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Evan Wolfson
Evan Wolfson (born February 4, 1957) is an American attorney and gay rights advocate. He is the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, a group favoring same-sex marriage in the United States. Wolfson, who many consider to be the father and leader of the same-sex marriage movement,〔July 26, 2010: http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/hrsummer2009.pdf〕 authored the book ''Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry'', which ''Time Out New York'' magazine called, "Perhaps the most important gay-marriage primer ever written..."〔(Simon & Schuster website ) with quotes from reviews.〕 He was listed as one of ''Time'' magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, Rutgers Law School, and Whittier Law School and argued before the Supreme Court in ''Boy Scouts of America v. Dale''.
==Background==
Wolfson was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Pittsburgh. He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1974 and Yale College in 1978. At Yale, he was a resident of Silliman College, a history major, and Speaker of the Yale Political Union. After graduation he served in the Peace Corps in Togo, in western Africa. He returned and entered Harvard Law School, where he earned his ''Juris Doctor'' in 1983. Wolfson wrote his 1983 Harvard Law thesis on same-sex marriage, long before the question gained national prominence.〔Retrieved Dec. 1, 2010. http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/wolfson_evan.html〕 On October 6, 2010, he returned to the Yale Political Union to debate the issue of marriage for same-sex couples against opponent Maggie Gallagher, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage.〔Retrieved Dec. 1, 2010. http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/04/Wolfson_Gallagher_to_Debate_at_Yale/〕〔http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners〕
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