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Language English Publication date April 19, 2007 Pages 164 pp Originally published 19 April 2007 Genre Creative nonfiction OCLC 154701110 | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publisher iUniverse Inc. Media type Print ISBN 978-0-595-43987-4 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Brides of March is a memoir by American writer Beren deMotier.
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Published in 2007, The Brides of March, a narrative non-fiction tale of getting married, celebrated, constitutionally banned, and annulled in Oregon, is a brides’ eye view of a “giddy leap through a legal window, straight onto the barbecue pit of public debate.”
Author Beren deMotier tells it like it was Oregon Ballot Measure 36 (2004), and is, as California's Proposition 8 puts same-sex married couples in legal limbo.
Plot summary
The Brides of March is a bride’s eye view of same-sex marriage at a moment’s notice, with a bevy of brides, their coterie of children, donuts, newspaper reporters, screaming protesters, mothers of the brides who never thought they’d see the day, white wedding cake, and a houseful of happy heterosexuals toasting the marriage!
But that was only the beginning as these private declarations of love became public fodder, fueling social commentary, letters to the editor, and the fires of political debate, when all The Brides of March wanted was the opportunity to say, “I do,” in this candid, poignant and frequently funny tale of lesbian moms getting to the church on time in Multnomah County.
Reviews
Just Out declared “deMotier delivers a same-sex memoir you could bring home to mother”.