This weekend, gay couples in the state of New York will begin legally tying the knot. While most gay rights supporters have been vocally celebrating this milestone, there are others who don’t see legal same-sex marriage as a triumph. Laurie Essig is among them. A lesbian and sociology professor at Middlebury College in Connecticut, where gay marriage is legal, she’s been teaching “The Sociology of Heterosexuality” for over a decade, and in 2000 wrote in article for Salon, “I don’t care if it is legal, I still think it’s wrong – and I’m a lesbian.”
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