Matt Coles on Same-Sex Marriage

Come see the Director of the ACLU's Gay and Lesbian Rights Project--and one of the leaders in the LGBT rights movement--speak on same-sex marriage! Open to the public.

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Matt Coles has dedicated his career to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender rights movement. He has been Director of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Project at the ACLU since 1995. In 2003, he was awarded the National Lesbian and Gay Law Foundation's (NLGLF) highest honor, the Dan Bradley Award, for his efforts to challenge the Florida law that prohibits lesbians and gay men from adopting. He was one of the main architects of the ACLU's winning position in Romer v. Evans. In the last decade, he has been active in many challenges to state laws preventing same-sex marriage. He argued two of the challenges to “don't ask, don't tell” before federal appeals courts, and he wrote and helped lead the campaigns to pass many gay rights laws, including the first comprehensive civil rights law in California and the nation's first domestic partnership law.