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 approachable way to navigate the legal system. This “Know Your Rights” workshop was created as part of the TGNC Rights Incubation […]
5 pm: Reception 5:30 pm: Screening: Rustin (1hr 47min) 7:15 pm: Post-screening discussion The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the Netflix film Rustin, which tells the poignant and absorbing story of the largely overlooked civil rights leader Bayard Rustin—who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others to organize the […]
Wednesday, October 9 5:00PM: Reception 5:30PM: Screening 7:00PM: Post-screening discussion Screening: The Laramie Project (1hr 37min) The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the award winning 2002 HBO film, The Laramie Project, followed by a conversation with esteemed writer-director Moisés Kaufman. The post-screening discussion will examine the connection between past and […]
At the Maralyn G. Cohn LGBTQ Community Space, Thomas Hunter Room 311, we are hosting a twofold event on Tuesday, November 19, from 2:30-4pm, commemorating Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). Lunch will be provided. TDoR is an annual day observed in memory of the trans siblings lost to transphobia. We will begin with a collaborative […]
To mark Transgender Day of Visibility, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to announce a discussion on the policies impacting transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people in the criminal justice system—where they are disproportionately represented. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, they are arrested, incarcerated, and subjected to higher rates of community supervision than others […]
Join us at the Maralyn G. Cohn LGBTQ+ Community Space, Thomas Hunter Room 311 for a workshop detailing the rights available to transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming New Yorkers on Wednesday, April 30th, at 2:30PM! We will be hearing from the New York City Commission on Human Rights about discrimination protections under the City Human […]
Join us on Wednesday, May 14th at 2:30PM in the Maralyn G. Cohn LGBTQ+ Community Space (Thomas Hunter 311) and learn where to start to legally change your name in NYC!
Marking Pride Month at Roosevelt House, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present a discussion of Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts – and America by award-winning journalist Mike De Socio. Weaving in his own experience as a boy scout and journalist, De Socio tells the story of the “accidental” activists who […]
