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Gay Marriage

Politics

The Perfect Wife

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.

Ariel Levy New Yorker Sep 2013 30min Permalink

Meet the Gay Mormon Men (and Their Wives) Beseeching SCOTUS to Save 'Traditional' Marriage

Danny Caldwell is openly gay. He’s married. And he’s against gay marriage.

James Ross Gardner Talking Points Memo Jun 2015 15min Permalink

Politics Religion

To Love and to Cherish

The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.

Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Mar 2015 40min Permalink

Sex Religion

A Changed Woman

A survivor of conversion therapy gets the wedding of her dreams.

Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Sep 2014 15min Permalink

Arts

For Better or Worse?

The case for gay marriage.

Jonathan Rauch The New Republic May 1996 15min Permalink

Politics

The Gay-Marriage Plot: Inside This Year's Other High-Stakes Campaign

The activists, politicians, and social trends that led to 2012’s gay marriage victories.

Molly Ball The Atlantic Dec 2012 10min Permalink

The Wedding

Erwynn Umali, Will Behrens, and the first gay wedding on a military base.

Katherine Goldstein Slate Jul 2012 25min Permalink

History

Gay Marriage’s Jewish Pioneer

Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.

Eli Sanders Tablet Jun 2012 Permalink

Bill and Doug Got Married*

A couple’s story.

Justin Heckert Atlanta Magazine Feb 2005 Permalink

The Tree of Strife

Two Houston performance artists faux-marry an oak. Controversy ensues about the live installation’s relationship to the gay marriage debate.

Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Mar 2012 25min Permalink

The Making of Gay Marriage’s Top Foe

A profile of Maggie Gallagher, founder of National Organization for Marriage.

Mark Oppenheimer Salon Feb 2012 35min Permalink