Interview with Kimberly Franklin, Tamera Boyd Franklin, May 2, 2022
Project: John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary Oral History Project
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In this interview Kimberly Franklin and Tamera Boyd Franklin discuss their role as plaintiffs in Bourke v. Beshear, later merged with other plaintiffs to form Obergefell v. Hodges, a landmark court case that overturned Kentucky's ban on gay marriage. The two discuss their backgrounds and relationship before the ban was overturned, and many details of the case as it travelled through the judicial system up to the Supreme Court.Interview Accession
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Franklin, Kimberly Interview by Anu Kasarabada. 02 May. 2022. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Franklin, K. (2022, May 02). Interview by A. Kasarabada. John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Franklin, Kimberly, interview by Anu Kasarabada. May 02, 2022, John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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