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John: WE'RE CONTINUING THIS
PRIDE 209 WITH 2019 WITH A LOOK AT
DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS.
HERE WITH A SHORT HISTORY LESSON
IS JEFF HONG.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
HERE.
APPRECIATE IT.
I WANT YOU TO TELL US HOW
HAWAI'I INFLUENCED THE LGBT
CIVIL RIGHTS.
HAWAI'I TOOK MANY LEADERSHIP
ROLES IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF LGBT
RIGHTS.
FROM THE BACKGROUND OF 1960'S
WITH THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
AND THEN WITH THE RIOT OF DRAG
QUEENS AT STONEWALL 50 YEARS
AGO.
TO PROTEST AGAINST POLICE
BRUTALITY.
WAS ONE OF THE FIRST STATE TO
DECRIMINALIZE SAME SEX
DISCRIMINATION.
WHEN YOU'RE NOT A CRIMINAL
FOR LOVING WHO YOU CHOOSE TO
LOVE, BARS AND NIGHT LIFE,
PEOPLE CAN BECOME MORE OPEN.
AND THAT TYPE OF ACTIVITIES,
THINGS COULD FLOURISHFUL I
IN THE 90s.
IN THE MILITARY YOU CAN BE COURT
MARTIALED OUR GO TO JAIL FOR
COP CONTRASTED
WITH LAST MONTH A FEMALE MAJOR
GENERAL CELEBRATED PRIDE WITH
THE ARMY WITH HER WIFE.
John: WOW.
OKAY.
IT WENT FROM CIVIL UNIONS TO
MARRIAGE.
HOW DID WE GET TO MANCHE?
MARRIAGE TOOK A WHILE.
THERE WAS KIND OF A BACKLASH.
IN HAWAI'I, THE COURTS HAD RULED
WE COULD PO POTENTIALLY HAVE
MARRIAGE.
THERE WAS A COURT CASE IN THE
90s.
WENT UP TO THE SUPREME COURT AND
BACK.
WE FOUND THE RIGHT OF SAME SEX
COUPLE TO MARY. MARE.
THERE IS A CONSTITUTION THE
AMENDMENT HERE THATRESTRICTSED
RIGHT TO DEFINAL MARRIAGE
RELIGIOUSLY.
John: HOW DID THE PROCESS
MOVE FORWARD?
IN HAWAI'I, THAT IS SPONSORED
BACKLASH IN SOME STATE.
OTHER STATES FOLLOWED THE LEAD.
MASSACHUSETTS LED THIS.
AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL,
THAT'S THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE
ACT.
SUPREME COURT CAN RULE THAT THE
DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ABILITY,
ACTUALLY SOMETHING LED BY THE
ACLU TO FIGHT STRUCK DOWN THAT
AS UNSTOOGAL.
-- UNCONSTITUTION
THE.
John: IN THE END DID
HAWAI'I CHANGE ITS CONSTITUTION?
NO.
IN DEFINING MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT
THAT WOULD BE HELD BY THE
LEGISLATURE, UNFORTUNATELY
GOVERNOR ABERCROMBIE CALLED A
SPECIAL SESSION IN 2012, 2013.
AND IN THAT SPECIAL SESSION, WE
VOTED TO DEFINE MARRIAGE TO
INCLUDE SAME SEX COUPLES.
John: WHAT ABOUT THE REST
OF THE NATION?
THE REST OF THE NATION WOULD
HAVE TO WAIT.
WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER
SUPREME COURT RULE THAT STRUCK
DOWN ALL THE THESE BARS AGAINST
SAME SEX MARRIAGE.
THAT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE WAS
STRUCK DOWN.
YOU CAN HAVE IT IN THE STATE
CONSTITUTION BUT IT WASN'T
ALLOWED.
John: HAWAI'I WAS AT THE
FOREFRONT.
BASED ON THE HISTORY THAT YOU'VE
GIVEN US ALL A HISTORY LESSON,
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, WE
KEEP ON MARCHING FORWARD.
ACLU DEFENDED A CASE IN FRONT OF
ACROSS THE NATION, YOU CAN BE
FIRED FROM YOUR JOB FOR WHO YOU
LOVE.
BUT IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME
PROTECTION SHOULD BE GRANTED TO
EVERYONE.
SO WE'VE BEEN MOVING FORWARD.
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING ELSE TO
MOVE FORWARD TO.
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE OUR LOOK
AT THE VARIOUS LGBT RESOURCES
THIS WEEK ON "LIVING 808."
BIG PARADE AND FESTIVAL COMING
UP THIS SATURDAY.
WATCH IT IF YOU CAN'T COMING
DOWN TO WATCH IT IN PERSON.
WE'RE GOING TO BE STREAMING IT
LIVE 11:00 A.M. KHON2.COM WITH
MIKEY MONIS.
HE'S GOING TO BE HESPING WITH --
HELPING WITH THE COVERAGE.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY ALASKA
AIRLINES AND LAVENDER CENTER AND
CLINIC.
THANK YOU.