Gay rights mpaigners n creasgly look to untri like the UK, France and the U.S. for spiratn and mon e, but their opponents are also mobilisg on an ternatnal sle agast plans to perm same-sex marriage, many of them uned by relig fah.
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THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE
Yet also found unr s equal protectn analysis that if straight people uld get married, gay people mt be able to get married as well. So the qutn be whether gay people mt also be afford the right to marry whout regard to their sex or sexual orientatn. To the ntrary, the equal protectn jurispnce has attempted to upend tradns that have led to the subordatn of particular groups — whether abolishg a long tradn of barrg racial mori om servg on juri, a long tradn of excludg women om state-fund universi or a long tradn of subordatg gay, lbian and bisexual people.
Unr Dobbs’s problematic “eply rooted the natn’s history” formulatn, the long history of anti-gay discrimatn unrm many gay-rights arguments.
McDarrah/Getty ImagThe Supreme Court’s cisn affirmg the right to same-sex marriage across the Uned Stat is a joyo moment for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins. But uld also be the swan song for the movement for gay eedom that began after World War is unfortunate that the movement’s two great victori of the last — the right to serve openly the ary and the right to be married — have e as progrs has stalled or reversed so many other areas of civil rights: equal pay and reproductive choice for women; hog and school segregatn; police vlence agast mori; and the prospects of a cent wage and a modicum of job and retirement secury for is no accint that the one civil rights law that would likely apply to the greatt numbers of gays — a ban on discrimatn employment and hog on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty — ntu to elu .
OPN: WHY THE FS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
An anti-discrimatn law creat substantial sts not only for the ernment, which mt enforce , but also for rporatns, which mt ply wh ; lettg gays to ary service and to the stutn of marriage do not. In rponse, many lbians and gay men who were unterted marryg put asi their doubts for the such uny of purpose at a price. Freedom to Marry, the advocy group that has led the marriage equaly movement, was 2013 the largt recipient of money om foundatns that foc on gay .
Will even a actn of the energy and money that have been poured to the marriage fight be available to transgenr people, homels teenagers, victims of job discrimatn, lbian and gay refuge and asylum seekers, isolated gay elrly or other vulnerable members of our muny?
Around the same time New York State legalized same-sex marriage, 2011, was slashg funds for servic to homels youth, who are disproportnately gay or movement for gay rights that began after World War II was waged om society’s margs; s most outspoken proponents sought to overturn social nventn, not jo .
HOW TO MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE GAYER
It was not at all evable that the movement would one day alce around 1953, the first year of s publitn, the natnal gay magaze ONE dismissed the ia that gays might one day be allowed to marry. Though the Supreme Court led the magaze’s favor, many gay publitns, bs and bars were forced to close the 1950s and the 1969 Stonewall uprisg Manhattan — a rponse to a police raid on a gay bar — the movement quickly built on the mands of femists and black radils. Ford, yet his life was stroyed when the prs found out that he was gay.
When the tennis champn Billie Jean Kg was outed as a lbian 1981, she lost many of her mercial AIDS crisis of the 1980s vastated the gay muny, but also mobilized . The crisis revealed, matters like child ctody, hospal visatn and end-of-life re, the impact of excludg gays om even as AIDS renewed longstandg fear of gays, also propelled them to the polil mastream.
In the two s sce pharmactil advanc ma AIDS ls lethal the Uned Stat, the gay rights movement has creasgly ma allianc wh ernment and even rporatns to prs s very recently, most gay victori were won at the lol or state level; the feral ernment lagged.