Join AGLA NY Members at the 2008 NYC Pride Parade on Sunday June 29th.
A group of AGLA NY Members will be meeting at Noon (12PM) on Sunday at the northwest corner of 5th Ave and 12th St, in front of the Forbes magazine building.
For more info on the meetup please visit the event info page at aglany.org
http://www.nycpride.org/home
An afternoon of Armenian Films and Videos!
Please join us Sunday, June 22nd from 3pm to 5:30 pm for what promise sto be an informative and entertaining double header of contemporary Armenian culture.
First filmmaker and AGLA NY member Melissa Boyajian will screen and discuss three short films: “Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon;” “Basic Conversational Armenian,” and “Body Intervention.” These films offer a thought-provoking look at space, time, culture and tradition. Melissa is an MFA student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
After a short break, Hadi Deeb will share via a slide show and commentary his impressions about Armenian culture, preservation and nostalgia, following his recent trip to Western/ Historic Armenia, including Hadjin, Malatya and Musa Dagh.
This event is co-sponsored by AGLA NY and Nor Alik.
Refreshments will be served. Suggested admissions is $10.
Addresss: The NY LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, off 7th Avenue
For more info and to RSVP please visit AGLANY.org
Gay Rights and the Politics of 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
Admission: $8; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
Efforts to overcome discrimination based on sexual orientation have been part of a more generalized agenda of civil rights. These efforts have been played out in the streets, in major institutions, and in the courts. What do the politics of statewide elections and the presidential race of 2008 tell us about efforts to remedy the effects of discrimination on gays, lesbians and transgendered individuals?
We have invited speakers who have dealt with issues of marriage and the family, employment, health and well-being to assess electoral politics and the interests of a gay constituency.
Moderator, Christopher Atamian, writer, producer, filmmaker and President of the Armenian Gay and Lesbian Association – New York, will be joined by Judith Stacey, professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Sociology Department, NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and author of In the Name of the Family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age; Shannon Minter, legal director of The National Center for Gay Rights; and Richard Goldstein, journalist and author of The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right.
Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs in partnership with the Alliant International University’s Rockway Institute for Science and LGBT Public Policy
For more information visit: http://www.newschool.edu/news/index.aspx#events
AGLA NY wold like to express its dismay at the recent news concerning the armed attack In Yerevan against Mikael Danielyan, President of the Helsinki Association.
MIkael Danielyan has been a staunch supporter of human rights in Armenia for several decades now and as such is an invaluable asset to the country and its people.
We hope that the Armenian government and police will open a full and fair investgation and bring his assalilant(s) to justice.
We would also like to remind the Government of Armenia that it is only by guaranteeing all its citizens their full civil and human rights that the country will remain a true democracy and abide by the Council of Europe laws and regulations that it’s sworn to uphold.
For more info see:
Gay Armenia: http://gayarmenia.blogspot.com/2008/05/hate-crime-in-yerevan-armenias.html
A1+ Armenia: http://www.a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=607
