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Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on Politicians and Pundits and Won - LGBTQ+ Rights Book for Activists, History Enthusiasts, and Social Justice Advocates
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Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on Politicians and Pundits and Won - LGBTQ+ Rights Book for Activists, History Enthusiasts, and Social Justice Advocates Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on Politicians and Pundits and Won - LGBTQ+ Rights Book for Activists, History Enthusiasts, and Social Justice Advocates
Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on Politicians and Pundits and Won - LGBTQ+ Rights Book for Activists, History Enthusiasts, and Social Justice Advocates
Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on Politicians and Pundits and Won - LGBTQ+ Rights Book for Activists, History Enthusiasts, and Social Justice Advocates
Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on Politicians and Pundits and Won - LGBTQ+ Rights Book for Activists, History Enthusiasts, and Social Justice Advocates
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Ten years ago no state allowed same-sex couples to marry, support for gay marriage nationwide hovered around 30 percent, and politicians everywhere thought of it as the third rail of American politics--draw near at your peril. Today, same-sex couples can marry in seventeen states, polls consistently show majority support, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe legalization is inevitable. In Winning Marriage Marc Solomon, a veteran leader in the movement for marriage equality, gives the reader a seat at the strategy-setting and decision-making table in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. With depth and grace he reveals the inner workings of the advocacy movement that has championed and protected advances won in legislative, court, and electoral battles over the decade since the landmark Massachusetts ruling guaranteeing marriage for same-sex couples for the first time. From the gritty battles in the state legislatures of Massachusetts and New York to the devastating loss at the ballot box in California in 2008 and subsequent ballot wins in 2012 to the joyous victories of securing President Obama's support and prevailing in the Supreme Court, Marc Solomon has been at the center of one of the great civil and human rights movements of our time. Winning Marriage recounts the struggle with some of the world's most powerful forces--the Catholic hierarchy, the religious right, and cynical ultraconservative political operatives--and the movement's eventual triumph.
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Bravo! Absolutely thrilling...and far beyond other books that explore little more than a snapshot in a decades-long journey, yet claim title to "the definitive account of the fight to win the rights of marriage and full citizenship for all....."No book can do that, and humbly Marc Solomon neither attempts that, nor claims that. What he has written has breath-holding tension and suspense, even though we know its outcome...at least as far as its publication date. (And what incredible advances continue!)Solomon has shown the exhausting groundwork and achievements of literally thousands of people and countless legal cases that have been the foundation of the seismic advancement of gay marriage. He shares credit generously, never fawning, and does so with a masterful delivery, panoramic in scope. It is a work that we can justly cite for its in-depth, honest contribution to LGBTQ history.One point I take issue with, though, and it is NOT a minor point at all. Mr. Solomon, it must be an unimaginable challenge to credit so many participants and achievements, but you seriously omitted one major, even historic luminary. Should another edition be forthcoming, I sincerely hope you will correct the unfortunate exclusion.You took Barack Obama to task for his choice of the phobic Rick Warren as Inaugural Poet in 2009. Justly so. The man was an insult to our community.In contrast, Richard Blanco was Obama's 2nd Inaugural Poet in 2013, only the 5th in the history of our nation. Latino, he is not only the youngest, he is openly gay. Your omission was ungracious. It is not only Mr. Blanco's brilliance that shone that day, it was the blatant, unabashed reflection of a President who had, finally, "evolved."

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