This week in New York the hottest ticket in town is not the latest Broadway musical or the opening of hip new restaurant, it’s the Marriage Bureau. So many same-sex couples have been waiting for the day when they can say “I do” that a lottery system has had to be introduced to deal with the amount of weddings set to take place.
This involved years of protests, lobbying, sharing of personal stories, and asking politicians to put aside prejudice and replace it with principle. As we have done in Australia, New York’s advocates for equality produced studies on the benefits to health, the economy, and society by allowing loving same-sex couples to be equally recognised and protected by the law.
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