When I opened the invitation my breath caught. “Cheng He and Evan Wolfson invite you to join us in celebrating our exercise of the freedom to marry.” How fitting that the single most tenacious and tireless advocate for the freedom of same-sex couples to marry was himself, finally, getting hitched… I mean, married.
Before many of us ever did, Evan understood the significance of that word. He knew that “words matter” and that as long as the M-word was withheld from us and our relationships, we would never win full dignity, justice, and equality. Years before there was a Cheng He for him to marry, Evan was fixedly determined that this culture would see our relationships free from stigma and as fully authentic and honest and real.
Twenty-eight years before Evan’s big day he wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on why gay couples should be able to marry. To say he was for gay couples marrying before it was cool is a profound understatement — he was for it when most everyone in the world couldn’t even conceive of it. Yet there he was, plugging away, assertively, relentlessly, yet always hopefully, year after year, making the case within the LGBT community and debating our opponents. He was co-counsel in the landmark 1993 Hawaii marriage case, Baehr v. Miike, which made so many of us recognize that this vision could become reality.
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The number of mayors from across the country who have pledged to support marriage equality via the Mayors For the Freedom To Marry campaign has now reached 141.
Hundreds of volunteers are still needed to make this happen. 
