Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Marriage Equality ruling this past June, advocates have correctly stressed that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have not yet realized the American promise—full equality under the law. There are miles to go for the LGBT community to secure uniform legal protections against employment, housing, educational, economic and other forms of discrimination. But let us not ignore that also, on the most basic level, there remains more to do to achieve full marriage equality.
It would be naïve to think that the Supreme Court’s decision blew through state courthouses across this nation like a cleansing breeze, instantaneously sweeping away harmful stereotypes and stagnant bias against same-sex relationships.
