The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS: WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- GAY MARRIAGE
- WHY GAY MARRIAGE MATTERS
- WHY GAY MARRIAGE MATTERS TO ME
- WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS (TO STRAIGHTS AND GAYS ALIKE)
GAY RIGHTS: WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS
Gay rights: Why marriage matters * why gay marriage matters *
Supreme Court lgs this month on two same-sex marriage s, June — the tradnal month for weddgs and pri paras — giv gay people the chance to reflect: How have their own liv and views changed sce a Hawaii urt lg first thst marriage equaly onto the natnal stage 20 years ago? For many gay people, cludg for me, the weight of this prospect has taken a while to sk .
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * why gay marriage matters *
” When Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage, I was thrilled — but my ey foced on the 49 remag stat.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Even now, as the urt appears poised to strike down the feral Defense of Marriage Act, I fear that the related lg on California’s Proposn 8 uld fall short of endg marriage bans all OP-ED: Fightg for gay marriage and immigratn reformStill, an end to DOMA might fally rolve somethg that’s long hred my abily to fully celebrate progrs on marriage equaly. Ined, the 1970s and 1980s, when jt a handful of visnari had uttered “gay” and “marriage” the same breath, many LGBT Amerins took ltle note of the ia and some actively opposed were foced more on securg privacy for their srned relatnships than wng the kd of public regnn that marriage reprents.
GAY MARRIAGE
TIMELINE: Gay marriage chronologyIn terviews I nducted for a history of the gay-marriage movement, a proment lbian legal activist told me she was ncerned about “leavg some of our own people behd” by fixatg on marriage. And over time, the ia of marriage equaly not only attracted more support om straight Amerins but also won over gays nfirm this trend. A 2007 Hunter College poll shows that younger gay people rank marriage and parentg rights at the top of their list of policy prri, while gays and lbians over 65 hardly rank them at all.
In my view, ’s a fundamental gredient of what marriage is — for gays and straights foc on ncrete benefs, for all their value, downplays a ccial functn of marriage: to engage our muny not only publicly celebratg our private mments but also enforcg them. I often hear gay people exprs some variety of this sentiment: “I don’t need the state’s stamp of approval for my love” or “I don’t re what straight people thk of my relatnship, so long as I have equal rights.
WHY GAY MARRIAGE MATTERS
Gay people serve the same accs to the stutn of marriage enjoyed by straight people bee our need for support is intil to theirs.
WHY GAY MARRIAGE MATTERS TO ME
It’s also why gay support (and donatns) for Print Obama surged when our natn’s lear endorsed same-sex marriage last year.
WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS (TO STRAIGHTS AND GAYS ALIKE)
Nathaniel Frank, thor of “Uniendly Fire” and a visg scholar at Columbia’s Center for Genr and Sexualy Law, is wrg a book lled “The Anti-Gay Md.
Ined, arose cultur that had no ncept of sexual orientatn and some that fully accepted homoeroticism and even took for granted. [25] Proment scholars and LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) activists have lled for “marriage equaly” for multipartner relatnships sce at least 2006.