This groundbreaking volume serves as both an intimate social chronicle and a practical guide for female same-sex couples creating their own civil unions and holy unions long before marriage equality legislation. Through a diverse array of first-person testimonies, couples from various cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds share the unique rituals, vows, and obstacles they navigated to publicly celebrate their love. Butler couples these deeply personal narratives with actual text from the ceremonies, providing a vital historical record of queer community-building and spiritual reclamation.
Details
| ISBN | 9781878067876 |
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| Copyright Date | 1996 |
| Publication Date | December 27, 1996 |
| Publisher | Da Capo Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 308 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Ceremonies of the Heart: Celebrating Lesbian Unions (1990), edited by Becky Butler, is a seminal non-fiction anthology. The text explicitly chronicles and analyzes the complex emotional, spiritual, and political landscapes of female same-sex commitment by documenting the real-world stories and ceremony structures of twenty-seven lesbian couples. |
| Genre | Family; Anthology - Nonfiction; Lesbian Studies |
| Subject | Gay Marriage; Lesbian couples; Lesbianism; Same-sex marriage; Weddings |