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Chelsea Reform Democratic Club presents an all-star panel on the state of LGBT rights in Russia:
-How do conditions over there effect Russian LGBT immigrants, ex-pats, and asylum-seekers?
-How do LGBT rights under Putin impact New York's Russian community and LGBT rights around the world?
-What you can do to get involved and help those impacted?
Featuring:
Masha Gessen - Russian LGBT rights a...
Order your FREE tickets via Eventbrite:
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Chelsea Reform Democratic Club presents an all-star panel on the state of LGBT rights in Russia:
-How do conditions over there effect Russian LGBT immigrants, ex-pats, and asylum-seekers?
-How do LGBT rights under Putin impact New York's Russian community and LGBT rights around the world?
-What you can do to get involved and help those impacted?
Featuring:
Masha Gessen - Russian LGBT rights activist and author, contributing writer to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and more.
Yelena Goltsman - Founder and Co-President of RUSA LGBT, a Russian-speaking LGBT advocacy group that provides support, assists asylum seekers, and pursues political action.
Rabbi David Bauer - Director of Social Justice Programming at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world's largest progressive synagogue catering to the LGBT community.
Sebastian Maguire - Co-founder and Director of the Asylum Seeker Assistance Program of the Metropolitan Community Churches’ Global Justice Institute.
We will also be welcoming immigration attorneys with experience in LGBT asylum cases, and a representative of New York City's Immigrant Affairs Department.
This event will be held on Thursday, March 19 at 7pm at the Hudson Guild's John Lovejoy Elliott Center, at 441 West 26th Street, convenient to Penn Station and the 23rd Street C/E.