The Gay Marriage Generation by Peter Hart-Brinson

Author:Peter Hart-Brinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York University Press

If they’re gay and they’re in love, let them get married. That, I don’t see, it’s just, it’s discrimination and we should have, I thought we did away with it all in the sixties with the Civil Rights Movement, and we, we didn’t have to go through any of that shit again. (Terrence, nineteen)

Interestingly, informants thought that, just like racial progress, true equality for lesbians and gays would be achieved only over the long term:

I think sooner or later it’s going to be legalized. It’s one of those issues that we inch forward, that we inch closer to day by day. But it’s just, it’s just like equality for blacks. It’s something that, yeah, they were freed during the Civil War, but it took them over a hundred years to get on the same status as white people. It’s not something that’s just going to happen overnight. (Simon, twenty-four)

Last, because I conducted my interviews around the time of the 2008 election of Barack Obama, the idea of a black president served as an analogy for the possibility that gay marriage would be legalized one day:

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