Stewart vs. Huckabee on Marriage Rights

The Daily Show : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Jon Stewart challenges Republican Mike Huckabee over the hypocrisy and dishonesty of his anti-marriage equality positions.

Beyond Marriage: Love and the Law

Beccah Golubock Watson : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Pressure is building to expand the legal definition of family beyond the boundaries of gay or straight marriage.

The Family World System

Perry Anderson : Non-Fiction

The family in the twentieth century.

A Tabloid Reader Responds to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Announcement That He's Appealing the Decision Making Gay Marriage Legal in New York

Calvin Trillin : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Homophobia and Apple Pie

Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Bush keeps claiming to represent "normal" Americans at the expense of "the other."

State of the Union

Richard Kim & Betsy Reed

Pimp My Bride

Judith Halberstam : Television

Reality TV gives marriage an extreme makeover.

The Rules of Attraction

Hillary Frey : Feminism & Women

Why Ms. Independent still wants to get hitched.

Marriage on the Mind

Sharon Lerner : George W. Bush Administration

The Bush Administration's misguided poverty cure.

Marry, Marry, Quite Contrary

Catharine R. Stimpson : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

To wed is to lose one's precious distance from conformity.

Wedding Vows

Donna Minkowitz : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

How to have our family and smash it too.

Onward Christian Soldiers

Esther Kaplan : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

The religious right's sense of siege is fueling a resurgence.

The Wedding March

Alisa Solomon : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Gay nuptials combine pomp and protest.

Sacred Rite or Civil Right?

Rev. Howard Moody : Religion

Gay marriage shows why we need to separate church & state.

Marriage Indicators

Doug Henwood

Can Marriage Be Saved?

Civil Rights & Liberties

Sex and the Stepford Wife

Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women

Adam and Steve--Together at Last

Katha Pollitt : The Courts

Boston Marriage

: The Courts

She's Gotta Have It

Claire Dederer : Feminism & Women

Bush Plays Pope on Gay Marriage

Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

In America, it is a civil institution, not a religious one.

Far From Heaven

Michael Lind : Race, Ethnicity & Religion

Diary of the Bridget Joneses

Ashley Nelson : Feminism & Women

Just Say 'I Do'

Sharon Lerner : Welfare

The Mullahs of Marriage

Bill Berkowitz : Conservatives & The American Right

Thanks to an effective campaign by right-wing foundations, conservative family politics has gone mainstream.