The secret history of gay marriage |

Contents:

• WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• FROM “PARTNER” TO “HBAND”: MEET ONE OF THE FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL N.L.
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
• MY RGSI SEAT ON THE : 'SOMEONE HAD TO BE THE FIRST GAY UPLE TO MARRY'
• CORONATN STREET’S DANIEL BROCKLEBANK SHAR TAILS OF SOAP’S FIRST GAY WEDDG STORYLE: ‘I’M HONOURED’
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• BOOK TELLS THE LOVE STORY BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E

"We jt wanted to make sure that the world saw the most posive si of beg a gay uple. (The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said.

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ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

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FROM “PARTNER” TO “HBAND”: MEET ONE OF THE FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL N.L.

The characters don't make all of the way to full acceptance of gay rights by the end of the episo. " Roc posns the fight for gay rights as on a ntuum wh all other civil rights battl, and that was somethg few other elements of pop culture were alg wh at the time.

Beg homophobic is simple when you don't know any gay people. It's far more plited when your own brother or uncle is gay. SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004).

THE SECRET HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

AdvertisementSKIP Jimenez for The New York TimMay 16, 2015MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the fight over same-sex marriage began earnt, long before gay upl began lg up for marriage licens, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell cid to year was 1967.

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Lynn uple, now their early 70s, spoke this month a rare terview the hoe they share here, nearly half a century after they joed their liv and earned a place the history of gay rights, helpg to make Mnota an early center of gay Baker said he was proud that the Supreme Court this year heard the very same nstutnal arguments of equal protectn and due procs that he had intified as a law stunt 2013, when the Mnota Legislature thorized same-sex marriage and a state senator announced, “Today, love ws, ” Mr.

MY RGSI SEAT ON THE : 'SOMEONE HAD TO BE THE FIRST GAY UPLE TO MARRY'

”For a time the early 1970s, the two had starrg natnal rol as spokmen for gay equaly, pecially Mr.

CORONATN STREET’S DANIEL BROCKLEBANK SHAR TAILS OF SOAP’S FIRST GAY WEDDG STORYLE: ‘I’M HONOURED’

26, 1971, issue on “The Amerin Fay, ” they were featured as “The Homosexual Couple.

”“Some homosexuals — a mory — live together stable, often long-lastg relatnships, like Baker’s and McConnell’s, ” the article Mr.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Baker was elected 1971 as the openly gay stunt-body print of the Universy of Mnota, Walter Cronke reported on the nightly news. The uple appeared together on the fluential Phil Donahue and David Sskd by 1980, trated as the marriage issue failed to take off and unr attack by gay lears who lled them “crazi” for refg to make polil promis, they dropped out of public life. McConnell that he would figure out a way to, he beme the first print of FREE, for Fight Reprsn of Erotic Exprsn, which was among the untry’s earlit llege anizatns for gay rights.

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BOOK TELLS THE LOVE STORY BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

McConnell threw his energy to creatg one of the untry’s earlit gay muny centers, and the uple scraped by on $75 a month om the G. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Like upl before them, gay men and lbians found they uld e their weddgs to make a statement about the world and the place of their relatnship . Digned to reflect an alternative approach to love and marriage, “The Weddg, ” part of the 1987 March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights, rejected the narrow fn of marriage that limed the relatnship to members of the oppose sex.

Gay muny lears emphasized the polil ponent of the celebratn.