Press Release for the
PA Diversity Network Photo Project-
200 Same-sex Couples:Facing Inequality
Exhibit at Bucks County Community College
‘Same-Sex Couples: Facing Inequality’ presents more than 200 photos of same-sex couples at Upper Bucks Campus Feb. 22 – March 6
February 11, 2008
Contact: Jean Dolan
Assistant Director of Public Relations
215-968-8094
dolanj@bucks.edu
Exhibition Shows Local Faces of Right-to-Marry Issue
‘Same-Sex Couples: Facing Inequality’ presents more than 200 photos of same-sex couples at Upper Bucks Campus Feb. 22 – March 6
“The PA Diversity Network Photo Project – 200 Same-sex Couples: Facing Inequality” makes its Bucks County debut February 22 to March 6 at Bucks County Community College’s Upper Bucks Campus.
The 212 framed photos of local same-sex couples will be exhibited in the café of the campus, located at 1 Hillendale Drive, Perkasie. A reception with a presentation by creator Liz Bradbury will be held Thursday, February 28, at 6 p.m.
Bradbury, the executive director of the PA Diversity Network, launched the project two years ago in response to federal and state political efforts to constitutionally ban legal recognition of same-sex relationships. She says the project seeks to put a local face on discrimination, reminding the public that same-sex couples in Pennsylvania cannot marry and cannot get any rights through civil union.
“The project demonstrates that members of the gay community are your neighbors, teachers, doctors, coworkers and your family,” says Bradbury. “We are real people, we vote, we pay taxes and we don’t have equal rights.”
The constantly growing Photo Project consists of a set of photos projected on a screen and a set of framed photos in a gallery. Labels on each black and white photo include the names of each member of the committed same-sex couple, each of their professions, the number of years they have been together and the number of children they have, if any. The exhibition also includes information and statistics about civil marriage rights and discrimination.
The event is sponsored by the BCCC Upper Bucks Campus Programming Council.
For more information, visit the PDN web site at www.padiversity.org and click on “Photo Project.”
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Contact:
Liz Bradbury, PA Diversity Network, Executive Director
610-432-5449
lbradbury@padiversity.org (liztrish@aol.com)
www.padiversity.org
Contact:
Jim Fillman, Coordinator of Student Services
Upper Bucks Campus
Bucks County Community College
215-258-7752, fillmanj@bucks.edu
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