Monday March 8th, 2004 6:30 to 8:30pm , Room 9100
"Cut-sleeve, Closet and Coming-out: Same-sexualities in China in Sociopolitical and Legal Contexts"
Featured Speaker: Zhou Dan
Founding member and legal advisor for Shanghai Hotline For Sexual Minorities, hotline counsellor, internet columnist, and licensed lawyer currently practicing in Shanghai, China.
Voice Recording(.zip): Zhou Dan at CUNY

Monday April 12, 2004 6:30 to 8:30pm , Room C203-5
"Emerging LGBT Communities and Health Promotion in China"
Featured Speaker: Wan Yan Hai
Director, Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education
As an activist on HIV/AIDS education, Wan established the HIV/AIDS Hotline in Beijing in 1992. After he was expelled from his post in 1994 for his advocacy for human rights and his support for health issues concerning homosexuals and sex workers, Wan established the Aizhi Action Project, which focuses on promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention within Chinese society, protecting the rights of HIV/AIDS patients and supporting equal rights for gays and lesbians. Wan also played a key role in exposing the connection between blood transfusions and HIV/AIDS in Henan. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California in 1997 and at Yale University in 2003, and has won several international awards for his groundbreaking work.

Monday June 28, 2004 6:30 to 8:30 pm , Room: 9204/9205
"Publishing Tongzhi – Building Queer Text in Taiwan"
Featured Speaker: Huei-Chiu Chuang
Awarding-winning writer & publisher, PSYGARDEN, Taiwan After studying culture anthropology in New York for two years, Chuang came back to Taiwan. Chuang was the Chief Editor of awarding-winning Living Psychology Magazine and now the Project Director of Psygarden Publishing Company in Taiwan. Chuang is the editor of Homosexuality in Chinese Culture (1990). In the period when non-discrimination discourse on homosexuality was rarely found in Taiwan, this book disclosed the tongzhi lives in a positive attitude. It also hit the hidden tongzhi community. Many people find each other through the information of underground gay and lesbian groups appendixed in the book. Chuang is also the editor of When the Rainbow Raises (2002), which records the track of gay/lesbian liberal movement in Taiwan during 1990-2001 and was awarded one of the best books of that year. Psygarden Publishing Company also publishes Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk about Their Experience (2003). It is the first time parents of lesbians and gays in Taiwan talk about their feeling and stories to the public.

All events will take place at:
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309
General Information Telephone: 212-817-7000

All events are free, followed by a light reception.

Sponsored by the Institute for Tongzhi Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women & Society and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the City University of New York.