The National LGBT Forum is celebrating its first birthday. After meetings in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling it’s the turn of Perth to host the forum and time to tackle some of the more complicated issues affecting LGBT communities.
The next meeting of the forum will look at the topic of race, religion and belief. As well as a panel of speakers from ethnic minority, religious and LGBT communities, part of the forum will be a roundtable discussion on the topic. We’re looking for your ideas and suggestions on what areas you would like to see on the table for discussion.
17.30 Welcome
Scott Cuthbertson, Equality Network
17.35 Question Time
Your chance to put questions on the topic to our panel
Panel: Tim Hopkins (Chair)
Dr Asifa Siraj (Researcher on South Asian gay men in Scotland)
Ron McLaren (Humanist Society Scotland)
James Shearer-Bromfield (Rainbow Covenant)
Judith Fisher (Affirmation Scotland)
Sam Rankin (Everyone IN)
Fraoch Cuthbert (Buddhist)
18.25 Break and Refreshments
Buffet and refreshments will be available from the Café for the roundtable discussions.
18.35 Roundtable Discussions
Looking at some of the key areas around race, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity including; Employment, Equal Marriage, Free Speech, Reducing Conflict and LGBT History.
19.30 Sandra Alland presents ‘Here’
Writer and multimedia artist presents her work about LGBTI Immigrants to Edinburgh
20.00 LGBT, Faith and the Arts
Writer and creators of arts projects talk about recent experiences.
Speakers: Jane Clarke (Metropolitan Community Church)
Jo Clifford (Playwright).
20.25 Close and thank you.
If you want more info, have suggestions or require a registration form to attend the event, please contact scott@equality-network.org or call 0131 467 6039.
We thank Perth and Kinross Council for their support in hosting this meeting. If you would be interested in hosting a meeting, please contact scott@equality-network.org.
