LGBT activism in China
139 MacDougal Street New York ,10012 (view map)
This event is not open to the public.
US-Asia Law Institute invites you to an in-person informal talk by Chinese guest speaker PENG Yanhui on Thursday April 21 at 2:30 pm.
Peng, also known as “Yanzi,” is an LGBT rights activist and researcher at the Nankai University Zhou Enlai School of Government’s Institute on Community Development, and is a visiting scholar at Yale Tsai Center. Over the last decade, he has been involved in multiple ground-breaking court cases in China that seek to use the law to promote gender equality and the rights of the LGBT community. These include cases on conversion therapy, marriage equality, employment discrimination and the rights of sexual minority parents. See his full biography below.
This will be the first in-person event organized by USALI since pre-pandemic, and we really look forward to seeing you! Please RSVP to: https://forms.gle/dfznHArFwnvo9ubM6
About the speaker:
Yanhui PENG is a researcher at the Nankai University Zhou Enlai School of Government’s Institute on Community Development and the former director of LGBT Rights Advocacy China. Peng founded LGBT Rights Advocacy China in 2013 to advance LGBT equality through China’s legal system. LGBT Rights Advocacy China built professional networks of lawyers and journalists, and supported impact litigation against conversion therapy, employment discrimination, media censorship, and homophobic university textbooks. In 2019, Peng and his colleagues started a campaign to submit proposals to lawmakers that called for legalizing same-sex marriage in China’s Civil Code, catalyzing a large number of submissions and drawing significant attention to the issue. From 2007 to 2013, Peng was a program manager at Sun Yat-Sen University’s Institute for Civil Society, and in 2019 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. At the Paul Tsai China Center, Peng will conduct research and writing on the parental rights of LGBT people.