Title:
Thalia Zepatos on research and messaging in Freedom to Marry
Creator/Contributor:
Zepatos, Thalia, 1955-, 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:
Thalia Zepatos was the Director of Research and Messaging for Freedom to Marry. Zepatos was born in New York City and raised
in Yonkers, New York. Zepatos earned her undergraduate degree from American University in Washington DC while at the same
began working as an activist, particularly on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment. Zepatos continued her political work once
moving to Portland, Oregon. While in Oregon, she first became involved in LGBT rights work, especially by joining the campaign
opposing Oregon's Ballot Measure 9 in 1992. She then fought against Ballot Measure 36 in 2004, which, when passed, limited
marriage to heterosexual couples. Zepatos moved to California work on the "Let California Ring" public education campaign
in advance of the anti-gay Proposition 8, which passed in 2008. She joined Freedom to Marry in 2010 as Director of Research
and Messaging. In this interview, Zepatos discusses her many years working on behalf of LGBT rights, in particular the freedom
to marry movement. She details the extensive, multi-year effort to conduct research on what American's thought about marriage
in general and why they opposed extending marriage to same-sex couples. Furthermore, she explains how she and her colleagues
were able to "crack the code" and develop a new set of messages that resonated with voters and changed their minds to be in
favor of marriage rights for same-sex couples
Date:
2016 (issued)
Subject:
n-us---
Same-sex marriage -- United States
Marriage law -- United States
Gay rights -- United States
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States
Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
Homosexuels -- Mariage -- États-Unis
Homosexuels -- Droits -- États-Unis
Gay rights
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc
Marriage law
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
United States
Freedom to Marry.
Zepatos, Thalia -- 1955- -- Interviews
Note:
Thalia Zepatos ; 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 (xii, 116 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.