Evans decision that antigay rights referenda were unconstitutional, and he was the principal author of the Historians Amicus Brief, which weighed heavily in the Supreme Courts landmark decision overturning sodomy laws in Lawrence v. He testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination at the 1993 trial of Colorados Amendment Two, which resulted in the Supreme Courts Romer v. About the Author George Chauncey is professor of American history at the University of Chicago and the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, which won the distinguished Turner and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. Chauncey illuminates whats at stake for both sides of this contentious debate in this essential book for gay and straight readers alike. George Chauncey offers an electrifying analysis of the history of the shifting attitudes of heterosexual Americans toward gay people, from the dramatic growth in acceptance to the many campaigns against gay rights that form the background to todays demand for a constitutional amendment. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history. Book Synopsis Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War.

About the Book Showing how the present is shaped by the past, the author of Gay New York explains why the campaign for same-sex marriage has be the most explosive issue in the long struggle for gay rights.

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