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" Notre mouvement s'est assigné pour but de déculpabiliser et de dédramatiser l'homosexualité. Il nous paraît qu'à cette fin, seule une information claire peut contribuer à dissiper les préjugés et les idées fausses afin de supprimer la répression sociale qui, dans notre pays, s'exerce à l'encontre d'au moins 500.000 hommes et femmes. Il ne manque pas d'ouvrages sur le sujet ; au contraire, ils foisonnent. Certains sont d'un intérêt considérable mais souvent peu accessible au grand public. Enfin, outre le fait que la plupart des travaux publiés en la matière sont spécialisés et donc fragmentaires, beaucoup envisagent la question du point de vue médical, inapte à traduire les multiples aspects d'un phénomène HUMAIN. C'est pourquoi il nous a paru nécessaire d'élaborer et de diffuser un document abordant les principaux aspects de l'homosexualité. Il nous semble essentiel que la question soit traitée avant tout par des personnes qui en vivent la réalité quotidienne, c'est-à-dire les homosexuels eux-mêmes. Elaborée à partir de nos expériences et de nos réflexions, notre brochure vise à répondre aux questions que se posent l'homosexuel lui-même et surtout son entourage."

Homosexual community --- Homosexuality --- Homosexual publications

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Homosexuality --- Homosexualidad --- Gay couples. --- Pparejas homosexuales. --- Same-sex marriage. --- Matrimonio homosexual. --- Gay marriage --- Homosexual marriage --- Lesbian marriage --- Same-sex unions --- Marriage --- Civil unions --- Domestic partners --- Gay male couples --- Homosexual couples --- Same-sex couples --- Couples --- Social aspects. --- Aspectos sociales.

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Lesbian couples. --- Gay couples. --- Domestic partners --- Gay male couples --- Homosexual couples --- Same-sex couples --- Couples

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Same-sex marriage --- Gay marriage --- Homosexual marriage --- Lesbian marriage --- Same-sex unions --- Marriage --- Civil unions --- Law and legislation

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A critical reader of the history of marriage understands that it is an institution that has always been in flux. It is also a decidedly complicated one, existing simultaneously in the realms of religion, law, and emotion. And yet recent years have seen dramatic and heavily waged battles over the proposition of including same sex couples in marriage. Just what is at stake in these battles? License to Wed examines the meanings of marriage for couples in the two first states to extend that right to same sex couples: California and Massachusetts. The two states provide a compelling contrast: while in California the rights that go with marriage—inheritance, custody, and so forth—were already granted to couples under the state’s domestic partnership law, those in Massachusetts did not have this same set of rights. At the same time, Massachusetts has offered civil marriage consistently since 2004; Californians, on the other hand, have experienced a much more turbulent legal path. And yet, same-sex couples in both states seek to marry for a variety of interacting, overlapping, and evolving reasons that do not vary significantly by location. The evidence shows us that for many of these individuals, access to civil marriage in particular—not domestic partnership alone, no matter how broad—and not a commitment ceremony alone, no matter how emotional—is a home of such personal, civic, political, and instrumental resonance that it is ultimately difficult to disentangle the many meanings of marriage. This book attempts to do so, and in the process reveals just what is at stake for these couples, how access to a legal institution fundamentally alters their consciousness, and what the impact of legal inclusion is for those traditionally excluded.

Same-sex marriage --- Gay marriage --- Homosexual marriage --- Lesbian marriage --- Same-sex unions --- Marriage --- Civil unions --- Law and legislation