Each year, Equality Forum highlights GLBT life and travel in another nation -- for 2003, we are proud to have Germany as our Featured Nation. Notable German representatives are included in fifteen of our programs, and two cabaret shows will feature German performers.

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Our featured German program...
From Pink Triangle to Equality
Thursday, May 1st, 9:00 p.m.
In collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and prominent German politicians, this panel explores the incarceration and extermination of German and Austrian gays in Nazi concentration camps, Germany's treatment of gays after World War II, and its eventual decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969. Learn how and why Germany has become one of the world's most progressive nations with regard to GLBT civil rights. [Details]
 
More international Equality Forum programs...
 
International Healthcare Panel
Tuesday, April 29th
7:30pm - 8:45pm
A collaboration with PCHA, this panel will present a discussion on GLBT healthcare.
 
International Family Values Panel
Wednesday, April 30th
9:00pm - 10:15pm
This discussion on GLBT families is moderated by Evan Wolfson of the Freedom to Marry Project.
 
International Media Panel
Thursday, May 1st
7:30pm - 8:45pm
With GLAAD and NGLJA, this panel looks at the ways the media perceives, covers and shapes attitudes about the GLBT community.
 
International Gay and Lesbian Leaders Symposium
Friday, May 2nd
10:00am - Noon
Aired live on NPR's WHYY, Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane moderates a discussion with several prominent leaders in the GLBT community.
 
GLBT Travel in Germany
Saturday, May 3rd
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Learn about Germany's vibrant and welcoming culture for tourism.
 
International Business Colloquium
Saturday, May 3rd
2:45pm - 4:00pm
An inside look at worklife issues facing GLBT executives.
 
Plus entertainment...
 
Cabaret: Fraulein Piggy and Gene Pascale
Friday, May 2nd
9:00pm - 10:00pm
German drag and buoyant comedy, from Munich.
 
Cabaret: Gay Schwuhplattler
Friday, May 2nd
11:00pm - Midnight
Gay Germans in lederhosen

And be sure to check out all 76
Equality Forum events!

A few of our German guests:


Hon. Volker Beck,
Member, German Bundestag


Lord Mayor Klaus Wowereit,
Berlin


Thomas Niederbuehl,
Munich City Councilman


Gay Schwuhplattler


Fraulein Piggy & Gene Pascale
     
    For information on travel in Germany, visit the following sites:
City of Hamburg