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Awakening  n a t h a n i e l f r a n k Awa k e n ing    How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to Amer i ca The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass a chus etts • London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by Nathaniel Frank All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Frank, Nathaniel, author. Title: Awakening : how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to Amer i ca / Nathaniel Frank. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016041974 | ISBN 9780674737228 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Same- sex marriage— United States— History. | Gay culture— United States— History. | Gays— Legal status, laws, etc.— United States— History. | Gay liberation movement— United States— History. | Gay rights— United States— History. Classification: LCC HQ1034.U5 F73 2017 | DDC 306.76/6— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov/2016041974 In memory of Frank Kameny, 1925–2011  For Dominick, my husband It’s just pos si ble that a small and despised sexual minority w ill change Amer ic a forever. — Andrew Kopkind, The Nation, 1993 Contents List of Abbreviations xi Prologue 1 1 “Homosexual Marriage?” 11 the stirrings of a new idea 2 “What Was Impor tant Was That We Were a House hold” 37 gay marriages and the domestic partnership alternative 3 “We Are Criminals in the Eyes of the Law” 59 sodomy, aids, and new alliances 4 “A Tectonic Shift” 77 earthquake in hawaii 5 “The Very Foundations of Our Society Are in Danger” 102 the defense of marriage 6 “ Here Come the Brides” 126 laying the cornerstone in mas sa chu setts 7 “Power to the People” 150 rogue weddings and ballot initiatives 8 “A Po liti cal Awakening” 173 california’s proposition 8 changes the game 9 “Brick by Brick” 193 pro gress in the states 10 “ Make More Snowflakes and There Will Be an Avalanche” 217 battles over strategy come to a head 11 “Without Any Rational Justification” 233 proposition 8 on trial ix

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