People's Church Of Kalamazoo

Our guest speaker Jay Maddock, Executive Director of the Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource Center (KGLRC), will explain the need for LGBT visibility within the larger community in order to secure equal rights and protections for LGBT citizens. He will emphasize the important roles that allies hold and talk about bullying and recent crimes and discrimination against LGBT persons including the very recently proposed amendment to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to exclude protections for Transgender persons.