New York: When Freedom to Marry’s Evan Wolfson weds his partner Cheng He on Saturday, it will cap a long effort to win the right.
When I opened the invitation my breath caught. “Cheng He and Evan Wolfson invite you to join us in celebrating our exercise of the freedom to marry.” How fitting that the single most tenacious and tireless advocate for the freedom of same-sex couples to marry was himself, finally, getting hitched… I mean, married.
Before many of us ever did, Evan understood the significance of that word. He knew that “words matter” and that as long as the M-word was withheld from us and our relationships, we would never win full dignity, justice, and equality. Years before there was a Cheng He for him to marry, Evan was fixedly determined that this culture would see our relationships free from stigma and as fully authentic and honest and real.
