How Theatre Helped Stimulate Debate About Gay Marriage

Long before the issue came before the Supreme Court, playwrights and other theatre artists were testing the waters and advancing the idea that marriage equality for all not only wasn't a bad thing, but was something that deserved to be regarded as a fundamental right.

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The concluding paragraph of the June 26 majority opinion agrees: "No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. ... [The challengers] ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

Click here to read the 103-page complete text of the decision.

And here are just some of Playbill.com's stories on the subject, going back to 2005:

A History of the Fight for Marriage Equality

How Broadway Impact, the organization banding together the theatre community in support of marriage equality, was founded

Pictures of Team Playbill Joining Broadway Impact at the LGBT Pride March

Audra McDonald Visits "The View" to Talk Marriage Equality (Video)

Stories of Pride From the Theatre Community

Tweets From the Theatre Community When Obama Became the First President to Support Marriage Equality

The Challenges and Rewards of Being an "Out" Actor

Same-Sex Parents in the Theatre Community and How "Putting your kids to bed has nothing to do with being gay or straight"

Raise a Pint! Broadway Reacts to Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland

Kristin Chenoweth On Gay Marriage, Staying In Touch With Idina Menzel and the Composer Who Would Write Her Life Story