In this article, US columnist, Gabriel Arana, looks at what it marriage means and what it means for him, as a gay man, to marry.

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Politics isn’t always personal, but sometimes it is. For years, I’ve watched the gay-marriage saga unfold, reporting on the Proposition 8 vote in California and the lawsuits that followed; the failed gay-marriage push in New York; and the successful enactment of marriage rights in New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, and Washington, D.C. Legislators in Maryland are expected to make the state the sixth to enact marriage equality sometime this year, and state Sen. Tom Duane plans to give it another go in New York in the next month or so.

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