Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:45:23 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: FUN EVENTS START TODAY (Saturday) (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:24:01 -1000 From: Marriage Project Hawaii Subject: FUN EVENTS START TODAY (Saturday) Below is a press release from the President (Chairperson) of Marriage Project Hawaii about the photo exhibit that opens at Border's Bookstore at Ward Center tonight (Tuesday) and shows through November 5. On November 6, the show will open at Border's on Maui. Tom Ramsey Treasurer, Marriage Project Hawaii FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION: MARRIAGE PROJECT-HAWAII PRESS RELEASE ******************************************************* Carol Greenhouse Media Contact Marriage Project-Hawaii (808) 942-3737 (808) 530-0082 pager marriageprojecthi@msn.com ******************************************************* What is a family? In the six years since the state Supreme Court ruled that there is no cause to discriminate against gay and lesbian partners wishing to marry, Hawaii's politicians, lawmakers and voters have devoted no small amount of time to that very simple-sounding question. Nevertheless, the legal definition is still tied up in the courts. But in the meantime the state's estimated 150,000 gays and lesbians have gone about defining family for themselves. Love Makes a Family: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People and Their Families is a celebrated national photo exhibit with text derived from interviews with 20 families of all descriptions who have stood up against societal pressure to model thriving non-stereotypical families for those who may still be too fearful to create this vision for themselves. The exhibit, proudly sponsored by Marriage Project-Hawaii (MPH) and hosted by Borders Books and Music, will be displayed at Borders Honolulu between October 12 and November 5. Special events will be held on November 3, the one-year anniversary of the devastating two-thirds vote against granting equal rights to gay and lesbian families in Hawaii. "These photos are just one more illustration that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people are every bit as valuable in their roles as mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents, aunties and uncles as their straight counterparts," says MPH Vice Chairman Skip Burns, "--and they're in these roles already, whether or not society approves. They must be treated that way, under the law, yes, but finally by each of us as moral and compassionate human beings."