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Worked very hard to manage those alignments so it doesnt create too great a tension. As time goes on, ive seen greater congruence in our views, not less. If i could follow one piece, you did mention that youre just back from ankara, the role and the relationship with turkey has been complicated, its been vital, its been seen as quite tense at times. It seems youre quite optimistic right now. So, one of my questions there, you see, for example, the kurdish being an effective force fighting within syria, but again, this is sort of just to get to one area where there are differences potentially d...

Our country. It is a time when they are being turned on their head and when we are reminded on a daily basis the extent to which we cannot take our core values for granted. It is when they are turns back the clock on almost every area of progress to womens rights to you name it. They are increasing tensions and divisions that speaks to part of their ways that really amplifies and inflames the rhetoric. It is more important than ever it gets tarnished. We all know the only time identity politics gets invoked is some how white identity is masked as something that is neutral. The 2016 election wi...

Tv friendly people, we represent them and we need to make sure that we fight for them at the state legislative level, at the federal level and making sure that we continue to bring people forward and we have to continue to do so. [ applause ] you asked really vital questions, and i dont know what the answer is. I look at the Lgbtq Community itself. We ask for people outside of our community to be our allies, but we are not good at being allies within our community. It infewer i dont remembur yoi members saying we should drop the t. It infuriates me when were fighting for the same end result, w...

Lgbt health forum. This is actually a very, very special one for us. And were doing a number of wonderful things, celebrating our fifth year of our program, and ill tell you about the program in a moment. But not the least of which is this incredibly Powerhouse Panel we put together, and on a topic thats fairly urgent right now. If youre not familiar with our forum, this is our Public Outreach mechanism. We do this every year with the start of our annual summer residency, which begins our program. During the residency, all of our students who are in the new cohort are in town from all over the...

Forum, this is our public outcry. Every year, with the start of our annual summer residency which begins our program, during the residency, all of our students, who are in the new cohort are in town from all over the country and many times all over the world. This is our way of reaching out to the public and letting you know who we are and what we do. We are our program is a graduate certificate program. Our mission is to train medical and Mental Health professionals, Health Professionals in the broader sense, to improve quality of care for lgbt people. Thats our mission. We started this aroun...