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Prince Research Excerpts on Gay Rights & Mormonism – “31 – It’s Only About Marriage”
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31 – “It’s Only About Marriage” – Except When It Isn’t
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“What would be the impact of the ERA on homosexual marriages?
In hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Paul A. Freund of Harvard Law Educational facility testified: ‘Indeed if the law must be as undiscriminating concerning sex as it is toward race, it would follow that laws outlawing wedlock between members of the same sex would be as invalid as laws forbidding miscegenation [interracial marriages]’ (Senate Report 92–689, p. 47).
Passage of the ERA would carry with it the risk of extending constitutional protection to immoral same-sex—lesbian and homosexual—marriages. The argument of a homosexual male, for example, would be: ‘If a gal can legally wedding a man, then equal treatment demands t
1. “Love him and let him adore you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” – James Baldwin
In his iconic novel Giovanni’s Room, gay author James Baldwin makes a powerful statement about love. He proclaims that sex and gender don’t matter; all that matters is that two people love each other. Nothing should stand in their way if they have love in their hearts. These words resonated with millions of people who felt appreciate their emotions were invalid because of the gender of the object of their love. With this quote, Baldwin assured them that it didn’t matter because love is love.
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For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which glance at the history and experiences of LGBT people in Britain. This extract from Rory Muir’s Love and Marriage in the Age of JaneAustenlooks at the experiences of gay men in Regency England.
Extract from Chapter 8. Spinsters and Bachelors: The Alternative to Marriage from Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir
Men who wanted to have casual sex with other men had many opportunities to do so in Regency London, either by picking up male prostitutes (who were reputedly often soldiers in the Guards, earning extra money) at recognised venues such as the city’s parks, or at ‘molly houses’, which catered specifically to their tastes. Such molly houses had been a modest feature of the capital throughout the eighteenth century, and their patrons ranged across the social classes, while their activities included organising mock weddings. There were fewer opportunities outside London, although we know of a team of men from across the north west of England who met regularly at the village of Great Sankey, near Warrington in Cheshire, and who copied many of the forms of the Freem
Widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most important authors and thinkers, James Baldwin wrote plays, essays and novels that offered powerful dictum on race and identity in America. Born in Harlem in 1924 to a solo mother, he began writing as a means to support his several younger siblings; later, his work would explore what it meant to be gay and black, what being subjugated means, and how the oppressor works. His novels were both tender and powerful: Giovanni’s Room, which explored the joys and frustrations of a gay association in Paris, remains one of the 20th century’s seminal queer texts.
Baldwin’s essays, meanwhile, dialogued what it meant to be African American in the 20th century. These non-fiction works, Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name, both collections of essays, became bestsellers and each sold over a million copies. Delivered in a prose both eloquent but control, Baldwin distinguished himself as not simply ‘black’ but ‘American’ – “his insistence on removing, layer by layer, the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country,” Orde Coombs would write of Baldwin the New York Times Book Review. This focus on t