For those of you who remember the dear story told in the Independent Lens film Limited Partnership, longtime partners Tony Sullivan and Richard Adams became one of the first same sex couples to be legally married in the world, in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado, only to have Tony, who is originally from Australia, denied citizenship when the federal …
Naturally, when news of the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality came down, a 5-4 vote that the Constitution guarantees a right to same sex marriage, our thoughts immediately turned to the makers and main character of Limited Partnership. We heard from the film’s co-producer Kirk Marcolina, and from Tony Sullivan, who with his longtime …
Fourteen years in the making, Limited Partnership became a labor of love for filmmakers Tom Miller and Kirk Marcolina. Here the pair discuss the film’s resonance as both a work of marriage equality advocacy and the celebration of a moving love story.
Forty years after lighting the fuse on the same-sex marriage debate, and with the Supreme Court expected to make a decision on nationwide same-sex marriage any day now, former Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex joins Tony Sullivan to discuss the impact of their brave action all those years ago.
