Original upload date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:28:59 GMT
President Obama awarding the Citizen Medal to
Jeanne Manford (Queens, NY)
President Obama:
"Manford and her husband, Jules, co-founded in 1972 a support group for parents of gay children that grew
...
into the national organization known as Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Manford had always supported her son Morty, but was inspired to act after the police failed to intervene while Morty was beaten and hospitalized during a Gay Activists Alliance demonstration in April 1972. In the years that followed, Manford continued to march and organize, even after losing Morty to AIDS in 1992. Today, PFLAG focuses on creating a network of support and advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Manford passed away in early January at the age of 92."
- The White House, East Room, February 15, 2013.
