LGBvQ: Dueling Stanford Conversations on Same-Sex Marriage

I am traveling for conferences quite a bit this month, so that has been on my mind and will be the subject of the next few posts.  On that note then, I noticed that Stanford is hosting two different conversations on same-sex marriage this week.  The first is a 3-day conference (starting Thursday, October 10) sponsored by the law school and seems to be a bit (too much) of a victory parade for Edith Windsor.  At the very least, only the very last panel of the conference is dedicated to the theme—seemingly reluctantly, and christened skeptically with a question mark—of "Alternatives to Marriage: Still in the Mix?"

In response, the Stanford Students for Queer Liberation are sponsoring another conversation entitled "Imagine More than Marriage:  A Queer Conversation on LGBT Rights."  This group also appears to have plans to leaflet the SLS conference with information explaining a queer position on same-sex marriage and its sponsors.

I'll be curious to see how this all plays out.  Firsthand reports are always welcome! 

Comments

[Sammie]

Hello! I'm currently a Stanford student, and also a general member of the Stanford Students for Queer Liberation. In addition to the event we put on last week, we also published a series of three STATIC posts (STATIC is a progressive publication on campus), all of which highlight the views of Stanford students. You can check them out here!:
1 - The Conversation Isn't Over - Students Talk About Marriage Equality: http://static.stanford.edu/2013/10/09/stanford-students-perspectives-on-marriage-equality/
2 - 7 LBGT Issues that Matter More than Marriage: http://static.stanford.edu/2013/10/10/7-lgbt-issues-that-matter-more-than-marriage/
3 - IMAGINE MORE THAN MARRIAGE: A Response to the Symposium on Marriage Equality: http://static.stanford.edu/2013/10/11/imagine-more-than-marriage-a-response-to-the-symposium-on-marriage-equality/

Please check them out, and share if interested!

[Jeff Redding]

Sammie: Thank you for all of this information, and for alerting us of the very interesting work of STATIC.