"They fought hard for the right to marry the person they love, and with each of their victories, the ones we love. Writing the book brought me into conversation with so many others, not only those who I interviewed and wrote about for the book, but also couples who approached me at book signings or sent messages after reading it, eager to tell me about their own marriages."
"Many assume the movement began in the mid-2000s, but it didn't. The struggle stretches back over half a century, most notably to a sizzling September day in 1972 when Jack Baker and Michael McConnell became the first same-sex couple to, very briefly, legally marry. They found a loophole that was quickly closed, and they went on to fight hard to make their marriage legal."
Conversations with couples revealed personal costs and family rejection experienced by those who fought for marriage equality. Many activists and ordinary people risked privacy and safety to secure the right to marry. The movement's origins trace back more than fifty years to Jack Baker and Michael McConnell's brief 1972 legal marriage and subsequent legal struggle. Decades of advocacy, legal creativity, and courage culminated in landmark victories including Obergefell. The Supreme Court's decision to consider a challenge brought by a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses signals a renewed legal threat to marriage equality.
Read at Advocate.com
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