(Ebook) Awakening by Nathaniel Frank ISBN 9780674977563, 0674977564

(Ebook) Awakening by Nathaniel Frank ISBN 9780674977563, 0674977564

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1. "Homosexual Marriage?": The Stirrings of a New Idea -- 2. "What Was Important Was That We Were a Household": Gay Marriages and the Domestic Partnership Alternative -- 3. "We Are Criminals in the Eyes of the Law": Sodomy, Aids, and New Alliances -- 4. "A Tectonic Shift": Earthquake in Hawaii -- 5. "The Very Foundations of Our Society Are in Danger": The Defense of Marriage -- 6. "Here Come the Brides": Laying the Cornerstone in Massachusetts -- 7. "Power to the People": Rogue Weddings and Ballot Initiatives -- 8. "A Political Awakening": California's Proposition 8 Changes the Game -- 9. "Brick by Brick": Progress in the States -- 10. "Make More Snowflakes and There Will Be an Avalanche": Battles Over Strategy Come to a Head -- 11. "Without Any Rational Justification": Proposition 8 on Trial -- 12. "A Risk Well Worth Taking": Edie Windsor and Winning Marriage in New York -- 13. "The Nation Is Ready for It": A President and a Country Evolve -- 14. "Love Survives Death": The Windsor Ruling and its Aftermath -- 15. "The Responsibility to Right Fundamental Wrongs": A Circuit Split Sets Up a Showdown -- 16. "It Is So Ordered": Marriage Equality Comes to All Fifty States -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index