Evan Wolfson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Evan Wolfson
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1957(1957-02-04)
Age	67
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Evan Wolfson Biography

Evan Wolfson is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on February 4, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Evan Wolfson (born February 4 1957) is an lawyer and advocate for gay rights. He is the president and founder of Freedom to Marry, a organization that advocates for marriage equality across the United States. Wolfson wrote his work Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People’s Rights to Marry that Time Out New York magazine described as, “Perhaps the most important gay- marriage guide that has ever been written.” …” He was named as among the 100 most influential people across the World. He been an adjunct instructor at Columbia Law School, Rutgers Law School as well as Whittier Law School and argued before the Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale.

In 2003, Time Magazine described him as an emblematic figure for the LGBT rights campaign. In his book, Why Marriage is Important, Wolfson calls marriage “a relationship of emotional and financial interdependence between two people who make a public commitment.” In 2004, Time included Wolfson in its list as one of”the “100 most influential people in the world.”

Wolfson was born in to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Pittsburgh. He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1974 and Yale College in 1978. At Yale, he was a resident of Silliman College, a history major, and Speaker of the Yale Political Union. After graduation he served in the Peace Corps in Togo, in western Africa. He returned and entered Harvard Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1983. Wolfson wrote his 1983 Harvard Law thesis on same-sex marriage, long before the question gained national prominence. On October 6, 2010, he returned to the Yale Political Union to debate same-sex marriage against opponent Maggie Gallagher, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage.

Wolfson and his husband Cheng He, a change-management consultant with a Ph.D. in molecular biology, reside in New York City. They married in New York on October 15, 2011.

On April 30 2001, Wolfson left Lambda to establish Freedom to Marry with a “very generous” grant from the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund. Wolfson explained the scope of his plans for Freedom to Marry as follows: “I’m not in this just to change the law. It’s about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.” Lambda the executive director Kevin Cathcart said that over 12 years Wolfson was the only person who “personified Lambda’s passion and vision for equality.” Kate Kendall, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights described her experiences working with Wolfson as a member of Lambda: “What I can now say is that, in the intervening years, what has been made unmistakably clear to me by the lesbians and gay men that we work with and represent, is that the denial of our right to marry exacerbates our marginalization; winning that right is the cornerstone of full justice.”

Evan Wolfson Net Worth

Evan Wolfson is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Evan Wolfson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1989 to 2001 Wolfson was employed full-time at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund the non-profit that promotes gay rights. He was the director of the organization’s Marriage Project and coordinated the National Freedom to Marry Coalition which was the precursor of Freedom to Marry. Wolfson co- authored the amicus brief for the case of Baehr and v. Miike, in which the Supreme Court of Hawaii said prohibiting gay marriage within the state was discrimination and also worked on Baker v. Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court case that led to the formation the civil unions of Vermont by the state legislature in a deal between the Wolfson’s group and those who opposed the same-sex marriage. Wolfson declared the unions to be the unions a “wonderful step forward,” but they weren’t enough.

Wolfson was in front of his United States Supreme Court on April 26, 2000 to present his case for Scoutmaster James Dale in the famous court case Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Court declared in favor of it was the Boy Scouts organization had the right to ban Dale for having revealed his homosexuality through the organization’s First Amendment rights. The justices challenged Wolfson “aggressively.” The Court was 5-4 in favor of Dale however Wolfson stated, “Even before we change the [Boy Scout] policy, we are succeeding in getting people to rethink how they feel about gay people.” Dale expressed his opinion in reference to Wolfson: “Evan understood the importance of the organization to me, and the importance of an American institution like the Boy Scouts discriminating against somebody and how that could impact the public dialogue and conversation.”

Wolfson said of the Washington Supreme Court’s 2006 decision ruling same-sex marriage unconstitutional, “It was a splintered court. Four justices joined powerful dissents. A three-justice plurality applying the wrong standard of review—one that was undeservedly, hopelessly, and self-fulfillingly deferential—was joined by two justices in a fiery anti-gay concurrence, making up the margin of defeat.”

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Top Facts about Evan Wolfson

1. Evan Wolfson is an American attorney and LGBT rights advocate.
2. He founded Freedom to Marry, a campaign for marriage equality.
3. Wolfson argued the landmark case of Baehr v. Miike in Hawaii.
4. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
5. He authored “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry.”
6. Wolfson received his law degree from Harvard Law School.
7. He has been honored with numerous awards for his advocacy work.
8. Wolfson currently serves as President of The Freedom to Marry Global Initiative.
9. He was born on April 11, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York.
10. Wolfson has been involved in LGBT activism since the early 1980s.