Freedom To Marry - Video Blog: The Price of Discrimination: In Healthcare

By Pippa Bianco and Grant Gilles
Summer Interns, Freedom to Marry
August 20, 2009

This morning we released our latest video discussing the price of marriage discrimination for gay families in the context of healthcare programs. This video details marriage discrimination in health insurance coverage, Medicaid, and Social Security and quantifies this discrimination's very real and tangible cost. As always, we hope you enjoy!

Freedom To Marry Launches Video Blog to Address Marriage Equality FAQs

By Pippa Bianco, Grant Gilles, and Matthew Zuckerman
Summer Interns, Freedom to Marry
July 28, 2009

Today marks the debut of Freedom to Marry’s summer-long foray into the world of video blogging. Led by interns Pippa Bianco, Grant Gilles, and Matt Zuckerman, Freedom to Marry will use this new blog format to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about marriage equality.

The accompanying two videos were written and filmed in Freedom to Marry’s New York headquarters over a period of two weeks. The first video offers a general introduction to the Freedom to Marry Video Blog and a brief content overview:



The second video explains why Freedom to Marry prefers the term “marriage equality” or the “freedom to marry” over “gay marriage” or “same-sex marriage”:

These videos can be a great way to start a conversation about why marriage equality matters to you. Forward them to friends, post them on your blog or social networking profiles, and start a conversation today! Every conversation brings us closer to achieving the freedom to marry nationwide.

While our next three videos are already in production, we are calling upon you, our readers, to tell us where to go next. To have a question answered on the Freedom to Marry Video Blog, please send an email to: editor@freedomtomarry.org.


We look forward to hearing from you!

Hopefully,
Pippa, Grant, and Matt