Carr Center for Human Rights - Sexuality, Gender & Human Rights Program

Happening THIS WEEKEND, February 7th and 8th -- The 2nd Annual LGBTQ Conference at Harvard University! Don't miss out on this phenomenal weekend!
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LGBTQ Conference At Harvard University The Second Annual LGBTQ Conference at Harvard University will bring together students, scholars, alumni, practitioners, and special guests to learn, share and ideate around critical issues facing the LGBTQ community. Take a look at the video from last year's conference to see what we can accomplish:

Join us TODAY -- Friday, February 6th @ 3:00 PM -- for the event: "Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for S*xual Rights Worldwide: Book Talk"

What: Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for S*xual Rights Worldwide: Book Talk

When: Friday, February 6, 2015 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Where: B-L-1 Weil Town Hall

Description: Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for S*xual Rights Worldwide offers a firsthand account of the politics of a U.S.-based NGO advocating for LGBT human rights worldwide. In it, Ryan Thoreson looks at the origins of the International Gay and Le***an Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), who is engaged in its work, how they conceptualize LGBT human rights, and how they have institutionalized their views at the United Nations and elsewhere. After a full year of in-depth research in New York City and Cape Town, South Africa, Thoreson is able to reconstruct IGLHRC’s early campaigns and highlight decisive shifts in the organization’s work from its founding to the present day. Using a number of high-profile campaigns for illustration, he offers insight into why activists have framed particular demands in specific ways and how intergovernmental advocacy shapes the claims that activists ultimately make.

Ryan Thoreson is an anthropologist focusing on the politics and practice of sexual rights advocacy. He received his DPhil in anthropology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his JD from Yale Law School. Thoreson has worked with the International Gay and Le***an Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, and the International Le***an, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Gender and S*xuality Caucus, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and S*xuality, Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life, and Harvard Kennedy School LGBTQ Caucus

http://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/transnational-lgbt-activism-working-sexual-rights-worldwide-book-talk

Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for S*xual Rights Worldwide: Book Talk Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for S*xual Rights Worldwide offers a firsthand account of the politics of a U.S.-based NGO advocating for LGBT human rights worldwide.

Check out SGHR Director Tim McCarthy's latest piece, "Coming of AIDS" published by Pangyrus!: http://www.pangyrus.com/voices/coming-of-aids/

Coming of AIDS | Pangyrus Coming of age, as I did, during the 1980s meant that I came of age in the midst of the AIDS crisis. I entered middle school the same year Ronald Reagan took over the White House, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported the first cases of Kaposi’s sarcoma among gay men, before “AIDS” got…