Picturing Equality Symposium on LGBTQ Workplace Equality

About This Event

Please join us for this free symposium about LGBTQ workplace rights, queer photography, and museum education, in conversation with the Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak exhibition in Gallery Obscura. Friday's panel on the history and current status of the LGBTQ workplace equality movement will feature Rochester native, former Kodak and Xerox IT consultant, and trans activist Donna Rose, who worked to get trans health care covered by corporate health insurance plans; and attorney Elizabeth Birch, who gave keynote addresses at Lambda's first and ten-year anniversary education event and served as executive director of the Human Rights Campaign from 1995-2004. Saturday will feature a keynote lecture on queer family portraiture by University of Toronto historian Elspeth Brown and panels on LGBTQ Workplace Activism; Museums and LGBTQ Inclusion; and a performance based on anthropologist Ali Feser's enthnographic study of Kodak workers.

Featured Guests

• Attorney Elizabeth Birch, former director of Human Rights Campaign
• Donna Rose, transgender rights activist
• Dr. Elspeth Brown, Professor of History, University of Toronto
• Dr. Alex Ketchum, Associate Professor of History, McGill University
• Michael Lesperanc, Founding Principle, Design Minds museum design firm
• Dr. Daniel Royles, Associate Professor of History, SUNY Binghamton
• Ashley Hopkins-Benton, New York State Museum, curator for LGBTQ collections
• Dr. Ali Feser, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton

Co-sponsors

• RIT Museum Studies
• RIT School of Individualized Studies (SOIS)
• RIT PRISM Center
• George Eastman Museum