Thank you for using my photo in this piece about the Freedom to Marry campaign, @UCBerkeleyNews.
The concept about the journey of tolerance and support is a great one. Should a society hold a person to a long-ago held belief even after they have changed in a way that frees a generation to live authentically? I’ve never met a person who wanted to live their life unauthentically or in an imposed identity.
And it’s thanks to a determined group of idealistic realists who knew what it took to create lasting social change.
I was fortunate enough to be in front of the Supreme Court 3 years after the above photo was taken. The issues are a little different, I still only see the future.
Martin Meeker, the director of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, interviewed message guru Thalia Zepatos and nearly two dozen others about the Freedom to Marry campaign
Source: How a tender message helped win the fight for same-sex marriage | Berkeley News