LGBT activists look beyond marriage in state & local law
The surprising thing about this AP article is not what it says – that many state-based LGBT organizations are working to end discrimination in a variety of areas rather than working for the right to marry – but that the article got published at all. The media tends to over-focus on the simplistic, small-c conservative story of marriage because that’s easier than describing reality in all it’s complexity and nuance.
Many of the state and local laws that result from such activism can benefit all unmarried people in a wide variety of mutually supportive relationships. That’s what we should all be working towards, together.
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August 1st, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Exactly–we need to move away from our fixation on “marriage for all” and start asking why marriage is attached to rights and privileges in the first place. And in fact, even coupling comes with privilege that single people don’t get–”domestic partner” rights, for example.
Christina