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SAVE THE DATE!
One Gay At A Time
An evening of stand-up comedy with SANDRA VALLS and surprise guests
Friday, September 14th,
Show starts at 8:00pm
at the Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Place
Los Angeles, CA 90038
To honor and support our gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-fabulous, genderqueer sisters, brothers and others during Recovery Month, the Los Angeles HIV Drug & Alcohol Task Force has teamed up with Sandra Valls to present A night of stand-up comedy. All for you, and all for free.
For information, please contact the Task Force: hivdatfla@yahoo.com or Call Farina Dary at 323.860.7394 or Susan Forrest at 323.461.3161 ext. 14.
Check out Sandra Valls website: http://www.welovesandra.com/.
We would like to ensure that residential programs which serve LGBTQ clients can reserve seats for their clients. Please contact us to arrange.
Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
PLEASE CIRCULATE
Transcend Empowerment Institute seeks community leaders to assist in the formation of its first direct services program called
“Sacred” Holistic Support for Transgender Persons and those who care.
This is a support group developed to serve as ongoing spiritual discussion and release for Transgender persons and their allies.
The goal is to come together, share our issues in a confidential setting and as a group we will all hold each other in a sacred circle of prayer and affirmation.
THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS GROUP. There will be no effort to change a person’s beliefs or convert to any form of religious doctrine. We are just moving in a direction to practice the collective and individual love of Spirit in a formalized support group setting.
If you or someone you know may be interested in assisting in the formation of this group please contact Valerie Spencer at ValerieSpn [ at ] aol [dot ]com or call 213 944 1242.
Thank you for your loving support in advance and we look forward to sharing the love of the Creator with each other.
California State University
NORTHRIDGE
THE CENTER FOR SEX & GENDER RESEARCH
PRESENTS OUR
FALL 2007 COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Friday, September 21: Talia Mae Bettcher
Trans Identities and First Person Authority
Talia Mae Bettcher is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the author of several articles about transphobia, including “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion.” She also focuses on early modern philosophy and is the author of Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit (Continuum Press). She is active in Los Angeles transgender grassroots politics as well as being a community-based performance artist and a member of the Center for Sex & Gender Research Advisory Board.
Friday, October 19: Josh Sides
The Political Uses of Prostitution in San Francisco’s Western Addition
Josh Sides is the Whitsett Professor of California History at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of numerous articles and the book L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), recently reissued in paperback. He is currently finishing his second book, Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Transformation of San Francisco.
Friday, November 16: Nayereh Tohidi
Feminism, Islamism and Sexual Revolution in Contemporary Iran
Nayereh Tohidi is Professor and Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at California State University, Northridge, and a Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA. Her numerous publications include “Muslim Feminism and Islamic Reformation” and Globalization, Gender and Religion: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts, co-edited with Jane Bayes (Palgrave, 2001). She is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship and a fellowship at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and has been a consultant for the United Nations on projects concerning gender and development, women and civil society building in the Middle East and post-Soviet Eurasia.
All colloquia will take place in the Whitsett Room, SH 451, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Stonewalled Still Demanding Respect!
Amnesty International's Campaign to End Police Brutality Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S.
Summary of Key Findings
AI found that nearly four decades after the historic Stonewall riots, and despite significant progress in the recognition of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, the targeting of LGBT individuals for police abuse and misconduct remains a persistent and widespread problem in the US.
AI's findings also strongly suggest that transgender people, people of color, young people, sex workers and immigrants within the LGBT community are at a heightened risk of being targeted for police abuse and misconduct.
The report, Stonewalled: Police abuse and misconduct against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the US, launched in September 2005, documents a serious pattern of police abuses, sometimes amounting to torture and ill-treatment. In particular, AI found the following patterns of police abuse across jurisdictions:
* Police Brutality: LGBT individuals are subject to abuses ranging from sexually explicit, abusive language and threats, to beatings and rape, and the use of excessive force during arrest.
* Abuses in police detention: Transgender and gender variant people are subjected to humiliating and unnecessary searches and detained inappropriately in gender segregated cells where they are at risk of assault and sexual violence by other detainees. AI also documented physical and sexual abuses of detainees by police and corrections officers.
* Policing crimes in the community: Police response to crimes against LGBT people is often inadequate and sometimes hostile. Because of this, LGBT people often fear reporting crime. In cases of domestic violence involving same-sex partners, reports to AI indicate that police often fail to respond adequately or respond inappropriately. AI heard reports of officers not taking seriously incidents of domestic violence, threatening to arrest both parties, or relying on racial and gender stereotypes when identifying the abuser.
* Profiling and selective enforcement: AI's findings strongly indicate a pattern of discriminatory enforcement by officials of "zero tolerance" and "quality of life" ordinances and morals regulations, such as "lewd conduct" statutes, against members of LGBT communities. AI also found a strong pattern of transgender women being profiled as sex workers, often leading to arbitrary arrest and detention.
* Lack of accountability/impunity: AI has found that even for serious abuses, officers are seldom held accountable, creating a culture of impunity. Barriers to accountability include hostility or indifference at police stations; retaliation by officers against LGBT individuals who have reported police misconduct; and inadequate or excessively complex complaint procedures.
Susan Forrest
Behavioral Health Services, Inc.
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