Join us for this presentation on the history of the LGBTQ community in Southwest Florida from longtime resident Arlene Goldberg, Board member of Visuality, Inc. and Founder and Board member of SW Florida Harmony Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Goldberg has won multiple awards for her work including Equality Florida’s 2014 “Voice for Equality award, PRIDE SW Florida Inc.’s Goldberg Award for outstanding leadership in the LGBTQ community in 2016, and the Rotary South’s Four-Way Test Award. She was the plaintiff in ACLU’s federal same sex marriage lawsuit that legalized marriage for Florida in 2015. She was issued the first legal document (Death Certificate) for a same sex married couple in Florida and was the first same sex marriage recognized by the State of Florida. In 2020, she published memoir titled “Simple Human Dignity: My Life, my Wife, our Story”.

Doors open at 5:30pm, Lecture Starts at 6:00pm.

Lecture Series includes museum admission, and light food and drinks.