Love Unites Us: Winning the Freedom to Marry in AmericaVictory may sometimes look like a sudden revolution when, in truth, it rests on years of struggle. The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites Us is the history of activists’ passion and persistence in the struggle for marriage rights for same-sex couples in the United States, told in the words of those who waged the battle. Launching the fight for the freedom to marry was neither an obvious nor an uncontested strategy. To many activists, achieving marriage equality seemed far-fetched, but the skeptics were proved wrong. Proactive arguments in favor of love, family, and commitment were more effective than arguments that focused on rights and the goal of equality at work. Telling the stories of people who loved and cared for one another, in sickness and in health, cut through the antigay noise and moved people—not without backlash and not overnight, but faster than most activists and observers had ever imagined. With compelling stories from leading attorneys and activists including Evan Wolfson, Mary L. Bonauto, Jon W. Davidson, and Paul M. Smith, Love Unites Us explains how gay and lesbian couples achieved the right to marry. |
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Contents
Arguing Lawrence v Texas at the Supreme Court | |
My Mothers Said I do | |
Matt Coles | |
Eleven Years to Marriage in New Jersey | |
Kitchen v Herbert | |
Indianas Express Path to Equality | |
Marriage in Florida | |
Bonauto | |
HodgesA Leap of Love | |
After ThirtyNine Years Married Under the | |
The Ongoing Struggle for LGBT Rights | |
Winning Marriage Equality in the California Courts | |
Asian Americans and Modern Marriage | |
Proposition 8 | |
Hollingsworth v Perry | |
Tested at the Ballot Box in 2012 | |
The words gay and marriage were not even used in the same sentence | |
My LoveHate Relationship with Marriage | |
Dru Levasseur reprinted with permission from Vermont Law Review | |
A Return to the Root | |
Notes | |
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| Title | Love Unites Us: Winning the Freedom to Marry in America |
| Editors | Kevin Cathcart, Leslie Gabel-Brett |
| Publisher | New Press, The, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1620971771, 9781620971772 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Law / Civil Rights Law / Family Law / Marriage Social Science / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies |
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