Greg Bourke and his husband Michael DeLeon were the plaintiffs in the Kentucky same-sex marriage case Bourke v. Beshear which later went to the Supreme Court as part of the Obergefell v. Hodges case which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples.
In this interview, Greg Bourke discusses his experience of coming out as a gay man in Kentucky, and talks about places in Lexington, Kentucky that were welcoming and those that were not. He discusses his conflict with the Boy Scouts of America due to their policy against LGBTQ members. He talks about meeting his husband Michael DeLeon and their involvement in the same-sex marriage cases Bourke v. Beshear and Obergefell v. Hodges. He discusses the role of religion in his life, his involvement in activism, and his family.
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Michael DeLeon and his husband Greg Bourke were the plaintiffs in the Kentucky same-sex marriage case Bourke v. Beshear which later went to the Supreme Court as part of the Obergefell v. Hodges case which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples.
In this interview, Michael DeLeon discusses his childhood in rural Kentucky, his experiences at the University of Kentucky, and his experience coming out as a gay man. He talks about meeting his husband Greg Bourke and their involvement in the same-sex marriage cases Bourke v. Beshear and Obergefell v. Hodges. He discusses the role of religion in his life, his involvement in activism, and his family.
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In this interview Kimberly Franklin and Tamera Boyd Franklin discuss their role as plaintiffs in Bourke v. Beshear, later merged with other plaintiffs to form Obergefell v. Hodges, a landmark court case that overturned Kentucky's ban on gay marriage. The two discuss their backgrounds and relationship before the ban was overturned, and many details of the case as it travelled through the judicial system up to the Supreme Court.
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Shannon Fauver is an attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, who represented same-sex couples in Bourke v. Beshear (2014) and Love v. Beshear (2014), marriage equality cases that were part of a package of cases that the Supreme Court of the United States considered in 2015 as Obergefell v. Hodges. In Obergefell, the Court held that it was unconstitutional for state laws to ban recognition of same-sex marriages.
In this interview, Fauver discusses how the federal lawsuit evolved, from the decision to file in the Western District Court of Kentucky to petitioning the Supreme Court of the United States. She also describes her childhood in Louisville, growing up in a family of lawyers, attending the Brandeis School of Law as a night student, starting a solo practice, and life as a practicing attorney, primarily in bankruptcy and Social Security law. Fauver is founding partner at the Fauver Law Office in Louisville.
