Brendan Fay

BRENDAN FAY is an activist and filmmaker. Founder and co-chair of St Pats For All, New York’s inclusive St. Patrick’s Parade, and founder of Lavender and Green Alliance, he helped form Irish Aids Outreach (IAC) to break the silence around AIDS in the Irish Community. He has testified in Washington DC and New York and has been arrested many times for civil rights. Brendan coor­dinated Silence to Speech a documentary series on being Irish and gay in America. He directed the film, Remembering Mychal, and co-produced Saint of 9/11, documentaries about Fr. Mychal Judge, the FDNY Franciscan chaplain who died in the World Trade Center tragedy. Brendan recently directed Taking a Chance on God, a film about gay pioneer priest John McNeill, takingachanceongod.com. Involved in the marriage equality movement since 1998, he and Jesus LeBron are co-founders of the Civil Marriage Trail Project. Brendan lives with his spouse, Tom Moulton, in Astoria, New York. They were among the first New Yorkers and binational couples to legally marry in Canada in July 2003.