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Gays and the Law: A Bumpy History
With the issue of gay marriage before the Supreme Court, the gay rights movement aims to strike a blow for equality, demonstrating that a person’s sexual orientation should not in any way affect how that individual is treated before their peers and, equally importantly, before the law.
Although the gay marriage movement has only hit its stride in the United States in the 21st century, gay men and women have been a part of America since this nation’s founding — and long before that.
