LGBTQ Rights: The Struggles, Victories, and Ongoing Fight for Equality

The fight against LGBTQ discrimination is at the leading edge of civil rights work today.

An expert panel, including Susan Sommer, Associate Legal Director and Director of Constitutional Litigation for Lambda Legal, James Esseks, Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project, Cara Page, Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project, and journalist Mark Harris, whose marriage to Tony Kushner was the first same-sex marriage to be featured in the NY Times’ “Vows” column, will discuss the past, present, and future of the fight for equality.

Linda Villarosa, director of the journalism program at the City College of New York, moderates.











When: Wed., Mar. 1, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont St.
718-222-4111
Price: $10
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The fight against LGBTQ discrimination is at the leading edge of civil rights work today.

An expert panel, including Susan Sommer, Associate Legal Director and Director of Constitutional Litigation for Lambda Legal, James Esseks, Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project, Cara Page, Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project, and journalist Mark Harris, whose marriage to Tony Kushner was the first same-sex marriage to be featured in the NY Times’ “Vows” column, will discuss the past, present, and future of the fight for equality.

Linda Villarosa, director of the journalism program at the City College of New York, moderates.

Buy tickets/get more info now