KNOW Pinkwashing Presents:
(In)Equality Forum 2012: Pinkwashing & the Palestinian Queer Community
Featuring Pauline Park, co-founder of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (NYC QAIA) and Che Gossett of ACT UP Philadelphia.
When: Saturday, May 5, 3-5 p.m.
Where: William Way LGBTQ Community Center, 1315 Spruce Street,
in the Mark Segal Ballroom
The 2012 Equality Forum chose Israel as its ‘featured nation’ and invited Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. By working in coordination with the Israeli Embassy in Washington and the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, the Equality Forum is promoting Israel’s efforts at Pinkwashing. Panelists will discuss Israel’s continuing human rights violations against Palestinians, Israel’s ‘Brand Israel’ public relations campaign, and the necessity of boycotting this year’s Equality Forum as a means to finding justice and equality in Palestine/Israel and in our own communities.
Pauline Park is a co-founder of the New York City Queers Against Israel Apartheid, and chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA). In January, she participated in the first LGBTQ delegation to Palestine. Che Gossett is a genderqueer artist and activist, a member of ACT UP Philadelphia, a board member of the Sex Worker Outreach Project, and a contributor to Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison-Industrial Complex
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