Fighting DOMA: A Very Long Engagement
Hear remarks from Edie Windsor, the lead plaintiff in the case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act; watch clips from the documentary that tells her story of love in spite of the state; and hear a widely read activist argue that winning the right for gays to marry is not a strategy to achieve structural change.
Hear remarks from Edie Windsor, the lead plaintiff the the case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act; watch clips from the documentary that tells her story of love in spite of the state; and hear widely read activist and ChangeLab senior partner Scot Nakagawa argue that winning the right for gays to marry is not a strategy to achieve structural change.
— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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