Image courtesy of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club.
This event will take place online. Please scroll down to “How to Participate” for more information. You will need to register through the Eventbrite link so that we can send you the Zoom link for the event. The event will also be livestreamed, and then archived, on our YouTube page at https://bit.ly/2UyGVbG.
Join Bay Area community leaders, mental-health specialists and historians for this event in the “Fighting Back” series discussing the opportunities for and challenges facing community-building during the ever-growing COVID-19 crisis. What lessons have members of our community learned from the HIV/AIDS crisis that we can apply to our current health emergency? How do we prioritize self-care in the midst of a pandemic? Let’s channel our feelings of anxiety, fear and anger into productive action as we discuss ways to build community while in isolation. This program is co-organized and co-hosted by the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club and the GLBT Historical Society.
“Fighting Back” is an intergenerational discussion that brings together veteran and younger LGBTQ activists to discuss how the struggles of the past inform our present. The new series focuses on identifying what lessons and strategies from the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic may help us understand and respond to COVID-19.
SPEAKERS
John Bauters (moderator) is the vice president of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club and an Emeryville City Council Member. He is a public policy director, former legal aid attorney and former disaster relief director who has worked as an anti-poverty advocate for over 15 years. He earned his B.A. in government and psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from Boston College Law School.
Terry Beswick was a co-founder of ACT UP in San Francisco and advocated for HIV/AIDS research and treatment with Project Inform, the Human Rights Campaign and the White House Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. More recently, he spearheaded a campaign to save the Castro Country Club for queer people with substance use disorders and founded the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District. Currently, as executive director of the GLBT Historical Society, he is leading an effort to establish the first full-scale museum of LGBTQ history in the United States.
Joe Hawkins is the co-founder and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center and a noted Oakland, California-based community organizer, LGBTQ advocate, nonprofit executive, event producer and social entrepreneur. Among his many accomplishments, Joe is a co-founder and former co-chair of Oakland Pride and was voted Grand Marshal of both the San Francisco and Oakland Pride Parades. He worked as a founding program member and CEO o OpNet Community Ventures, one of America’s first high-tech training programs, launched in 1995, for low-income youth and youth of color in San Francisco.
Gabe Quinto was the first Filipino American + LGBT mayor in El Cerrito, and currently serves as a member of the El Cerrito City Council.
Colette Winlock is the executive director of the Health and Human Resource Education Center. She has a master’s degree in cultural anthropology and social transformation. She was the Project Director of the Black Women’s Media Project for several years. Colette has developed numerous media campaigns and an unprecedented 10 years of self-care retreats for African American women called “Be Still.” She has played a major role in coordinating multiple community-based research projects, needs assessments, media campaigns, technical assistance, and community engagement activities at the county, state and national level.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
This event will take place online. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and instructions on how to join the Zoom webinar as an attendee. Please make sure to scroll to the bottom of the email from Eventbrite to see the instructions!
Attendees will be able to participate as a virtual audience by asking questions, participating in polls and chatting with one another and panelists. Attendee registration is limited to 100 participants.
We will also be livestreaming this event on the GLBT Historical Society YouTube channel and linking to the video on social media for an unlimited amount of viewers.
ADMISSION
Free | Suggested donation of $5.00
Register online here: https://bit.ly/2Jrw64L
The event is limited to 500 attendees.
JOIN THE GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Become a member of the GLBT Historical Society for free museum and program admission, discounts in the museum shop and other perks:
www.glbthistory.org/memberships