Marriage Equality by Mark Addison Smith
My partner and I entered into a civil union in
2011. A clerk with red, white, and blue-painted
fingernails at Chicago's City Hall upgraded our
civil union to a marriage in 2015. She stamped
our paperwork and declared: You've now been
married four years! Our history changed in
seconds. Following the 2015 Supreme Court
ruling granting US marriage equality, then-
President Barack Obama proclaimed: This
decision affirms what millions of Americans
already believe in their hearts: when all
Americans are treated as equal, we are all more
free.
Mark is New York City-based artist. Permanent
collections include MoMA Franklin Furnace, Tate
Library, Watson Library at The Met, MCA Chicago,
Kinsey Institute, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum
of Gay + Lesbian Art. His daily archive of
overheard-conversation drawings, You Look Like
The Right Type, is now in its tenth year.
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