Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America

by Nathaniel Frank

Book Overview

The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that once seemed unfathomable--and for many gays and lesbians undesirable--became a legal and moral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737229
• ISBN13: 9780674737228
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"