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The Gay Marriage Thing is a film released in USA on 11 june 2005

The Gay Marriage Thing (2005)

The Gay Marriage Thing
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Released in USA 11 june 2005
Length 47minutes
Rating71% 3.551023.551023.551023.551023.55102

The Gay Marriage Thing is a 2005 documentary film directed by Stephanie Higgins, who is a product of the Emerson College film school graduate program. The film follows the heated debate over same-sex marriage in Massachusetts in 2004 through the perspective of a lesbian couple who wishes to legally marry, as that state became the first in the U.S. to grant same-sex marriages (although those marriages were not recognized by the federal government).

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“The Gay Marriage Thing” follows Gayle and Lorre, thirtysomething college sweethearts who marked their 15th anniversary a year after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

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