Increased attention has been recently placed on the struggles around gay marriage rights, gender and sexual identity, and the overall acceptance.
Against this backdrop, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Tony Kushner recently joined forces with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn., to develop a new continuing legal education course, Love, Law and Litigation: A Dialogue of Bias in American Sexual and Gender Identity.
This online course focuses on firsthand accounts of individuals’ experiences with competing legal, social, and political forces and on the divisive effect of these forces on state and federal jurisprudence. In the on-demand CLE, actors from the Guthrie perform key scenes from Kushner’s plays to lay the groundwork for a panel discussion.
Moderated by Sonya Hamlin, president, Sonya Hamlin Communications and author of Now What Makes Juries Listen, published by West, the course was designed to lead panelists Kathleen Hull, PhD, professor, University of Minnesota; Kushner; and Joni M. Thome, attorney, Halunen & Associates, in an in-depth discussion regarding gender and sexual identity in America.
Hamlin said the goal of the CLE, “is not to propose a particular answer, rather, to gain more information, to heighten awareness of the issues, and be more appreciative of the issues that maybe you have never touched in your own lives and really don’t know much about.”
The CLE is available on-demand at West LegalEdcenter.
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