Notes
- “M” here refers to marriage. For more on the struggle over who can use the word “marriage” see William R. Handley, “Belonging(s): Plural Marriage, Gay Marriage and the Subversion of ‘Good Order,’” Discourse 26: 3 (Fall 2004): 85–109.
- William Eskridge noted that before 1969 the notion of a same-sex couple entering into a state-sanctioned marriage seemed “culturally and legally implausible” in the U.S. William N. Eskridge, Jr., “A History of Same-Sex Marriage,” Virgina Law Review, 79, no. 7 (October 1993): 1423–1424. For the history of same-sex marriage see George Chauncey, Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality (New York: Basic Books, 2004); Richard D. Mohr, The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005); William M. Hohengarten, “Same-sex Marriage and the Right to Privacy,” Yale Law Journal 103: 6 (April 1994): 1495–1531.
- Eric Fassin, “Same Sex, Different Politics,” Public Culture 13: 2 (2001): 221. For conservatives advocating gay marriage see Andrew Sullivan “Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage,” New Republic 28 (August 1989): 20–22; Marvin Liebman, Coming Out Conservative: An Autobiography (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992); Bruce Bawer, A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society (New York: Poseidon Press, 1993); Kathleen E. Hull, “The Political Limits of the Rights Frame: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage in Hawaii,” Sociological Perspectives 44: 2 (Summer 2001): 207–232; Chauncey, 125.
- Patrick Paul Garlinger, “‘In All About Name’: Marriage and the Meaning of Homosexuality,” Discourse 26: 3 (Fall 2003): 41–72; Thomas M. Keane, “Aloha Marriage? Constitutional and Choice of Law Arguments for Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages,” Stanford Law Review 47: 3 (February 1995): 499–532; William Meezan and Jonathan Rauch, “Gay Marriage, Same-sex Parenting, and America's Children,” The Future of Children 15: 2 (Fall
- 2005): 98; Amy L. Brandzel, “Queering Citizenship?: Same-Sex Marriage and the State,” Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 11: 2 (2005): 171–204; Nan D. Hunter, “The New Law of Marriage,” The Good Society 14:.1–2 (2005): 11.
- Sullivan; Hohengarten, 1530; Thomas B. Stoddard, “Why Gay People Should Seek the Right the Marry” in Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies, Suzanne Sherman, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992); Meezan and Rauch, 108–109.
- For the radical queer feminist critic against the marriage equality movement see Marlon M. Bailey, Priya Kandaswamy, and Mattie Udora Richardson, “Is Gay Marriage Racist?” Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, ed., That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2004), 87–96; The Nation: State of the Union: The Marriage Issue 279: 1 (July 5, 2004); Paula Ettlebrick, “Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?” Andrew Sullivan, ed., Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con (New York: Random House, 1997), 118–124; Nancy D. Polikoff, “We Will Get What We Ask for: Why Legalizing Gay and Lesbian Marriage Will Not ‘Dismantle the Legal Structure of Gender in Every Marriage,’” Virigina Law Review 79: 7 (October 1993): 1535–1550. For an additional interesting article on the significance of race and same-sex marriage see Siobhan B. Somerville, “Queer Loving,” Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 11: 3 (2005): 335–370. I thank Jessi Gan for directing me to the essay by Bailey, Kandaswamy, and Richardson.
- For the Field Poll of California see David Shumway, “Why Same-Sex Marriage Now?” Discourse 26: 3 (Fall 2004), 74. For the Pew Center's poll see Wyatt Buchanan, “Polls find U.S. Warming to Gay Marriage,” SFGate.com, March 23, 2006. Accessed March 23, 2006. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/23/MNGA0HSE4I1.DTL.
- Nan Hunter wrote of how her queer students expected to have the right to marry. Nan D. Hunter, “The New Law of Marriage,” The Good Society 14: 1–2 (2005), 12.