Joe Biden Cites ‘Will & Grace’ in Endorsement of Same-Sex Marriage
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Joe Biden Cites ‘Will & Grace’ in Endorsement of Same-Sex Marriage
Frank Kameny shaking hands with President Barack Obama, who signed a memorandum in 2009 extending benefits to partners of federal employees. Vice President Joseph Biden, US Representative Barney Frank, US Senator Joe Lieberman, and US Representative Tammy Baldwin are witnesses.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Bill Clinton, avowed champion of gay people, had virtually killed the same-sex marriage movement.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
There she met Evan Wolfson. He convinced her that marriage would be the surest shield against society’s contemptuous abuse of those in same-sex relationships.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
characters into television series—Will and Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Glee, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black—has been an activist-supported strategy to give viewers contact with gay people through “parasocial contact,” the indirect experience of friendship with a gay television character.