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Other Events: LGBT Law and Policy Conferences

Below are LGBT law/policy conferences and events that are not sponsored by the Williams Institute. This page is for informational purposes only; each conference title is linked to the event's official website.  If you would like an event added to this page, send an email with dates, location, conference description, and URL to williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu.

April 2005

Work It On Out: Employment and HIV Issues
April 23, 2005
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Strength In Numbers and Positive Images present "Work It On Out: Employment and HIV Issues" is a community educational forum bringing together HIV+ individuals throughout the Los Angeles area to learn about and discuss issues related to living with HIV and employment, such as legal concerns (confidentiality of status when seeking work or at the workplace, discrimination and transition from disability to employment) and job search strategies (online job hunting, resume drafting, and interviewing). Bring a copy of your resume. There might be time for some of the speakers to review it and give you some helpful tips.

At the conclusion of the forum, participants will be able to:

1. Identify options for back-to-work and career opportunities.

2. Strategize on ways to develop a resume and utilize the internet and other resources for job searches.

3. Explore opportunities to participate in Positive Images or Strength in Numbers.

4. Expand their support and social networks.

Panelists include Brad Sears, Executive Director of the Williams Project, Michael O'Conner of HALSA and Jacque Chambers, Benefits Consultant and Counselor.

“'Are There Lesbians on the Team?' The Question Women Coaches Fear”
April 18, 2005
4:00 p.m.
1648 Hershey

Pat Griffin is a professor in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research and writing interests focus on heterosexism and homophobia in education, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender teachers and students, and heterosexism and homophobia in athletics, with a particular interest in women's sports. Dr. Griffin is the author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports and co-editor of Teaching For Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers. Williams Project/Lesbian Speaker Series

Strange Fruit
April 6, 2005
6:30 p.m.
UCLA School of Law, Room 1430

The Critical Race Studies Program and the Williams Project present a screening of the film Strange Fruit followed by a panel discussion moderated by Russell Robinson, featuring the film's director Kyle Schickner and lead actor Kent Faulcon.

March 2005

Living with Lawrence: The State of the LGBT Legal Movement
March 17, 2005
Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirtz Student Center, 12th floor
120 F. St., NW

March 2005 marks the second year anniversary since the landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas was argued in the United States Supreme Court. The Court's decision invalidated state criminal sodomy laws, but it has done (and can yet do) so much more. The impact of Lawrence on discriminatory practices against LGBT people, including within the institutions of marriage and the military, is being created as we speak.

Come hear a panel of legal leaders in the LGBT community talk about how we can shape the meaning of Lawrence. Professor Nan D. Hunter of Brooklyn Law School (and founder of the ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project) will shoot questions at eight smart, interesting and creative panelists.

Panelists include: Jon Davidson, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; James Esseks, ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project; Chai Feldblum, Georgetown University Law Center; Suzanne Goldberg, Rutgers School of Law Newark; Darren Hutchinson, Washington College of Law, American University; Pamela Karlan, Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School; William B. Rubenstein, The Williams Project; and Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School.

February 2005

Southwestern University Law Review Symposium, "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues and the Civil Rights Agenda"
Los Angeles, CA February 4, 2005

FEBRUARY 15: LISA DUGGAN
"Love American Style:  Neoliberal Citizenship in Contemporary Marriage Politics"
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
12:00 p.m.
1648 Hershey Hall
UCLA
Free

Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor of American Studies and History, and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity, co-author with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, co-editor with Lauren Berlant of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest, and author most recently of Twlight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy.

Marriage politics played a strange role in the "wedge" politics of the 2004 election--and have been at the center of a range of debates over welfare "reform," single parent families, same sex partnerships, and celebrity lifestyles. What does all this clamor reveal about the purely symbolic vs. the material functions of marriage in national politics? What does the pervasive publicity surrounding marital crises--from Britney Spears' truncated elopement and J-Lo's serial ceremonies, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's groping problem and various politicians' sex and adultery scandals tell us about the contradictions of public and private opinions about marriage? How do race, gender, class and sexuality function in the framing of the issues of coupledom and state benefits? Most importantly, why does an institution in such seeming decline (according to national census statistics) appear at the center of ideology and aspiration on the national stage? Her article on marriage politics in the March 15, 2004 issue of The Nation is available online at www.thenation.com .
Lesbian Speaker Series

SAME SEX MARRIAGE: LESSONS FROM CANADA
Thursday, February 17, 2005
12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM
Room 2355  Public Policy Building (2nd floor)

BOB RAE, P.C., O.C., Q.C.
Distinguished Lecturer of Canadian Studies and Visiting Professor of
Public Policy, UCLA; former Premier of Ontario, Canada, and Advisor to
the Government of Ontario on Postsecondary Education Review

Discussant: ZACHARY KRAMER, Lecturer in Law, UCLA, and Fellow, the
Williams Project for Sexual Orientation Law, UCLA

BOB RAE served as Ontario's 21st premier and was elected eight times
to federal and provincial parliaments before his retirement from
politics in 1996. During his term as premier, he was extensively
involved and played a major role in the Canadian Constitution debate. He
is currently a partner with the law firm Goodmans LLP, where his clients
include companies, trade unions, charitable and non-governmental
organizations, and governments themselves. He published two books - From
Protest to Power and The Three Questions: Prosperity and the Public
Good.  Rae earned a bachelor of laws from the University of Toronto and
a bachelor of philosophy from Oxford. He has received honorary
doctorates from the Law Society of Upper Canada, the University of
Toronto, Assumption University and Huntington University.

ZACHARY KRAMER teaches Law and Sexuality at UCLA. He has been appointed
a Fellow for the Charles R. Williams Project for Sexual Orientation Law.
Kramer received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and his J.D.
from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was
Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. Kramer's
publications have appeared in the University of Illinois Law Review, the
Seattle Journal for Social Justice, and the Chicago Tribune. Kramer's
research interests include law and sexuality, employment discrimination,
and family law.

This lecture is cosponsored by the Canadian Studies Program at UCLA,
the UCLA School of Public Affairs, the Department of Public Policy, the
Department of Social Welfare, The Williams Project on Sexual Orientation
and the Law, and the Center for the Study of Women, UCLA.

LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC