Schedule of events: 

Sunday

4:00 pm – William Way Community Center – Mark Segal Ballroom

Welcome from Co-Sponsoring Institutions 

Overview of the Symposium

4:15 pm – William Way Community Center – Mark Segal Ballroom

The Rise of the AIDS Epidemic in Philadelphia

• A Conversation between W. Wilson Goode, Mayor, City of Philadelphia, 1984-1992 and David Fair, First Director of the AIDS Activity Coordinating Office.

5:15 pm – William Way Community Center – Mark Segal Ballroom

A Conversation with Two LGBT Leaders about the early AIDS experience in communities of color:

• Guy-Oreido  Weston, AIDS Surveillance Investigator, Philadelphia Department of Public Health 1986, contributor to PGN and Au Courant on HIV/AIDS issues 1985-1990.
• David Acosta, Activist and Founder of GALAEI
• Interviewed by Debra D’Alessandro, public health advocate & media activist.

6:00 pm -- William Way Community Center Lobby

Welcome Reception

Light hors d’oeuvre and beverages

Tours of the William Way Archives

Exhibit on the Life of Kiyoshi Kuromiya

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Monday

8:15 am  – Historical Society of Pennsylvania Lobby

Cofee

8:45 am – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Welcome from Co-Sponsoring Institutions

 Overview of the Symposium

9:00 am – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Overview on the Medicalization of Homosexuality and Psychiatric Practice before 1970

• Lance Wahlert, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy; and Director, Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity, University of Pennsylvania.

10:00 am – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Overthrowing the Status Quo:  the Community Challenge to the American Psychiatric Association and John Fryer’s historic speech.

• Brian McCann and Debra D'Allesandro bring to life the writings and speeches of John Fryer and Barbara Gittings
• Dr. Steven Sokoll, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, will moderate this session
• Conference participants also will have the opportunity to view "Unpacking a Psychiatrist: The 217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous," a display from HSP's Fryer collection during the break.

10:40 am - Break

11:00 am – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Exploring John Fryer’s Legacy

• Psychiatrist Jack Drescher, co-editor of American Psychiatry and Homosexuality; An Oral History, and member of the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health.  Special note of the work of Philadelphia’s Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen will be included in his discussion.

12:00 pm – Lunch on your own

1:30 pm – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Gay Physicians Confronting the AIDS Epidemic:  the personal and professional challenges of early first responders.

• John Whyte will discuss early medical work among gay men around STD issues, pre-AIDS.
• Nicolas Ifft, discusses his experiences as a physician and gay man in the early years of the epidemic.
• Heshie Zinman, founder of the AIDS Library, will moderate.

2:30 pm  –  Break

3:00 pm – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Early Organizing to Confront the AIDS Epidemic in Pittsburgh.

• Tony Silvestre, from the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Men’s Study, will share his experience in Western Pennsylvania.

4:00  pm – Historical Society of Pennslvania, Patterson Room

Developing Partnerships to Collect, Preserve and Study AIDS Oral History. 

• Discussion among stakeholders interested in AIDS oral history moderated by Randy Sell, Drexel University School of Public Health.  Panelists:  early AIDS activists Tyrone Smith and Heshie Zinman; and from the AIDS Library of Philadelphia Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Staff Librarian and Instructor, and Dr. Ally Richman, Library and Digital Literacy Manager.

5:00 pm – Conclusion