Where
The Capitol Visitor Center, SVC 209-208
First Street SE and East Capitol Street NE
Room 209-208
Washington, DC 20515
The Capitol Visitor Center, the new main entrance to the U.S. Capitol, is located beneath the East Front plaza of the U.S. Capitol at First Street and East Capitol
Street: http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/plan-visit/getting-the-capitol)
The Geopolitics of LGBT Rights
The US Capitol Visitor Center, SVC 209-08
Event is currently at capacity. At this time, we are accepting registrations for the waiting list. You will be notified in advance if there is capacity for you to attend the event.
Friday, May 20 • 9AM - 1PM
HONORARY CO-HOST
Senator Ed Markey
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Ambassador Randy W. Berry
Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons
OPENING REMARKS
Ambassador Lars Gert Lose of Denmark
AFRICA
Robbie Corey-Boulet, ICWA Fellow researching LGBTI issues in West Africa
Lewis Kunze, Activist with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)
Micheal Ighodaro, Nigerian HIV prevention advocate, White House Champion of Change
Felicity Thompson, Human Rights Watch
EUROPE/RUSSIA
Dmitry Chizhevsky Russian survivor of anti-LGBT violence in St. Petersburg
Misha Friedman, Documentary photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee
Mario Skunca, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Croatia to the United States
ASIA
Yuvraj Joshi, Yale Law School Gruber Fellow in Global Justice at Human Rights Watch
Tushar Malik, LGBTI rights activist from India
Hou Hoping, Founder & V-P of LesGo, nonprofit devoted to LGBTI rights in China
THE AMERICAS
Maurice Tomlinson, Jamaican AIDS activist; subject of film, ‘The Abominable Crime’
Macarena Saez, Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University
Adrian Gonzalez, Human Rights Campaign Global Fellow
Mati Gonzalez Gil, Transgender advocacy in Colombia
Mariel Ortega, Fellow, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
EVENT MODERATORS
Edward P. Joseph, Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs
Ambassador Andras Simonyi, Managing Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations at
The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Advanced registration strictly required per US Capitol regulations!