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December 2, 2011

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CNN Dialogues forum moderated by Jane Velez-Mitchell to focus on LGBT openness


HLN host and veteran television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell will moderate a dynamic discussion about the history and impact of increased openness upon LGBT communities.

HLN host and veteran television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell will moderate a dynamic discussion about the history and impact of increased openness upon LGBT communities – as well as how greater LGBT openness has impacted American society.  "Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender: Has More Openness Led to More Acceptance?" a CNN Dialogues event, will be held in Atlanta's Grady High School Theater, 929 Charles Allen Dr., on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. 

The panel will examine how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities have rich histories of activism and creativity within America.  As television and pop culture have engaged wider audiences into discussions of gender orientation, marriage equality, religion in civic life, politics, workplace discrimination, and teen bullying as related to LGBT communities, have these cultural touch-points led to greater acceptance for gays, lesbians and transgendered people?  Joining this discussion are:

• Robin Brand, deputy executive director of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund & Leadership Institute;

• LZ Granderson, ESPN writer and CNN Contributor;

• Donna Rose, transgender activist and author;

• Johnny Weir, Olympic and U.S. champion figure skater.

CNN Dialogues represents a partnership between CNN, Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study for Race and Difference and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. This is the third CNN Dialogues program of the three-part series of forums in 2011.

Tickets for this program are $25 per person, and may be purchased online at www.emory.edu/cnndialogues, or obtained by calling the James Weldon Johnson Institute at 404.727.2515, or the National Center for Civil and Human Rights at 404.991.6988. 

Profits from ticket sales will support the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.

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