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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Audrey J Cooper <<a href="mailto:ajc39@cornell.edu">ajc39@cornell.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 3, 2011 3:24:59 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:talking-circle-alumni@googlegroups.com">talking-circle-alumni@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:talking-circle-alumni@googlegroups.com">talking-circle-alumni@googlegroups.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Talking Circle Alum FW: Community Coffee House on Same Sex Marriage</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:ajc39@cornell.edu">ajc39@cornell.edu</a><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Please help spread the word!</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">A</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>community coffee house event</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Marriage: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Now That You Can</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- What You Should Know</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br><b>Saturday, August 6th<br>7:30pm to 9:30pm<br>Lifelong, 119 W. Court Street, Ithaca</b><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The Ithaca LGBT Task Force and Planned Parenthood’s</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">LGBT Health & Wellness Program, Out For Health,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are pleased to present a special Coffeehouse Event</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about same sex marriage in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Local attorneys Mariette Geldenhuys and Elizabeth Bixler will discuss some of the legal ramifications that are specific to same sex couples when they get married, like, what does it mean to have a marriage that is recognized in New York State, but not at the federal level or most other states? If you and your partner are thinking about getting hitched, or even if you have already tied the knot, you won’t want to miss this event! Geldenhuys and Bixler are two of the four attorneys who represented the "Ithaca 50" in their lawsuit against the state for the right to marry. They are truly experts in this area.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The presentation will be followed by Q&A and a social hour. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Come out and reconnect with old friends or make</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">some new ones! Light refreshments provided.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br clear="all"><a href="http://facebook.com/OutForHealth" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">facebook.com/OutForHealth</a><br><a href="http://facebook.com/IthacaLGBTTaskForce" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">facebook.com/IthacaLGBTTaskForce</a><br><br>for more information on the event, click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.outforhealth.org/events/view/coffeehouse-and-presentation-marriage-now-that-you-can-should-you.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">HERE</a><br><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Maureen Kelly, CFLE, ACSE<br>Vice President for Programming & Communications<br>Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes<br>Ithaca Education & Out for Health Office:<br>111 East Seneca Street<br>Ithaca, NY 14850<br>607.216.0021 ext. 134<br><br><a href="http://www.outforhealth.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.outforhealth.org</a><br><a href="http://www.ppsfl.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.ppsfl.org</a><br><br>Proudly providing exceptional services, honest education and fearless advocacy<br> in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Tompkins Counties since 1968.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></span></font></div></div>Talking Circles on Race and Racism are a program of the Multicultural Resource Center:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.multicultural-resource.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.multicultural-resource.org</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>