[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16154]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     LOUISVILLE'S FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Louisville's Fairness 
Campaign--Kentucky's oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 
civil rights organization. This month the Fairness Campaign is 
celebrating 20 years of fighting against discrimination, inspiring 
hope, and protecting our citizens.
  Thanks to Fairness, in 1999 Louisville became one of the first cities 
to prohibit housing and employment discrimination on the basis of 
sexual orientation and gender identity. Now Fairness is working 
tirelessly to secure these protections for all Kentuckians. Because of 
Fairness, more Kentuckians are seeing that the lines once drawn between 
us because of sexual orientation and gender identity are only 
imaginary, and they're realizing that hate has no place in our 
Commonwealth.
  That's a message that needs to be heard not just from Pikeville to 
Paducah, but from coast to coast. I urge my colleagues to join me in 
congratulating the Fairness Campaign on two decades of service. It's 
truly thrilling how much progress they have made.
  I would also like to individually honor the 10 brave Louisvillians 
who co-founded the Fairness Campaign in 1991 to seek equal protections 
for all citizens under the law: Jim Adams, Eric Graninger, Lisa 
Gunterman, Ken Herndon, Jane Hope, Pam McMichael, Susan Remmers, Jeff 
Rodgers, Thom Snyder, and Carla Wallace.

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