Meet with Authors Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch on Wed April 6th

Join BALIF, EQCA and NCLR for a

Lunchtime Brown Bag
with Authors and Spouses
Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Howard Rice, 3 Embarcadero Center, 7th floor
Who: BALIF, EQCA and NCLR Members

Join The San Francisco LGBT Community Center, EQCA and NCLR for an Evening Reception
with Authors and Spouses Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Where: San Francisco LGBT Center, 1800 Market (at Octavia), Room 301
Who: Open to the Public

San Francisco Welcomes Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch

Journalists Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch are the authors of the groundbreaking
"Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court," a 50-year history of
how the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt with gay rights. The book won the 2002 Lambda
Literary Foundation award for gay studies. And The Washington Post's Book World
hailed it as one of its "Raves and Faves" of 2001.

Deb and Joyce also authored the award-winning "And Say Hi to Joyce: America's First
Gay Column Comes Out," which tells the inspiring story of Deb's pioneering newspaper
column. They’ve appeared on Oprah, the Phil Donahue Show, and have spoken at
countless events, including at Yale Law School and the Library of Congress.

Joyce, a former Washington Post editor and reporter, is now a managing editor of
politics at National Journal magazine, the weekly political bible for Washington
insiders. She is also a 2005 Hoover Institution Media Fellow. Deb, a Washington
correspondent for The Detroit News, has been writing the first nationally syndicated
column on gay and lesbian issues in mainstream newspapers for nearly 13 years.

Deb and Joyce were married on June 27, 2003 in Toronto City Hall. Soon afterward,
they became the first same-sex couple to appear on The Washington Post's
Engagements, Weddings and Anniversaries pages. A year later, Deb and Joyce became
the first gay couple to announce a wedding anniversary in The Washington Post, which
included a photograph of them wearing leis on their Hawaiian honeymoon. They are
celebrating their 20th anniversary as a couple this June with a trip to Hong Kong
and Bali.

For more information on these events: contact Molly McKay at molly [at] eqca.org or
415-581-005 4#, BALIF host member Brian Lewis at 415.434-1600 or Roberto Ordeñana at
robertoo [at] sfcenter.org.

Information on Sponsoring Organizations:

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF) is San Francisco’s LGBT Bar
Association. For more information go to balif.org

Equality California (EQCA) is a statewide LGBT advocacy and education organization.
For more information go to eqca.org

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) is a national organization devoted to
securing legal rights for the LGBT community and serves as lead counsel in the
pending marriage equality litigation in California. For more information go to
nclrights.org

SF LGBT Center houses the activist heart of the LGBT community in San Francisco. For
more information go to sfcenter.org