Awakening: how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to America

"Homosexual marriage?": the stirrings of a new idea

"What was important was that we were a household": gay marriages and the domestic partnership alternative

"We are criminals in the eyes of the law, and that is used against us": sodomy, AIDS, and new alliances

"A tectonic shift": earthquake in Hawaii

"The very foundations of our society are in danger": the defense of marriage

"Here come the brides": laying the cornerstone in Massachusetts

"Power to the people": rogue weddings and ballot initiatives

"A political awakening": California's proposition 8 changes the game

"Brick by brick": progress in the states

"Make more snowflakes and eventually there will be an avalanche": the battle over strategy comes to a head

"Without any rational justification": proposition 8 on trial

"A risk well worth taking": Edie Windsor and winning marriage in New York

"The nation is ready for it": a president and a country evolve

"Love survives death": the Windsor ruling and its aftermath

"The responsibility to right fundamental wrongs": a circuit split sets up a showdown

"It is so ordered": marriage equality comes to all fifty states.