Persistence pays in fight for marriage equality
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Growing up gay in the 1970s, the only boy-meets-boy or girl-meets-girl love stories I recall were those whispered about, mostly in derogatory terms. Gay men and lesbians were in our lives, but there was nothing “mainstream” about it — far from it. And marriage equality was not something that most of us could even contemplate.
Continue ReadingIt took a strong but unassuming woman who came of age decades before me, in an era of even less acceptance of gays and lesbians, to grasp the brass ring of marriage equality. That woman, of course, is Edith Windsor.
When Edie and Thea Spyer got engaged in the late 1960s, Edie couldn’t wear an engagement ring because of the questions it would raise at IBM, where she worked — questions she knew she couldn’t answer honestly about their “love that couldn’t
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