Fairness Campaign Newsletter Pride 2015

7/21/2019 Fairness Campaign Newsletter Pride 2015

1/122263 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206 | 502.893.0788 | www.Fairness.org | @FairnessCam

KY PlaintiffsBefore theSupreme Court!On April 28, Kentucky's Freedom tMarry plaintiffs and their attorneyhad their day in courttheSupreme Court! Represented bythe Fauver Law Office, Clay, DanieWalton, and Adams, the ACLU, and

Stanford Law School, six Kentuckycouples in Bourke v. Beshearhad their case heard alongsideplaintiffs from Michigan, Ohio, andTennessee in Obergefell v. Hodges.ruling by the high court is expectein late June, LGBT Pride month.

PRIDE 2015

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C-FAIR Endorsements

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2014 Year in Review & "Friends of Fairness"

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2015 KY Pride Festivals & Volunteer Opportunities

Congratulations to Kentucky's plaintiff couples and attorneys in Bourke v. Beshear!Plaintiffs: Rev. Bojangles Blanchard andDominique James, Greg Bourke and Michael De Leon, Tammy Boyd and Kim Franklin, Paul Campion and Randy Johnson, Timothy Love andLarry Ysunza, and Jim and Luke Meade-Barlowe | Attorneys: Dan Canon, Joe Dunman, Dawn Elliott, Shannon Fauver, and Laura Landenwic

ATTORNEY GENERALJACK CONWAY

Democratic Primary for Kentucky Governor

VOTE TUESDAY, MAY 19

Photo by Freedom to Marry


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VOTE MAY 19KY Primary Election

www.elect.ky.gov

ATTORNEY GENERAL JACK CONWAYDemocratic Primary for Kentucky GovernorAttorney General Jack Conway is a clear and compelling choice for C-FAIRin the Democratic Primary for Kentucky Governor. He has been outspokenin his support for simple anti-discrimination Fairness protections for LGBTKentuckians, and his decision last year to cease defense of our state's same-gender marriage ban was a bold move on the right side of history. We believeJack Conway will work to ensure all Kentuckians have a fair shot at earning aliving and protecting their families just like everyone else.

www.ConwayOverly.comPO Box 7803, Louisville, KY 40257

JEFF. CO. COMMISSIONER

DANIEL GROSSBERGDemocratic Primary for Kentucky TreasurerIn the five-way Democratic Primary for State Treasurer, Jefferson County

Commissioner Daniel Grossberg receives the C-FAIR nod for his fresh

ideas related to management and transparency of the Treasurer's officeand his unwavering commitment to social justice.

www.GrossbergForTreasurer.com

PO Box 6694, Louisville, KY 40206

Can we talk aboutAGING with PRIDE?

For the past year, the Fairness Campaign has been working with abroad group of ally organizations to launch a Kentucky SAGENet,

a regional affiliate of the national Services and Advocacy for Gay,Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders (SAGE).

Now, we need to hear from you! We'll be holding three focus groupsduring Pride Month to discuss the local needs of LGBT elders.Participants of any age are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Friday, June 5, 8 p.m. | PLAY Dance Bar, 1101 E. Washington, 40206Sunday, June 7, 2 p.m. | MCC Louisville, 1432 Highland, 40204Monday, June 15, Noon | Gilda's Club Louisville, 633 Baxter, 40204*FREE LUNCH on Monday, June 15, but RSVP is required: 502.893.078


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Brooke & Matthew Barzun

Jeff Been & Eric Graninger

Emily Bingham & Stephen Reily

Eleanor Bingham Miller

Dr. Gregory Brown & Scott Rogers

Becky Brown

Christina Lee Brown

Brown-Forman Corporation

Judge Gina Kay Calvert

Stephen Campbell & Heather McHold

Caperton Realty

Timothy Combs & Jim Dickinson

Comfy Cow

Conliffe & Hickey Insurance

The Connection Night Club

Sonja deVries & Keith Farah

Sandra Frazier

Judge Bill Graham

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR "WE THE PEOPLE" 2015 SPONSORS!

"We The People" | 2015 ACLU/Fairness DinnerSusan Hershberg & her Wiltshire Pantry host another elegant, sold-out evening at the Ali Center

SAVE THESE 2016 DATES | Fairness Rally Feb. 17 | "We The People" Dinner March 26

Mary Moss Greenebaum

Sandy Gulick

Augusta & Gill HollandCouncilman Bill Hollander & Lisa Keener

Debbie King

Judge Katie King

Ed Kruger & Jeff Rodgers

Judge Jennifer Leibson

Sam Marcosson

Mark England Associates

Judge Irv Maze

Morgan Stanley

Jefferson County Attorney Mike OConnellLisa Osanka

Djenita Pasic

PLAY Dance Bar

Eugenia & John Potter

Dorene Stein

UPS

Carla Wallace

Tom Wallace Lyons

Drs. Terry & Morris Weiss

Jane Welch

Dona Wells

Porter Watkins & George BaileyBrian Hawkins PhotographyBrian Hawkins Photography

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Jamie Abrams and Jason PletcherGrace Akers and Maria Price

Michael AldridgeAll About Travel

Sean Allen and Stewart HoertzLinda Allewalt

AltourDebra Anderson and Gary Cusick

Brittany Anderson50+ Anonymous Donors

Donald Armstrong, JrTommy Arnold

Elsie and Allan AthertonAttica Scott Campaign for Metro Council

Alyssa BaileyJohn and Natalie Bajandas

Nan Baker and Martha Marsh

Kandace BakerDebbie BarberMark BaridonPaul Barnes

Chase BarnettMelissa and Tim Barry

Greg BartlettBrooke and Matthew Barzun

Terri and Steven BassCarolyn Klinge and Lee Beckhuan

Jeff Been and Eric GraningerPatti Bell and Jeanne Hanley

David BellAmy Benningfield

Andre BergeronBest Buy Co., IncJason Bielefeld

Big BarEmily Bingham and Stephen Reily

Edith BinghamEleanor Bingham Miller

Michael BlairKeith Blaydes

Lisa Blythe

Bill BolteFred Borho and Douglas Scott Sorenson

Elaine and Don BornsteinAlan Bornstein

Gregory Bourke and Michael De LeonPaul Bowe

David BowlesRobert Bozeman and Rajesh ShahDana Cohen and David Brantley

Ed Fallon and Paul BrezoskyBrad and Carla Sue Broecker

Keith BrooksBecky Brown

Christina Lee BrownDenise Brown

2014 in Review "Friends of Fairness" 2014 in Review

1st-ever Statewide Fairness hearing in the Capitol

Jan. 3: Haymarket Whiskey Bar hosts afundraiser for the Fairness Campaign featuringthe band Squeezebot.

Jan. 7: The City of Campbellsburg(population 816) holds the first reading of aproposed Fairness Ordinance banning LGBTdiscrimination in employment, housing, and

public accommodations.

Jan. 8: Fairness staff present Fairness 101 forLeadership Southern Indiana.

Jan. 13: Louisville Senator Morgan McGarveyand Representative Mary Lou Marzianintroduce Statewide Fairness Laws in theKentucky General Assembly.

Jan. 14: University of Louisville student ErinWade begins her spring internship with theFairness Campaign.

Jan. 15: Fairness supporters join Voting Rights

Restoration Day in Frankfort to restore votingrights for former felons.

Jan. 21: Campbellsburg fails to pass a FairnessOrdinance after its second reading, which doesnot receive a motion for a council vote.

Jan. 22: Fairness staff present at the Universityof Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

Jan. 25: Single Mingle Louisville hosts its firstLGBT-themed event to benefit the FairnessCampaign.

Jan. 26: Fairness Campaign director ChrisHartman celebrates five years on staff.

Jan. 29-Feb. 1: Fairness Campaign staffand board members participate in the Gayand Lesbian Task Forces Creating Changeconference in Houston, Texas. FairnessCoalition leaders present a workshop titled,Rural Organizing: Victory in Vicco and Beyond.

Feb. 9: Fairness director Hartman speaks atMetropolitan Community Church of Louisvillein preparation for Statewide Fairness Rally andLobby Day.

Feb. 10: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for Gildas Club of Louisville.

Feb. 12: Federal Judge John G. Heyburn IIstrikes down a portion of Kentuckys ban onsame-gender marriage in his historic Bourke vBeshearruling, mandating the commonwealtrecognize same-gender marriages legallyperformed out-of-state.

Feb. 12: Fairness supporters join Kentuckians

For The Commonwealths I Love Mountainsrally and lobby day in Frankfort againstmountaintop removal coal mining.

Feb. 12: Fairness director Hartman speaks to SX High Schools diversity club.

Feb. 14: Kentucky Speaker of the HouseGreg Stumbo of Prestonsburg co-sponsorsStatewide Fairness for the first time, roundingout a record 18 co-sponsors in the House andsix in the Senate, including Senate MinorityWhip Jerry Rhoads of Madisonville, the firstmember of Senate leadership to join the bill.

Feb. 16: Led by Louisville Rep. Jim Wayne andFather Joe Fowler, more than 100 Catholics foFairness march in the fourth annual Pilgrimagto the Cathedral of the Assumption callingon Archbishop Joseph Kurtzs support ofStatewide Fairness.

Feb. 18: Hundreds of Kentuckians gather in thCapitol for Statewide Fairness Rally and LobbDay. With the help of the Fairness Campaignvolunteer legislative database manager PatKidwell and dozens of office volunteers,Fairness supporters deliver more than 20,000messages to state legislators.

Feb. 18: Fairness Campaign CoordinatingCommittee member Nicole Kersting andother legal and financial professionals hosta program at PLAY Dance Bar to answerquestions about legal rights and taxesfollowing the Supreme Courts ruling on samgender marriage.

Feb. 27: Fairness director Hartman speaks tothe North Oldham High School Gay StraightAlliance.

Feb. 27: Longtime Louisville MetropolitanCommunity Church leader Judy Dale, spouse

of Rev. Dee Dale, passes away in GeorgetownTexas.

March 4: Kentucky Attorney General JackConway makes an emotional announcementhe will not continue to defend the statesban on same-gender marriage in the lawsuitBourke v. Beshear.

March 5: Kentucky Governor Steve Beshearannounces he will hire an outside law firm todefend the states same-gender marriage banin Bourke v. Beshear.

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Danville Board of Commissioners discuss Fairness

March 5: The Fairness Campaign co-sponsorsthe Kentucky Commission on Human Rights50th Anniversary March on Frankfortcommemorating Dr. Martin Luther Kingsmarch for civil rights in 1964. The FairnessCampaign is accompanied by Xavier Universitystudents on an Alternative Spring Break.

March 5: After fifteen years of silence from theKentucky General Assembly, the StatewideFairness Law banning LGBT discriminationin employment, housing, and publicaccommodations receives its first-ever hearing.House Judiciary Committee Chairman John

Tilley and other legislators hear pro-Fairnesstestimony from Rep. Marzian, CovingtonMayor Sherry Carran, Kile Nave, who had beenfired from his job as a police sergeant forbeing gay, and Father Fowler. Though no voteis taken, many committee members expresssupport and Chairman Tilley promises furtherdiscussion.

March 10: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for Wellspring employees.

March 12: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for Kentuckiana Works employees.

March 19: Judge Heyburn grants GovernorSteve Beshear an indefinite stay on his Bourkev. Beshearruling while the state preparesits appeal to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court ofAppeals.

March 20: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for an additional group of Wellspring

employees.

March 22: Susan Hershberg and her WiltshirePantry host the 14th annual We The Peopledinner benefiting the ACLU-KY and FairnessCampaign at the Muhammad Ali Center.

March 24: On Kentucky Education Televisions(KET) Kentucky Tonight policy debate show,Fairness Campaign director Hartman andACLU-KY board president Dr. Enid Trucios-Haynes debate Statewide Fairness againstthe Family Foundations Martin Cothran andthe Commonwealth Policy Centers RichardNelson.

March 26: More than a dozen students inthe North Oldham High School Gay StraightAlliance lobby elected officials in Frankfortwith the Fairness Campaign.

March 27: Fairness Coalition leaders presentThe State of Fairness for UPS employees inconjunction with the companys LGBT BusinessResource Group.

Gregory Brown and Scott RogersJoseph BrownSabrina Brown

Brown-Forman CorporationVernon Broyles

Philip BryanBrian Buford

Deb Burda and Linda Wemes

Troy Burden and Mike MayoPunkin BurkeStephanie Pearce BurkeCalifornia Pizza Kitchen

Brad CalobraceGina Kay Calvert and I . Joel Frockt

Campaign Fund of David NicholsonJ.R. Cannaday and Allen Montgomery

Tom Cannady and Lindy CasebierHenry Carnes

Ben CarterRobert Caruthers

Mary CaseyBryan CaysedoRebecca Cecil

Debbie and David ChervenakFrancis Chester

Chill Bar HighlandsChrist Hope Church

Christopher Caswell StyleDenise Clayton

Clifton Foundation, IncAnn Coffey

Mirna ColonTimothy Combs and Jim Dickinson

Stephanie CombsCommittee to Elect Darryl T. Owens

Committee to Elect Tara Hagerty JudgeChris Conliffe and Scott Howard

Conliffe and Hickey InsuranceMaureen Connelly

Jacob ConwayDavid Cooper

Ginny Copenhefer

Christopher CorcoranRandall Correll

Madeline and Dario CoviKathleen Crawford and Cindi Ramm

Rachel Cutler and Curtis StaufferDee Dale

Carol and Deborah DaviesMary Jo and Paige Davis

Sonja De VriesLiane Dean and Sara Robertson

Ann Deibert and Martha KenneyHelen DeinesJohn Delucio

Kathy Dobbins and Joanne LynchDouglass Boulevard Christian Church

April 3: Shelbyville Fairness supporters, inconjunction with the Shelby County Chapterof Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, hosta dramatic protest of Mayor Tom Hardestyand the City Council for refusing to addressLGBT Fairness despite more than two yearsof requests by local leaders. Their mouthscovered in rainbow duct tape, protesters fill

council chambers, where a representativestands silently at the microphone to symbolizthe councils silencing of their voices.

April 14: The City of Danville Board of

Commissioners discusses a proposed FairnesOrdinance, which they table for later action.

April 14 & 15: The Louisville DowntownPartnership (LDP)in coalition with theACLU-KY, Louisville Metro Human RelationsCommission, Fourth Street Live!, and theFairness Campaignhosts Lou + You,a diversity training for downtown areabusinesses. The program is organized byKeith Brooks, co-coordinator of the FairnessCampaign Coordinating Committee and LDPcommunications specialist.

April 16: C-FAIR, the Political Action Committof the Fairness Campaign, endorses candidatin fifteen Primary Election races in Lexingtonand Louisville.

April 21: The Fairness Campaign participatesin Northern Kentucky Universitys first PrideMarch and Norse Pride Week.

April 22: Fairness staff present The Stateof Fairness at Jefferson Community and

Technical College.

April 28: The Danville Board of Commissionerhosts a workshop on the proposed Fairness

Ordinance.

April 29: Fairness Coalition staff conduct LGB101 training for the Louisville Metro PoliceDepartments Academy Class of new recruits

May 1: Rev. Fred Moffatt, former minister ofGraefenburg Baptist Church and ShelbyvilleFirst Baptist Church, delivers an impassionedspeech to the Shelbyville City Council insupport of Fairness.

May 5: Fairness Coalition Eastern Kentuckyorganizer Katherine Grigg moves out of stateafter more than two years on staff.

Bourke v. Beshearplaintiff couples after 1st ruling

2014 in Review "Friends of Fairness" 2014 in Review

North Oldham High School students in Frankfort


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Rebecca GrauJuliet and Laman Gray

Sandra GreenMary Moss Greenebaum

Kimberly GreenwellAaron Guldenschuh-Gatten

Sandy GulickShawn Hadley and David McGuire

Beth Haendiges and Kurt MetzmeierAdam Hall

Kathryn Hamilton

Mary and John HamletJudy HanekampPatrick Hanna

Libby and Jonathan HardyRoy Harrison

Christopher HartleyDon Hartley

Chris HartmanMary Lynn Hartman

Haunted HotelLaura and Bob Hawley

Enid Trucios-Haynes and Ray HaynesAnne and Smith Haynie

Tamarri Wieder and Jon HedrickRoberta Hershberg

Kevin HickeyEric Himan

Maria Hines and Ray SchweriLe Aaricka Hodge

John HoffmanKristen Holland

Lisa Keener and Bill HollanderJane Hope

Holly HoustonJohn Howard Shaw-Woo and Shiao Woo

Christopher HowleyL.C. "Critt" Hunter II

Greg Hutcheson and Leonard MarianiRose and Ampelio Isetti

Dora JamesBarbara and Robert JansingKaren Jarboe and Nanci Moore

Jefferson County Teachers AssociationJane Jenkins

Brad JenningsRobert Johnson and Jeff Nally

Nicolas JohnsonPerry Johnson

Richard JohnsonTom Jones and Rick Nottingham

Helen Jones and Thomas PikeJennifer Jones

Virginia Jordan and Emily NoonanDeborah Thompson and Jo Ann Kalb

Billy KannapelKatie King for District Judge

Mary Louis KeenanGloria Kemper-O'Neil

Shaun Kenney and Brian Walker

Andrew DowneyKathleen and Gary Drehmel

Claude Drouet and Rusty HenleClaire Drucker and Seymour Slavin

Amber and Brent DukeMichelle Durham and Betsy Phillips

Ann Schiavone DykeKent Echler and William Shelton

Matthew Eckert

Remona EdenfieldGeorge Eklund

Glen Elder and Jim GibsonMarshall Eldred and Andree Mondor

Art Embrey and Terry Laun

Mark England and Michael HandleyJane Ewalt and Ed McCurley

Barbara FabricantDan Farrell

Katherine FarrowPatria Fielding and Virginia Forest

First Unitarian ChurchJohn Fischer and Jon Hamby

Marjorie and Richard FitzgeraldJanet Fleck

Dan Forte and Chris SchusterDonna Fosberg and Jackie Lucas

Cate and Peter FoslC.J. Frakes

Sandra FrazierAmy and Robert FreyMary Alex Rohleder and Paul Fridell

Harriette FriedlanderFriends Meeting of Louisville, Inc

Charles FugateScott Furkin and Mary Pace

Kaye and Sean GallagherMerrick GarbJan Garrett

Michael Eli GartonBryan Gatewood and Allen Purnell

John GattonMike Gatton

GE Foundation

Carla GibertL. Courtney and Terri Giesel

Carla GilbertDavid Gill

Gill FoundationGina Kay Calvert For Judge

Elizabeth GlassReginald Glass

Tony GloreDavid Gochman

Linda and Stuart GoldbergJudy Goldsmith and Andrew Klapper

Joanna GoldsteinBill Graham

Rebecca Grant

May 13: Fairness staff present LGBT 101 at the2014 Housing Management Conference, FairHousingEqual Access.

May 12: The Danville Board of Commissionersapproves the first reading of their FairnessOrdinance with a 4-1 vote.

May 13: Berea College student Carl FranklinCraft begins his summer internship with theFairness Campaign.

May 15: Atherton High Schools Site BasedDecision Making Council hears its first round oftestimony from students, parents, faculty, andcommunity members on Principal Tom Aberlispolicy allowing transgender students use offacilities that match their gender identities.

May 17: Fairness staff present The State ofFairness at the PFLAG Regional Conference inNashville, Tennessee.

May 17: Tova wins the Miss StonewallPageant to benefit the Fairness Campaign atthe Princess Theatre in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

May 19: Kentucky Faith Leaders for Fairness,co-chaired by Rev. Derek Penwell and Rev.Maurice Bojangles Blanchard, host a PrayerGathering in support of same-gender marriageat Douglass Boulevard Christian Church inpartnership with the Fairness Coalition andSoutherners for the Freedom to Marry.

May 20: Kentucky Primary Election | FairnessCampaign works to GOTV (Get Out The Vote)for C-FAIR-endorsed candidates.

May 20-22: Fairness director Hartman attends

the national Equality Federations ExecutiveDirector Bootcamp in Chicago, Illinois.

May 26: Fairness Campaign administrativecoordinator Laura-Jayne Reece celebrates fouryears on staff.

May 27: In a surprise 3-2 vote, the DanvilleBoard of Commissioners approves a new firstreading of a Fairness Ordinance that contains aprovision exempting Sunrise Baptist Services,an agency affiliated with the Kentucky BaptistConvention.

June 3: Middlebury College in Vermont

Jonathan George begins his summerinternship with the Fairness Campaign.

June 3: Fairness staff present at the Foundationfor a Healthy Kentuckys PromotingResponsive Health Policy Grantee Convening.June 3: The Atherton High School Site BasedDecision Making Council hears additionaltestimony on transgender students useof facilities and votes 9-1 to approve thefirst reading of a change to the schoolsnon-discrimination policy to include sexualorientation and gender identity.

Testimony at Atherton High School

Fairness interns at the Lexington Pride Festival


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June 4: Fairness staff host a booth at Brown-Forman Corporations annual Pride Fair.

June 5: The Atherton High School Site BasedDecision Making Council votes 9-1 to approvthe updated non-discrimination policy anduphold Principal Aberlis decision to allowtransgender students to use the facilities thatmatch their gender identities.

June 9: Recent St. X High School graduate

Henry Carnes begins his summer internshipwith the Fairness Campaign.

June 9: The Danville Board of Commissionersvotes 4-1 for its Fairness Ordinance, makingthe home of Centre College, population16,218, Kentuckys seventh city with LGBTanti-discrimination protections, whichincludes Covington, the state capital FrankfoLexington, Louisville, Morehead, and the smaAppalachian town of Vicco.June 10: Fairness director Hartman joinsHeadline News to comment on the stateof Fairness and same-gender marriage in

Kentucky.

June 12: The Fairness Campaign joins theKentucky Commission on Human Rights LGBCollege Fair Housing Forum.

June 20: WLOU radio hosts a discussionwith Kentuckiana Regional Planning &Development Agency (KIPDA) and the FairneCampaign on LGBT aging issues.

June 20: More than 125 volunteers brave therainstorm to march in the Fairness CampaignHuman Float in the Kentuckiana Pride

Parade.

June 21: Fairness Campaign staff andvolunteers sign up hundreds of newsupporters at the Kentuckiana Pride Festival iLouisville.

June 23: Fairness Campaign CoordinatingCommittee member Dr. Alan Bornsteinpasses away after years of service as an officevolunteer, financial advisor, gardener, andleader.

June 25: Fairness staff present "The State ofFairness" at the U.S. Census Bureaus LGBT

Pride Month observance in Southern IndianaJune 28: Fairness Campaign staff andvolunteers sign up hundreds of newsupporters at the seventh annual LexingtonPride Festival and fifth annual NorthernKentucky Pride Festival.

June 29: Fairness director Hartman addressesThomas Jefferson Unitarian Church incelebration of their Pride Month service.

June 29: The Fairness Campaign celebrates its23rd anniversary.

Ellie KerstetterRonald Kestler

Katie KingJim King

Tara KinslowAndrew KipeJohn Kleber

Miriam Klein and Marc LeibsonBruce Kleinschmidt

Jonathan KlunkRita Knowles

Donald KohlerWill KohlerStephen Ray Korfhage

Carol Kraemer and Jen StraubMelissa and Nate Kratzer

Kathy and Joe KremerEd Kruger and Jeff Rodgers

Mary Ann and Michael LambertKathy and Lew Lancaster

Matthew LandanMaddi LanningVitalis Lanshima

Travis Lay and Ren ScheuermanRuby Layson

Cathy Leary and Unzu Lee

Stephen Lebder

Angela LeetJennifer Leibson

Arnold LevinBelle and Philip LevySally Levy

Anne and Tony LindauerJudy and Fred Look

Keith LookLee LookSam LordTim Love

Jessica Loving and Sheryl SnyderTodd Lowe

Jonathan LoweDoug Lowry

Bernie LubbersBarbara Luckett

Pegge and Michael LuvisiAlice Lyon and Mary O'Doherty

Tom Wallace LyonsAnne Marie Regan and Doug Magee

Allison MaggioloSam Marcosson

Marvin Martin and Neil MellenJanice Martin

Tom Massey and Richard SchwarzPeggy and Irv Maze

Laura McBrideJane McCord

Morgan McGarveyRandall McKenzie

Brendan McLeod

Pamela McMichaelLinda and Ronald Metts

Theresa and Martin MeyerScott MeyerKay Milam

Leslie and James MillarMike Miller and Adrian Montgomery

Christopher Miller and William StanleyKate Miller

Donald MillerCarolyn Miller-Cooper

Allan MitchellKimberly MohammedJennifer MooreBetty Moorman

Marc MourerMari Mujica

Mary Margaret and Edward MulvihillMichael Neumann

Yen NguyenSandra Nickley

Steven NjosEllen and Mike O'Connell

Sheila O'Donnell-SchusterMary Beth and Joe O'Reilly

Dana Oliver

Susannah OnwoodLisa OsankaRachel Parks

Djenita and Resad PasicJenny Paul

Andrea PeckMarci and Mark Perelmuter

Nancy PetersonPLAY Dance Bar

PNCJeff Polson and Gary White

Paula Porter and Vanessa TaylorBenjamin Post

Eugenia and John Potter

Colleen PowellD. Michele PreteJoan and Jovelino Ramos

Nancy Rankin and Whitworth StokesTom Ranz and Bill Trent

R. Jonathan RaymonSarah Reed

Derek ReeseLinda Remington

Anne Renner-EvansGil Reyes

Nancy ReynoldsSean Riley

Jessica RindlerJanet and Richard Rink

Rose Marie Rocha and Carolyn Sue StilesSamuel Rodriguez

Fairness leaders celebrate Keith Brooks

Fairness at the Owensboro Pride Picnic


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June 29: Fairness Campaign staff andvolunteers join in the Owensboro Pride Picnic.

July 1: Judge Heyburn issues a second rulingon Kentuckys same-gender marriage ban inLove v. Beshear. He mandates the state issuemarriage licenses to same-gender couples, butissues an immediate stay on the ruling whilethe state appeals.

July 1: Fairness Campaign leaders host a going

away dinner for co-coordinator Keith Brooks,who moves out of state.

July 8: The Atherton High School Site BasedDecision Making Council votes to reject anappeal of its transgender-inclusive policy.

July 9: A Social Justice Congress is hostedby numerous Kentucky social justice allyorganizations, including the FairnessCampaign.

July 14: On KETs Kentucky Tonight, DanCanon, a plaintiffs attorney in Bourke v. Beshear,and Fairness director Hartman square off on

same-gender marriage against the FamilyFoundations Martin Cothran and Lexingtonlawyer Stan Cave.

July 15: Gil Reyes joins Dr. Kaila Story asco-coordinator of the Fairness CampaignCoordinating Committee.

July 18-20: Fairness Campaign staff andvolunteers work a charity beer truck at theForecastle Music Festival to raise more than$5,500 for LGBT rights in Kentucky.

July 21: Ousted Boy Scout leader Greg Bourke

(and plaintiff in Kentuckys marriage equalitylawsuit, Bourke v. Beshear) co-authors an op-ed with Fairness director Hartman exposingthe Metro United Ways trick on supportersby funding Learning for Life, a shadoworganization of the discriminatory Boy Scoutsof America.

July 22: Northeastern University student MasonGersh begins his summer internship with theFairness Campaign and University of Louisvillestudent James Silva begins his summer/fallinternship.

July 22: UPS employees present the Fairness

Campaign with a $10,000+ UPS Foundationgrant to support a years worth of LGBT 101and The State of Fairness trainings andpresentations throughout the region.

July 22: PNC Bank hosts an LGBTA BusinessResource Group reception at Theatre SquareMarketplace with Attorney General JackConway as the keynote speaker.

July 24: Fairness director Hartman representsKentucky at a White House briefing on theAffordable Care Act and the LGBT community.

July 28: Kentucky Faith Leaders for Fairnessjoin the We Do Campaign with the Campaigfor Southern Equality. Supportive clergy traveto Metropolis, Illinois with Kristy Sturgill andSarah Peacock to marry the couple after theyare denied a marriage license in JeffersonCounty.

July 20-Aug. 2: Fairness Campaign leaders joinother state LGBT advocates at the nationalEquality Federations Summer Meeting in

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Aug. 5: The Fairness Campaign hosts a boothat the Louisville Metro Police DepartmentsNational Night Out at Wyandotte Park.

Aug. 5: The Owensboro Human RightsCommission proposes a Fairness Ordinance tothe citys Board of Commissioners.

Aug. 5: Fairness Campaign staff and volunteerally for same-gender marriage in Cincinnati,Ohio on the eve of Sixth Circuit Court ofAppeals oral arguments in Bourke v. Beshear,which includes Love v. Beshear, and marriage

lawsuits from Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee

Aug. 6: Marriage equality supporters crowdthe Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear oralarguments in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and

Tennessees same-gender marriage cases.

Aug. 7: Shelbyville Fairness supporters mountanother action at City Hall. For the first time innearly three years, the City Council respondsdirectly to advocates and asks for a FairnessOrdinance recommendation from the ShelbyCounty Human Rights Commission.

Aug. 12: Fairness Coalition leaders host ameeting in Harlan County to strategize withlocal supporters.

Aug. 12-24: The Fairness Campaign signs upthousands of new supporters at the KentuckyState Fair.

Aug. 17: C Caswell Style hosts a photo andvideo shoot to premiere at Fairness OverLouisville.

Aug. 19: Owensboro Mayor Ron Payneannounces the Board of Commissioners willdelay consideration of a Fairness Ordinance

pending further discussion.

Aug. 20: Bellarmine University first-yearstudents volunteer at the Fairness Campaignas part of Knights in Action: Day of Service.

Aug. 21: The ACLU-KY, Jefferson CountyTeachers Association, and Fairness Campaignjoin in a protest of Kentucky Farm Bureaus(KFB) discriminatory policies at their annualCountry Ham Breakfast at the Kentucky StateFair. Protesters silently disrupt the breakfast bforming a protest line before the KFB dais ofdignitaries.

Teouline and John RoseSiddy RosenbergStacey RoussellPhilip Samuel

Barbara and E. Halsey SandfordJeff Sauer

Megan SaylorCindy and Genny Scheldorf

Josh SchneiderMarcia and Edwin Segal

John Selent

Dr. Christian Settle AltmanPaige Shank

Osha Shireman

Robert SimpsonSacha Slone

John "Jack" SmithCathy and William Smock

Elizabeth and Jonathan SpaldingStephen Spanyer

Spectrum CateringSt. Williams Church

William StallardLauren Stapleton

Dorene SteinJulie SteinauDylan Steitz

Michele and David Stengel

Bobbie SternGeorge StinsonLeAnn Stokes

Kaila StoryGywn Sutherland

James William SvendsenRebecca Tamas and Susan Womack

Patricia TaylorSusan Taylor

Thomas Jefferson Unitarian ChurchMadeleine Thompson

Tides FoundationBill Tingley

Rose Mary ToebbeJohn Tompkins

Amanda TownsellTwisted Salon

UPS Foundation, Inc

Kentucky Farm Bureau protest at the State Fair

UPS employees present a grant check to Fairness


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Sept. 24: Fairness staff present The State ofFairness at Elizabethtown Community and

Technical College.

Sept. 26: New Albany Community MontessorSchool student Anna Steele begins her fallinternship.

Sept. 26: Fairness staff present LGBT 101 at ahuman trafficking seminar hosted by the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Children and Families.

Oct. 2: WEKU Public Radio in Richmond hostsan Eastern Standard program on same-gender marriage and LGBT rights with theFairness Campaign and Family Foundation.

Oct. 2: The U.S. Department of the Interior anNational Park Service award a $25,000 two-year grant to the Kentucky Heritage Council ipartnership with the Fairness Campaign andPreservation Louisville to author a KentuckyLGBT Historic Context and nominate two LGBhistoric sites.

Oct. 2: The Fairness Campaign participatesin Kentucky Special Parent InvolvementNetworks (KY-SPIN) Unite 2 End Bullying atCentral High School in Louisville.

Oct. 5: Chill Bar hosts a Tea Dance benefitingthe Fairness Campaign.

Oct. 7: C-FAIR, the Fairness Campaigns PoliticAction Committee, endorses candidates in 38contested General Election races in FrankfortLexington, and Louisville. It marks the firsttime the organization has made endorsemenin Frankfort races.

Oct. 7: The Berea City Council rejects a FairneOrdinance with a 5-3 vote.

Oct. 8: The Fairness Campaign is voted oneof Louisvilles Best Nonprofits for the fifthyear running in LEO Weeklys Readers ChoiceAwards..

Oct. 11: The Fairness Campaign joins NortherKentucky Prides National Coming Out Dayevent.

Oct. 13: AIDS Interfaith Ministries (AIM), PeopFor the American Way (PFAW), and the Fairne

Campaign host a Senate Debate Watch Partyat Nowhere Bar.

Oct. 14: The California Pizza Kitchen at OxmooMall hosts a Fairness Campaign fundraiser.

Oct. 16: Longtime Richmond Fairness leaderScottie Saltsman is posthumously inductedinto the Kentucky Commission on HumanRights Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

Oct. 17: The Haunted Hotel hosts a FairnessCampaign fundraiser.

Aug. 23: University of Louisville first-yearstudents volunteer at the Fairness Campaign aspart of the schools SOUL orientation program.

Aug. 25: Bellarmine University student HaleyAdams begins her fall/spring internship.

Aug. 26: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for the Louisville Metro PoliceDepartments Academy Class of new recruits.

Aug. 28: The Louisville Metro Human RelationsCommission hosts a panel discussion on LGBTrights and religious liberty titled, SincerelyHeld Beliefs.

Sept. 2: After more than three years ofadvocacy by Bereans for Fairness, the BereaCity Council holds the first reading of itsproposed Fairness Ordinance.

Sept. 12: Following months of silence fromthe Metro United Way regarding their fundingof Learning for Life, the Fairness Campaignmounts a protest of their annual breakfast.Former Scout leader Greg Bourke and

Louisville Metro Councilwoman Attica Scottjoin Fairness staff and volunteers in a festiveprotest line themed How Low Will They Go?,replete with dancing to Chubby CheckersLimbo Rock on loop and a copy of Bourkeand Hartmans op-ed.

Sept. 12: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for employees of the Louisville MetroHuman Relations Commission.

Sept. 13: Former Miss Kentucky and recentlyout queer woman Djuan Trent keynotes the5th annual Fairness Over Louisville fundraiser

at PLAY Dance Bar. C Caswell Style mounts aFairness-themed t-shirt fashion show inspiredby the photo/video shoot. Congressman JohnYarmuth addresses the crowd of hundredsand the Fairness Campaign honors outgoingLouisville Metro Councilwomen Tina Ward-Pugh and Attica Scott. Fairness Campaignvolunteer resources manager Nanci Moorewins the Jeff Rodgers Unsung Hero Award.

Sept. 16: The Berea City Council hosts a sharplydivided public forum on Fairness attended byhundreds.

Sept. 18: Fairness director Hartman presents

The State of Fairness at the Indiana UniversitySoutheast Civil Liberties Union "ConstitutionDay" observance.

Sept. 21: The Fairness Campaign participates inthe 21st annual Louisville AIDS Walk.

Sept. 21-26: The Fairness Campaign co-sponsors The LGBT Center at University ofLouisvilles annual Pride Week.

Sept. 23: Kentucky Faith Leaders for Fairnessconvene a statewide caucus in Lexington.

Sherrie and Stuart UrbachSuzanne Vance

Russ VandenbrouckeElizabeth and Jim Voyles

Carla WallaceSarah Walsh

A. Chrisitine WardHal Warheim

LaQuita WashingtonLouis WatermanElizabeth Waters

Porter Watkins and George BaileyMarvin Weinberger

Terry and Morris WeissJane WelchDona Wells

Marilyn and John WerstJoAnne Wheeler Bland

Stanley Whetzel

Clara and Robert WhiteBobbie White

Matthew WhittakerJanet and John Wilborn

Nicholas WilkersonKelly WilkinsonDavid WilliamsElysia Williams

Erica Lee WilliamsTerri WillsDawn Wilson

Merydith WilsonAndrea WilsonMax Wineinger

Nancy WoodcockVirginia and James Woodward

Gordon WrightCatherine and John Yarmuth

Roxanne YeomanMary Lee, Allen, and Alex Younger

Shelly Zegart and Dr. Kenneth ZegartMarianne Zickuhr

Mary Zriny

Volunteer Nanci Moore

Fairness leaders at the C Caswell Style shoot


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Oct. 17-19: The fourth annual "Louisville LGBTFilm Festival" is held.

Oct. 20: Fairness staff present The State ofFairness at the University of Louisville KentSchool of Social Work.

Oct. 21: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for the Kentucky Statewide Human

Trafficking Task Force in Frankfort.

Oct. 22: Fairness staff conduct the first-everLGBT 101 professional development trainingfor Jefferson Community and Technical Collegeemployees.

Oct. 23: Fairness Coalition leaders conductthe first-ever LGBT 101 and GLSEN ProjectSpeakout anti-bullying professionaldevelopment training for Jefferson CountyPublic School employees.

Oct. 24: Fairness Campaign CoordinatingCommittee member Jaison Gardner, co-founder Carla Wallace, and director Hartman

join Councilwoman Attica Scott and others

in a keynote panel discussion at BellarmineUniversitys fourth annual Dialogue onDiversity conference.

Oct. 25: Crescent Hill Baptist Church hostsits first-ever LGBT-themed workshop, BibleBattered and Dogma Bit.

Oct. 26: The Fairness Campaign hosts a boothat For Petes Sake, a Pete Seeger social justicetribute event at Bellarmine University.

Oct. 27: Fairness staff present The State ofFairness to Compassion, a parishioners group

of the Cathedral of the Assumption.

Nov. 1: Fairness Campaign Western Kentuckyorganizer Dora James celebrates one year onstaff.

Nov. 4: Kentucky General Election | FairnessCampaign staff and volunteers phone bank,GOTV canvass, and sign-wave for C-FAIR-endorsed candidates.

Nov. 6: In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Sixth CircuitCourt of Appeals breaks rank with four othercircuits to rule against same-gender marriagein Kentuckys Bourke v. Beshearand cases from

Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.

Nov. 7: The ACLU-KY and Fairness Campaignhost a Day of Decision protest of the SixthCircuit ruling with Kentucky plaintiffs and theirattorneys.

Nov. 11: The Murray Human Rights Commissionvotes unanimously to recommend the CityCouncil update its Human Rights Ordinance toinclude LGBT Fairness protections.

Nov. 12: HRC scores Kentucky cities for LGBTinclusion: Frankfort 39, Lexington 60, Louisville66 and Bowling Green and Owensboro 14.

Gifts Were Received In Honor Of:

Liz and Chris BoyerBrandy Brewer and Kate Miller

Kevin Childress and Jeffrey Franklin's weddingChuck and Raymond

Ann Deibert and Martha KenneyMichael Drury and Lane Stumler's wedding

Chuck FugateNick Gowen

Chris Hartman ( and his 11/26 Courier letter)Susan Hershberg

Jen Hinkle and Nan Price's weddingRyan Holliway

Silas HouseIUS Gay-Straight AllianceJen and Lewis's wedding

Jo Ann Kalb and Debbie Thompson's weddingSara Fleck Lord

Amanda Muss and Stacie ThompsonVicki Pettus

John Shaw-WooDorene Stein

Tova UravitchUs All

Carla WallaceShannon Westerman

Gifts Were Received In Memory Of:

Dr. Alan BornsteinDanny

Greg DeanMichelle Gargotto, longtime companion of Laura

Cullinane (37 years)Don GrisantiJim Hensley

Art Kemper-O'NeilMichael MettsJody Nelson

W. Alston ReddyRuss Stein

Steve Scott

Thom VelezHenry F. Wallace

Thank you for your support! Only because ofdonors like you are we able to move Fairness

forward in Kentucky!

If you sent a donation in 2014 and your namedoes not appear here, or is incorrect, we arevery sorry! Please call the Fairness office at

502.893.0788 so we may correct our mistake.

"Day of Decision Protest" of 6th Circuit Court ruling

Nov. 13-20: The annual Transgender Weekof Awareness and Transgender Day ofRemembrance are hosted by Sienna,Kentuckianas transgender support group.

Nov. 15: The Fairness Campaign CoordinatingCommittee adds three new members:Ryan Combs of Louisville, Ann Ellercamp ofShelbyville, and Karen Hatter of Frankfort.

Nov. 17: Frankfort Fairness, through a

partnership with PFLAG Central Kentucky,launches a Frankfort PFLAG chapter.

Nov. 17: On KETs Kentucky Tonight, Bourkev. Beshearplaintiffs lawyer Laura Landenwichand Fairness Campaign director Hartmanface off against Martin Cothran of the FamilyFoundation and Lexington lawyer Stan Caveon same-gender marriage.

Nov. 20: Fairness staff present LGBT 101and The State of Fairness at the Governors28th Annual Equal Employment OpportunityConference.

Nov. 25: The Fairness Campaign joins in a BlaLives Matters protest in downtown Louisvillefollowing the not guilty verdict in MichaelBrowns shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

Dec. 1: The Fairness Campaign andKentuckiana AIDS Alliance co-host a WorldAIDS Day event at the Louisville Free PublicLibrary.

Dec. 8: More than a hundred residents attendthe Murray Human Rights Commissions publforum on Fairness, where two-thirds speak infavor of a Fairness Ordinance.

Dec. 11: The Louisville Metro Council votes toincrease the minimum wage to $9 an hour by2017, making it the first city in the South toraise the wage.

Dec. 19: The Fairness Campaign joins incelebrating the 40th anniversary of theKentucky Alliance Against Racist and PoliticalRepression at their 17th annual Unity Dinner

Dec. 26: PLAY Dance Bar hosts a Legends ofLouisville fundraiser benefiting the FairnessCampaign.

Dec. 31: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101training for the Louisville Metro PoliceDepartments Academy Class of new recruits.

"Black Lives Matter" protest


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Regional Kentucky Events

KY State Fair is ComingVolunteer opportunities August 20-30

We need your help staffing our booth at theKentucky State FairFREE Fair admission

[email protected] or 502.893.0788 to help!

NORTHERN KENTUCKY PRIDE FESTIVAL | May 31, 2-10 p.m. | GoebelPark, 5th-9th Streets along Philadelphia Street, Covington, 41011

KENTUCKIANA PRIDE PARADE & FESTIVAL|Parade June 19, 7 p.m., 209Preston Street to 5th and Main Streets, Louisville, 40202 | Festival June 20

Noon-11 p.m., Belvedere, 5th and Main Streets, Louisville, 40202

LEXINGTON PRIDE FESTIVAL |June 27, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Robert F. Stephens Courthouse, 40507

OWENSBORO PRIDE PICNIC |June 28, Noon-4 p.m., Panther Creek Park, 5160 Wayne Bridge Road, 42301

The Fairness Coalition hosts monthly meetings in the cities listed below with ally organizations from

across Kentucky. To join a regional Fairness meeting or start your own, please call 502.893.0788 or e-mail

[email protected]!

BARDSTOWN FAIRNESS | BEREANS FOR FAIRNESS | BOWLING GREEN FAIRNESS | E-TOWN FAIRNESS

FRANKFORT FAIRNESS | FRANKFORT PFLAG | NKY FAIRNESS | OWENSBORO FAIRNESSSHELBYVILLE FAIRNESS | WOODFORD COUNTY FAIRNESS

The Fairness Coalition consists of members and allies of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky,Fairness Campaign, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, and Lexington Fairness working together to advance

civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Kentuckians.

Pride March w/ Fairness!Parade Friday, June 19 | Festival Saturday, June 20

Join the Fairness Campaign's "Human Float" of100+ volunteers & help staff our Festival booth

[email protected] or 502.893.0788 to sign up!

CALLING ALLOFFICE VOLUNTEERS! Do you dream of databases? Is yourhandwriting the envy of the town? Do boxes of archives arouse your interest? If so, we need you!The Fairness Campaign is in need of administrative office volunteers to help process legislativecontact cards and more! Call Laura at 502.893.0788 today to schedule an office volunteer shif


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