March 26: In Maine, internal anti-LGBTI strategy documents from NOM (National Organisation for Marriage) were revealed during a State investigation into the organisation’s campaign finance activities. LGBTI activists have been outraged over the documents, which outlined campaigns to nurture cultural divisions between African and LGBTI Americans as well as to recruit a cadre of glamorous ‘non-cognitive’ celebrities to publicly promote traditional marriage.

Developing the notion of heterosexual marriage as a culturally identifying label for ethnic minorities, then attempting to provoke backlash from LGBTI activists that would be perceived as an attack on the civil rights of those minorities was revealed as one of the NOM strategies to prevent marriage equality.