Courthouse Marriage

RealClearPolitics
April 22, 2009
Marriage became the focus because it "provided a vocabulary in which non-gay people talk about larger and important questions -- questions of love and commitment and dedication and self-sacrifice and family," Evan Wolfson, an attorney at Lambda at the time told Chauncey. By using that vocabulary, he and other activists understood, "we make it easier for non-gay people to understand who we are." [Link]