Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
    Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
    Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
    Audiobook14 hours

    Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas

    Written by David Collins, Evan Wolfson and Julian Castro

    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin

    ()

    About this audiobook

    In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld LLD.

    Two years later-after tense battles in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, after sitting through oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges-they won the right to marry deep in the heart of Texas. But the road they traveled was never easy. Accidental Activists is the deeply moving story of two men who struggled to achieve the dignity of which Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke in a series of Supreme Court decisions that recognized the "personhood," the essential humanity of gays and lesbians.

    Author David Collins tells Mark and Vic's story in the context of legal and social history and explains the complex legal issues and developments surrounding same-sex marriage in layman's terms.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 5, 2017
    ISBN9781541482739
    Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
    Author

    David Collins

    David Collins is one of the UK’s most respected investigative reporters. In 2011, he became the youngest journalist in the history of the British Press Awards to win News Reporter of the Year for helping police convict the serial killer Levi Bellfield for the murder of Milly Dowler. He joined the Sunday Times as an investigative reporter in 2015, joining the Insight team. He is currently northern correspondent for the Sunday Times based in Manchester.

    Related to Accidental Activists

    Related audiobooks

    United States History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Stilling The Pendulum

      Feb 13, 2023

      Stilling The Pendulum
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Commons

      Feb 16, 2020

      The Commons
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Conversation

      Aug 14, 2018

      The Conversation
      10 min read

    • Article

      Cal Thomas: You’ve Got To Be Taught To Love

      Sep 16, 2021

      The lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II wrote many beautiful songs for Broadway musicals. One that was not beautiful, but powerful for what it said about race relations in 1949 when the show opened was “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught.” The song was abou

      2 min read

    • Article

      Youth Voices Matter

      Oct 31, 2022

      This was a top scorer in the practicality category for a teen essay contest for Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians that was sponsored by Heart of a Nation. The essay prompt was “What do you most want to improve about your own society and how?” Sco

      2 min read

    • Article

      Where We Stand, and Why

      Nov 1, 2021

      Where We Stand, and Why
      3 min read

    • Article

      I’m Still Saying Her Name

      Sep 15, 2020

      I’m Still Saying Her Name
      3 min read

    • Article

      Against National Unity

      May 20, 2021

      THE TRADITIONAL MOTTO of the United States is e pluribus unum—from many, one. Suggested by the French designer Pierre Eugène du Simitière, the phrase is apparently derived from the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero. In De Officiis, his treatise

      5 min read

    • Article

      How America Got Mean

      Aug 14, 2023

      How America Got Mean
      23 min read

    • Article

      The Trump Era Wasn't All Bad. We Saw Progress – Thanks To Social Movements | Rebecca Solnit

      Jan 23, 2021

      The devastation of the Trump administration – to norms and values and public safety, to the climate and the environment and the rights of marginalized groups – is huge and undeniable. But Pablo Neruda’s old axiom “You can cut down the flowers but you

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Accidental Activists

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words