Gay Marriage Movement News, Opn, and Analysis—The New Yorker

Contents:

• THE GAY-MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
• HOW A GAY-MARRIAGE STUDY WENT WRONG
• FROM GUNS TO GAY MARRIAGE, HOW DID RIGHTS TAKE OVER POLICS?

THE GAY-MARRIAGE MOVEMENT

”June 26, 2015News DkA New Era for Gay Rights? Acceptance go beyond the urtrooms: the number of Amerins who support marriage between same-sex upl is the hight has ever 17, 2015Amy Davidson SorkCan Gay Coupl Be Turned Away North Carola?

HOW A GAY-MARRIAGE STUDY WENT WRONG

Gays and lbians have had the right to marry North Carola sce October, but some magistrat have simply ignored the lg. April 30, 2015News DkThe Polil Scene: The Jtic and the JokeMargaret Talbot and Jefey Toob jo host Amelia Lter to talk about recent chang Amerin attus toward gay marriage and gay 30, 2015Daily CommentJtice Slia's Shameful JokeA shockg, ugly moment om Obergefell v. May 18, 2015ProfilThe Perfect WifeHow Edh Wdsor fell love, got married, and won a landmark se for gay marriage.

September 23, 2013A Cric at LargeLove on the MarchReflectns on the gay muny’s polil progrs—and s future. November 4, 2012A Reporter at LargeA Risky ProposalFrom 2010: Proposn 8 and the argument for the nventnaly of gay upl.

That gay marriage would bee legal after only a twenty-five-year fight, Issenberg wr, “was beyond the wilst hop of gay-rights activists jt years before. Durg our nversatn, which has been eded for length and clary, we discsed what ma the stggle for gay marriage distct om other civil-rights movements, how Tmp’s electn shifted the foc of social nservatism away om sexual polics, and what this fight n tell about future civil-rights is the stggle for gay marriage Ameri different om other stggl for civil rights Amerin history?

FROM GUNS TO GAY MARRIAGE, HOW DID RIGHTS TAKE OVER POLICS?

And one sential element is that, unlike race and genr, people generally have the abily to ntrol the circumstanc unr which they acknowledge and disclose the fact that they are gay or lbian. And so the procs of g out, which is the unrlyg social enge of a lot of the opn change that leads to polil and legal victori, is somethg that’s available to members of the gay and lbian muny that is not available to Ain-Amerins or to women, their I still n’t ci whether this is a profound observatn or a banal one, but most gay people are born to straight people—which means that they are, one prum, evenly distributed across the populatn, which is to say that they’re not geographilly ncentrated, that the likelihood of anybody the untry g to know somebody as a neighbor or a fay member or a classmate who’s gay or lbian is probably more or ls equally distributed. And we’ve seen across gay-rights issu, not jt marriage, that the bt predictor of liberal attus has always been how somebody answers the qutn “Do you have a iend, fay member, or -worker who’s gay or lbian?

That people get some gree of cultural or social acceptance, then feel fortable g out, and then the people around them regnize that they know somebody who’s gay or lbian. I mean, I thk that this is someplace where wrg about marriage is different than wrg about the entirety of the gay-rights movement.

There was a much longer perd of the broar qut for equal rights for gays and lbians, when activists were operatg whout much acknowledgment om, reactn om, and teractn wh the polil class or stutns. And so I thk when people have wrten histori of gay activism the neteen-fifti or sixti or seventi, there are far fewer policians or judg there. No signifint gay-rights group the untry had endorsed marriage as an objective.