NYC: Prosecution Vs. Prevention: A Community Forum HIV Criminalization Thursday May 24, 2012

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Prosecution Vs. Prevention: A Community Forum HIV CriminalizationThursday May 24, 20126:00 pm - 9:00 pm(The next reminder for this event will be sent in 4 days.)

Location: The LGBT CenterStreet: 208 West 13th StreetCity State Zip: New York, NY 10011Notes:       QUEEROCRACY, The Sero Project & The Center for HIV Law and Policy Present:

Prosecution vs. PreventionA community forum on HIV criminalization featuring a screening of a short film, HIV is Not a Crime followed by a panel discussion. Panelists include Suttle, who was convicted and incarcerated in Louisiana for HIV non-disclosure and is also the Assistant Director at The Sero Project. Guzman from the Center for HIV Law and Policy. Strub, founder of POZ Magazine and Executive Director of The SERO Project.

Speakers Bios: Strub-The SERO Project grew out of the anti-criminalization advocacy work of Strub, who serves as its executive director. Strub is a long-time activist and writer who has been living with HIV for more than 30 years. He founded POZ Magazine, co-chairs the North American regional affiliate of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+/NA) and co-founded and is a member of the Positive Justice Project. He has been engaged in HIV-related stigma, discrimination, criminalization and empowerment issues since the earliest days of the epidemic.

Contact: sean.strub@... Suttle-The SERO Project’s assistant director is Suttle. Prior to joining SERO in March, 2012, Suttle was a case manager and prevention specialist at the Philadelphia Center, in Shreveport, Louisiana, working with young African American men who have sex with men. was released from a Louisiana prison in January, 2011, after accepting a plea bargain and serving six months for a conviction under Louisiana’s so-called “Intentional Exposure to AIDS Virus” statute. Suttle was prosecuted after he and a former partner, with whom he had a contentious relationship, stopped seeing each other. The partner, who had previously threatened to file charges against Suttle, then went to the police and did so.

Contact: rsuttle2000@... Guzman- Guzman of the The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP).

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