Evan Wolfson
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1957 -
Occupation
Activist
Notable Achievements
Description
Founder and Director, Freedom to Marry; lawyer. National Law Journal in 2000 named Evan one of "the 100 most influential lawyers in America." Newsweek/The Daily Beast dubbed Evan "the godfather of gay marriage" and Time Magazine named him one of "the 100 most influential people in the world." In 2012, Evan received the Barnard Medal of Distinction. Author, 'Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry' (Simon & Schuster, 2004).
