Equality For All

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What do you think about this picture? Are you shocked by this picture? You cannot say anything judgmental about this picture. You have to respect them because they also love and they also feel each other as a lover. Especially Asian people cannot understand, but it should be accepted. Some people are prejudiced against gays, it is easy to say that many people do that. However, it is not normal people’s business but gay people who have right to love. I know it is really hard to understand their mind and accept them if they were your family member. However, they are fighting to get right and to explain to people they also can love each other.

Marriage equality was not then a priority of gay activists. Rather, they focused on decriminalizing consensual sex between same-sex partners, securing legislation forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation in public accommodations and employment, and electing the nation’s first openly gay public officials. Indeed, most gays and lesbians at the time were deeply ambivalent about marriage. Lesbian feminists tended to regard the institution as oppressive, given the traditional rules that defined it, such as coverture and immunity from rape. Most sex radicals objected to traditional marriage’s insistence on monogamy; for them, gay liberation meant sexual liberation.

Only in the late 1980s did activists begin to pursue legal recognition of their relationships—and even gay marriage. The AIDS epidemic had highlighted the vulnerability of gay and lesbian partnerships: nearly 50,000 people had died of AIDS, two-thirds of them gay men; the median age of the deceased was 36. An entire generation of young gay men was forced to contemplate legal issues surrounding their relationships: hospital visitation, surrogate medical decisionmaking, and property inheritance. In addition, the many gay and lesbian baby boomers who were becoming parents sought legal recognition of their families.

Still, as late as 1990, roughly 75 percent of Americans believed homosexual sex to be immoral, only 29 percent supported gay adoptions, and only 10 percent to 20 percent supported same-sex marriage. Not a single jurisdiction in the world had yet embraced marriage equality.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/03/how-same-sex-marriage-came-to-be