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Yale: Jim Brudner Panel & Reception Honoring Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85)
written by Natasha, 10/12/12 6:51am
edited by Natasha, 11/4/19 1:35pm

At Yale on Monday, November 4 2019 4:30 PM onwards. At Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St, New Haven, CT. FREE and open to the public. No RSVP required. In conjunction with Siddharth Gautam's (Yale '85) receipt of the 2019 Brudner award.

Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85) is the 2019-20 James Robert Brudner ’83 Memorial Prize Winner

He was a lawyer, an early member of the ABVA (AIDS Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan) and was one of several authors of the report "Less Than Gay: A Citizen's REport on the Status of Homosexuality in India (1991).

The ABVA was the first organization in India to launch a legal fight for the rights of LGBT people.  
https://lgbts.yale.edu/news/201920-brudner-prize-awarded-posthumously-siddarth-gautam

 

1. At Yale University 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019.  4:30 PM  
Lecture 4:30 PM at Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
Followed by cocktail reception. 
Cost: FREE and open to the public. No RSVP is required.

 
2. And In New York City - Date Confirmed.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019 6-8 PM. At Thomas Erben gallery, 526 W 26th St, 4th Floor, NYC.   

 


Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85) is the winner.  
https://lgbts.yale.edu/news/201920-brudner-prize-awarded-posthumously-siddharth-gautam

The Brudner Prize is given posthumously this year to Siddharth Gautam, in recognition of his work on behalf of LGBT rights and welfare in India, on the occasion of the historical ruling in 2018 against Section 377. Siddharth Gautam was a Yale alumnus and lawyer who was one of the early members of the AIDS Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan and a co-author of the “Less then Gay: A Citizen’s Report on the Status of Homosexuality in India” (1991).  


 The work of ABVA initiated legal challenges to repeal 377 (India's anti-sodomy laws).   ABVA was the first organization in India to launch a legal fight for the rights of LGBT people.  

More about 
Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85)

https://www.mansworldindia.com/culture/features/siddharth-gautam-lgbt-icon/
https://siddharthagautamdotcom.wordpress.com/page-2/

Photos: https://siddharthagautamdotcom.wordpress.com/photo-album/ 

   
The Brudner Prize, established in 2000, is awarded annually to an accomplished scholar, artist or activist whose work has made significant contributions to LGBT studies and communities.  The Brudner prize-winner gives a Prize Lecture at Yale (2-7-2018) and in New York City (on 2-8-2018 and organized by Yale GALA, Inc.) and comes with a $5,000 award. http://lgbts.yale.edu/brudner


The Brudner award is administered by LGBT Studies at Yale.   

Please join us in NYC and/or at Yale to discuss the status of LGBTQ Rights in India. 


 
For info about the Jim Brudner '83 prize visit http://lgbts.yale.edu/brudner

 

About the Jim Brudner Yale '83 Memorial Prize 


The Jim Brudner Prize, established in 2000, is awarded annually to an accomplished scholar or activist whose work has made significant contributions to the understanding of LGBT issues or furthered the tolerance of LGBT people. The Brudner prize winner gives a Prize Lecture at Yale and in New York City. The prize comes with an award of $5,000.

James Brudner was an AIDS activist, urban planner, journalist, photographer and beloved Yale GALA Member. A man of wit and compassion, outsized knowledge and curiosity, Jim valued both academic inquiry and direct action. He spent 12 years as a policy analyst for the City of New York. He also earned an MA in journalism from New York University and wrote for various publications on gay and AIDS-related topics. Jim became a member of ACT UP, the Treatment Action Group, and other organizations after the death of his twin brother, Eric, of AIDS in 1987. He worked on treatment and prevention issues with the National Institutes of Health, pharmaceutical corporations, and federal agencies. In his final years, he devoted much of his time to traveling the back roads of rural America with a camera. La Mama Gallery in New York mounted an exhibition of his photographs in 1997. Jim died of AIDS-related illness on September 18, 1998 at the age of 37. Through his will, he established the Brudner Prize at Yale as “a perpetual annual prize” for scholarship and activism on gay and lesbian history and contemporary experience.

For more information about the life of Jim Brudner '83, please visit: http://yamp.org/Profiles/JimBrudner

Recipients of the Jim Brudner '83 Prize:

2000   George Chauncey
2001   Lillian Faderman
2002   Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
2003   Jonathan Ned Katz
2004   Judith Butler
2005   John D’Emilio
2006   Matt Coles
2007   B. Ruby Rich
2008-2009 Cathy Cohen
2009-2010 Edwin Cameron
2010-2011 Mary Bonauto
2011-2012 David M. Halperin
2012-2013 Samuel R. Delany
2013-2014 Cherríe Moraga 
2014-2015 Richard Dyer
2015-2016 Susan O. Stryker
2016-2017 Issac Julien
2017-2018 Carolyn Dinshaw
2018-2019 Bill T. Jones
2019-2020 Siddharth Gautam, Yale '85 (awarded posthumously) 


About the Jim Brudner Prize: http://lgbts.yale.edu/brudner

Event info: http://www.yalegala.org/2019JimBrudnerAward


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