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With Pride Month 2022 underway, the issue of same-sex marriage continues to be a topic of contentious debate, even though on June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. In Sasha Issenberg’s THE ENGAGEMENT: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage, a New York Times Notable Book in Pantheon hardcover, now out in Vintage paperback, same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable is explored over the course of 900-plus pages. Continue reading →