Awakening : how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to America / Nathaniel Frank.
Publisher's description: The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- "Homosexual marriage?" : the stirrings of a new idea
- "What was important was that we were a household" : gay marriages and the domestic partnership alternative
- "We are criminals in the eyes of the law, and that is used against us" : sodomy, AIDS, and new alliances
- "A tectonic shift" : earthquake in Hawaii
- "The very foundations of our society are in danger" : the defense of marriage
- "Here come the brides" : laying the cornerstone in Massachusetts
- "Power to the people" : rogue weddings and ballot initiatives
- "A political awakening" : California's Proposition 8 changes the game
- "Brick by brick" : progress in the states
- "Make more snowflakes and eventually there will be an avalanche" : the battle over strategy comes to a head
- "Without any rational justification" : Proposition 8 on trial
- "A risk well worth taking" : Edie Windsor and winning marriage in New York
- "The nation is ready for it" : a president and a country evolve
- "Love survives death" : the Windsor ruling and its aftermath
- "The responsibility to right fundamental wrongs" : a circuit split sets up a showdown
- "It is so ordered" : marriage equality comes to all fifty states.