"...any movement by an oppressed group to gain equal rights can only go so far until members outside the oppressed group begin to ACTIVELY campaign for the group's rights." When I wrote that line in July 2006 I was voicing my frustration or maybe even outrage that more straight folks were not more actively involved in the struggle for equal marriage but today I'm a little less frustrated.

While the struggle continues, we've made some great progress recently and there's a big push to pass equal marriage in New York among a diverse group of ACTIVELY involved heterosexuals.


The couple in the video have become actively involved in the fight for marriage equality and might just be a sign that there's no turning back. As I wrote in 2006 in comparing the fight for marriage equality with civil rights marches in the 1960s, "And one might argue that once non-blacks and blacks began marching hand-in-hand there was no turning back. A visible tide tide had begun to turn in support of major changes at least in terms of the laws of the land."

The active involvement of heterosexual couples like the one in the video will ultimately serve to ensure that all people are treated equal because when anyone group is not treated equally everyone's equality is in jeopardy.