October is Honolulu Pride Month and we invite you to join us at Aliʻiōlani Hale to celebrate the journey toward marriage equality for all in our uniquely multicultural landscape. Professor Troy Andrade of the William S. Richardson School of Law will moderate a panel discussion about the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision in Baehr v. Lewin (1993), in which Hawaiʻi’s Supreme Court was the first in the US to recognize that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Reflecting on the history and the challenges and opportunities ahead, are our honorable and distinguished guests: Associate Justice Sabrina S. McKenna, former Associate Justice Steven H. Levinson, civil rights attorney and former Associate Judge Daniel R. Foley, and Dean Hamer, Co-Director of Lei Pua Ala Queer Histories of Hawaiʻi. 

The program will conclude in the Rotunda of Aliʻiōlani Hale with a debut of a new traveling exhibit, “Kaulike No Nā Mea A Pau: Toward Queer Justice in Hawaiʻi,” a collaboration between Lei Pua ʻAla Queer Histories of Hawaiʻi and the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center. 

Mahalo to our partners and sponsors: Lei Pua ʻAla Queer Histories of Hawaiʻi, the Mellon Foundation, and Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities