I am not the first to suspect that it was the feminist transformation of marriage which made it possible for gays even to think about getting married.
Like it or not, until very recently and very locally, (the West since the 1970's) marriage has always been an inherently unequal hierarchical arrangement. In cases where the wife dominated, it was noticed. Because it was out of place. (And the husband was universally mocked. Even by the women.)
Feminism has destroyed that structure. Marriage is not now in reality a contract between equals --the law and culture favor the female*--, but it is not a contract where the husband is the head and leader. And in PR fantasy and public self-hypnosis, it has become such: a joining of equals in love.
Two men who love each other in that friend-lover-kin way that I can't find a name for, despite their personal differences in power, are archetypally equal because they are both men.
Feminism has altered marriage, at least in propaganda terms, from a male-dominated structure to an equality structure. That's why two men would even consider it. Previously, one of them would have to think of himself as the bride. (There are gay men who would not mind that, but that's another story.) It is because, psychologically, the feminist-indoctrinated woman plays the role of a second husband that two men could think of themselves suited to such a structure.
When I list the Seven Pillars of Liberalism I do not mention LGBTism as a separate item. I see it as ancillary to feminism. A maid of honor, if you will.
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*Part of why men are marrying less is the huge risk that they take in doing so. A woman can now walk off with a lethal alimony settlement, plus the children, on any grounds she cares to make up.
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