Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
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Posted by , February 19, 2008
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Presented by the Center for New Words and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change Nancy Polikoff will speak to “Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law”.
The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter and those that don’t. A woman married to a man for nine months is entitled to Social Security survivor’s benefits when he dies; a woman living for nineteen years with a man or woman to whom she is not married receives nothing. Polikoff reframes the debate by arguing that all family relationships and households need the economic stability and emotional peace of mind that now extends only to married couples.
This event is free and open to the public.It will take place Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Kotzen Meeting Center, Simmons College.
For more information e-mail diane.hammer@simmons.edu
