Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund recently announced that Evan Wolfson will be a recipient of its Liberty Award at a dinner April 30 in New York. Evan Wolfson is an A Wider Bridge 2017 LGBTQ Leadership Mission alumnus and the founder of Freedom to Marry. “We are thrilled to recognize Evan Wolfson, one of our own […]
On December 6, 2017, A Wider Bridge and the New York LGBTQ, Jewish and pro-Israel communities gathered together for our first community benefit in New York City. Check out the photos from the event now on our Facebook page. A Wider Benefit honored two champions of our communities – A Wider Bridge’s Founder and retiring Executive […]
A Wider Bridge 2017 LGBTQ Leadership Mission alumnus, Evan Wolfson, recently attended a conference in Costa Rica that focused on marriage rights for same-sex couples in Latin America. He says efforts to advance anti-LGBT religious freedom measures and litigation are “nothing new.” “It’s part of the classic pattern of civil rights advances in American history,” Evan […]
Activists from across the Western Hemisphere will gather in Costa Rica this week for the first of its kind conference that will focus on marriage rights for same-sex couples in Latin America. Included, will be A Wider Bridge LGBTQ Leadership Mission alumnus, 2017 Evan Wolfson. Evan Wolfson at Tel Aviv Gay Pride Evan Wolfson was founder […]
During his visit to Israel with A Wider Bridge, Freedom to Marry’s Evan Wolfson met with Israeli journalist Ayelet Shani to discuss gay marriage in Israel and in the United States. Their conversation was transcribed and published in Shani’s acclaimed Haaretz column, “Me in Conversation.” Evan Wolfson, 60, a lawyer and an activist, founder and […]
A Wider Bridge, the North American LGBTQ organization supporting Israel and LGBTQ Israelis, is proud to sponsor the upcoming Israel visit of Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, the campaign that led the way to winning marriage in the United States. Since winding down Freedom to Marry following the success of the […]
For four decades, gay rights activists and couples who appealed to the courts for the right to marry their partners were fighting against a legal system. The real battle, however, was against public perception. Evan Wolfson, founder of the national bipartisan organization Freedom to Marry, outlines the strategy that transformed public understanding and led to […]
Gay Jewish attorney Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry, was “gladly” put out of work and now traveling the world helping activists in other countries. He’s currently helping in Australia: “This is the moment — this is the time.” Same sex marriage will happen in Australia sooner rather than later, the architect of the successful […]
Many advocacy groups move from one policy fight to the next, since after all, there’s always more work to be done. But Freedom to Marry was built differently: It was solely focused on the goal of nationwide marriage equality and would fold once that was achieved. Evan Wolfson with Edie Windsor and Valerie Jarrett At […]