The engagement : America's quarter-century struggle over same-sex marriage
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2021].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
346.7301 ISSENBE
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346.7301 ISSENBE
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 911 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to the Goodridge decision that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, and finally to the seminal Supreme Court decisions of Windsor and Obergefell. This meticulously reported work sheds new light on every aspect of this fraught history and brings to life the perspectives of those who fought courageously for the right to marry as well as those who fervently believed that same-sex marriage would destroy the nation. It is sure to become the definitive book on one of the most important civil rights fights of our time"--,Provided by publisher