{"id":66351,"date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-symposium-march-26-29\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-symposium-march-26-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/uri-to-host-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-symposium-march-26-29\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Symposium, March 26-29"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKeynote speaker to discuss Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell, repeal efforts<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013March 19, 2008 \u2014The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host its 14th annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and Questioning Issues, “Connecting Communities: Looking Back, Moving Forward” on Wednesday, March 26 through Saturday, March 29.<\/p>\n


\n\tJason Knight will deliver the keynote address: \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell: Personal Impact, Military Consequences, Public Reactions and Repeal Efforts.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tIn 2005, Knight, a former petty officer 2nd class, came out as a gay man to the United States Navy. After serving four years as a military linguist and despite superior job reviews, the support of the other sailors in his unit and a commander who spoke in his favor, Knight was told he could no longer serve his country due to his sexual orientation.<\/p>\n


\n\tKnight is now the communications associate for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in Washington, D.C., a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending discrimination against military personnel affected by the Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell policy. According to its website, the Pentagon fires two gay people every day. Nearly 12,000 troops so far have been discharged since the 1993 policy that allows gays and lesbians to serve as long as they don\u2019t talk about their sexual orientation went into effect. <\/p>\n


\n\tOn Thursday, March 27, five talks ranging from \u201cBecoming Transfabulous: New realities beyond the sexuality alphabet soup\u201d to \u201cDeliver Us: How Censors Target GLBT Materials\u201d will be offered. Songs by Woman Spirit Rising, and the Raging Grannies will be featured at night. The documentary, \u201cAnyone and Everyone,\u201d which portrays parents discussing their reactions to having a son or daughter reveal he or she is gay will be shown and discussed. <\/p>\n


\n\tOn Friday, March 28, five talks will range from \u201cThe Complexities of Complacency: HIV\/AIDS in its Third Decade\u201d to a discussion \u201cEnding Homosexual Poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe symposium will close with The Closet, a play-in-progress– featuring several monologues about the process of coming out and a discussion with the play\u2019s director, Mike Miele. <\/p>\n


\n\tFor a full schedule of events, times, and locations, go to http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/glbt\/symposium\/2008<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keynote speaker to discuss Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell, repeal efforts KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013March 19, 2008 \u2014The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host its 14th annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and Questioning Issues, “Connecting Communities: Looking Back, Moving Forward” on Wednesday, March 26 through Saturday, March 29. Jason Knight will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}