"Queer in the Arab World, Arab in the Queer World"

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
San Francisco Main Library Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. (at Grove) - right at Civic Ctr BART

Panelists discuss the complicated social and political landscape for LGBT people living in the Arab world and queer-identified Arabs who have emigrated from their native countries. Confirmed participants include Scott Long, Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch and a representative from Amnesty International's OUTfront for this second installment of the "Threat Level: Lavender" series, a collaboration between the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee.