{"id":157,"date":"2017-10-26T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T04:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2017-10-29T00:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T05:24:51","slug":"chicago-responds-to-supreme-court-oral-arguments-on-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/chicago-responds-to-supreme-court-oral-arguments-on-lgbt-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Responds to Supreme Court Oral Arguments on LGBT Rights, #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published May 4, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andy-thayer\/why-the-next-supreme-cour_b_7121138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/427897eb-9002-4927-9d8a-313758646c24.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court oral arguments\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"248\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Mary Lou Finn<\/strong>&nbsp;represented&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neighborsforpeace.org\/\">Neighbors for Peace<\/a>, a group that advocates social justice and peace&nbsp;which is active primarily&nbsp;in Evanston and the far north side of Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is a retired clinical social worker and has spent much of her adult life volunteering for organizations that support&nbsp;human rights for&nbsp;members of&nbsp;disadvantaged groups.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andy-thayer\/why-the-next-supreme-cour_b_7121138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/a7f7be17-fb46-453c-b0b4-15768b7223a7.jpg\" alt=\"Equality for All, NOT Some\" width=\"212\" align=\"none\" height=\"315\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/207546e0-180b-4d6f-9988-0ac33b8be03a.jpg\" alt=\"Opposition to equal rights is bigotry\" width=\"220\" align=\"none\" height=\"315\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1T0LGibnUs0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/26bfe125-7f63-4eb6-8c95-7bcdaf65abda.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Hunt, Affinity Community Services\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"285\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Kim L. Hunt<\/strong>&nbsp;is Executive Director of&nbsp;<a>Affinity Community Services<\/a>, has over 25 years of experience in advocacy and public policy work. This year Affinity is celebrating is 20th anniversary of working with and on behalf of Black LGBTQ communities and queer youth. Kim has been executive director for 6 years.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1T0LGibnUs0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/df595730-060f-44b3-9efa-2f6f1c69872a.jpg\" alt=\"John Harness, Socialist Alternative\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"248\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>John Harness<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Chicago Branch Committee member of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistalternative.org\/\">Socialist Alternative<\/a>, a socialist political party fighting for working class liberation that stands in political solidarity with the Committee for a Workers International (CWI). John is also an arts and sex educator who lives in Hyde Park.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andy-thayer\/why-the-next-supreme-cour_b_7121138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/a004afb2-5c7c-4f09-81bd-ccfbca457815.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court oral arguments\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"290\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andy-thayer\/why-the-next-supreme-cour_b_7121138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/643f1513-9a19-40d7-9fe6-28fd43281bc6.jpg\" alt=\"Women's liberation movement activist Terry Moon\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"248\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Terry Moon<\/strong>&nbsp;has been an active organizer in the Women&#8217;s Liberation Movement since 1967, and is the editor of&nbsp;<a>News &amp; Letters<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andy-thayer\/why-the-next-supreme-cour_b_7121138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/b93ad9cf-3762-4c48-9610-b24a0c7510b2.jpg\" alt=\"Equal love, equal rights\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"248\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1T0LGibnUs0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/248e5035-2c6a-44bd-8d7d-92faacbc7632.jpg\" alt=\"73-year-old seeks heterosexual privileges NOW\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"672\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published May 4, 2015 Mary Lou Finn&nbsp;represented&nbsp;Neighbors for Peace, a group that advocates social justice and peace&nbsp;which is active primarily&nbsp;in Evanston and the far north side of Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/chicago-responds-to-supreme-court-oral-arguments-on-lgbt-rights\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[47,48],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt-rights","tag-equal-marriage-rights","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}