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Fifty years after their marriage, Jack and Michael's story is one of the milestone events in the fight for equal rights, and this memoir the unmissable account a remarkable couple.On September 3, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. But the battle to get there - legal and emotional - was only the start of their incredible lives together.Jack enrolled in law school, keeping his pro…
Undertittel
America's First Gay Marriage
Forlag
Little, Brown Book Group
Utgitt
1 juni 2021
Lengde
4:31
Sjanger
Biografier, Dokumentar og fakta
Språk
English
Format
mp3
DRM-beskyttelse
App-only
ISBN
9781405550871
Fifty years after their marriage, Jack and Michael's story is one of the milestone events in the fight for equal rights, and this memoir the unmissable account a remarkable couple.
On September 3, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. But the battle to get there - legal and emotional - was only the start of their incredible lives together.
Jack enrolled in law school, keeping his promise to Michael that he would figure out a way to marry. He did, but the repercussions would echo not only through their lives, but through those of everyo gay person in the US who ever wanted what this one pioneering couple did: a happy family life.
This is the story of how they met, how they married, and what came after. And one wedding heard 'round the world.
'A beautiful, well-written love story that is heartrending and ultimately heartwarming'
Robert Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen Boy
'A fascinating story of love and struggle that reads like a novel'
Washington Book Review
On September 3, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. But the battle to get there - legal and emotional - was only the start of their incredible lives together.
Jack enrolled in law school, keeping his promise to Michael that he would figure out a way to marry. He did, but the repercussions would echo not only through their lives, but through those of everyo gay person in the US who ever wanted what this one pioneering couple did: a happy family life.
This is the story of how they met, how they married, and what came after. And one wedding heard 'round the world.
'A beautiful, well-written love story that is heartrending and ultimately heartwarming'
Robert Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen Boy
'A fascinating story of love and struggle that reads like a novel'
Washington Book Review
