Today in Gay: Equality Forum, April 29

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Today in Gay: Equality Forum, April 29

POSTED: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 8:50 PM
Filed Under: Gay Stuff | Equality Forum

Two panels for you queers and queer-friendlies to hit up this evening, followed by a welcome party at Q Lounge at 10, which will assuredly be fun and debaucherous and all that. But first, the learning:

GLBT Rights and Challenges in Africa, Arts Bank, 7 pm: Moderated by Council for Global Equality founder Mark Bromley, this panel — which includes International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission executive director Cary Alan Johnson and Rona Penigal of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch — will delve into the recent unpleasantness in Uganda and other parts of Africa, where gays and lesbians can face lengthy prison sentences or even death.

National Sports Panel, Arts Bank, 8:15 pm: It's no secret to anyone who's been around the sports world, especially in high schools (because teenagers are generally evil to start with), that they can rank among the least tolerant and most anti-gay places on earth. And there are, indeed, nary out gay athletes, at least that I'm aware of, in major American sports. This panel's moderator is Gail Shister, a former Inky scribe who was the first out woman sportswriter and includes Brian Sims, the first openly gay NCAA football captain (he went to Bloomsburg University).


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