How Gay Marriage Equality Won in the U.S. 👬🌈 👭

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I was there and it was more important and incredible than the man walking on the moon. Every step leading up to it I watched with admiration and hope. But only when Gov.Mario Cuomo kept his promise to bring it to New York (about 2 yrs before the Supreme court) and pushed and made deals to make sure the Republicans he needed and anti marriage Democrats. It came to the last minute but the count went for us with more than we needed. Some lost their seats in Albany but there are no apologies. They did the right thing. The marriage was not for me I was newly single but not dating. I had just broken up with my partner (on unreligious grounds, but of coarse there is always more than one issue, this was a 2 yr.Rel) in Fl.. The point was that as a community we needed it and we needed everything the straight Folks had to be treated equally. There were and still are many guys and girls that don’t believe in it,  articulating this as a government program or a religious institution which in reality is neither as long as two people are not made to do it but are doing it voluntarily and taking and knotting the bow to each other. You can have anyone witness it starting with your god or no god. Priest or no priest. Up to the couple. But one needs those that give out the civil rights to give us what they give others to obtain our government benefits which  belong to all. Why should we not obtain from the government we pay for to get what is ours on excuses of sex. That is not including all the other lies that they said about us.

Before we go to the main story I wanted to give you an introduction to something I help fight for the community I belong. I will also will like to add one name in New York which should always be mentioned  when gay marriage in New York is mentioned. Mario Cuomo Jr, I know there is an underground movement to unseat powerful Democratic or Liberal, Moderate men that support us. One should be treated fairly on sex accusations, just had a reader in social media ask if I was going to kidnapped him?  All I said was when I have my apartment where Im going if you are there You are welcome to come. Sexual abuse I guess and Sex was not mentioned but I know  “La redada” when I see even without seeing it.. But with the excuse of he touched me so I was sexually abused. We need more than your friends testifying after decades but that is only applied to us not even if the guy is going to be a Justice of the Supreme Court. You have two accused sexually abusers there, those do not count. They are of the right party in power. We should be smarter and not let it happen to our people (our people are fair people of any party). This smells so bad to me. Its when I look who occupies the jails and is two minorities of Americans. Blacks and hispanics. Everyone should do their time but when you see only one side which commits as much crimes, except they are not prosecuted something smells.

What anybody does in their bedroom like we do in ours with consenting adults in no one business of no one! If they broke the law bring the investigation and proof. One picture with a comedian that always touched men and women and this time mimic a to slapp a nurse in the butt and it wasn’t  until he was in the senate making major decisions in an environment which was toxic created by a man accused of worse things but his people stood behind him and nobody touched him until the next election which he lost but he still running around a free man and never will be prosecuted on the sexual crimes he is accused of doing by so many women. We lost a senator in a powerful committee and others in New York, a Good governor for instance the second Governor, And who cares if the governor visits a prostitute as long as he pays like everybody else? 

This is all in the name of gay marriage...the fight goes on for the Z Generation which already starts coming out pre teen. Because of what you and I have done.Gay marriage brought about a wind sweeping the world with others doing the same thing because what New York does and what The United States does good or bad is followed world wide. We will continue this discussion. Be free to join.

Adam Gonzalez

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Adamfoxie Blog International

By Sarah Leeson

In the decades since Roe v. Wade, public sentiment about abortion has remained fairly steady.

By contrast, in the mid-1990s, only around a quarter of the country supported gay marriage, and then, somehow, just 15 years later, those numbers had nearly doubled.

Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage,” tracks the twists and turns that the fight for same-sex marriage in America took, from a power struggle over a parade in Hawaii to shifts in elite opinion, which all brought gay marriage from a “quirky,” niche issue in the 1990s to being federally accepted by 2015.

Main takeaways

• Just 30 years ago, same-sex marriage wasn’t on most politicians’ radars. In fact, in 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) —  which later became a massive hurdle for the gay rights community in passing marriage legislation — was perceived by some Democrats as a short-lived ploy by Republicans to drive a wedge between Clinton and the gay community during an election year. At that point, marriage was far from the main issue that the gay community was concerned with, and it ended up entirely leapfrogging other rights and protections, such as job and housing discrimination.
• One central reason marriage was able to skip the line was because of some especially wealthy proponents, according to Issenberg. While same-sex couples found that different types of legal contracts could mimic many of the legal functions of marriage, such as allowing hospital visitation, one key marital element was missing: protection from the estate tax. Keeping assets in the hands of a spouse rather than the government mattered a lot to the uber-wealthy, such as Tim Gill — an openly gay man who had become rich during the dot-com bubble. In 2005, he gathered like-minded elites to fund a campaign to get a case on same-sex marriage in front of the Supreme Court. The hope was to be heard by 2025, but they far exceeded that goal when same-sex marriage was legalized for the entire country in 2015.
• The massive shift in public opinion, as well as the speed at which it happened, was unprecedented. Many civil rights issues take roughly 75 years to succeed, such as overturning Jim Crow-era laws or achieving suffrage for women. In this case, polls indicate that the largest reason people shifted their views on gay marriage was realizing that they had personal connections with gay and lesbian people, and more people were coming out than ever. Politicians then had to conform to public sentiment. For instance, it was a changing Democratic base that pushed Barack Obama in 2012 to announce that his thinking on the issue “had evolved,” Issenberg says.