Philanthropy in Action: Bruce Cohen (Full Lecture)
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Channel: Yale University · 2013 · Education
Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen shared with Maxim Thorne and Philanthropy in Action students how he has merged his passions for film making with achieving LGBT civil rights. He discusses the success of American Beauty and Milk and the role that artists can play in philanthropy. Bruce discusses his participation in the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) the sole sponsor of the federal court challenge to California's Proposition 8. After bringing together Theodore B. Olson and David Boies to lead its legal challenge to strike down Prop. 8 and win full federal marriage equality. Bruce and his husband, Gabe Catone, were the first LGBT couple to be married by the Mayor at City Hall in May, 2008.
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