First Congregational Church of Norman founding members Don and Kay Holloway will be speaking at this event.

Kay has lived in Norman, with her husband Don, since 1963. They have three adult children and one grandchild. She is a former schoolteacher, community volunteer, and served on the Norman Board of Education. Kay has a master’s degree in public health administration and is retired from the area of HIV/AIDS treatment and care as an executive director of an HIV non-profit as well as a division director at the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Kay is the co-founder of PFLAG Norman and served as PFLAG National’s regional director and on its national board.

Don is an attorney and artist. He began representing Oklahoma’s marriage equality plaintiffs, Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin and Susan Barton and Gay Phillips, in 2009. The couples filed a case challenging Oklahoma’s referendum vote banning same-sex marriage in 2004 – immediately after the ban was enacted – but the original attorney could not continue due to health reasons. Subsequently the Supreme Court held, in a 5-4 decision, that state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.