Each week on Defining Marriage, hosts Matt Baume and James Morris chat about what's happening with marriage equality, featuring frequent digressions into pop culture, silly banter, and the jokes and quibbles that have kept them together as a couple for over a decade. The first eighteen episodes of the podcast contain the complete audiobook version of the book Defining Marriage, which traces the decades-long evolution of marriage through the personal stories of those who lived through it, featuring personal insights from the lives of Evan Wolfson, Dan Savage, Ken Mehlman, Dustin Lance Black, and many more.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 5 hours 13 minutes
Chapter 17: Set Course for the Alpha Quadrant
The dramatic conclusion! Will James and I ever get married?
Chapter 16: Love and Commitment
Thalia Zepatos had been fighting for equality for many years, but she’ll never forget the time her work prompted the police to tell her and her fellow activists: “We know the skinheads are plotting to kill one of you, we just don’t know which one.”
Chapter 15: Welcome to the Other Side of the Rainbow
It took years for Ed Murray to build up support for his marriage bill. The final vote he needed to pass it came from someone unexpected: a legislator who’d always opposed him now found herself switching sides, even though supporting equality meant jeopardizing her career.
Chapter 14: If not … Great
It's that age-old story: small-town girl moves to New York, gets political, and leads all of Broadway in a march through Times Square.
Chapter 13: Well That is F***ing Bold
How on Earth did Chad Griffin ever manage to get Dustin Lance Black, Ken Mehlman, Cleve Jones and Ted Olson all in the same room?
Chapter 12: You Have to Take Part in Your Own Liberation
How Amy Balliett accidentally created Join the Impact, and the toll it started to take on her personal life.
Chapter 11: I Don’t Really Know How it’s Going to Work
Juan and Tim race against the clock in the hopes they can sneak in one last marriage before their county realizes Prop 8 has passed.
Chapter 10: This is an Effing Disaster
We all were hit hard by the passage of Prop 8 campaign, but Kate Kendell had to watch it happen around her while doing what she could to protect her own family.
Chapter 9: Zero Regrets
Gavin Newsom reflects on his decision to piss off President Bush by letting same-sex couples marry back in 2004: “Zero regrets. It’s always the right time to do the right thing.”