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KAOS GL SYMPOSIUM
 "PROBLEMS OF GAYS AND LESBIANS AND
SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL
PEACE"

 KAOS GL ORGANIZED A SYMPOSIUM ENTITLED
?PROBLEMS OF GAYS AND LESBIANS AND
SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL
PEACE ? AT THE CENTER OF MODERN ARTS
OF CANKAYA MUNICIPALITY ON MAY 23-24, 2003.
THE PROGRAM OF THE SYMPOSIUM HAS
NOT BEEN FINALIZED YET.  YOU CAN FOLLOW
THE LATEST FORM OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON
OUR WEB SITE: www.kaosgl.com

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

        How homosexuality is lived and named has changed
and taken different forms from society to
society. This reality, which is not mentioned or just
neglected is still in existence. Social institutions need
to deal with and control the reality of homosexuality.
This resulted in the interest of medicine, especially
in the field of psychiatry in the subject besides some
other institutions of law and religion. Each
institution viewed homosexuality within their own
perspective and classified under various categories.
Taking their own field as a standing point, these
institutions interpreted homosexuality as sin, guilt and
psychosexual disorder or diversion. However, homosexual
individuals had already started to come
together in urban areas within the course of the changes
industrialization brought in. Breaking through
the institutions? siege, the gay and lesbian liberation
movement, which evolved in this period created
and established homosexuality as a social reality beyond
an individual and psychosexual case.

         Throughout centuries the reality that people of the
same sex can be sexually driven to one another
is obvious and experienced upon this land we live.
Whereas, being gay and/or lesbian? in Turkey has
come to be recognized as a reality since early 1990s.
Established as an identity and not just a sexual act,
homosexuality has been recognized by people from all
walks of life thanks to the noteworthy efforts,
participation and organization of gays, lesbians and even
heterosexuals.

         Recognition and correct understanding of
homosexuality as a social reality, which came to life like
the phoenix from the flames, forces itself upon the society
as urgent need to discuss within the process
of Turkey?s social change. Obviously, that
heterosexuality is the sole determiner in social life
causes a
variety of problems in all fields of the lives of gays and
lesbians. We believe that establishing social
peace and harmony can only be attained by means of the
communication and interaction of gays and
lesbians with other components of the society. This will
only be possible by searching for solutions with
a correct, egalitarian and libertarian approach. To this
end, a symposium will be held in order that gay,
lesbian and heterosexual individuals together with
professionals, can deal with these issues and search
for solutions.

Symposium Chairperson

Ali Erol


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

CHAIR PERSON: Ali Erol

TOPIC: Problems of Gays and Lesbians and Search for
The Solutions Towards Social Peace

DATES: May 23-24, 2003, Friday and Saturday

VENUE: Center of Modern Arts of Cankaya Municipality

ORGANIZERS: KAOS GL Organisation Committee



ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

Alanur Cavlin Bozbeyoglu

Gulsum Camur Duyan

Emir Birant

Umut Guner

Burcu Ersoy



COORDINATOR: Umut Guner

PUBLIC RELATIONS: Burcu Ersoy

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COORDINATOR:
Selcuk Gokoluk

COMMUNICATION ADDRESS: Kaos Kultur Merkezi,
Selanik Cad. 48/8  Kizilay-Ankara 06640
Turkey

Tel&Fax:  +90 312 418 8715

E-mail address: dergi@kaosgl.com

Web site: www.kaosgl.com

Mail box: Ali Ozbas,   PK. 53   Cebeci-Ankara  Turkey



BOARD OF ADVISORS



Alanur Cavlin Bozbeyoglu

Research Assistant, Demographer, Institute of Population
Studies , Hacettepe University



Ali Ozbas

Founder, Kaos GL Journal



Feray Salman

General Secretary of the Human Rights Association



Gulsum Camur Duyan

Research Assistant, Social Worker, Hacettepe
University  Member of HATAM (Hacettepe University,
Center for AIDS Diagnosis and Research)



Prof. Dr. Ilhan Tomanbay

Lecturer, School of Social Work, Hacettepe University

Chair, ASAM (Ankara, Association for Refugees and
Immigrants)

Chair, SABEV (Foundation of Social Work Research,
Documentation and Training)



Dr. Koray Basar

Psychiatrist, Research Assistant, Department of
Psychiatry, Member of HATAM



Kursad Kahramanoglu

Chair, ILGA (International Lesbian and Gay Association)

Coordinator of International Relations for UNISON
Trade Union, England



Prof. Dr. M. Sevki Sozen

Lecturer, Department of Criminal Medicine, Istanbul
University

Chair, Board of Second Expertise of Criminal Medicine



Murat Celikkan

Journalist, Radikal



Pinar Omeroglu

Yapi-Yol Trade Union, Chair of the Department for
Women



Pinar Selek

Sociologist, Amargi Women?s Academy



Assistant Prof. Dr. Ustun Ongel

Social Psychologist, Lecturer, Cukurova University



Associate Prof. Dr. Veli Duyan

Lecturer, Hacettepe University, School of Social Work,
Member of HATAM



Yildirim Turker

Writer, Radikal



Prof. Dr. Yusuf Eradam

Writer, Poet, Lecturer, Chair, Department of American
Culture and Literature of Ankara University



MAIN THEMES OF THE SYMPOSIUM

 ?Gay and Lesbian Rights as Human Rights in the Process
of Membership to the European Union?

 ?Problems of Gay and Lesbian Workers and Civil
Servants in Labor Force and Trade Unions?

 ?Problems of Gay and Lesbian Individuals as a new field
of study in Social Work?

 ?Psycho-Social Problems of GLBT Adults?

 ?The Socio-cultural Dimensions of Violence Against
GLBT, and Legal Procedures?

 ?Problems and Conflicts of Parents of GLBT?

 ?Effects of the Heterosexual Socialization Policy in State
Education on GL and Heterosexual Students?

 ?The Approach of the Health Staff in Hospitals and
Other Medical Centers Against GLBT and
Professional Ethics?

 ?Impact of GL Movement on Social Change and on Other
Libertarian Movements?

 ?The Social Establishment and Change in the
Understanding of Manhood and Womanhood?

 ?The Common Points of GL Movement with Other Social
Movements?

 ?GL Love and GL Politics?

 ?The Presentation of Gays and Lesbians as the Other in
Popular Culture and Media?

 ?The GL Liberation Movement as a Social Movement?

 ?Homosexuality, Transvestitism, Transsexuality?



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