Zócalo Public SquareFormer Director of the ACLU LGBT Project Matt Coles – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Former Director of the ACLU LGBT Project Matt Coles https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/08/30/matt-coles/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/08/30/matt-coles/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:01:43 +0000 Talib Jabbar https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=144777 Matt Coles teaches law at UC Law San Francisco. He was deputy national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 2010 to 2016 and ran the ACLU’s National LGBT Project before that. He served as legal advisor to Supervisor Harvey Milk and drafted what became San Francisco’s sexual orientation nondiscrimination law. Before sitting on a panel for the Zócalo event “When Does Protest Make a Difference?,” he joined us in the green room to discuss growing up as a political kid, winning gay marriage, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

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]]> Matt Coles teaches law at UC Law San Francisco. He was deputy national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 2010 to 2016 and ran the ACLU’s National LGBT Project before that. He served as legal advisor to Supervisor Harvey Milk and drafted what became San Francisco’s sexual orientation nondiscrimination law. Before sitting on a panel for the Zócalo event “When Does Protest Make a Difference?,” he joined us in the green room to discuss growing up as a political kid, winning gay marriage, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

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