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We Do!

American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality

by Jennifer Baumgardner
Madeleine M. Kunin
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“The encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians—gay and straight—have played in that history” (The Philadelphia Tribune).
 
Through speeches, interviews, and commentary, this book chronicles the road toward marriage equality in the United States, edited by former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin and author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner.
 
“Baumgardner and Kunin have compiled the writings and public pronouncements of public officials and other figures on the issue of marriage equality . . . This book will serve as a resource for what was said about the struggle.” —New York Journal of Books
 
“Detail[s] the politicians out there who are good-hearted, decent and basically worth knowing about.” —Detroit Metro Times
 
“Compiles speeches, interviews and commentary from 1977 through 2013, in which an array of political leaders . . . voice their unconditional support for the queer citizens of the US in their quest for same-sex marriage rights.” —Bay Area Reporter
 
“Highlights the path politicians have taken from Harvey Milk of San Francisco in 1977 until now, to advance the cause of marriage equality.” —Sun News Miami
 
“Powerful . . . As Vermont’s governor, Madeleine Kunin was a leader on gay rights years before it was fashionable and years before our state became the first in the country to allow civil unions and, later, gay marriage without a court order. The struggle for gay rights in Vermont was very difficult, divisive, and acrimonious. If you talk to young people today about gay rights or gay marriage, they ask, What was the big deal? Madeleine and Jennifer Baumgardner remind us what a big deal it was and how important it is.” —Bernie Sanders
 
“The gay marriage movement, like all civil rights movements, began with individuals telling the truth about who they are to a world that doesn’t accept them. It ends with an entire generation of young people who reject blatant civil rights discrimination . . . We Do! triumphantly chronicles this recent chapter.” —New Pages
 
Included on the American Library Association’s Over the Rainbow Project Book List

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  • Release date

    September 23, 2013

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

      • ISBN: 9781617752018

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      • ISBN: 9781617752018

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      • ISBN: 9781617752018
      • File size: 1540 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 16, 2013
      In this slight book, activist and journalist Baumgardner (Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics) and former Vermont Governor Kunin (The New Feminist Agenda) attempt to contextualize the struggle for marriage equality by assembling a collection of famous speeches, interviews, and quotes. The book succeeds mainly as nostalgia mixed with a portrait of political waffling, though there are occasional moments of inspiration. Vermont State Representative Bill Lippert’s testimony before the Vermont House is as moving today as it was in 2000, when it helped pave the way for the nation’s first civil unions. Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s blunt words at a 2012 press conference (“It’s ridiculous and offensive that we’re still having this debate”) remain ovation worthy. But the inclusion of Andrew Sullivan’s oft-reprinted “Here Comes the Groom” feels like filler, and the “evolution” of attitudes expressed by John Kerry, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and others feel just as poll-driven today as when they were first uttered. With the Defense of Marriage Act recently overturned by the Supreme Court, a book tracing the movement towards marriage equality would undoubtedly be valuable, but unfortunately, this collection provides little in the way of new insight.

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