Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages

by Karen Kahn, Marilyn Humphries (Photographer), Patricia A. Gozemba

Overview

On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted equal marriage benefits to same-sex couples. The decision provoked a searing public debate over the meaning of marriage and family, civil rights, and the role of religion in law and society. But the experiment went forward nonetheless: thousands of Massachusetts gays and lesbians married and, remarkably, the sky did not fall.

Through engaging storytelling and powerful photographs, Courting Equality takes readers through the volatile public debate following the decision and introduces some of the many lesbian and gay families who have taken advantage of equal marriage laws. In Massachusetts, equal marriage has not destroyed the family but rather has reinforced the importance of love, commitment, fairness, and equality to the functioning of healthy democratic communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807066201
Publisher:	Beacon
Publication date:	05/16/2007
Series:	Lesbian and Gay Studies Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 10.26(h) x 0.86(d)