International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.

international | gender and sexuality | event notice Monday May 09, 2011 13:00 by Christopher Isherwood

Panel discussion organised by the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association and the Central London Humanist Group on “International LGBT Rights in an age of Religious Fundamentalism” on Friday May 13th at 7.30pm in the Brockway Room at Conway Hall, Holborn to mark the

International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Panellists:

Adrian Tippetts. Journalist and Campaigner. “LGBT Rights in the UK are being traded off in favour of the religious lobby”.

Anne Marie Waters. Lawyer and Co-spokesperson One law for All campaign.“No to Sharia Law in Britain”.

Marco Tranchino. Central London Humanists Campaigns Officer and Organiser of the Secular Europe Campaign. “Top levels of the Catholic Church via the Vatican and the United Nations are still fiercely opposing Gay Rights”.

Michael Bochenek. Director of Law and Policy, Amnesty International.

Tony Green. Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement.

“The solution to faith based homophobia is people of faith working out what their traditions really say about the dignity of human beings and their responsibility towards another”.