The Lawyer Who Turned Same-Sex Marriage Into Reality

BuzzFeed has a profile of Mary Bonauto, a lawyer without whom marriage equality might never have happened.

Here's why, according to BuzzFeed: "The lawyer brought marriage equality cases in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. She argued the case to the justices in Massachusetts who brought marriage equality to the United States. She won the first decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act’s federal definition of marriage, and the first appellate decision too — a ruling that forced the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year. If there’s been a big moment in marriage equality’s long march to reality, Bonauto was probably there.And it’s no secret either: The movement’s other leading lawyers openly credit Bonauto for making the success possible."