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Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political

By Kevin Alderson , Kathleen A. Lahey

Book information

Publisher
Insomniac Press
Year
2004
ISBN
1894663632, 9781894663632
LCC
HQ1033 .L34 2004
Open Library ID
OL22618586M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18568406 bytes)
Pages
382\382
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In the past three years, Canada has witnessed landmark court rulings in Ontario, BC and Quebec making it legal for gay men and lesbian women to marry. Legislation in the Netherlands and Belgium have also extended marriage to same-sex couples. Legal challenges before the US courts in Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon and California have had the same goal in mind. The same-sex marriage phenomenon is characterised on the one hand by intense personal joys and on the other by long-standing activism and historic legal reasoning.

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