Banking on the LGBT – with Asian Values
Tony Henderson
Journalist and Chairman of the Humanist Association of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
31 October 2013
Pressenza
http://www.pressenza.com/2013/10/banking-lgbt-asian-valuesInterview with: Dr Dédé Oetomo, a leading activist for LGBT rights in Indonesia.*
Oetomo: I came to Hong Kong to speak at this conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the workplace [First LGBT summit in Asia]. It is a workplace conference organised by some corporations Barclays, HSBC, Citibank. It is the first in Asia, it is a Pan-Asia event. It started in New York with people from Wall Street, three years ago, then in Europe, and the idea is how does the corporate world push for equality in the workplace and in ordinary life. My own topic is Asian values – promoted by the likes of Lee Kwan Yew and other conservatives – which I will deconstruct: in my times people are more restive. At the conference they discuss and share for example what it is like at Goldman Sachs. ...
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After completing his PhD in linguistics at Cornell University in the US, he returned to establish Indonesia’s first gay rights organisation, Lambda Indonesia, in 1982; and later the GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, in 1987. Dédé is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Surabaya, University of Airlangga, and Widya Mandala Catholic University in Surabaya. He ran for the national parliament in 1999 and 2004. He is an internationally recognized scholar, educator and activist in areas of HIV and AIDS research, training and advocacy. Currently he is Chair of the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM).Alex's comment: Dede came to Hong Kong for the above-mentioned event. He also kindly gave a talk to Unitarian Universalists Hong Kong and the Blessed Minority Christian Fellowship on 22 October 2013.
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