gay relatnships, what possible social goal is advanced by amg the law to enurage the relatnships to be unfahful, unveloped, and secure? And as I experienced timacy and love for the first time as an adult, all that brtlens of the gay adolcent, all that whe-knuckled embarrassment, all those s and exc and dark, ep prsns lifted.
ANDREW SULLIVAN: BEG GAY AND CATHOLIC
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And nservativ were termed to keep them isolatn, stigmatized and kept on an embarrassg, unmentnable marg, where gays uld be ed to buttrs the primacy of heterosexualy.
ANDREW SULLIVAN: IF CATHOLICS CAN ACCEPT DIVORCE, THEY SHOULD ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE
But we were not talkg of relig marriage and were more than eager to sist, as New York state, on the vlable relig eedom of church, mosqu, and synagogu to reta their bans on gay marriage.
And when the data showed that the era of gay marriage, straight marriage had actually strengthened somewhat, divorce rat had cled, and marriag lasted longer, even those who worried about untend nsequenc nced that the argument was sentially over.
THE CASE FOR THE BAKER THE GAY-WEDDG CULTURE WAR
Bh's solicor general, Ted Olson, would lead the legal fight agast Proposn 8 California; that a Reagan-appoted judge, Anthony Kennedy, would be the foremost Supreme Court jtice affirmg gay and lbian equaly; and that Albany, the end, the wng vot me om Republins who voted their urse this is new and not so new. And when we won, and got our first fact on the ground, we ed faced exactly that backlash and all the major gay rights groups refed to spend a dime on protectg the breakthrough … and we fact, we lost and lost and lost aga.