{"id":1950,"date":"2008-12-04T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2008-12-04T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:09:36","slug":"for-those-of-ypou-who-would-like-to-see-jerry-gonzalez-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/for-those-of-ypou-who-would-like-to-see-jerry-gonzalez-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Announcment: For those of you who would like to see Jerry Gonzalez in action&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local Organizers to Address LGBT and Human Rights<\/strong><br \/>\nFound in Press Release<br \/>\nWritten by Georgia Equality<br \/>\nPosted on www.GALEO.org<br \/>\n2008-12-02<\/p>\n<p>For More Information: <\/p>\n<p>Please contact Laura Moye\u2013 404 876 5661 \u00d712 \/ Lmoye@aiusa.org <\/p>\n<p><strong>Amnesty International, Georgia Equality, the International Gay and Lesbian Association and Lambda Legal present: <\/p>\n<p>From Prop 8 to Yogyakarta: LGBT Rights are Human Rights <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Panel Discussion <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 9, 7pm <\/p>\n<p>Danneman\u2019s Coffee Shop<br \/>\nUpstairs Meeting Room<br \/>\n466 Edgewood Avenue (corner of Boulevard and Edgewood) <\/p>\n<p>Closest Marta station: King\/Memorial <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the Human Rights Atlanta commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International, Georgia Equality, the International Gay and Lesbian Association and Lambda Legal have announced a panel discussion on the connection between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and human rights struggles throughout the world. <\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from both the promise of the Yogyakarta Principles passed in 2006 that set standards of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity and the recent set-back of LGBT rights in the US by the passage of Proposition 8 in California, various speakers will discuss how the human rights framework can serve as a tool of justice for LGBT people in the US and abroad. <\/p>\n<p>Panelists include Laura Moye of Amnesty International, Michael Petty of Georgia Equality and the International Lesbian and Gay Association, Cole Thaler of Lambda Legal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/executive_director.php\">Jerry Gonzalez <\/a>of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. <\/p>\n<p># # # <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Organizers to Address LGBT and Human Rights Found in Press Release Written by Georgia Equality Posted on www.GALEO.org 2008-12-02 For More Information: Please contact Laura Moye\u2013 404 876 5661 \u00d712 \/ Lmoye@aiusa.org Amnesty International, Georgia Equality, the International Gay and Lesbian Association and Lambda Legal present: From Prop 8 to Yogyakarta: LGBT Rights are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}