Tactics, strategy, and marriage equality

[...]the groups, under the leadership of Evan Wolfson at Freedom to Marry and Chad Griffin at the Human Rights Campaign and Mary Bonauto at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and James Esseks at ACLU and Adam Umhoefer at the American Foundation for Equal Rights, all got together and said, w...

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Published in:Columbia journal of gender and law 2015-03, Vol.29 (1), p.160
Main Author: Rosen, Hilary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Equality
Evaluation
Federal funding
Gays & lesbians
Same sex marriage
Social justice
Social media
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Summary:[...]the groups, under the leadership of Evan Wolfson at Freedom to Marry and Chad Griffin at the Human Rights Campaign and Mary Bonauto at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and James Esseks at ACLU and Adam Umhoefer at the American Foundation for Equal Rights, all got together and said, we ought to coordinate this. [...]there are a lot of political efforts going on in the states, where electoral bodies are considering these issues, and we had to make sure that whatever work we were doing around the court cases furthered that work. In response to questions about the generational aspect of the work, movement priorities, and connections across reproductive rights and marriage equality work, Hilary Rosen added: I'll also address questions about reaching youth for a moment because I worked in the music business for many years and founded Rock the Vote. Because young people are actually registering to vote about one-third Republican, one-third Democrat, and one-third Independent. [...]I do think that we need to find some ways to catch the media up to the current conversation about choice. Because as much as everybody thinks that the media loves really nice stories, and you know they love human-interest stories and the like, media operates on conflict.
ISSN:1062-6220
2333-4339