The Wayne Morse Center and UO's Political Science Department invite you to join via Zoom or in person. 

In the ten years since the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which made marriage equality the law of the land, the LGBTQ+ community has achieved unprecedented progress and experienced unfathomable loss. This panel recounts the struggle for marriage equality—at the ballot, in the courts, and in the streets—the immediate response, and the setbacks and new fault lines that have emerged in the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights. 

The panel features: 

• US District Court Chief Judge Michael McShane who struck down Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2014,
• Nationally recognized LGBTQ+ rights and gun safety advocate Brandon Wolf (Human Rights Campaign), and 
• Prof. Alison Gash, head of the UO's Department of Political Science and an academic expert in, among other things, US courts, same-sex marriage, gender, constitutional rights and public policy.