As much as we dislike Obama's wishy washy approach to gay rights advocy, Sen. Boxer is a stnch supporter of equaly. If the protters are ser perhaps they should spend time raisg money for Boxer and her progrsive agenda.
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BOXER HEDG BETS ON GAY MARRIAGE
1970-1977Star Tribune via Getty Imag//Getty ImagA year after the Stonewall rts, which hered a wave of gay rights activism, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell (pictured here) were the first same-sex uple to apply for a marriage license the Uned Stat. Baker and McConnell are still happily married, acrdg to an terview nducted by the New York Tim 2015, when gay marriage was legalized across the 1973, Maryland passed a statute banng same-sex marriage.
GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE
1993Getty ImagAcrdg to Harvard Magaze, legal regnn of gay marriage didn't pick up until the late '80s, given that the foc of gay activism had been more about the crimalizatn of gay sex.
In the early '90s, group ceremoni were performed for upl durg Gay Rights March. 1994Courty of MTVPedro Zamora (right) was the first openly-gay, HIV-posive man to appear on televisn—on MTV's The Real World: San Francis.