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Focuses on the gay rent-control regulations in the U.S. Discussion of a case in which a New York court ruled that a gay lover had the right to stay in his deceased partner's rent-control apartment because the lover qualified as a member of the family of the deceased; Observation that several cities have domestic partnership laws which allow relationships that do not fit into the category of heterosexual marriage to be registered with the city.

Comments on legal arguments behind the case of Goodridge, et al. v. Department of Public Health, in which the Massachusetts Supreme Court found that denying gay citizens the right to marry was a violation of the state's constitution. Argument that homosexuals are not merely heterosexuals in disguise, and that sexual orientation is hardwired; Argument that inability to procreate is no basis for denying a couple the right to marry; Acknowledgement that the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness, and the refusal of it is a denial of a basic human right; Claim that there will be no negative social effects caused by gay marriage.