Title:
Kate Kendell on legal strategy, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and LGBT legal organizations
Creator/Contributor:
Kendell, Kate, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Meeker, Martin, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Freedom to Marry Oral History Project
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Oral History Center,, issuing body.
Abstract:
Kate Kendell is the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Kendell was born in Portland, Oregon, and
raised in Ogden, Utah. She attended Weber State University as an undergraduate and University of Utah Law School. After working
for a private law firm in Salt Lake City, Kendell took a position with the ACLU of Utah in 1990 and began doing civil rights
law. In 1994 she moved to San Francisco to become Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, becoming Executive
Director in 1996. In this interview, Kendell discusses the freedom to marry movement from the vantage point of the legal strategy
to win marriage, including the ways in which the various organizations collaborated. Further, she details pivotal cases including
In re Marriage Cases (2008), Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013), and Tanco v. Haslam (2015).
Date:
2016 (issued)
Subject:
n-us---
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States
Same-sex marriage -- United States
Marriage law -- United States
Gay rights -- United States
Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
Homosexuels -- Mariage -- États-Unis
Homosexuels -- Droits -- États-Unis
Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc
Gay rights
Marriage law
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
United States
National Center for Lesbian Rights (U.S.)
National Center for Lesbian Rights (U.S.)
Kendell, Kate -- Interviews
Note:
Kate Kendell ; interviews conducted by Martin Meeker in 2016.
Forms part of: Freedom to Marry Oral History Project.
Interview transcript also available online.
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. Copyright to this work may be held by the UC Regents and managed
by The Bancroft Library.
Type:
oral histories (literary works)
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Histoires orales.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (x, 73 pages) ; 29 cm
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. Copyright to this work may be held by the UC Regents and managed
by The Bancroft Library.