http://www.mombian.com/2007/05/07/book-review-courting-equality/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mombian.com/2007/05/07/book-review-courting-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-41828 Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Of Wedding Cake and Marathons: A Massachusetts Evening Thu, 17 May 2007 05:25:19 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/05/07/book-review-courting-equality/#comment-41828 [...] The cake was sweet, but the victory was sweeter. For the hundreds of people, myself included, who gathered in the Cambridge, Massachusetts YMCA tonight, the meaning of the event went well beyond that of a typical book launch. The wedding cake should have been the first hint. There was acclaim for the superlative new book, Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First Legal Same-Sex Marriages (which I reviewed last week), but there was also a celebration—and a call to action—for the entire marriage movement in Massachusetts. [...] [...] The cake was sweet, but the victory was sweeter. For the hundreds of people, myself included, who gathered in the Cambridge, Massachusetts YMCA tonight, the meaning of the event went well beyond that of a typical book launch. The wedding cake should have been the first hint. There was acclaim for the superlative new book, Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First Legal Same-Sex Marriages (which I reviewed last week), but there was also a celebration—and a call to action—for the entire marriage movement in Massachusetts. [...]

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