Public Hearing
The public hearing for HB 6599: An Act Concerining Discrimination took place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, March 21, 2011. Many of those 12 hours were spent hearing from advocates for equality in gender identity and gender expression for CT residents! Please take a moment to look at all of the amazing testimony submitted for HB 6599: An Act Concerning Discrimination!
Left: Ace Ricker. Right: Diana Lombardi. Photo by Glenn Koetzner, Crazy Dog Photography
View the photo gallery courtesy of Glenn Koetzner, Crazy Dog Photography, for the Rainbow Times
If you want to see the highlights below, go here and click "Watch Now," which will open the video in your media player and allow you to scroll through using timestamps.
Kallista Solyn
4:02:12 - 4:06:44
Jennifer Levi, Transgender Rights Project Director at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
2:48:30 - 3:58
Jaclyn Garuti
3:58:53 - 4:01:52
Don Arsenault
4:33:45 - 4:40:13
Jesse R.
4:45:48 - 4:48:20
Melissa Spear
5:18:09 - 5:27:00
Anna Doroghazi, Director of Public Policy and Communication, CT Sexual Assault Crisis Services
4:48:35 - 4:51:14
Jerimarie Liesegang, PhD, Director, CT TransAdvocacy Coalition
6:53:43 - 6:58:04
Tasha Schaedler
7:30:25 - 7:35:49
Ace Ricker
7:52:02 - 7:56:36
Jennifer Paradis
8:25:58 - 8:33:45
Rev. Aaron Miller, Associate Minister for Pastoral Care at MCC New Haven and Chaplain at Yale New Haven Hospital
8:54:35 - 8:58:12
Diana Lombardi, CT TransAdvocacy Coalition
9:51:18 - 9:55:15
Tony F.
10:52:51 - 10:55:39
Barb Gurr
11:14:14 - 11:18:30