{"id":7782,"date":"2016-06-29T19:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2016-06-29T19:36:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:36:34","slug":"attend-the-2016-michael-r-diehl-civil-rights-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=7782","title":{"rendered":"Attend the 2016 Michael R. Diehl Civil Rights Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although numerous LGBT rights organizations and advocates have declared \u2018mission accomplished,\u2019 Obergefell and marriage equality were not a panacea in the struggle for civil rights for LGBT people. The LGBT community must remain engaged and vigilant; the community still faces tremendous challenges in numerous areas of everyday life, not least including employment, family planning, transgender equality, religious exemptions to laws protecting LGBT people, and immigration to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us and take part in a lively discussion of where our community needs to turn to next. There is much we have yet to accomplish.<\/p>\n<address><strong>WHEN:<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>Tuesday, July 19, 2016<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>6:30 p.m. \u2013 Cocktail Reception<br \/>\n7:30 p.m. \u2013 Panel Discussion<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>Crosby Street Hotel<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>79 Crosby Street<br \/>\n(between Prince and Spring Streets)<\/address>\n<address>New York City<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><strong>SPEAKERS:<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>Tico Almeida<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>Founder and President<br \/>\nFreedom to Work<\/address>\n<address><strong>Chase Strangio<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>Staff Attorney<br \/>\nLGBT &amp; HIV Project, ACLU<\/address>\n<address><strong>Susan Sommer<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>Senior Counsel and National Director of Constitutional Litigation<br \/>\nLambda Legal\u00a0<\/address>\n<p><a title=\"link\" href=\"mailto:FriedFrankEvents@friedfrank.com\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP here<\/a>\u00a0by July 10th 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although numerous LGBT rights organizations and advocates have declared \u2018mission accomplished,\u2019 Obergefell and marriage equality were not a panacea in the struggle for civil rights for LGBT people. The LGBT community must remain engaged and vigilant; the community still faces tremendous challenges in numerous areas of everyday life, not least including employment, family planning, transgender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,11,34,17,29,6,18,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-alumni","category-diversity","category-general-announcements","category-ll-m-info","category-networking-opportunities","category-programming","category-resources","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}