Book Signing: “When Gay People Get Married”
HRC Back Story
by Ché Ruddell-Tabisola
October 20, 2009

LeeBookSigningDr. M.V. Lee Badgett read excerpts from and signed copies of her latest book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, Friday morning at the Human Rights Campaign building.

Dr. Badgett has dedicated her life to improving the lives of LGBT families by shining a spotlight on the economic inequities, injustices and discriminations they face everyday but are difficult to prove. In her first book, Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men, she presented groundbreaking work debunking the myth of gay affluence.

In When Gay People Get Married, Dr. Badgett went beyond the numbers to explore the lives of same-sex couples in a land where it’s been legal to marry since 2001: the Netherlands. In her interviews Dr. Badgett discovers marriage has affected their lives in some surprising ways, and finds unexpected changes in their relationships with each other as well as in the relationships with their families and friends.