"LIMITED PARTNERSHIP" Trailer

Our film, "Limited Partnership," is the little known personal story of Tony Sullivan and Richard Adams who, in 1975, became one of the first same-sex couples to be legally married in the world. Because Tony is Australian, they applied for a U.S. green card based on their marriage, but were denied in an official INS letter that stated “You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots.” Outraged at the tone, tenor and politics of this letter, the couple filed the first federal lawsuit seeking equal treatment for a same-sex marriage in U.S. history. Our film recounts their 40-year struggle to stay together, which parallels the entire history of the LGBT marriage and immigration equality movements, right up to the historic U.S. Supreme Court rulings last year.