By Charles Kaiser
June 26, 2013
(CNN) -- When the patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back after the New York police raided that Greenwich Village gay bar 44 years ago, no one there imagined the federal government would ever recognize the rights of two women or two men to get married.
No other movement for equality in the United States has ever traveled so far or so quickly as the push for equality for gay men and women.
I have a vivid memory of a dinner at Gracie Mansion with Tom Stoddard, an early leader of the gay rights movement, and Ed Koch, then the mayor of New York, sometime in the late '80s, when the idea of same-sex marriage was first in the air.
"If you think people are going to go for this, you're crazy!" Koch said. I'm sure I agreed with Koch at the time.
"Fear Eats the Soul"
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