Molly McKay

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Molly B. McKay is an attorney and a civil rights activist for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered individuals. McKay was the former Co-Executive Director of Marriage Equality California and is currently the Media Director for Marriage Equality USA. She has also been active in Californians for Same Sex Marriage, the California Freedom to Marry Coalition, and was the Associate Executive Director of Equality California.

Beginning in February 2001, McKay and her wife, Davina Kotulski, began going to city halls in the Bay Area asking for marriage licenses and organizing annual "Marriage License Counter" protests to draw attention to the hundreds of rights same-sex couples are denied. In the United States marriage licenses are commonly issued at the local city hall, or office of government for the municipality, with a city employee on one side of a counter, and the applicant on the other side. In response to having her San Francisco Marriage License invalidated, McKay joined her wife Kotulski in organizing the "Marriage Equality Express," an educational bus tour across the United States that culminated in the first national marriage equality rally in Washington, DC on October 11, 2004. Time and Parade magazines included the rally when citing the importance of marriage equality activism as one of the top 10 issues of 2004.

McKay and her wife, Kotulski, were the 17th same-sex couple married in San Francisco and have appeared together on CNN, Newsweek, Time and USA Today. They are featured in three documentaries, the 2005 Carmen Goodyear, and Laurie York directed Freedom to Marry (shown in 7 countries and featured on PBS), the Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw 2007 release, Pursuit of Equality, and I Will, I Do, We Did following the San Francisco marriages that took place in 2004.^[1] They have also appeared on several television shows including American Quest,^{[citation needed]} documenting the National "Marriage Equality Express", and a Queer Nation TV special in New Zealand.

In 2003, McKay and her wife received the "Defenders of Love" Award from the East Bay Pride Committee, and in 2004, she received the "Saints Alive" award from the San Francisco Metropolitan Community Church and was "sainted" by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for her activism and advocacy on behalf of full marriage equality for all couples.