Marriage and the Aids Crisis

Some of the strongest voices felt that marriage wasn't what gay people ought to be fighting for, period. Academics who studied gender and sexuality argued that some of the same forces that produced homophobia also propped up the institution of marriage. Evan continued arguing with his fellow actavists. And i would press the case and would be shot down again and again and again by almost everyone in the room. But evan was tenacious. Marriage equality, as far as he was concerned, was not just about marriage. It was a strategy. It was an engine that would pull many other rights behind it. If we could claim the language of marriage, we would be claiming an engine of transformation