The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

In the California campaign, Mormons, working with Catholics, became the backbone of Yes on 8 fund-raising.

“Love is the ultimate and only norm of conduct,” they told Christianity Today’s evangelical readers, and announced to them that they were “opening a channel from the churches to homosexuals.”

Chief Justice Luis Rovira wrote the majority opinion: “The measure denies homosexuals equal participation in the political process by saying they can have no redress if they feel discriminated against.” It was the first decision by the highest court in any state to rule that the denial of rights to homosexuals was unconstitutional.82 But the best w

Protease inhibitors were made widely available in 1996. In that first year, deaths from AIDS in the big cities dropped about 50 percent. Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions melted away. Michael Petrelis, who’d screamed at the CDC conference in 1987, “Drugs into bodies now!” began taking protease inhibitors when his T-cell count dropped below 100.66 Like so ma

Spyer, still a handsome woman, sitting tall in her wheelchair; and Windsor perched on the arm of the chair, decked out in pearls, her beautifully coifed hair still platinum blonde (thanks to Clairol now), were married by Canada’s first openly gay judge, Harvey Brownstone.

One of No on 8’s worst decisions was to keep kids out of the campaign. No children of same-sex couples talking about how the right to marry would help their families.

no one gay leader of the past has been widely chronicled as having had the most foresight, the most spirited plans, and the most critical triumphs, without which contemporary LGBT people couldn’t have won their own decisive civil rights victories. But if any one person deserves such credit, it is Frank Kameny.

To Ann Northrop, AIDS seemed like the war in Vietnam all over again—again the powerful didn’t care about the powerless, who were dying.

Attorney General Gale Norton appealed to the Colorado State Supreme Court to get the injunction lifted. (The issue was so heated that the proceedings were broadcast live on Court TV.)78 That august body backed Judge Bayless: Amendment 2 was dubious, the judges said. “Fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote,” one judge argued. Amendment 2

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