50 Years After Stonewall – Conference 13 Sept 2019 (Stonewall Edinburgh 3)
This is the third part of a three day event in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
The raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York City on 28 June 1969 and its consequences are considered turning points in LGBT+ history and milestones in the development of LGBT+ rights. The events sparked a new feeling of cohesion within the LGBT+ community, a confidence which manifested itself in various forms – in the publication of several gay newspapers, the formation of the Gay Activists Alliance and the first Gay Pride marches.
The University of Edinburgh and the Staff Pride Network at the University mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall with a reception at the Scottish Parliament and a two-day conference, in the course of which we intend to discuss the development of LGBT+ rights and the LGBT+ community from a multitude of perspectives. Our invited speakers therefore come from the fields of law, medicine, politics, education and religion; they are scholars, politicians and activists, and the topics they discuss range from LGBT+ rights in UK law to same-sex coupledom in Scotland, and from LGBT+ rights in Uganda to the legalisation of same sex marriage in Taiwan. There is no attendance fee for any of these events, but registration on eventbrite is required. For Day 2, we also ask you to submit a question for our roundtable on 'Religion and the LGBT+ Community'.
This eventbrite page refers to Conference Day 2 (Friday, 13 September) only. For the Parliamentary reception, please register at (tbc), for Conference Day 1, please register at
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9.20: Welcome to Day 2
Session 5 – Education
9.30: Investigating the Experiences of Transgender Students in Higher Education (HE).
Lynne Regan
(Open University)
9.50: Discussion
10.05: Embedding LGBT Equality in the Curriculum and the Classroom
Eleanor Capaldi / Amanda Sykes
(University of Glasgow)
10.25: Discussion
10.40 – 11.10: Coffee
Session 6 – Beyond Stonewall: LGBT+ rights outside the Western context
11.10: LGBTI movement organizing on the Peril: A Case study of Uganda
Clare Byarugaba
(Chapter Four Uganda)
11.30: Discussion
11.45: Queerly Fluent/Fluently Queer: On (Re)Creating Shared Identities in Second and Third Languages Among Migrant LGBT Populations in the Arabian Peninsula
Gaar Adams
(University of Glasgow)
12.05: Discussion
12.20 – 13.10: Lunch
Session 6 (cont) – Beyond Stonewall
13.10: First Country in Asia to legalise Same Sex Marriage: Taiwan's Journey towards Equality
Jason Chien Chen Lien,
(Director-General, Taipei Representative Office in the UK, Edinburgh Office)
13.30: Discussion
Session 7 – Religion
13.45: Jewish approaches to LGBT+ in texts, culture, and ritual
Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh)
/ Rabbi Mark Solomon (Leo Baeck College, London)
14.05: Discussion
14.20 – 14.50: Coffee
Session 7 (cont) – Religion
14.50: Tradition and transition: methodological approaches to LGBT issues in Catholic theology after Pope Francis
Nicolete Burbach
(Durham University)
15.10: Discussion
15.25: No space is a safe space? Queer Muslims in the United Kingdom
Andrew Dalton
(University of Sunderland)
15.45: Discussion
16.00 – 17.00 Roundtable: Religion and the LGBT+ Community
(Mark Solomon / Nicolete Burbach / Andrew Dalton / Kate Harford [Oxford Brookes University])
17.00: The Network of Networks
Sammy Li / Jordan Kirkwood
(LGBT+ Network of Networks in Higher Education)
17.05: Closing Remarks
Paul Behrens
(University of Edinburgh)
17.15: Close of Conference
Please note that this programme may be subject to change.
The organisers gratefully acknowledge funding by the following funds and bodies of the University of Edinburgh: the Principal's Fund, the School of Law, the Edinburgh Centre for Global and International Law, the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Fund, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
