{"id":104,"date":"2014-08-16T13:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beyondhomophobia.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-08-16T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:20:12","slug":"public-lecture-at-the-commonwealth-club-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/public-lecture-at-the-commonwealth-club-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture At The Commonwealth Club of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.herek.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/homophobia_btn.gif\" alt=\"Beyond Homophobia\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Gregory M. Herek: Beyond &#8220;Homophobia&#8221; &#8211; Thinking More Clearly About Sexual Stigma and Prejudice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The <a title=\"More information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthclub.org\/events\/2014-08-18\/gregory-m-herek-beyond-homophobia-thinking-more-clearly-about-sexual-stigma-and-pr\" target=\"_blank\">Commonwealth Club <\/a>of California<\/strong><br \/>\n595 Market Street, San Francisco<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon, August 18, 2014\u00c2\u00a0 at\u00c2\u00a0 6:00pm<\/strong> (networking reception at 5:30 pm)<\/p>\n<p>The concept of homophobia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a word first coined in the 1960s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has played an important role in shifting society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s focus onto the problem of prejudice against people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heterosexual. But the word homophobia conveys a variety of assumptions that can actually limit our thinking. Drawing from social science research findings, including his own studies over the past 30 years, Prof. Herek will explain the value of looking beyond the usual conceptions of homophobia to develop a better understanding of stigma, discrimination and prejudice against sexual minorities, and to formulate effective strategies for changing attitudes.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tickets (<a title=\"Commonwealth Club Tickets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthclub.org\/events\/2014-08-18\/gregory-m-herek-beyond-homophobia-thinking-more-clearly-about-sexual-stigma-and-pr\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Purchase tickets online<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Free for members<\/li>\n<li>$20 for non-members<\/li>\n<li>$7 for students with valid ID<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This program is part of the 2014 Platforum series The LGBT Journey, sponsored by Ernst &amp; Young.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory M. Herek: Beyond &#8220;Homophobia&#8221; &#8211; Thinking More Clearly About Sexual Stigma and Prejudice The Commonwealth Club of California 595 Market Street, San Francisco Mon, August 18, 2014\u00c2\u00a0 at\u00c2\u00a0 6:00pm (networking reception at 5:30 pm) The concept of homophobia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a word first coined in the 1960s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has played an important role in shifting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[119,138],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-prejudice","tag-events","tag-sexual-prejudice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herek.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}