..., in Loving v. Virginia, declared unconstitutional all laws prohibiting Americans from marrying across the color line. The visual and social importance of a legal right that has long been in flux but saw one of its major milestones erected at the end of the Civil War, when large numbers of newly freed...

... Tristan's parents, Bill and Judy, meet and get married, Tristan is born, and her parents' divorce. gay men coming out family infidelity New Hampshire ...

... Chapter 5 analyzes the rationale behind and the results of the colony’s policy to allow married convicts to petition for their spouses and dependents to join them in exile. They also permitted some convicts to marry in exile and still others live in heterosexual consensual unions. Commanders...

... Gaining the right to marry has been an important achievement that has enabled a subset of LGBTQ people (those who belong to the middle class) to become integrated into the mainstream. This chapter argues that marriage equality is not sufficient, as it leaves existing oppressive structures intact...

... Forty years after the Sandinista revolution that brought excitement and hope to young people all over the world, Nicaragua is ruled, ruthlessly, by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, an elderly married couple who seem destined to die in power. Chapter 8 discusses the evolution of Ortega from...

... In this chapter, the author describes his meeting with a man who had put him on a hit-list. This man, Mr. Barotia, was a member of an ultra-right-wing Hindu group, and offended that the author had married a Muslim. Mr. Barotia was proud of the killings of Muslims in Gujarat. The author disliked...

... not pay the required dowry and so never married Mapfumo’s mother. Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira ...

..., it had been 145 years since the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment ensured equal protection under the law to all who were born in the United States, and 45 years since the court in 1968, in Loving v. Virginia, declared unconstitutional all laws prohibiting Americans from marrying across the color...