On June 21, 2005, the luminaries of the gay rights movement huddled together in a Jersey City hotel room to plan the future. After years of calamitous losses in the courts and the legislatures, gay rights advocates had finally scored two wins, with gay marriage in Massachusetts and sexual liberty at the Supreme Court. Now, however, their opponents were riled up as never before, working furiously to repeal their victories. The key to success from here, the group decided, would be to focus primarily on expanding marriage equality. If gay marriage could come to 10 states by 2020, victory nationwide would not be far off.
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