The Advocate's John Casey reflects on a decade of marriage equality in new book
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May 30, 2025
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WATCH: Author Defends Controversial Marriage Equality Book
Bringing the fight to federal court, as happened in the Proposition 8 case, 'was absolutely a revolutionary step to take,' Jo Becker tells MSNBC host Ronan Farrow.
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How Emotion and Momentum Won the Marriage Equality Fight
Freedom to Marry's national campaign director reflects on the behind-the-scenes strategy that won marriage nearly nationwide.
December 2, 2014
Op-ed: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
HRC executive director Chad Griffin on the controversial book Forcing the Spring, which documents the fight for marriage equality.
April 23, 2014
Op-ed: The High Stakes of Bad History
A book chronicling the movement toward marriage equality seems to be rewriting history.
April 23, 2014
Op-ed: The Weird Relationship Between Mormons and Marriage
Ironic that leaders of the Mormon Church are still fighting to keep marriage equality off the books.
February 24, 2014
How a Queer Couple Reimagined Edie Windsor as a Comics Superhero
The marriage equality warrior gets the comic book treatment by industry vets Cat Staggs and Amanda Deibert.
November 18, 2021
How Prop. 8 Woke Up a Sleeping Gay Giant
LGBT historian Nathaniel Frank breaks down the 60-year battle for marriage equality in his new book, Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America. In this excerpt, Frank looks at how Prop. 8 catalyzed a movement.
April 24, 2017
Reversing the Re-write of LGBT History
Jo Becker's version of the gay marriage story was undone before it was even published.
July 7, 2014
Prop. 8 Defense Attorney 'Evolves' on Marriage
Charles Cooper, the lawyer who unsuccessfully argued that California's same-sex marriage ban was constitutional, now supports marriage equality and is helping plan his stepdaughter's wedding to another woman.
April 17, 2014
Queer Christian Loses Book Deal After Coming Out
Brandan Robertson's book deal was reportedly iced after he refused to sign an antihomosexuality statement.
February 24, 2015
Edie Windsor's Fight, in Her Own Words
In The People's Victory, marriage equality advocates share their battle stories. Read Edie Windsor's below.
June 7, 2018
Yet Another Reason Joe Biden Is Everyone's Favorite LGBT Ally
The vice president tweeted a photo of him officiating a same-sex wedding.
August 2, 2016
The Walls, Did Indeed, Talk
A revelatory conversation is recalled in this excerpt from The People's Victory: Stories From the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality.
August 7, 2018
Texas DMV to Married Gays: Go to Court or Get Divorced
A gay man married in Iowa says the Texas DMV discriminated against him when an employee refused to allow him to change his name to his married surname.
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December 8, 2014
The Altar and HIV
Marriage equality's effects will go beyond rights and into greater acceptance for people with HIV.
February 4, 2014
