International Healthcare Panel⠀⠀ 7:30 P.M. 8:45 PM., Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street. Handicap accessible. EF Pass or $5.
Thomas Niederbuehl
Dr. James Witeck
This collaboration with PCHA is moderated by Paul Scoles, M.D.,
PCHA Board President.
Panelists include
Thomas Niederbuehl,
German AIDS activist and Munich City Councilman; Carmen Vasquez, Director of Public Policy, LGBT Community Services Center, New York, and Dr. James Witeck,
Chief, HIV/AIDS Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine. Special thanks to the Scott Opler Foundation for its support. Sponsored by ActionAIDS, AIDS Fund, AIDS. Law Project, AIDS Services in Asian Communities (ASIAC), Adolescent HIV Initiative of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Circle of Care of the Family Planning Council, Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Inc., Jewish Family & Children's Services/HIV/AIDS Support Services, Philadelphia FIGHT, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Safeguards, and The
GALAEI Project.
National Religious Colloquy
9:00 P.M. 10:15 PM., Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street. Handicap accessible. EF Pass or $5. The attitudes and
Rev. Charles E. Bennison
Rev. Barry Stopfel
Rabbi Denise Eger
practices of organized
religion have a profound impact on internalized and externalized homophobia and social reform — from changes in the clergy to marriage and inclusion. This 6th annual National Religious. Colloquy is moderated by The Right Reverend Charles E. Bennison, Bishop, Episcopal Church Diocese of Pennsylvania, with panelists Rabbi Denise Eger, leader of gay inclusion in Reform Judaism, Daayie Abdullah, gay Islamic · leader; Reverend Barry
Stopfel, the first openly gay ordained Episcopalian priest, and Mary Hunt, Catholic author and Co-Director, WATER. Sponsored by Calvary United Methodist Church, Congregation. Beth Ahavah, Evangelicals Concerned, First Unitarian Church of
Philadelphia, SILOAM
Ministries, Tabernacle United Church, The Hermitage at
Mahantango Spirit
Garden, and The
Metropolitan Community Churches.
For more information and tickets, visit: www.equalityforum.com
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