Description
Scrapbooks assembled by Molly B. McKay documenting her and Davina S. Kotulski’s experience as the “poster couple” for marriage
equality rights in California, 1998-2012. This collection consists of portable document formats (PDFs) of the pages of McKay’s
22 scrapbooks of clippings, correspondence, organizational materials, and photographs relevant to the couple’s activism.
Background
Davina S. Kotulski, Ph.D., and Molly B. McKay, J.D., met in a country-and-western bar in 1996. They decided to get married
in 1998 before family and friends, setting the date for September of that year. In June 1998, Kotulski, a clinical psychologist,
and McKay, an attorney, participated in the San Francisco Pride Parade, fully clad in wedding attire, which they would continue
to don in many civil actions to come. They ended up on the front page of the following day’s edition of the San Francisco Examiner and would be featured on news outlets worldwide in the following fourteen years they spent together. Although both had been
marriage equality activists since 1996, this feature marked the beginning of the pair’s role as a “poster couple” for the
fight for marriage equality in California in the 2000s.
Restrictions
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.