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LGBTQ Center Program

The Carceral State: Examining the Treatment of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in NY

Posted on March 18th, 2025 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program, Public Programs
The LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to announce an event on policies impacting transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people as part of our programming for Transgender Day of Visibility. Transgender and gender non-conforming people are overrepre... Read more

BLACK AS U R — Film Screening and Conversation

Posted on February 14th, 2025 · Posted in Film Screenings, LGBTQ Center Program, Public Programs
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House—in partnership with Queer Voices NYC, the CUNY School of Professional Studies, and Borough of Manhattan Community College—is pleased to present a screening of the award-winning 2022 Billy Porter-produced... Read more

Violence Against the LGBTQ Community—Then and Now: A Screening of the 2002 film The Laramie Project and Conversation with Director Moisés Kaufman

Posted on September 25th, 2024 · Posted in Film Screenings, LGBTQ Center Program
Wednesday, October 9 5:00PM: Reception 5:30PM: Screening 7:00PM: Post-screening discussion   Screenin... Read more

Celebrating a New York Icon: Kenneth Sherrill’s Research and Impact on New York State Politics

Posted on September 3rd, 2024 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program
A groundbreaking scholar, activist, and longtime professor of political science at Hunter College, the late Kenneth Sherrill (1942-2023) was the first out gay elected official in New York State. A former Democratic District Leader, and pioneer of the... Read more

Rustin: A Film Screening and Conversation About the Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin

Posted on August 28th, 2024 · Posted in Film Screenings, LGBTQ Center Program
5 pm: Reception 5:30 pm: Screening: Rustin (1hr 47min) 7:15 pm: Post-screening discussion   The LGBTQ Po... Read more

The Battle for Intro. 2: The New York City Gay Rights Bill, 1971 – 1986

Posted on June 4th, 2024 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program
Initially proposed in 1971, the Gay Rights Bill in New York City was the first of its kind in the nation, meant to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment, and public accommodatio... Read more

Know Your Rights: Gender Identity and Expression Discrimination Protections in New York City

Posted on April 2nd, 2024 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program
Join the LGBTQ Policy Center and the Sorensen Center at CUNY Law for a “Know Your Rights” training session on gender identity/expression discrimination protections and self-guided Name Change trainings. This training will provide a holistic and a... Read more

Banned Books — Censorship, Free Expression, and LGBTQ Identity

Posted on January 31st, 2024 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program
Over the past few years, challenges to books written by or about LGBTQ people—as well as those b... Read more

Authors Paisley Currah And Zein Murib On Their Groundbreaking New Books

Posted on October 12th, 2023 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a panel discussion with Paisley Currah, the author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, and Zein Murib, the author of Te... Read more

The New Generation of Lesbian Bars: A Stonewall Legacy

Posted on October 6th, 2023 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program
For the past three decades, the number of lesbian bars in the United States has seen a steady decline—from an estimated 200 at their peak in the 1980s to a low point in 2020 of less than 20 across the country, according to an NBC Newsrepor... Read more