Title:
Tim Sweeney on foundations and the freedom to marry movement
Creator/Contributor:
Sweeney, Tim, 1954-, 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:
Tim Sweeney served on both the steering committee and then board of directors for Freedom to Marry from 2002 to 2013 and worked
for both the Haas Jr. Fund and the Gill Foundation. Sweeney was born in 1954 in Billings, Montana, and raised in the nearby
town of Laurel. Sweeney attended college at the University Montana and while at college and immediately afterwards engaged
in environmental activism. He moved to San Francisco in 1977 and in 1978 was asked to join the "No on Prop 6" campaign by
San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. By the early 1980s he was living in New York City and over the next two decades took
leadership roles in Lambda Legal and Education Fund, Gay Men's Health Crisis, and Empire State Pride Agenda. Between 2001
and 2007, Sweeney worked with the Haas Jr. Fund in San Francisco before moving to the Gill Foundation in Colorado. In this
interview, Sweeney describes his decades working on behalf of LGBT health, law, and civil rights. He discusses the process
of establishing Freedom to Marry and the roles that the organization played throughout its term. Sweeney also details the
LGBT rights movement from the perspective of someone who spent a decade and a half working in key foundations that funded
organizational activities.
Date:
2015 (issued)
Subject:
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Same-sex marriage -- United States
Marriage law -- United States
Gay rights -- United States
Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States
AIDS (Disease) -- United States
Homosexuels -- Mariage -- États-Unis
Homosexuels -- Droits -- États-Unis
Sida -- États-Unis
AIDS (Disease)
Gay rights
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc
Marriage law
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
United States
Freedom to Marry.
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.
Empire State Pride Agenda.
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.
Gill Foundation.
Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.
Gill Foundation.
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Sweeney, Tim -- 1954- -- Interviews
Note:
Tim Sweeney ; interviews conducted by Martin Meeker in 2015.
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 (xii, 109 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.