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The Second Annual Lambda Law Society Symposium:
LGBTQ Poverty and Barriers to Access


Presented by the Lambda Law Society, The Modern American, the Poverty Law Society, the Women and the Law Program, and the Women's Law Association.

 

February 12, 2010

1:30 pm –5:00 pm

American University Washington College of Law

4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 603, Washington, DC


This Freedom to Marry Day, we step back to examine widespread poverty among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.  How do barriers to the basic needs of employment, health care, and housing affect LGBTQ survival?  How do these access barriers create and exacerbate LGBTQ poverty?  What roles do racism, ageism, homophobia, and disability phobia play? And where do we go from here?
 

1:30 pm            Registration

 

2:00 pm          Introductory Remarks


2:10 pm          Panel on LGBTQ Poverty:
Moderator:  Professor Darren Hutchinson, American University Washington College of Law

 

Speakers:  Richard Blum, Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society; Kenyon Farrow, Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice; Shannon Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights


3:10 pm          Break


3:20 pm          Panel on Poverty and LGBTQ Elders:
Moderator:  Professor Nancy Polikoff, American University Washington College of Law


Speakers:  Michael Adams, Executive Director, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE);  Jaime Grant, Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute;  Nancy Knauer, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

4:20 pm          Reception

 

Please register by clicking on www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration

General registration is free but required. 

For further information, please contact: 

Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education, secle@wcl.american.edu

American University Washington College of Law

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