Peter Hart-Brinson, a UW-Eau Claire associate professor of sociology, credits a generation of young people — conservatives and liberals alike — for making gay marriage an accepted reality throughout the United States.
In his new book on this topic, he reports that generational differences, not ones of ideology, have been the key factor. Young people with vastly different political stances view and talk about homosexuality in a way that differs from their parents’ generation, he says.