Let's talk #1

Do's and Don'ts

Lessons from the LGBTQ Rights Movements in the US

Walter Williams, PhD

Date: 7:30 - 9:30, August 23

Place: ILJU Arts House, Seoul, Korea

We are most happy and honored to announce the first invited lecture by Dr. Walter Williams, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies University of Southern California and the editor of the International Gay and Lesbian Review, and the director of the ONE Institute. 

Professor Williams will speak about the most effective strategies to reduce prejudice against sexual minorities, and to build strong and fulfilled communities that can help to improve the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in the future. Dr. Williams will draw upon his wide-ranging research in the US, among American Indians, and in various Asian-Pacific cultures, as represented in his most recent book Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies that work and in his new forthcoming book Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States. He will speak about the importance of long-range thinking to set goals of sexual freedom for everyone, not only for the rights of sexual minorities.  He will suggest the most effective ways to use the internet and telephone hotlines, coming out discussion groups, organizations of relatives and friends to become supportive, and using the mass media to gain more tolerance and acceptance of sexual diversity.  He will also discuss religious aspects, financial aspects, and emotional aspects to avoid factionalism and stressful behaviors that inhibit effectiveness. 

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Translator/Discussant:

Huso Yi - Co-director, KSCRC. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in Program in Health: Human Sexuality at New York University and Senior Research Associate at the National Development and Research Institutes (NYC, US). He was a co-founding member of the first lesbian and gay student group at Yonsei University Korea. His main interests are the global and/or cross-cultural aspects of sexual identity, health, and inequality. Since 1995, he has worked for the LGBTQ communities in Korea, given a number of presentations about East Asian gay and bisexual men, coauthored articles and reviewed books in sexualities.