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Mary L. Bonauto (born c. 1961) is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has worked to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and has been referred to by US Representative Barney Frank as "our Thurgood Marshall." She began working with the Massachusetts-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) organization in 1990.〔''New York Times'': ("Toward a More Perfect Union," May 5, 2004 ), accessed June 29, 2010〕 A resident of Portland, Maine, Bonauto was one of the leaders who both worked with the Maine legislature to pass a same-sex marriage law and to defend it at the ballot in a narrow loss during the 2009 election campaign. Bonauto is best known for being lead counsel in the case ''Goodridge v. Department of Public Health'' which made Massachusetts the first state in which same-sex couples could marry in 2004. She is also responsible for leading the first strategic challenges to section three of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). On April 28, 2015 Bonauto was one of three attorneys who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in ''Obergefell v. Hodges'' arguing state bans on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional. This much-publicized case determined that state bans against same-sex marriage are unconstitutional and is considered one of the most important civil rights cases which came before the U.S. Supreme Court in modern history. ==Biography== Bonauto was born in 1961 and grew up in Newburgh, New York in a Roman Catholic family. She graduated from Hamilton College and Northeastern University School of Law. In 1987, after graduating from law school, she entered private practice in Maine, where she was at the time one of three openly gay private practice lawyers in the state.〔 She lives in Portland with her spouse Jennifer Wriggins, who is a professor at the University of Maine School of Law. The couple were married in Massachusetts.〔''Portland Press Herald'': ("Mainer challenging U.S. Defense of Marriage Act," May 2, 2010 ), accessed June 29, 2010〕 They have twin daughters.〔 Bonauto has litigated widely in areas such as job and public accommodations discrimination, securing domestic partner benefits and relationship protections, establishing second parent rights and de facto parent status, vindicating First Amendment protections, and challenging anti-gay harassment and violence. She has worked on public policy in all six New England states, and occasionally writes for legal publications. Bonauto filed her first marriage case in Vermont in July 1997.〔 Yale University awarded its 2010-2011 Brudner Prize, which recognizes "an accomplished scholar or activist whose work has made significant contributions to the understanding of LGBT issues or furthered the tolerance of LGBT people," to Bonauto.〔Yale University: (James Robert Brudner '83 Memorial Prize and Lectures', accessed December 1, 2010 )〕 In 2011, Bonauto was named one of the ''50 most-powerful women in Boston'' by ''Boston Magazine''. In 2012, she was listed as one of the 31 LGBT history "icons" by the organisers of LGBT History Month. In March 2013, Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer arguing for DOMA repeal in the Supreme Court, told the ''New York Times'', "No gay person in this country would be married without Mary Bonauto." Former US Representative Barney Frank, said "She's our Thurgood Marshall."〔 In June 2013 immediately following the DOMA Supreme Court decision, she was called in Slate a "Gay Marriage Hero" and "the legal architect of the DOMA repeal."〔(Mary Bonauto, Gay Marriage Hero ) Slate. June 2013.〕 She was named a MacArthur fellow in September 2014 for her work "breaking down legal barriers based on sexual orientation". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Bonauto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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