Supporters of Marriage Equality USA (Partial List)
Amy Suits of Propel Design www.propeldesign.com
Andy Spivak of Morrison and Forrester www.mofo.com
Supporters of Same-Sex Marriage (Partial List)
National/International Politicians & Community Leaders
Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City
Amy Ashworth, Founder, PFLAG
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Member of Congress
Volker Beck Member of Parliament, Germany
Julian Bond, Civil Rights Leader
Willie Brown (D), Mayor of San Francisco
John Burton (D), California State Senate President
Christine Chavez, Political Director of the United Farm Workers of America
Richard M. Daley (D), Mayor of Chicago
Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, Former Surgeon General
Ellen Ensig-Brodsky, Pride Senior Network, NYC
Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women
Mary Kay Henry, Executive Vice President, the Service Employees International Union
James Hormel, Philanthropist
Dolores Huerta, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing and Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW)
Alice Huffman, President of the California State Conference of the NAACP
John Lewis (D-GA), Member of Congress
Jay B. Lesiger, Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), NYC
Jan Laverty Jones (D), Mayor of Las Vegas
Coretta Scott King, Civil Rights Leader
Mildred Loving, plaintiff in the historical U.S. Supreme court decision in 1967 striking down state bans on interracial marriage
Eleanor Mondale
Carol Moseley Braun
Gavin Newsom (D), Mayor of San Francisco
Ron Oden, Mayor of Palm Springs, CA
Ken Reeves, City Council, Cambridge, MA
Robert Reich (D), former U.S. Sec. of Labor, candidate for Gov. of Massachusetts
Byron Rushing, State Representative, Boston, MA
Elliot Spitzer (D), Governor of New York
Gloria Steinem
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, South Africa
Herb Wesson, California State Assembly Speaker-Emeritus
Religious Leaders
Reverend Patricia E. Ackerman, Episcopal Church of NYC
Reverend Pat. Baumgardner, Metropolitan Church of NY
The Rt. Rev. Craig Bettendorf
Pat Crawford, Integrity Brooklyn
Lama Surya Das
Rev. Michael Eric Dyson
Rev. James Forbes
Rev. Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congretation Beth Simchat Torah, NYC
Rev. Joseph Lowery, Civil Rights Leader
Rev. Thomas J.S. Mikelson
Pamela J. Nelson, St. Clements Episcopal Church, NYC
Bishop Walter Righter
Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson
Bishop John L. Selders, Jr.
Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. William Sinkford, President, Unitarian Universalist Church
The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong
Bishop James Wilkowski
Rev. Cecil Williams, Minister, Glide Memorial, San Francisco
Reverend K. Dennis Winslow, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Manhattan
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
Religious Organizations
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
Al-Fatiha Foundation
American Humanist Association
California Church IMPACT
California Council of Churches
California Faith for Equality
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
Dignity/USA
Ecumenical Catholic Church
Evangelical Anglican Church in America (EACA)
Evangelical Catholic Church
Executive Committee of the American Friends Service Committee
Friends Committee on Legislation of California
Friends for Lesbian & Gay Concerns (Quakers)
General Synod of the United Church of Christ
Integrity
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Jews for Marriage Equality (Southern California)
Justice & Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ
Lazarus Project, Mission of the Presbyterian Church
Lutherans Concerned/North America
Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition
Nat'l Community Relations Cmte of the American Friends Service Cmte (Quakers)
National Council of Jewish Women
Pacific Central District Chapter of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
Pacific Southwest Council on the Union of Reform Judaism
Pacific Southwest District Chapter of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
Progressive Christians Uniting
Reconciling Ministries Clergy of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodists
Riverside Church, New York City
Soka-Gakkai International-USA
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Union of Reform Judiasm
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry – California
Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
Wider Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ
Women's Rabbinic Network, Reform Women Rabbis
A list of signatories to the California Amicus Brief http://cafaithforequality.org/documents/amicus_list_2006.pdf
Civil Rights Groups & Other Organizations
AGUILAS
Alburquerque Center for Law & Justice
American Civil Liberties Union
American Ethical Union
American Family Therapy Academy
American Latin Alliance
American Psychoanalytic Association
And Justice For All
Asian American Justice Center
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Asian Equality, Asian Law Alliance
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
Asian and Pacific Islander Equality
Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride
Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women and Transgender Network
Asian Pacific Islander Pride Council
Asian and Pacific Islander Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Asian Women’s Shelter
Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
Bar Association of the City of New York
Bar Association of San Francisco
Bienestar Human Services
BiNET USA
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
California Democratic Party
California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
California Women’s Law Center
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Chinese Progressive Association
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Equal Justice Society
Equal Rights Advocates
Family Pride
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Freedom to Marry
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Gay & Lesbian Latinos United
Gay & Lesbian Medical Association
Gay & Lesbian Parents Coalition International (GLPCI)
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Gay Men of African Descent
Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council
Hetrick-Martin Institute
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion
Japanese-American Bar Association
Japanese-American Citizens League
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
La Raza Centro Legal
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
LEAGUE/AT&T
Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center
Legal Momentum (formerly, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund)
Lesbian & Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Men of All Colors Together
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
My Sister’s House
Multicultural Bar Alliance of Los Angeles
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
National Association for Women in Education
National Association of Social Workers
National Black Justice Coalition
National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
National Latino/a Lesbian & Gay Organization (LLEGO)
National Lawyers Guild
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
National Organization for Women (NOW)
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Writers Union
New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy
Organization of Chinese Americans, San Francisco Chapter
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (P-FLAG)
People for the American Way
Queen’s Bench Bar Association of the San Francisco Bay Area
Rutgers School of Law, Newark Urban Legal Clinic
SacLEGAL
Socialist Party USA
Southeast Asian Community Center
Southern Center for Law & Justice United States
Student Association UCLA Department of Social Welfare
Tom Homann Law Association
United Lesbians of African Heritage
University of Colorado Student Union
University of Connecticut Undergraduate Student Government
Ventura County Black Attorneys Association
Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California
Washington State Democratic Party
Zuna Institute
Education Leaders
William Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California
Dr. Randall Bailey, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Atlanta
Paul Schiff Berman, University of Connecticut School of Law, W. Hartford, Connecticut
Sujit Choudhry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario, Canada
Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Cox, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor
Professor Herma Hill Kay, Former Dean of Boalt Law School
Mayo Moran, Dean, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario, Canada
Margaret L. Satterthwaite, New York University School of Law, New York, New York
Beth Van Schaack, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, International Human Rights Clinic
Robert Wintemute, School of Law, King’s College, University of London, United Kingdom
Williams Institute, UCLA
Women’s Institute for Leadership Development
Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
Literary Leaders
Avery Corman, author
Michael Eric Dyson, Author and Professor
Nora Ephron, author & Nick Pileggi
Christie Hefner, publisher
Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe Columnist
Charles Kaiser, author
Dr. Simon LeVay, author
Jed Mattes, literary agent
Terrence McNally, playwright
Michael Musto, columnist, The Village Voice
Clarence Page, Columnist
Charlotte Sheedy, author
Andrew Tobias, author
Bruce Vilanch, writer, Hollywood Squares
Patricia Nell Warren, author
Judy Wieder, journalist, The Advocate
Business Leaders
Ingrid Casares, entrepreneur
Christopher Lee, President, Columbia Pictures
Suze Orman, Financial Guru
Companies
Atlantic Records
HERO Magazine
Playboy Enterprises
POZ Magazine
UTNE Reader
Sports Figures
Charles Barkley, Former NBA Player and Sports Commentator
Billie Jean King
Martina Navratilova
Dave Pallone, umpire, Major League Baseball
Muffin Spencer-Devlin & Lynda Roth
Actors & Performers
Gillian Anderson
Mitchell Anderson
Bea Arthur
Randy Becker & Shae D'lyn
Sandra Bernhard
Matthew Broderick
Neve Campbell
Kathleen Chalfant
Margaret Cho
Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen
Ellen DeGeneres
Lea Delaria
Laura Dern
David Duchovny
Mike Farrell
Harvey Fierstein
Al Franken
Stephen Fry
Leeza Gibbons
Whoopi Goldberg
Joel Grey
Melanie Griffith & Antonio Banderas
Anne Heche
Ricki Lake
Helen Hunt
Werner Klemperer
Lucy Lawless
Norman Lear
John Leguizamo
Judith Light
Eric McCormack
Debra Messing
Diana Montford, Host, "Diana Montford Show"
Megan Mullaly
Kathy Najimy
John Norris
Gwyneth Paltrow
Mandy Patinkin
Paul Reiser
Chita Rivera
Meg Ryan
Cristina Saralegui
Bob Smith
Michael Stratton
Elizabeth Taylor
Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue
Lily Tomlin
Harris Yulin
Zoe Wanamaker
Musicians
Beck
David Crosby
Julie Cypher
Melissa Etheridge
Dave Hall
Luscious Jackson
Madonna
Bonnie Raitt
Pete Seeger
(This list is a compilation of those who publicly support same-sex marriage and collected by Freedom ot Marry, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Black Justice Coalition and Marriage Equality.)
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