Abstract The collection documents "Creating & Curating Change: AIDS Activism & the Fight for Same-sex Marriage in Hawai‘i," an exhibit produced by the University Archives and Manuscript Collections Department of UH-Mānoa's Hamilton Library in 2019. The exhibit featured materials from the Dr. David McEwan papers, the Tom Ramsey papers, and various related collections, and was on display in Hamilton Library's Lobby Gallery March-May 2019 and in Moir Reading Room March-July 2019. ...

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Reverend Curtis Metzger served on the Board of Directors of two non-profit organizations advocating for same-sex marriage in Hawai‘i during the mid-to-late 1990s, Marriage Project Hawai‘i (earlier named the Hawai‘i Equal Rights Marriage Project) and Protect Our Constitution. His papers consist of records, emphemera, and artifacts that document these organizations and his involvement with them.

Collection Abstract Steven H. Levinson had a long legal career in Hawaiʻi, including a (nearly) 17-year stint as an Associate Justice of the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court from April 1992- December 2008. In 1993, Levinson wrote the opinion in the State Supreme Court case Baehr v. Lewin (later Baehr v. Miike), which opened the path for the ultimate legalization of same sex marriage in the state twenty years later, in 2013. After his judicial career, Levinson served as a...

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Paul W. Gracie is a Honolulu-based activist who advocates for religious tolerance and LGBTQ+ rights. Gracie's collection consists of two t-shirts, one book, one resource packet, and various clippings. Materials pertain to HIV/AIDS, gay clergy, Tulsi Gabbard, appropriation of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by the religious right, and same sex marriage, especially in Hawaiʻi.

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During the years of Hawaiʻi's AIDS crisis, Steven DeMaggio created several panels for the memorial NAMES Project AIDS Quilt honoring friends and acquaintances who had passed due to the disease. DeMaggio's collection contains clippings, medical literature, other documents, and photographs from this era of his life. Materials relate to AIDS, especially in Hawaiʻi; the Names Project AIDS Quilt in general; and several individual Quilt panels that DeMaggio created in particular.