Why is Same-Sex Marriage Important to the API Community?

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion:
Why Should the Asian/Pacific Islander Community Care About the Freedom to Marry?

with Deanna Kitamura, 1992 UCLA Law Graduate and Staff Attorney at API Equality- LA and the Western Center On Law & Poverty

Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 12:15pm
UCLA Law School, Room 1314
Lunch will be served!
Please RSVP at ocampo2008@lawnet.ucla.edu

• Hear about how support of marriage equality has grown within the API community! Last September, over 60 API organizations filed an amicus brief in the CA Supreme Court in support of marriage equality, drawing from the API community's own past struggle with marriage discrimination in California.

• Learn more about the lawsuit filed on behalf of gay and lesbian couples to gain marriage equality in California. The case was just heard before the California Supreme Court and there will be a ruling by the end of May!

• Find out how to thwart efforts of well-funded anti-LGBT right-wing organizations to put a constitutional amendment on the November 2008 ballot prohibiting marriage for gay and lesbian couples.

• Learn about how you can play a part in advocating against homophobia within the API community and work towards greater racial justice for LGBTQ people of color!

Sponsored by the Asian Pacific Islander Law Students' Association and OUTlaw