NYC: Panel Discussion on LGBT Activism in India. Honors Siddharth Gautam as Brudner Prize-Winner Join us for a fascinating panel discussion on LGBT Activism in India: 1980s- present. In NYC on Wed, November 6, 2019 6 - 8 PM. At Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 W 26th St, 4th floor NYC. FREE. Part of the 2019 Brudner prize.
What: Panel Discussion on LGBT Activism in India: The Jim Brudner Prize Event
The Jim Brudner (Yale '83) Prize is given posthumously
this year to Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85), in recognition of his work as part of a collective on behalf of LGBT
rights and welfare in India,
on the occasion of the historical ruling in 2018 against Section 377.
Join us for a fascinating, educational discussion on LGBT Activism in India, 1980s - present. Date and place are confirmed.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019 6-8 PM. At the Thomas Erben Art Gallery, 526 W 26th St, 4th floor, Manhattan. (Bet 10th & 11th Aves) And
Anuja Gupta and Sujata Winfield
And at Yale University on Monday, Nov 4, 2019 4:30 PM at Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St, New Haven, CT). Lecture followed by cocktail reception. Free. No RSVP required.
Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85) is the winner. https://lgbts.yale.edu/news/201920-brudner-prize-awarded-posthumously-siddharth-gautam
Siddhartha Gautam was a Yale alumnus and lawyer who was one of the early members of the ABVA in India (AIDS Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan), and a co-author of the important report “Less Than Gay: A Citizen’s Report on the Status of Homosexuality in India” (1991). The work of Gautam and his many colleagues in ABVA initiated legal challenges to repeal 377 (India's anti-sodomy laws). ABVA was the first organization in India to launch a legal fight for the rights of LGBT people.
https://www.mansworldindia.com/culture/features/siddharth-gautam-lgbt-icon/ Photos: https://siddharthagautamdotcom.wordpress.com/photo-album/
The Brudner Prize, established in 2000, is awarded annually to an accomplished scholar, artist or activist whose work has made significant contributions to LGBT studies and communities. The Brudner prize-winner gives a Prize Lecture at Yale (2-7-2018) and in New York City (on 2-8-2018 and organized by Yale GALA, Inc.) and comes with a $5,000 award. http://lgbts.yale.edu/brudner
For info about the Jim Brudner '83 prize visit http://lgbts.yale.edu/brudner
About the Jim Brudner Yale '83 Memorial Prize
James Brudner was an AIDS activist, urban planner, journalist, photographer and beloved Yale GALA Member. A man of wit and compassion, outsized knowledge and curiosity, Jim valued both academic inquiry and direct action. He spent 12 years as a policy analyst for the City of New York. He also earned an MA in journalism from New York University and wrote for various publications on gay and AIDS-related topics. Jim became a member of ACT UP, the Treatment Action Group, and other organizations after the death of his twin brother, Eric, of AIDS in 1987. He worked on treatment and prevention issues with the National Institutes of Health, pharmaceutical corporations, and federal agencies. In his final years, he devoted much of his time to traveling the back roads of rural America with a camera. La Mama Gallery in New York mounted an exhibition of his photographs in 1997. Jim died of AIDS-related illness on September 18, 1998 at the age of 37. Through his will, he established the Brudner Prize at Yale as “a perpetual annual prize” for scholarship and activism on gay and lesbian history and contemporary experience. Recipients of the Jim Brudner '83 Prize:
2000 George Chauncey
Event info: http://www.yalegala.org/2019BrudnerNYC Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/566335320800952/ |
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