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Honestly: Why This Gay Rights Pioneer Opposes Gender Ideology
Two women embrace outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after the 2015 ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. (Mark Wilson via Getty Images)
By Bari Weiss
05.03.22 — Culture and Ideas
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In 1989, Andrew Sullivan wrote “Here Comes The Groom,” an essay making the conservative case for gay marriage. Less than four decades later, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges.

How did that happen in such an amazingly short time? Why were gay rights won so quickly? Was there something about the nature of that movement that m…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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