While the LGBT civil rights movement was gaining momentum, the 1970s witnessed horrific custody battles for lesbian mothers. Founders of the Lesbian Rights Project – now the National Center for Lesbian Rights – and the Lesbian Mothers' National Defense Fund recount the founding of their organizations in response to the bevy of court rulings granting custody to grandparents, fathers and distant relatives based on the belief that lesbians would be unfit parents. This film revisits the early tumultuous years of the lesbian custody movement through the stories of five lesbian mothers and their four children.
Audience: All, Small (1-50)
SBS Annex
Room: Conference Room
Carley Thomsen
Women's Resource Center
520-621-3919
http://wrc.asua.arizona.edu/wrcactivities.htm