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cjgl-2598	Adler, Libby	Appending Transgender Equal Rights to Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Equal Rights	2010	22	.pdf	application/pdf	10452	470	56	As gay rights advocates have pushed for formal equality, especially in the same-sex marriage campaign, and have supported this push with a powerfully normalizing discourse that insists on the moral equivalency of different-sex and same-sex intimacies that are premised on an idealized (monogamous, bourgeois and de-sexed) version of both, some people living more marginalized lifestyles have found themselves deeply alienated from the gay community.49 Moreover, their marginalization has been rationalized so that Chief Justice Marshall, the author of the Massachusetts decision granting marriage rights to same-sex couples, can write that people who do not choose to marry can justly be denied the concrete benefits that the law offers to married people.50 In the delirium of successive same-sex marriage victories in Massachusetts,51 Connecticut,5 2 Iowa,53 Vermont,54 and New Hampshire, 55 it is easy to forget that this momentum comes at a real cost for an inclusive gay community and for 49 See, e.g., Mattilda, a.k.a. The employer stated that some of the other women employees complained that Goins's presence in the women's room created a hostile work environment for them.39 This is a telling complaint: by government in the face of the growing homosexual agenda and focusing on the right of citizens to vote on marriage and other issues); Schulman v. Attorney Gen., 850 N.E.2d 505 (Mass. 2006) (upholding citizen-initiated ballot-question on marriage rights for same-sex couples following proposed amendment by right to vote constituencies in the wake of Goodridge v. Dep't of Pub.	cache/cjgl-2598.pdf	txt/cjgl-2598.txt