In honor of Pride Month, Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professionals’ group, NEXTGen, and Reliant invite you to join us for a private look at Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which explores the American judicial system through one of its sharpest legal minds, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
As a LGBTQ+ ally, Justice Ginsburg joined landmark major decisions for LGBTQ rights on the bench and became the first Supreme Court justice to conduct a same-sex wedding in 2013. On view in the Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a vibrant celebration of Justice Ginsburg’s life and her numerous, often simultaneous roles as a student, wife, mother, lawyer, judge, women’s rights pioneer, and Internet phenomenon.
This event will feature remarks from Mitchell Avila Katine, founding partner at Katine Nechman McLaurin LLP. In 2003, Mitchell, along with co-counsel Lambda Legal, argued the Lawrence v. Texas case to the Supreme Court, which laid the foundation for the historic 2015 same-sex marriage decision.
Special thanks to Reliant for sponsoring this event and to Bodegas Taco Shop for generously donating breakfast tacos! This event is open to the public, but RSVP is required.
If you would like to join the Museum’s young professionals group, NEXTGen, please visit hmh.org/NEXTGen. For more information, please contact Rocio Rubio, Assistant Director of Corporate Relations, at rrubio@hmh.org or 713-527-1838.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is organized and circulated by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California.
About Mitchell Avila Katine
Mitchell Avila Katine graduated from South Texas College of Law in 1985. Around the same time, the United States Supreme Court issued a horrendous decision known as Bowers v. Hardwick. The Bowers decision held that gay people were excluded from the protections of the United States Constitution. In 1998, two men, John Lawrence and Tyrone Gardner, were arrested for having private consensual sex in their home. Mitchell spend the next five years, with Lamba Legal as co-counsel, fighting the case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. In 2003, the Supreme Court issued the landmark decision known as Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned Bowers v. Hardwick, recognized the Constitutional rights of gay people, and laid the foundation for the historic 2015 same-sex marriage decision.
Mitchell is a partner at Katine Nechman McLaurin LLP where he practices real estate litigation. Mitchell’s spouse, Walter Avila, and Mitchell have been together for over 22 years. Together, they have two teenage children, Sabrina and Sebastian (both 19) and three small dogs.
