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Jung Center Lecture Series on LGBT Equality

Place at the Table: Complete Series

This inaugural lecture series, sponsored with the Human Rights Campaign, explores psychological, legal, historical, and personal perspectives on this watershed moment in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement. Event co-sponsors include Equality Texas Foundation, PFLAG, the Montrose Center, and Legacy Community Health Services. Support for this series has been provided by Shell and by The Hollyfield Foundation.

Speakers
B. Jill Carroll, Mitchell Katine, Robert Hopcke, and John Schwartz

Four Thursdays, Sep 5 – Sep 26
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM Series

$70 ($55 members of The Jung Center and co-sponsoring organizations)
Per Lecture: $20 ($15 members of Jung Center and co-sponsoring organizations)

What happens when a fundamental, powerfully suppressed truth is finally spoken out loud? Same-sex desire has existed throughout human history, and so has the experience of transgender individuals, those who feel their bodies do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Fifty years ago, homosexuality was diagnosed as a mental illness. Today, while society has made strides toward acceptance, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals continue to fight for basic rights and equality, and transgender individuals are still stigmatized with “gender identity disorder.”

Being gay involves far more than sexual desire. The inner work necessary to understand what it means to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender is too often preempted by the critical task of defending political and social freedom on the most basic level. LGBT identity has been forged by the struggle to secure fundamental human rights. But what it means for each individual – and what it means for a culture that as recently as 1930 did not understand being “gay” as a distinct category of experience – is the next critical task.

You can register for the complete series by visiting the Jung Center Website. If you want to register for individual evenings in the series, call The Center at 713.524.8253.

Presenters: John Schwartz, Robert Hopcke, Mitchell Katine, B. Jill Carroll

John Schwartz is a national correspondent with the New York Times, where he covers law, science, technology, business and a broad range of other topics. Prior to that, he worked at the Washington Post and Newsweek. His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Texas Monthly and other publications. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas Law School. He currently lives in New Jersey with his college sweetheart, Jeanne Mixon; they have three children.

Robert Hopcke is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Berkeley, California, specializing in working with issues in sexuality, religion and spirituality. He is known internationally for his ground-breaking work within Jungian psychology, including the 1997 national bestseller There Are No Accidents, and the first full-length work in English on homosexuality within the field of analytical psychology, Jung, Jungians and Homosexuality. He also edited Same-Sex Love and the Path to Wholeness. Robert lectures across the country.

Mitchell Katine is a founding partner with the law firm of Katine & Nechman L.L.P. Since the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Mitchell has been a stalwart leader in the battle to help those with HIV/AIDS. He has also helped create numerous GLBT legal organizations in Houston and Texas, and he regularly appears on local and national television and radio programs where issues such as same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian adoption, HIV/AIDS, and civil rights are discussed and debated. He is particularly proud of his role as local counsel in the Lawrence case, in which the Supreme Court overruled the case of Bowers v. Hardwick and overturned all sodomy statutes in the country.

Jill Carroll, PhD, is a recognized expert on issues of religious tolerance, philosophy of religion, American religion, and religion in public life. She is a former director of the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University as well as a former Adjunct Associate Professor in their Department of Religious Studies. Jill is a well-known lecturer and is the author of numerous articles and several books.

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