LGBTQ (Audio)

Academic research focusing on marriage and the family rarely considers LGBT issues or same-sex couples and their families. This panel of prominent scholars considers the benefits and challenges to addressing LGBT issues, marriage equality, and same-sex couples more routinely in marriage and family research. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21906]

Explore LGBT rights from a social movement perspective. Turning outward to other movements sheds light on the possibilities and limitations of LGBT rights activism. Panelists consider what the LGBT rights movement can learn from other movement experiences and from the scholarly analysis of social movements. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21905]

Gary Gates, William Distinguished scholar at The Williams Institute at UCLA, discusses his new study estimating LGBT population in the United States. Drawing on information from four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys, the analyses suggest that there are more than 8 million adults in the US who self identify themselves as lesbian, gay,bisexual or transgender comprising 3.5% of the adult population. However, Gates explains why those numbers only tell part of the story. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21656]

Monica McWilliams, the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and a signer of the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement with Ireland, addresses the challenges of turning the promise of peace accords into stable post-conflict societies through the inclusion of women in political and civil leadership. McWilliams is presented as part of the 2010 Women’s Peacemakers Conference hosted by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19855]

The global community faces new challenges and needs to be able to imagine a truly diverse and multi-polar world in which shared leadership is the norm. Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, discusses how we can look to the women’s movement globally as a source of innovation and inspiration that offers tangible examples to address the most pressing issues of our time.

Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19390]

Learn to recognize the unique obstacles that LGBT survivors confront when they turn to the legal system for assistance. National experts on LGBT domestic violence provide practical information to better understand the experience of LGBT domestic violence survivors, to assess when a person is exercising systematic power and control in a relationship, and to use domestic violence restraining orders and other forms of legal relief to help survivors achieve safety, autonomy, and justice. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 17245]

Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Joan Wallach Scott who traces her intellectual odyssey and recalls the impact of the women's movement on her research and teaching. She describes the intellectual influences that led her to write the now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." She also discusses the utility of critical history for elucidating contemporary policy debates with a focus on her recent book "The Politics of the Veil," an analysis of the political, cultural, and social factors that led to the French ban on the wearing of the veil by Muslim young women in public schools.

Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 16278]

In Part 3 of of this annual conference on sexual orientation law and public policy from the Williams Institute at UCLA, experts change their focus from Europe to the United States as they assess domestic developments in same-sex marriage and other issues of interest to gay and lesbian couples. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12862]

In Part 2 of this annual conference on sexual orientation law and public policy, Yale Law School’s Bill Eskridge joins Lee Badgett of UCLA’s Williams Institute to share evidence that legalizing gay marriage in Denmark and the Netherlands has not led to a drop in heterosexual marriages, as some critics had predicted. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12860]

Boris Dittrich, a former member of the Netherlands Parliament, leads off this conference on sexual orientation law with a report on how well legalized gay marriage is working in his country. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12820]