Covering Gay Marriage When It’s Really, Really Personal

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by: Steve Friess | CJR

On a sticky August day last year in Cincinnati, I filed into the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on assignment for Al Jazeera America’s website to cover oral arguments in the four cases challenging state bans on same-sex marriage—the same cases that led to last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide.

Seated next to me happened to be Heidi Hall, then a reporter from The Tennessean, with whom I had worked in early 2000 at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. We hadn’t seen one another in 14 years, and as we caught up she spotted the gold band on my left hand.

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