Montana Photojournalist Thomas Lee -Baehr 05
“We won in court,” Nina Baehr says in the kitchen of her home in Amsterdam, “but then we lost in the court of public opinion.” Baehr, now 53, along with Genora Dancel and two other couples, successfully sued the state of Hawaii in 1991 for the right to same-sex marriage, touching off a debate in the nation that continues today.