#  Deceptive Gender Benders, Sexual Predators, and Homicidal Homos: The Ongoing Criminalization of LGBTQ People in the U.S. 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 13, 2014** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St.**  



 

 



 

A talk by Joey Mogul, Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at DePaul Law School, Partner at the People's Law Office, Chicago

 ![photograph of Joey Mogul](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/wgs/files/mogul.jpg)

 

Joey Mogul’s work over the past decade has focused on state violence committed against queer and transgender people. As documented in “Queer Injustice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States” (co-written by Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock), violence against gay men, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people is part and parcel of the U.S. criminal legal system which perpetually profiles, prosecutes and punishes LGBTQ people, particularly LGBTQ people of color. Mogul’s talk will look at how queer and trans people are categorized and dehumanized by popular stereotypes and how this demonization directly leads to violence against them in the criminal legal system and U.S. society as whole. Mogul will also interrogate the limits of anti-discrimination laws, both locally and on the federal level, in addressing this systemic violence.

**[Joey L. Mogul](http://peopleslawoffice.com/about-civil-rights-lawyers/attorney-staff-bios/joey-l-mogul/)** is an adjunct professor at the DePaul University School of Law and director of the school’s civil rights clinic. Mogul is also a partner at the People’s Law Office, where he represents individuals in civil rights cases who have suffered torture, abuse or other police and prison misconduct.

## After Marriage: The Future of LGBTQ Activism

#### *the 2014-15 Gender & Sexuality Seminar Series*

Since 1991 the LGBT movement has struggled to secure the right to legally marry for lesbians and gay men. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia now permit same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court has ruled it unconstitutional for the federal government to deny federal benefits of marriage to married same-sex couples. At least twenty other states are now facing legal challenges to their ban on same-sex marriage. The fight for marriage equality is, essentially, over.

 After two decades focusing on this fight what are the most important issues facing the LGBT movement now?

This seminar series will bring together four prominent lawyers and activists who will examine crucial issues facing the LGBT movement today: increased discrimination against and criminalization of people with HIV; how class and poverty effect the LGBT movement; the problems of relying on federal law to secure LGBT equality; and how religious exemptions and conscious clauses are undermining LGBT anti-discrimination law.

The series will culminate in a day long symposium with the seminar speakers discussing these issues with one another as well as a keynote by writer/activist Jewell Gomez.



 

 



 

 

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