Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state’s courts first started grappling with the question, through the emergence of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 that raised marriage to a national issue, to the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts, to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8, and finally to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of Windsor and Obergefell.

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Recent excerpts, interviews and reviews:

Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation
The Engagement Party Rainbow Town Hall
05/25/21

The New York Times
A More Perfect Union
06/11/21

Politics & Prose
P&P Live! Sasha Issenberg | The Engagement with Amy Walter
06/01/21

Politico
The Surprising Honolulu Origins of the National Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage
Sasha Issenberg
05/31/2021

The New York Times
How the Religious Right Made Same-Sex Marriage a Gay Rights Crusade
Eric Cervini
05/30/2021

KHON2
New Book About Hawaii’s Historic Role with Same-Sex Marriage
Tannya Joaquin
05/25/2021

Civil Beat
How Hawaii Helped Lead The Fight For Marriage Equality
Chad Blair
05/24/2021