cover image Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights

Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights

Kevin Bourassa, Joe Varnell, Kevan Baossa. University of Wisconsin Press, $26.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-299-17880-2

Last year, Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell became the first gay couple to be issued a government marriage certificate. Challenged by the Canadian government, their case is still making its way through the courts. In the meantime, Bourassa, a banker, and Varnell, who works for an electronics company, tell their story in Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights, a joint memoir of the events leading up to their wedding at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto. In alternating chapters, they take turns recalling the unexpected and slightly bizarre experience of sharing their prewedding breakfast with camera crews and other moments from the ceremony broadcast around the world. (June)