The Origin of Gay Marriage: NYC Rent Control | Blog Posts
Published: July 7, 1989 ALBANY, July 6— New York’s highest court today expanded the legal definition of a family, holding that a gay couple who had lived together for a decade could be considered a family under New York City’s rent-control regulations.Daniel Seligman wrote in Fortune a couple of weeks before Sullivan’s epochal essay: August 14, 1989 Perplexities abound when you ponder the instantly famous ruling just issued by the New York Court of Appeals. For openers, how do you parse the lead sentence of the ACLU press release enthusiastically exegetizing the ruling? Loopy lead: ...