The right to marry

Harlem Stage and Human Rights Campaign welcome you to the world premiere of Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness, a documentary short film directed by Thomas Allen Harris, on Tuesday, April 26 at Aaron Davis Hall.

The film compares the civil rights struggles of Black and LGBT communities. A community forum on the topic featuring a slate of rights advocates, political activists and religious leaders follows the screening.

Panelists include Alphonso David, New York State Division of Human Rights advisor, Rev. Irene Monroe from the Pacific School of Religion, Cathy Marino-Thomas, board president of Marriage Equality New York, Massachusetts-based pastor Rev. Eugene Rivers who is president of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, and Human Rights Campaign board member David Wilson. Jonathan Capehart, editorial writer for The Washington Post and contributor to MSNBC, will moderate.

The film centers on Massachusetts State Rep. Byron Rushing (D), a Civil Rights veteran who, in the past decade, took the campaign for same-sex marriage into communities of color in his home state. In doing so, he challenged religious leaders and defined equal marriage as a civil rights issue on par with the Black social justice movements of the 1950s and 1960s.

MARRIAGE EQUALITY: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness

Tuesday, April 26, 7:30pm
Reception to follow

Aaron Davis Hall
135th Street at Convent Avenue, Manhattan
(directions)

For ticket information, click here or call 212-281-9240, ext. 19 or 20.