KY Lawmakers Reject "Separate

But Equal" Marriage Licenses

The 2016 Kentucky General Assembly was a whirlwind of surprises, setbacks, and even some
progress for LGBT rights in our commonwealth.
We opened the 60-day session in January debating how many marriage license forms our
state would have. Though Republican Governor Matt Bevin had already removed county
clerks signatures by executive order, state legislators wanted to go a step further. Senator
Stephen West, a Republican who represents Kim Davis hometown of Morehead, proposed
a law that would create Separate But Equal marriage license formsone for gay couples,
identifying those marrying as Party 1 and Party 2, and one for straight couples, using
Bride and Groom.
Senator Morgan McGarvey, a Louisville Democrat, worked closely with the Fairness
Campaign and ACLU-KY to propose an amendment that would create a single marriage
license form, allowing folks to simply check a box to identify as Spouse, Bride, or Groom.
Following a fiery floor debate, Senator McGarveys proposal was defeated 23-15, but not
without garnering support from a flank of Republicans.
In years past, this might have been the end of the conversation. Senate Leadership seldom reneges on a position. But in Frankfort, one must always expect the
unexpected. Several weeks passed, during which time Kentuckians overwhelmingly made their voices heard in support of a single marriage license formeven
Kim Davis agreed that one form was the right solution for Kentucky. Then, on one of the last working days in the House of Representatives, Governor Bevin sent a
surprise letter to the House Judiciary Committee sharing his own support for a single marriage license form, which fast tracked Senator McGarveys bill. Days later, it
received unanimous approval by the House.
Still, the bill could have died after thatit would have to face the Senate again, which denied it the previous month. But there was an uncommon air of bipartisanship in the Senate on its second-to-last working day of the session. Senator West stood to address the chamber, acknowledging the hard work everyone
had done on the marriage license issue and lamenting the angry messages he had received for his original Separate But Equal proposal. He voted aye on Senator
McGarveys single form solution, as did every other senator presenta unanimous victory!
Other great moments in the legislature this year included a huge Statewide Fairness Rally and the second-ever hearing on the Kentucky Competitive Workforce Act,
which would prohibit LGBT discrimination across our commonwealth. Republicans co-sponsored that legislation for the first time in history.
But there were also dire warning signs of whats to come in the fight for LGBT rights, which have been stripped away in states like North Carolina and Mississippi.
Kentucky nearly joined their ranks with a License to Discriminate bill that would have nullified LGBT Fairness Ordinances in the eight Kentucky cities that have
them. Though with bi-partisan opposition, the "License to Discriminate" passed the Republican-controlled Senate 22-16. Fortunately, the measure was dead on
arrival in the Democrat-controlled House this year, but we cannot rest and risk our rights.
We must remain vigilant and take action often to ensure our voices are heard in Frankfort so that LGBT rights are preserved and advanced. If we dont, we could lose
the few protections weve won in Kentucky. Keep the legislative hotline handy(800) 372.7181and go get your brand new, inclusive marriage license form!

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2015 Year in Review &
Friends of Fairness
Donors
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2016 "We The People"
Dinner

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CONTACT Jamie@Fairness.org or
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C-FAIR 2016 KENTUCKY PRIMARY ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS

Senate District 33

House District 38

House District 41

House District 43

Senator Gerald
Neal

Councilman Dan
Johnson

Attica Scott

Representative
Darryl Owens

Metro Council
District 2

Metro Council
District 4

Councilwoman
Barbara Shanklin

Bryan Burns

House District 46

House District 48

Allen Schuler

Maria Sorolis

Metro Council
District 6

Metro Council
District 8

Jefferson Family
Court Division 9

Councilman David
James

Stephen Reily

Judge Gina Kay

Calvert

VOTE MAY 17

KY 2016 Primary Election

www.elect.ky.gov
Senator Gerald Neal, who has served nearly three decades in the Kentucky Senate, is C-FAIRs pick for reelection to State Senate
District 33. As Minority Caucus Chair, Senator Neal is Louisvilles only Democratic representative in either House or Senate leadership.
He has been steadfast on LGBT Fairness and a vocal advocate against discriminatory legislation and civil rights infringements. His
opponents, Charles Booker and Judge Toni Stringer, are both strong leaders with clear visions for the district.
Councilman Dan Johnson gets the C-FAIR nod for State House District 38 after having received endorsement in his 2014 bid for
reelection to the Louisville Metro Council. Councilman Johnson voted for Louisvilles Fairness Ordinance and was a co-sponsor of
Louisvilles successful minimum wage ordinance. He has proven to be a Metro Councilman dedicated to his constituents and we
believe he will serve as vigorously as a state representative. His opponent, McKenzie Cantrell, is a passionate legal advocate for
working families and a first-time candidate we hope to see run for public office again.
Attica Scott is C-FAIRs strong choice for State House District 41 against incumbent Rep. Tom Riner, notable for commandeering
an anti-LGBT letter to the U.S. Supreme Court against the freedom to marry and for brokering the arrangement between Rowan
County Clerk Kim Davis and her lawyers at the Liberty Counsel. As a former member of the Louisville Metro Council, Attica Scott was
outspoken on issues related to LGBT rights, increasing the minimum wage, vacant and abandoned properties, and was the primary
sponsor of Ban the Box legislation that passed unanimously. She knows how to get things done and wont compromise her strong
social justice principles.
Representative Darryl Owens is C-FAIR's obvious choice for reelection to State House District 43. Recently appointed Chair of the
powerful House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Owens has been a longtime civil rights leader. He voted for Jefferson Countys LGBT
Fairness Ordinance in 1999 as a County Commissioner, and continues to co-sponsor a Statewide Fairness Law in the General Assembly.
This year, he granted the second-ever hearing on Statewide Fairness in his committee and led the way to the successful passage of
expungement legislation.
Allen Schuler is a strong progressive who receives the C-FAIR endorsement for State House District 46. A retired school teacher,
he notes that charter schools serve the few and undermine our public schools, and he vigorously opposes so-called right to work
legislation and the harm it would do to working families. We believe Allen Schuler has the fire and foresight to lead in Frankfort.
Maria Sorolis is the C-FAIR choice for State House District 48. She has a clear commitment to civil rights and strong opposition to
dangerously broad religious exemptions, like those proposed in this years License to Discriminate Senate Bill 180. She will be a firm
and pragmatic voice for fairness in Frankfort.
Councilwoman Barbara Shanklin is C-FAIRs endorsement for reelection in Louisville Metro Council District 2. Dr. Shanklin is a
longtime friend of Fairness and proponent of LGBT rights. The C-FAIR team was quite impressed with her opponent, Rasean Crawley,
who we hope to see run for office again in the near future.
Bryan Burns receives the C-FAIR endorsement for Louisville Metro Council District 4. With a background as varied and diverse as the
district he seeks to represent, Bryan Burns brings innovative ideas for economic sustainability, social and educational improvements,
and overall community growth based on his true understanding of the inner-workings of both District 4 and metro government.
Councilman David James is a candidate C-FAIR is proud to endorse for reelection to Louisville Metro Council District 6. Councilman
James is not only supportive of LGBT issues, but is well versed in the many issues facing the 6th District, one of the most diverse in
Louisville Metro. Councilman James knowledge of the entire breadth and diversity of the district, coupled with his knowledge of how
to get work done, makes him the best choice.
Stephen Reily is C-FAIRs pick to represent the Highlands Metro Council District 8 long served by Councilman Tom Owen, who is
retiring. It is safe to say the entire group of candidates running for this seat represents an embarrassment of richesmost of them
would make excellent council members. Stephen Reily impressed C-FAIR with his leadership style of leading through listening and
with his accomplished record of achievements both professionally and for social justice. He has been a longtime advocate for LGBT
rights and reproductive freedom and he characterizes his vision for Louisville Metro as a city that truly welcomes everyone.
Judge Gina Kay Calvert receives C-FAIRs support for Jefferson County Family Court Division 9 for her continued commitment to
fairness and equality and her long career in family law prior to becoming a judge in District Court. She will exercise fairness and
compassion on the bench and add her experience and expertise as a sitting judge.
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2015 Year in Review & Friends of Fairness Donors

Jan. 9: Papi Edwards, a gender non-conforming
person of color from Indianapolis, is shot and
murdered in Louisville.
Jan. 17: MAP Louisville (Making Acceptance
Possible) hosts drag performer Dixie Longate for
an evening benefiting the Fairness Campaign at
Vernon Lanes.
Collegiate High School student Henry Brousseau
begins an internship with the Fairness Campaign.
Jan. 20: More than 75 Bowling Green businesses
join the Fairness on Fountain Square movement
for a local LGBT Fairness Ordinance at City Hall.
Jan. 26: Chris Hartman celebrates six years as the
Fairness Campaigns director.
Jan. 28: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101 training
for Southern High School JCPS staff in Louisville.
Feb. 1: Statewide Fairness Laws Senate Bill 156
and House Bill 379 are introduced by Senator
Morgan McGarvey and Representative Mary Lou
Marzian.
Feb. 12: Fairness supporters join Kentuckians For
The Commonwealths (KFTC) I Love Mountains
rally and lobby day in Frankfort against
mountaintop removal coal mining.
Feb. 15: Several Louisville priests and State
Representative Jim Wayne lead the fourth annual
Catholics for Fairness Pilgrimage at the Cathedral
of the Assumption urging Archbishop Joseph
Kurtz to support a Statewide Fairness Law.
Feb. 19: The Kentucky Senate Education
Committee holds the first hearing and vote on
Senator C.B. Embrys anti-transgender Bathroom
Bully Bill Senate Bill 76. The measure would
require chromosomal proof of a students gender
to use the restroom and places a $2,500 bounty
on transgender students heads. Atherton High
School principal Tom Aberli, Fairness Campaign
intern Henry Brousseau and his mother Dr. Karen
Berg, and Fairness director Hartman testify
against the legislation, which fails to earn the
votes necessary to pass committee.
Feb. 23: The Senate Education Committee again
calls Bathroom Bully Bill for a vote. Though there
is bi-partisan opposition, the measure passes.
Feb. 25: The Fairness Campaign joins the ACLU-KY
and Muhammad Ali Center to prepare youth
leaders for an advocacy day in Frankfort.
Feb. 26: The Louisville Metro Police Department
and Fairness Campaign launch a six-week LGBT
Citizens Police Academy.
Feb. 27: The Kentucky Senate votes 27-9 to pass
the Bathroom Bully Bill. Six Democrats and three
Republicans vote against the measure.
March 2: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101 and
GLSEN anti-bullying training for JCPS Pleasure
Ridge Park High School employees.

Each year the Fairness Campaign prints two Friends

of Fairness lists of our previous years donors in
separate newsletters. The first list is alphabetical, by
name only, and the second is organized by donation
amount. We deeply value ALL gifts and thank you for
your incredible support of LGBT rights in Kentucky!
Marc Abrams
Jamie Abrams and Jason Pletcher
Brent Ackerson
E'Beth Adami
AIDS Services Center Coalition, INC
Grace Akers and Maria Price
Michael Aldridge
Alex Alexiou
Ton Ali and Dan Hourigan
Ann Allen
Michael Alt
Dr. Christian Settle Altman
Crystal Angel
Anonymous (75+)
Rabbi David Ariel-Joel
Tommy Arnold
Marianna Ashey
Nesher Asner
Elsie and Allan Atherton
Regan Atkinson
Lisa Aug
Joanne Bagshaw
Aria Bailey
George Bailey and Porter Watkins
Ken Baker
Nan Baker and Martha Marsh
Colleen Balderson
Kimberly Ball
William Ballantyne
Kerri Barger
Mark Baridon
Melissa and Tim Barry
Bernadette and Randall Barthweeks
David Bartley and Curtis Hawkes
Brooke and Matthew Barzun
Bryan Bear
Lee Beckhuan and Carolyn Klinge
Jeff Been and Eric Graninger
Patti Bell and Jeanne Hanley
Karen Berg
Best Buy Co., Inc
Linda and Dale Billingsley
Edith Bingham
Eleanor Bingham Miller
Emily Bingham and Stephen Reily
Elzie and Mary Ray Bird
Beth Bissmeyer
Beth Blackwood
Michael Blair
JoAnne Wheeler Bland
Randy Blevins and Matthew Porter
Virginia Blum
Ethan Boatner
Elaine and Don Bornstein
Gregory Bourke and Michael De Leon
Fred Borho and Douglas Scott Sorenson
Robert Bowden
Jason Bowen
Robyn Bowles
Joan and Dennis Brennan
Mamie Broadhurst
Carla Sue and Brad Broecker
Keith Brooks

March 10: Bardstown Fairness supporters join

the Nelson County Human Rights Commission to
voice their support for a local Fairness Ordinance
at City Hall. All but one Bardstown City Council
member speak against LGBT rights.
March 12-15: The Fairness Campaign joins dozens
of local social justice groups co-sponsoring the
White Privilege Conference in Louisville.
March 17-18: The Freedom to Marry hosts panel
discussions on the impending Supreme Court
marriage decision in Lexington and Louisville.
Leaders from the Fairness Campaign, ACLU-KY,
and Lexington Fairness join Kentucky marriage
plaintiffs and Freedom to Marry executive
director Evan Wolfson.
March 19: Fairness director Hartman joins the
national Funders for LGBTQ Issues in Atlanta,
Georgia to share organizing and fundraising
victories and challenges in Kentucky.
March 19-22: Fairness staff join the Equality
Federations Southern Leadership Summit in
Atlanta, Georgia.
March 23: Students from across Kentucky rally
with the Prichard Committee Student Voice
Team to rally against the Kentucky Senates
attempt to include the Bathroom Bully Bill as an
amendment to their legislation giving students
a voice on superintendent selection committees.
The amendments were a response to the
Democrat controlled Houses refusal to hear the
bathroom bill and other divisive legislation.
March 24: Republican senators remove the
Bathroom Bully Bill from the Prichard
Committees legislation, killing the issue of
transgender bathroom use for the year.
The Kentucky Author Forum hosts David Boies,
whose book, Redeeming the Dream: The Case
for Marriage Equality, details his victorious
arguments against Californias discriminatory
Proposition 8.
March 28: Susan Hershberg and her Wiltshire
Pantry host another sold out We The People
ACLU/Fairness dinner at the Muhammad Ali
Center.
March 31: Fairness director Hartman keynotes
Collegiate High Schools Pride Day assembly.
April 2: A dozen Fairness staff and volunteers
graduate from the first Louisville Metro Police
Department LGBT Citizens Police Academy.
April 7: Fairness staff join advocates and lawyers
at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of
Law for a panel discussion on gender bias.
April 8: Fairness staff present The State of
Fairness at the annual Affordable Housing
Conference in Lexington.
April 9: The Fairness Campaign joins Northern
Kentucky Universitys Norse Pride Week.

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April 11: Fairness director Hartman presents The
State of Fairness at the University of Louisvilles
Collegiate Youth Rights Conference.
April 12: The Fairness Campaign hosts a Bon
Voyage fundraiser for Kentuckys freedom to
marry plaintiffs headed to the Supreme Court in
Washington, D.C.
April 14-15: Owensboro Fairness co-hosts a twoday Awareness and Fairness panel discussion at
Owensboro Community and Technical College.
April 16: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101
training for UPS employees.
April 18: Fairness director Hartman presents
The State of Fairness to the Kentucky Young
Democrats convention in Georgetown and the
GLSEN Moving Forward Together conference in
Lexington.
April 21: The Fairness Campaign joins the Berea
College Pride Fair.
April 28: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral
arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, which includes
six plaintiff couples from Kentucky in Bourke v.
Beshear and Love v. Beshear. Fairness Campaign
and ACLU-KY staff rally outside the Supreme
Court with supporters.
April 29: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101
training for Louisville Metro Police Department
academy recruits.
April 30: Fairness director Hartman presents The
State of Fairness to a class at Jefferson Technical
and Community College.
May 6: Fairness Campaign and ACLU-KY staff
co-host a post-show discussion of the LGBT
immigration/marriage film Limited Partnership at
the Muhammad Ali Center.
May 7: Local Fairness supporters crowd a Midway
public forum on Fairness.
May 7: C-FAIR, the political action committee of
the Fairness Campaign, releases endorsements in
two Kentucky Primary Election races.
May 12: University of Louisville students Landon
Lauder and Hannah Wilson begin summer
internships at the Fairness Campaign.
May 13: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101
training with the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) in Lexington.
May 14: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101 training
for the Family Law Conference at the Kentucky
Administrative Office of the Courts in Frankfort.
May 16: Fairness director Hartman joins a panel
discussion at the New Leaders Council gathering
in Springfield.
May 18: The Midway City Council gives a first
reading to a local Fairness Ordinance.

Henry Brousseau
Becky Brown
Bobbie and Richard Brown
Christina Lee Brown
Gregory Brown and Scott Rogers
Joseph Brown
Maureen Brown
Mike Brown
Brown-Forman Corporation
Vernon Broyles
Thomas Bruker and Craig Johnson
Donna Bruschi
Kevin Bryan
Philip Bryan
Andrea Buckman
Brian Buford
Jeffrey Buhrman
Troy Burden and Mike Mayo
Jim Burgess and Bob Ferland
Jeffery Burgess
Punkin Burke
Judy Burkhardt and Monica Wheat
Zena Burns
Jared Burton
Jim Busch and Kathleen O'Neil
Stephen Buss
Marianne Butler
Sonja Byrd
Beverly Byrum
Joan Callahan and Jennifer Crossen
Gina Kay Calvert and I. Joel Frockt
Stephen Campbell and Heather McHold
Stuart Campbell and Cynthia McCarty
J.R. Cannaday and Allen Montgomery
Mark Cannon and John Tederstrom
Adam Caperton
Caperton Realty
Robert Caruthers
Lindy Casebier
Mary Casey
Karen Cassidy
Vicki Catlin and Barbara Howe
Rob Chambers
Megan Chernoshy
Debbie and David Chervenak
Rusty Cheuvront
Chic Designs Interior & Exterior, LLC
Kelly and Michael Childers
Barry Christensen
Karen Christopher and Avery Kolers
Helen Claiborne
Jerry Clark
Clay Daniel Walton & Adams PLC
Denise Clayton
Clifton Foundation, Inc
Carrie Coaplen
Lulah Colan
Jacqueline Cole
Timothy Combs and Jim Dickinson
Ryan Combs
The Comfy Cow
Community Foundation of Louisville - Alden
Fellowship
Nicholas Conder
Jennifer Conklin
Chris Conliffe and Scott Howard
Conliffe and Hickey Insurance
Curtis Conlin and Chistopher Welsh
The Connection and C2
Maureen Connelly

May 19: Kentucky Primary Election is held.

May 21: As part of Preservation Month, the
Fairness Campaign launches the Kentucky LGBT
Heritage Initiative with the University of Louisville
Anne Braden Center for Social Justice Research,
the Williams Nichols Collection of LGBT archives
housed in the University of Louisvilles Special
Collections, the Kentucky Heritage Council, State
Historic Preservation Office, and Preservation
Louisville. The project is the result of a matching
grant from the National Park Service and U.S.
Department of the Interior as part of their recent
initiative to increase the number of listings in the
National Register of Historic Places associated
with Latinos and other underrepresented
communities, including African Americans, Asian
Americans, and LGBT Americans.
May 26: Jayne Reece celebrates five years as the
Fairness Campaigns administrative coordinator.
May 30: The Fairness Campaign co-sponsors
Northern Kentucky Pride in Covington.
June 1: With a 4-2 vote, Midway, population
1,657, becomes the eighth city in Kentucky with a
local LGBT Fairness Ordinance.
Northern Kentucky University student Morgan
Bell begins a summer internship.
June 3: The Fairness Campaign joins BrownForman Corporations annual Pride Celebration.
June 5: The Fairness Campaigns SAGENet
committee hosts a focus group on LGBT aging
issues at Play Dance Bar.
June 6: Fairness director Hartman speaks
to graduates of the New Leaders Council in
Lexington.
June 7: The Fairness Campaigns SAGENet
committee hosts a focus group on LGBT aging
issues at Metropolitan Community Church of
Louisville.
June 9: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101 training
for JCPS Certified Social Workers.
June 10: UPS hosts an Inclusive Leadership
event at the Muhammad Ali Center highlighting
LGBT and racial diversity in the workplace.
June 11: The Fairness Campaign joins supporters
at Stanton City Hall to propose a local Fairness
Ordinance.
June 13: The Temple hosts its inaugural Equality
Shabbat to help celebrate Pride Month.
June 15: The Fairness Campaigns SAGENet
committee hosts a focus group on LGBT aging
issues at Gildas Club of Louisville.
Earlham College student Andrew Pettyjohn
begins a summer internship with the Fairness
Campaign.

June 16: Fairness director Hartman presents The

State of Fairness to Fifth Third Bank employees at
a Pride Month Lunch and Learn.
June 17: Fairness Campaign co-founder Jane
Hope passes away.
June 18: The Fairness Campaign joins the ACLUKY and others on a Brown-Forman Corporation
Marriage Equality panel discussion.
June 19: Hundreds of Fairness volunteers march
in the Kentuckiana Pride Parade.
June 20: The Fairness Campaign joins the
Kentuckiana Pride Festival.
June 24: The U.S. Census Bureau National
Processing Center in Indiana hosts a Pride Month
Observance featuring the Fairness Campaign.
June 26: LOVE WINS! The U.S. Supreme Court
rules 5-4 in favor of the freedom to marry in
Obergefell v. Hodges, granting LGBT couples the
right to marry in all 50 states. The victory includes
six plaintiff couples and their attorneys from
KentuckyRev. Maurice "Bojangles" Blanchard
and Dominique James, Greg Bourke and Michael
De Leon, Tammy Boyd and Kim Franklin, Paul
Campion and Randy Johnson, Tim Love and Larry
Ysunza, and Jim and Luke Meade-Barlowe with
attorneys Dawn Elliott and Shannon Fauver of
the Fauver Law Office, the ACLU-KY, and Dan
Canon, Joe Dunman, and Laura Landenwich
of Clay Daniel Walton and Adams. Hundreds of
Kentuckians join Love Wins! Day of Decision
rallies in Bowling Green, Lexington, and
Louisville.
June 27: The Fairness Campaign co-sponsors
Lexington Pride and joins Cincinnati Pride.
June 28: The Fairness Campaign joins the
Owensboro Pride Picnic.
June 29: The Fairness Campaign celebrates its
24th anniversary.
June 30: A Marriage Celebration hosted by
Highland Tap Room in Louisville shuts down
Bardstown Road and draws thousands of
supporters.
July 2: Kentucky freedom to marry plaintiffs and
the Fairness Campaign join WEKUs Eastern
Standard in Richmond for a debate on LGBT
marriage.
First Unitarian Church in Louisville ceremoniously
removes their Civil Marriage is a Civil Right
banner that was hung in 2005 following
Kentuckys ban on marriage.
July 8: The new Southern Indiana Equality group
kicks off in New Albany.
July 9: Nearly 1,000 supporters sign petitions
for a local Fairness Ordinance at the Bowling
Green Fairness pub crawl Love Takes Over: LGBT
Fairness on Fountain Square!
Fairness Coalition leaders join Stanton residents
at City Hall in support of a Fairness Ordinance.

Kyle Cook
Ginny Copenhefer
Randall Correll
Margaret Costello
Madeline and Dario Covi
Bob Crawford
Kathleen Crawford and Cindi Ramm
Mike Croghan
Karen Cronin and Rosemary Smith
Rita Crowley
Kimberly and John Crum
Cassandra Culin and Kyle Ellison
Amanda Cundiff
Delores and Robert Cunningham
Rachel Cutler and Curtis Stauffer
David Dafoe
Janet Dakan
Marilyn Daniel
Tim Darst and Angela Lincoln
Alexandra Davis
Edwina Davis and Charlotte Wood
Sonja and Keith Farah de Vries
Jayne Dean-McGilpin
Ann Deibert and Martha Kenney
Helen Deines
Dolores Delahanty
David Dempsey and Steve Monaghan
Derby City Sisters
Leslie Diehm
Elizabeth Dinkins
M.T. Doherty
Nick Donohue
Sam Dorr and Charles Raith
Douglass Boulevard Christian Church
Andrew Downey
John Downs
Kathleen and Gary Drehmel
Claude Drouet and Rusty Henle
Claire Drucker and Seymour Slavin
Joan and Tom Dubay
Debra Dudek
Amber and Brent Duke
Sarah and Joe Dunman
Alex Durall and Brad Hampton
Christy Durrett
Dustin Edge
Jean Edwards
Jaime Ehringer
Jerry Eifler
Glen Elder and Jim Gibson
Marshall Eldred and Andree Mondor
Ann-Lynn Ellerkamp
Art Embrey and Terry Laun
Mark England and Michael Handley
Patrick Englert
The Event Company
Dan Farrell
Judith Faulkner and Meta Mendel-Reyes
Brett Fechheimer
Dianne Feltham and Kaye Thompson
Carole Fetter
Rachel Firkins
John Fischer and Jon Hamby
Marjorie and Richard Fitzgerald
Jon Fleischaker and Kim Greene
George Flores
Patria Fielding and Virginia Forest
Dan Forte and Chris Schuster
Donna Fosberg and Jackie Lucas
D.A. Foushee
Jeff Franklin and Carl Horton
Stephanie Franklin
Sandra Frazier
Jon Freels

Paul Fridell and Mary Alex Rohleder

Harriette Friedlander
Friends Meeting of Louisville, Inc
Eileen Frueh
Charles Fugate
Amanda Fuller
Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Ron Gaddie
Charles Gamble
Joyce and Gordon Garner
Sarah Garrison
John Gatton
Mike Gatton
GE Foundation
Layla George
Linda George
Carla Gibert
Terri and L. Courtney Giesel
Carla Gilbert
David Gill
David Gochman
Linda and Stuart Goldberg
Dana Goldman
Judy Goldsmith and Andrew Klapper
Joanna Goldstein
Michael Goodwin
Katherine Gotsick
Benjamin Gowen
Bill Graham
Heather Gram
Rebecca Grant
Mary Moss Greenebaum
Katharine Griswold
Daniel Grossberg
Steve Grover
William Grubb
Glenda and James Guess
Aaron Guldenschuh-Gatten
Sandy Gulick
Maria Gurren
Kenneth Hagan and Angela Stallings
Adam Hall
Marcia Hamelin
June Hampe
Sarah Hancock
Africa Hands and Debra Mumford
Patrick Hanna
Ann Hardman
Jerry Hardt and Diane Yoder
Libby and Jonathan Hardy
Paula Harshaw
Mary Lynn Hartman
Patrick Hayden
Enid Trucios-Haynes and Ray Haynes
Anne and Smith Haynie
Louis Helman
Joy and Steven Henry
Ken Herndon
Roberta Hershberg
Karen Hightower
Maria Hines and Ray Schweri
Dien Ho
Pam Hodges and Mary Neal Linker
Judy Hunter Hodson
Michael Hoffman
Augusta and Gill Holland
William Hollander and Lisa Keener
Amy Holliday
Jane Hope
Stephanie and Andrew Horne
Mary and David Horvath
Peter Howard
Marilyn Hrbek and Jim Roberts
Dora and Tom Hubbard

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Chris Hungerford
Thomas Hurd and David Sickbert
Greg Hutcheson and Leonard Mariani
Gray and Ted Isaacs
S. K. Iseminger and L. M. Todd
Rose and Ampelio Isetti
Jefferson County Teachers Association
Jane Jenkins
Brad Jennings
Elizabeth Jent
Amy Johnson
Melissa Johnson
Richard Johnson
Helen Jones and Thomas Pike
Jane Jones
Karen Jarboe and Nanci Moore
JP Morgan Chase & Co
JustFundKY
Tokue Kajihara
Jo Ann Kalb and Deborah Thompson
Barbara Myerson Katz
Donald Kavanaugh
Mary Louis Keenan
Kellner Green PLLC
Gloria Kemper-O'Neil
Erin Kennedy
Shaun Kenney and Brian Walker
Kentucky Housing Corporation
Ellie Kerstetter
Ronald Kestler
Casey Kimball
Debbie King
Kathryn King
Patrick King and Ariane Spitaels
John Kleber
Miriam Klein and Marc Leibson
Kelly Kleinert
Bruce Kleinschmidt
James Klump
Rita Knowles
Donald Kohler
Robert Kowsaluk
Carol Kraemer and Jen Straub
Kathy and Joe Kremer
Ed Kruger and Jeff Rodgers
Lawrence la Fountain
Mary Ann and Michael Lambert
Kathy and Lew Lancaster
Marian Lancaster
Amy Landon
Ruby Layson
James and Nancy Leach
Jennifer Leibson
Melanie Levin
Belle and Philip Levy
Sally Levy
Sandra Lewis
Anne and Tony Lindauer
Lisa Linke
Judy and Steven Lippmann
Cory Lockhar
Loren Looger
Judy and Fred Look
Keith Look
Lee Look
Louisville Seminary
Jessica Loving and Sheryl Snyder
Todd Lowe
Doug Lowry
Barbara Luckett
Rebecca Ludlow
Brian Lusk
David Brian Lusle

Lynlee Lynbrook
Alice Lyon and Mary O'Doherty
Susan Maakestad
Sally MacDonald
Douglas Magee and Anne Marie Regan
Allison Maggiolo
Stephen Magnus
Darrell Mahone
Heather Mahoney
MAP Louisville
Sam Marcosson
Christine Connerty Marin
Mark England Associates
Anne and Melvin Maron
Janice Martin
Marvin Martin and Neil Mellen
Tom Massey and Richard Schwarz
Rebecca Matheny
Theresa and James Mayer
Peggy and Irv Maze
Leslie Brown McBride
Judith McCandless
Debra McChane
Jamie McClard
Debra McCurdy
Morgan McGarvey
Randall McKenzie
Diana McLeod
Eduardo Meneses
Todd Mercier
Melissa Mershon
Susan Messing
Linda and Ronald Metts
Janice Meyer
Theresa and Martin Meyer
Scott Meyer
Meyer Consulting LLC
Bill Michael
Harriet and Katherine Miller
Rita Miller
Christopher Miller and William Stanley
Carolyn Miller-Cooper
Taryn Miller-Stevens
Susan Milligan
Weston Milliken
Krista Mills
Marta Miranda
Timothy Mitchell
Lisa Montebello
Benjamin Moore
Jennifer Moore
Kaitlin Moore
Patricia Moore
Charlotte Morgan
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC
Donna Morton
Eric Moser
Marc Mourer
Eamon and Jennifer Mulvihill
Michael Neumann
Carrie Neumayer
Lisa Neuttila
New World Foundation
Carol Niehaus
Jeff Noble
Tom Jones and Rick Nottingham
Ellen and Michael O'Connell
Sheila O'Donnell-Schuster
David O'Neill
Mary Beth and Joe O'Reilly
Robyn Ochs
Dana Oliver
Lisa Osanka
Dianna Ott

July 11: A Marriage Victory Party is hosted by

Clay Daniel Walton and Adams, the Fauver Law
Office, Fairness Campaign, and ACLU at Theater
Square Marketplace with special guest Mary
Bonauto, GLADs Civil Rights Project director who
argued for marriage before the Supreme Court in
Obergefell v. Hodges.
July 13: The ACLU-KYs case against Rowan
County Clerk Kim Davis, who refuses to issue
marriage licenses to same-gender couples, has
its first hearing.
KETs Kentucky Tonight hosts a debate on
the Supreme Courts freedom to marry ruling
with Fairness director Hartman, St. Matthews
Episcopal Church Rev. Kelly Kirby, and members
of the Family Foundation.
July 17-19: Fairness Campaign volunteers raise
funds by working a beer truck at the annual
Forecastle Music Festival.
July 20: The second hearing against County Clerk
Kim Davis is held.
July 22-26: Fairness Campaign leaders attend the
Equality Federations Summer Meeting. Fairness
director Hartman is elected to the Equality
Federation Board of Directors.
Aug. 3: Elizabethtown Fairness supporters crowd
City Hall to call for a local Fairness Ordinance.
Aug. 6: Georgetown Fairness supporters begin
organizing for a local Fairness Ordinance with the
Scott County Chapter of KFTC.
Aug. 10: The Jefferson County Public School
(JCPS) Board votes 5-2 in favor of the first reading
of a transgender inclusive non-discrimination
policy.
Aug. 11: The Fairness Campaign joins a Harlan
County Fairness organizing meeting.
Aug. 12: The Fairness Campaign joins the U.S.
Department of Agricultures Kentucky LGBT
Rural Summit.
Aug. 19: New Bellarmine University students
volunteer at the Fairness Campaign as part of
Knights in Action: Day of Service."
Aug. 20-30: Hundreds of volunteers staff the
Fairness Campaigns booth at the Kentucky State
Fair.
Aug. 22: The Frankfort Fairness Celebration
draws community members, families, and
leaders to honor LGBT inclusion and the Fairness
Ordinance passed two years prior.
New University of Louisville students volunteer
at the Fairness Campaign as part of the SOUL
program.
Aug. 24: The JCPS Board votes 6-1 to approve
transgender discrimination protections, making
it the second school district in the state to update
its policies.

Elizabethtown Fairness supporters speak at City

Hall for a local Fairness Ordinance.
University of Kentucky College of Social Work
student Maggie Carnes and University of
Louisville Kent School of Social Work Masters
student Patrick Sherwood begin practicums with
the Fairness Campaign.
Aug. 25: #BlackTransLivesMatter organizers,
including Stand Up Sunday and Fairness leaders,
hold an event in Louisvilles Central Park to
call attention to the overwhelming number of
murders of trans people of color in 2015.
The Fairness Campaign hosts a delegation of
young Iraqi leaders with the World Affairs Council.
Louisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz calls a
meeting with Greg Bourke and the Fairness
Campaign to inform Bourke he is still barred from
serving as a Boy Scout leader despite the Boy
Scouts of Americas recent policy change allowing
LGBT adult leaders.
Aug, 27: Dozens of volunteers and staff with the
Jefferson County Teachers Association, ACLU-KY,
and Fairness Campaign protest the Kentucky
Farm Bureaus discriminatory policies at their
annual Country Ham Breakfast at the State Fair.
During a silent protest, Kentucky State Police
arrest Fairness co-founder Carla Wallace, Sonja
Farah de Vries, and Fairness director Hartman.
Sept. 1: Rowan Countians protest County Clerk
Kim Davis.
Shelby County Fairness supporters, with the
Shelby County Chapter of KFTC, protest the lack
of Human Rights Commission appointments at
the Shelby County Fiscal Court.
Sept. 3: Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is sent
to jail for refusing to comply with Federal Judge
David Bunnings order that she issue marriage
licenses.
Sept. 14: Kim Davis office begins issuing altered
marriage licenses to all couples.
Sept. 15: Supporters from all over the U.S. donate
to the viral Twitter account @NextToKimDavis'
"Pizza Party" benefiting the Fairness Campaign.
Sept. 17: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101
training for the EEOC in Indianapolis and JCPS
staff in Louisville.
Sept. 19: The Fairness Campaign participates
in the inaugural Louisville Pride Festival on
Bardstown Road. Mayor Greg Fischer and the
Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau host the
Worlds Largest Wedding Reception for a lesbian
couple who won a Dream Louisville Wedding in
the Say I Do in Lou LGBT marriage promotion by
the city.
Sept. 20: The Fairness Campaign joins the
Louisville AIDS Walk.
Dr. Ryan Combs of the University of Louisville
School of Public Health and Information Sciences
becomes a Fairness Campaign co-coordinator.

K. A. Owens
David Oyen
Dave Pafundi
Linda Pajaujis
Kiri Palm
Katherine Parker
William Parker
Kathleen Parks
Constance Parrish and David Williamson
Diane Partridge
Djenita and Resad Pasic
Laurel Paul
Beth Perry
Andy Perry and John Sistarenik
Nancy Peterson
Jessica Phelps
Jan Phillips
Frank Pierce
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Paula Porter and Vanessa Taylor
Benjamin Post
Eugenia and John Potter
Colleen Powell
Jan Powell
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D. Michele Prete
DaMara Pryor
Derek Pugh
Carol Pye
Gloria Quigley
Race Forward
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Jane Rainey
Joan and Jovelino Ramos
Heather Randolph
Ron Randolph and Rocky Robinson
Nancy Rankin and Whitworth Stokes
Paul Ratliff
Sarah Reed
David Reeves
Regional First Title Group, LLC
Susan Reigler
Edith Rein
John Reisert
Anne Renner-Evans
Gil Reyes
Nancy Reynolds
Eric Rich
Sean Riley
Janet and Richard Rink
Christina Riser
Ellen Robertson
Gregory Robertson and Brian Williams
Stacey Robinson
Jack Roby
James Roemer
Teouline and John Rose
Elizabeth Rosen
Siddy Rosenberg
Kynthia Rosgeal
Laura Ruocco
Russell Immigration Law Firm, LLC
Nancy Russman and Elizabeth Stith
Anne Marie Russo
Kathy Salomon
Melanie Salsbury
Vincent Sanchez
Barbara and E. Halsey Sandford
Andrea Sandoval
Elizabeth and Donald Sands
Shelley Santry and Shannon White
Steven and Kate Rudd Sarfin

Sept. 22: Fairness director Hartman presents The

State of Fairness to Transylvania Young Dems.
Sept. 23: Adath Jeshurun Synagogue highlights
the Fairness Campaign arrests and Kentucky Farm
Bureaus discriminatory policies in a Yom Kippur
sermon.
Sept. 24: The Fairness Campaign participates in
Bellarmine University and University of Louisville
community service fairs.
Sept. 26: The Fairness Campaign participates
in an event supporting Planned Parenthood of
Indiana and Kentucky.
Sept. 28-Oct. 2: University of Louisville hosts
its annual Pride Week with keynote Patrisse
Cullors of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, cosponsored by the Fairness Campaign.
Oct. 1: Fairness donors participate in the
Community Foundation of Louisvilles Give Local
Louisville day of giving.
Oct. 3: Brown-Forman Corporations Fairness
Over Louisville event at Play Dance Bar honors
2015 Champions of Fairness, including the
Rowan County Rights Coalition, couples
suing Kim Davis, marriage equality plaintiffs
and lawyers, longtime Fairness Campaign
co-coordinator Dr. Kaila Story, longtime
administrative coordinator Jayne Reece,
#BlackTransLivesMatter organizers, and more.
The Fairness Campaign co-hosts an Idea Festival
talkback on two new films, Under the Mango Tree
and Deep Run.
Oct. 5: Fairness Campaign intern Henry Brousseau
organizes a protest of the Association of Certified
Biblical Counselors anti-LGBT convention at The
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Oct. 8: The Jefferson County Attorneys Office
recommends charges be dropped against the
Fairness Campaigns Kentucky Farm Bureau
protesters. Judges dismiss charges against all
three protesters.
Shelbyville Fairness supporters continue to
protest the lack of Human Rights Commissioners,
this time at the Shelbyville City Council.
Oct. 11: JustFundKY hosts the Kentucky premiere
of the movie PRIDE in Lexington.
Oct. 12: C-FAIR, the political action committee of
the Fairness Campaign, announces endorsements
in six state and local races.
Oct. 13: Fairness staff conduct LGBT 101
training for Louisville Society of Human Resource
Management.
Oct. 16-18: The Louisville LGBT Film Festival is
held.
Oct. 22: The Fairness Campaign joins Louisville
Showing Up for Racial Justice in an International
Day Against Police Brutality event and joins
the Fair Event Vendors Alliance for a Love Won
Wedding Show.

Jeff Sauer
Zan and Mark Sawyer-Dailey
Eric Schultze
Richard Scruggs
Carol Seales
Marcia and Edwin Segal
John Selent
Danielle Shapiro
John Howard Shaw-Woo and Shiao Woo
Joshua Shoopman
Lisa Shroyer
Patricia Silverberg
Rita Simmons and Carolyn Weaver
Robert Simpson
Nancy Singer
Barbara Fabricant
Celes Smith
Natalie Smith
Rebecca Smith
William and Cathy Smock
Shaun Snee
Sylvie Soulier
Stephen Spanyer
Craig Spears, CPA
Corinne Spicer
Lonnie St John
Amanda Stahl
Patrick Stallard
Jennifer Starke
Jane and Eric Stauffer
Judy Steer
Dorene Stein
Julie Steinau
Peggy and David Stengel
Vernon Stephens
Meg Stern
Gregory Stevens
George Stinson
Randal Strobo
Roxanne and Elwood Sturtevant
Gwyn Sutherland
Ray Sutherland
James William Svendsen
David Tachau and Susannah Woodcock
Patricia Taylor
Susan Taylor
Beverly Goodman Tchernov
Joann Tenny
Isaac Thacker IV
Jenelle Therrien
Taral Thompson
Kay and Walter Tillow
Natalee Tincher
Cliff Todd
Rose Mary Toebbe
John Tompkins
Ann Trepus
Megan Tucker
Neely Tucker
Dandrea Turner
United Way of Kentucky
UPS Foundation, Inc
Suzanne Vance
Russ Vandenbroucke
Johnnie Vaughan
Lucy Vincze
Elizabeth and Jim Voyles
Robert Wagner
Robert Walker
Carla Wallace
Tom Wallace Lyons
Sarah Walsh
Hal Warheim

Oct. 23-25: Come Together Kentucky is held at

Murray Sate University with Fairness Campaign
co-sponsorship.
Nov. 1: Dora James celebrates two years as the
Fairness Campaigns Western Kentucky organizer.
Nov. 3: The Kentucky General Election is held.
Nov. 4: Jamie McClard, an Albany, Kentucky native
who served as a Fairness Campaign intern and
helped lead the Georgetown College movement,
is hired as administrative coordinator.
Nov. 6: Fairness Coalition leaders join a
talkback discussion on Collegiate High Schools
production of The Laramie Project.
Nov. 15: The Fairness Campaign joins Highland
Presbyterian Church for a discussion on LGBT
rights and marriage in Kentucky.
Judith Faulkner, a founding member of Bereans
for Fairness, becomes a Fairness Campaign cocoordinator.
Nov. 17: Bowling Green Fairness jam-packs City
Hall to present the nearly 1,000 signed petitions
and more than 100 local businesses in favor of a
Fairness Ordinance.
Nov. 21: The first Transwomen National
Banquet honors several Fairness Campaign and
community leaders along with special guest
Dr. Marci Bowers, world renowned transgender
gender confirmation surgeon.
Nov. 14-20: Transgender Week of Awareness and
Day of Remembrance is observed.
Dec. 1: The Fairness Campaign helps coordinate
Kentuckiana AIDS Alliances World AIDS Day
event at the new Volunteers of America MidStates office.
Dec. 10: Fairness director Hartman is named an
Alden Fellow by the Community Foundation of
Louisville.
Dec. 11-13: Fairness director Hartman joins the
Equality Federations board retreat in New York,
including Race Forward training.
Dec. 17: Louisville earns a perfect 100 from the
Human Rights Campaigns Municipal Equality
Index of LGBT inclusivity, making it one of only
two cities in the South outside of Florida and
Texas with a perfect score. Other Kentucky
scores include: Bowling Green 17; Covington 57;
Frankfort 58; Lexington 73; Owensboro 20.
Dec. 22: Newly elected Republican Kentucky
Governor Matt Bevin issues five executive
orders, including those that repeal voting rights
restoration for former felons and amend marriage
licenses to remove the names of county clerks.
The Fairness Campaign is a member of
Kentucky's Fairness Coalition, which includes
the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky,
the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights,
and Lexington Fairness.

LaQuita Washington
Deborah and Jim Wayne
Sara Weigle
Mary Weilage
Marvin Weinberger
Dan Weiss
Terry and Morris Weiss
Jane Welch
Dona Wells
Don Wenzel
Marilyn and John Werst
Alan White
Bobbie White
Clara and Robert White
Katherine Whiteside and Barry Zalph
Janet and John Wilborn
Nicholas Wilkerson
Art Williams
David Williams
Ricky Williams
Lisa Wilner
Beth Wilson
Darrin Wilson
Dawn Wilson
Max Wineinger
Anna Wolff
Nancy Woodcock
Virginia and James Woodward
Gordon Wright
Jennifer Wynn
Jenny Bar Yaacov
Yarmuth For Congress
Cathy and John Yarmuth
Roxanne Yeoman
Gary Young
Gail Zacharias
Diane Zane

Gifts Were Received in Honor of:

Michael Drury and Lane Stumler's wedding
on 12/14/14 in Indiana
Davis Edwards and Steve Bass
Chuck Fugate
Nicholas Gowen
Chris Hartman
Amanda Muss and Stacie Thompson
Jody Nelson
Bert Rumely
Thom Velez
Carla Wallace
Natalie Zanoni

Gifts Were Received in Memory of:

Robert G. Bird
Linda Gregory
Thelma Hall
Jeanne Heberle
Judge John G. Heyburn, II.
Jane Hope
Thank you! Only because of donors like you are
we able to move Fairness forward!
If you sent a donation in 2015 and your name does
not appear here, we are very sorry! Please call the
Fairness Campaign office at (502) 893-0788 so we
may correct our mistake.

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