General Assembly Pre-event: Marriage Equality and Global LGBT Issues
GLAD’s General Assembly Pre-event will focus on two issues and their intersections: the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality and the American export of homophobia to the world.
Carol Fey, a practicing attorney in the Columbus area where she is a recognized authority in LGBT family law, will be with us to explain the upcoming Supreme Court Ruling on marriage equality. (Or, by July, the already accomplished Supreme Court Ruling on marriage equality!)
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Also joining us will be Michael Adee. Michael is Director of the Global Faith and Justice Project of the Horizons Foundation. He has worked in the LGBT and HIV-AIDS communities since 1988. Religion and human rights faith-work organizing for LGBT equality is his area of specialization. Michael will be discussing with us the global export of homophobia and our faith response.
GLAD’s Pre-event will be located at the Columbus Convention Center, July 18, 2015. Cost will be approximately $50, breakfast and lunch included. Scholarships will be available. More details will be available soon. Keep an eye on GLAD’s Calendar or better yet, subscribe to the GLAD’s General Assembly events on your calendar.
Carol Ann Fey has practiced law for more than 25 years. She focuses her practice on legal matters facing all kinds of families in central Ohio. A 1984 graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, she is certified as a specialist in Ohio Family Relations Law.
Service to families, whether traditional or non-traditional, is the major focus of her work. She pioneered legal planning for unmarried couples in Ohio, particularly couples with children, including LGBT clients. She was awarded the Stoney Award by Stonewall Union for her work establishing shared custody as a legal option for protecting relationships between children and both of their unmarried and LGBT parents. She is a frequent invited speaker to professional and community organizations on the legal challenges unique to non-traditional families and options for solving those challenges.
Michael J. Adee, Ph.D. is a human rights advocate. He has been working in the LGBT and HIV-AIDS communities since 1988. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Michael has been a university teacher, campus minister, hospice chaplain, tennis coach and a humanitarian relief worker in Zimbabwe.
He has been involved in both LGBT political work and faith-work organizing. He served as Executive Director of Stonewall Cincinnati and then as the Executive Director of More Light Presbyterians from 1999–2012. He directed the successful campaign of policy change for LGBT ministers in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He served as the chair of the founding board of the Institute for Welcoming Resources, the faith work project of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. He served on a global working group associated with the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) that created the Global Interfaith Network. Religion and human rights, faithwork organizing for LGBT equality is his area of specialization.
After Hurricane Katrina, he created RainbowCorps, an initiative to rebuild houses in New Orleans. As an out gay athlete he has competed in tennis in ten international Gay Games and World Outgames. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as a benefit for LGBT equality.
Michael directs the Global Faith and Justice Project of the Horizons Foundation, San Francisco. His home is Santa Fe, New Mexico.