Love: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality - RIZZOLI
LOVE : The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality, Frankie Frankeny.
Celebrating the history of the LGBTQ+ community’s marriage equality
movement from the 1950s until today, this triumphant journey is
presented in compelling stories of the pioneering couples, along with
winning photographs.
This beautiful, moving tome honors the
brave LGBTQ+ couples, activists, and allies who fought for and
ultimately gained the right to marry. The chronological presentation of
100 inspiring stories of these dauntless partners up to the
strategists of today, recount how they were instrumental in bringing
about this basic civil right. Beginning in the pre-1970s era when gay
couples were nearly invisible, the story then shifts to the growing
activism of the 1980s and 1990s, continues with the landmark Supreme
Court ruling in 2015, which granted full marriage equality across the
nation, and concludes with an exploration of current issues. These
moving profiles, along with archival images, feature couples from major
court cases, such as Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, along with
well-known personalities whose narratives helped draw attention to
marriage equality, including Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni,
George and Brad Takei, and Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.