^ Yep, it's not a coincidence that the push for same-sex marriage in the US came right after the height of the AIDS crisis. People were routinely denied the ri

^ Yep, it's not a coincidence that the push for same-sex marriage in the US came right after the height of the AIDS crisis. People were routinely denied the right to stay with (or even visit) their partners in the hospital, couldn't extend health insurance coverage to those partners to pay for rising treatment costs, and had little control over those partners' estates after they died. Hence John Boskovich's "Feel It Motherfuckers": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Fan_(Feel_It_Motherfuckers) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Fan_(Feel_It_Motherfu...