NEW YORK CHAPTER
SAVE THE DATES!
NLGJA-NY has a slew of PRIDE events organized for June, so get those calendars out.
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NLGJA-NY PRIDE BREAKFAST w/ SPEAKER CHRISTINE QUINN
Join us Monday, June 1 as NLGJA-NY hosts Speaker Christine Quinn for a Pride Breakfast Forum beginning @ 11:00AM.
Speaker Quinn will discuss how far the LGBT movement has come in the 40 years since the Stonewall Riots at WNYC'S Jerome L. Greene Performance Space (The Greene Space) @ 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY 10014.
There will be time for a Q&A session.
SEATING IS LIMITED! Email alex@nlgjany.org to reserve your seat!! Please put "Quinn" in the subject line of your email.
Quinn is the first female, openly gay and Irish Speaker of the New York City Council. She has held that position for three years and is a champion of LGBT rights. She was elected to the NY City Council in 1999.
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NLGJA-NY PRIDE PARTY PICNIC/BBQ AND PUB CRAWL
Join us Saturday, June 13th at Prospect Park in Brooklyn from 1PM-3PM near the bandshell.
Help celebrate Brooklyn's Pride festivities.
After some food, we will be going to Ginger's and Excelsior - two of Brooklyn's finest LGBT drinking establishments.
If it rains, we will just do the bar crawl. We will inform you of further rain plans as the event gets closer.
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WITNESSES TO HISTORY: A CONVERSATION WITH THOSE WHO SAW & DOCUMENTED KEY GAY RIGHTS MOMENTS SINCE STONEWALL
Joing us Tuesday, June 23 at The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 W. 13th Street, 2nd Floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues) @ 6PM (reception) / 6:30PM (panel).
This panel will offer a rare peak into the defining moments of the gay rights movement, as seen through the eyes of the journalists, historians and media advocates who covered them. The panel will discuss these consequential moments, the role the media played in generating visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and what the media accounts got right and wrong.
The panel will be moderated by Author Eric Marcus. Panelists include: Historian David Carter, Media Advocate Joan Garry, and journalists Andy Humm and Kai Wright.
This event is coordinated by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association-New York; The Department of Media Studies, The New School; and Pro-Media Communications.
SEATING IS LIMITED: Email alex@nlgjany.org to reserve your seat. Put "Panel Discussion" in the subject line of your email.
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