Urvashi Vaid Presentation

1. My expectations before this event was that Urvashi Vaid was going to talk a lot about gay marriage and the struggles that is going on to try and change the laws. I also thought that she would be a really good speaker since she is a very famous figure in the LGBT rights movement.
2. I thought that she was more going to talk at us and just tell us how we should feel but she was very kind and open to whatever thoughts we had, she even told us that she knew she couldn't change our minds in her short presentation or at least that it wasn't likely. I liked how she did her presentation because she didn't just talk, she changed up the dialogue; she told us stories, gave us statistics and compared different populations and not just LGBT populations, she also talked about heterosexuals and people of different races.
3. A statistic that I learned was that 6 out of 50 states are now legalized in gay marriage, I knew there were a few but I wasn't exactly sure how many. I learned that there has been a big, positive shift of attitude towards the LGBT community but race has still not been raised or represented enough in the community.
4. Yes I believe that it made Urvashi Vaid an authority on the topic because she is an author of LGBT movements and an attorney whom has been a leader in the LGBT movements. Also, she seemed very knowledgeable of all her facts and statistics in her presentation by sourcing where she got her information from.
5. One thing that can assist me on my Alternative Viewpoints paper is at the beginning of her presentation, Vaid discussed a suicide case from being bullied because he was gay and that is my topic of my Alternative Viewpoints paper, so I could find an article on the Tyler Clementi bullying case.