Yale: Jim Brudner Panel & Reception Honoring Siddharth Gautam (Yale '85) 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
1. At Yale University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019. 4:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019 6-8 PM. At Thomas Erben gallery, 526 W 26th St, 4th Floor, NYC.
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).
https://www.mansworldindia.com/culture/features/siddharth-gautam-lgbt-icon/ Photos: https://siddharthagautamdotcom.wordpress.com/photo-album/
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
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. Recipients of the Jim Brudner '83 Prize:
2000 George Chauncey
Event info: http://www.yalegala.org/2019JimBrudnerAward |