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Awakening

How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America

Nathaniel Frank

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674737228

Publication Date: 04/24/2017

456 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Nathaniel Frank is Director of the What We Know Project at Columbia Law School.

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Read adapted excerpts from Awakening at Slate and The Advocate
At the Washington Post, read Nathaniel Frank’s argument that the constitutional right to equal dignity is the true issue at hand in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a Supreme Court case in which a private business refused to provide services to a gay couple on religious grounds
At Slate, read Frank’s targeted response to complaints by pundits David Brooks, George Will, and Greg Weiner on the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision
Read a Vice interview with Nathaniel Frank about the fight for marriage equality and the ever-changing nature of the institution
In Philadelphia Gay News, read a conversation with Frank about the importance of marriage equality in today’s political landscape
Read a Windy City Times conversation with Frank about Awakening and the challenges of writing the history of recent events
At the Los Angeles Times, read Frank on the need for progressive activists to pragmatically engage with those who wouldn’t naturally support their cause

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