Freedom to Marry Week 2007 Photo Contest
"Freedom To Marry? You're Talking About Us"
This picture, titled: "Freedom to Marry? You're Talking About Us!"
shows the Photo Project at a Metropolitan Community Church of the
Lehigh Valley Freedom to Marry Day Event. Participants in the Project
who've just had their photos taken or who are holding holding their
photos, stand in the foreground.
Photo by Liz Bradbury with PA Diversity
"Freedom to Marry Rally at Lehigh County Court House"
Photo by Liz Bradbury with PA Diversity
The Pennsylvania Diversity Network Photo Project — 100 Same-sex Couples: Facing Inequality — is a traveling photo show of over 134 (to date) local (Greater Lehigh Valley and Berks County) same-sex couples. The Photo Show serves to educate the mainstream community about the lack of same-sex civil marriage and civil union rights in the United States and Pennsylvania.
Labels on each photo include the names of each member of the committed same-sex couple, each of their professions, the number of years they have been together and the number of children they have, if any. The exhibition (both framed and projected) also includes signs with information and statistics about civil marriage rights and discrimination.
The Project was created and photographed by PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury and was started on National Freedom to Marry Day in February, 2006. The PDN Photo Show has already been viewed by thousands of people at over a dozen venues, including, theaters, colleges, churches, corporate headquarters and galleries.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution in support of ending the exclusion of gay couples from marriage.
(View the Resolution) (Read the Press Release)Learn more about what's going on in New York and take action now! (Link)
As you may know, Maine's constitution provides for referendum on bills enacted into law. (Link)
The Human Rights Campaign released a statement and a factual rebuttal on a television spot produced by the National Organization for Marriage. In the ad, actors make disproven claims about marriage for lesbian and gay couples. (Link)
