Film Screening: ‘The Freedom to Marry’ followed by a discussion with Evan Wolfson ’78, Founder and President of Freedom to Marry and winner of the 2016 Yale-Jefferson Award and George Chauncey ’77, ’89 PhD, Samuel Knight Professor of History & American Studies
Thursday, November 10, 5-7pm, Loria Center, Room 250, 190 York Street
Over the last four decades, same-sex marriage has gone from a ‘preposterous notion’ to one of the most successful civil rights campaigns in the world. THE FREEDOM TO MARRY is a “War Room” style feature documentary about the same-sex marriage movement, from the final frenetic months of the legal and grassroots campaign.
Sponsored by Yale GALA: Yale’s LGBT Alumni Association, Yale Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and Yale LGBTQ Staff Affinity Group
Open House at Sterling Memorial Library: Freedom to Marry Archives
Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, 128 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
Thursday, November 10 | 2:30-4:30pm
Freedom to Marry was the campaign that won same-sex marriage in the United States and ignited a global movement. Freedom to Marry’s “Roadmap to Victory” national strategy focused from the beginning on setting the stage for a national victory at the Supreme Court by winning a critical mass of states, building a critical mass of public support, and ending federal marriage discrimination. Freedom to Marry worked with numerous partner organizations and allies on a campaign that combined litigation, legislative work, organizing, public education, electoral strategies, fundraising, and the hard work of changing hearts and minds.
Selections from the paper archive will be available for viewing and archivists who worked with Freedom to Marry to preserve the archive will be available to answer questions.