How the Road to Federal Marriage Equality Ran Through Michigan

How the Road to Federal Marriage Equality Ran Through Michigan

When Keith Orr first introduced Martin Contreras as his husband at the neighborhood gay bar they owned together during Sunday brunch in March 2014, he paused for dramatic effect. The dining room at Aut Bar  in Ann Arbor’s Braun Court was overflowing with celebrants who had gathered to mark both the couple's wedding and Michigan's brief window of marriage equality. Even as they served the crowd, the newlyweds were still processing their own whirl…