Tim Hammond

For the Australian politician, see Tim Hammond (politician).

Tim Hammond is a human rights activist who has been involved in social change movements, and best known as a supporter of genital integrity for all humans and an anti-circumcision advocate for males. He is the founder of the National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM)[1] and co-founder of the Children's Health and Human Rights Partnership www.chhrp.org . In 1995, he co-produced with Lawrence Dillon a documentary Whose Body, Whose Rights?.[2][3] The documentary examines the ethics and human rights issues related to infant male circumcision and was broadcast amongst others on PBS.

Tim Hammond had been an activist in a number of issues. He opposed the Vietnam war, and was active in promoting women's rights and introduction of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In 1987, he was arrested in front of the U.S. Supreme Court while protesting its decision to uphold states' rights to legislate private sexual behavior among consenting adults in their own home (a decision the Court ultimately reversed in 2003).

Hammond is a member of the Children's Rights Network of Amnesty International/USA and a member of the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization. He is also active in gay and lesbian issues. He was a member of Dignity-Integrity/Rochester (NY), a ministry to local Catholic and Episcopal gays, lesbians, their families and friends. In 1981, he was co-founder of the Rochester branch of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and organized an Annual Day of Remembrance of gay/lesbian victims of the Holocaust and became the recipient of the Vinnie Cup, awarded annually by the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley for outstanding service to the Rochester (NY) lesbian and gay community. In 2000, he made a presentation in front of the Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Intersexual chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) about "Male Circumcision: An Issue of Relevance to the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Community" urging the chapter and ACLU to adopt a proposed resolution on genital integrity.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Cut in America by Peter Neilson - Activism section
  2. ↑ Beyond the Debris website: Defying Convention - An Interview With Miriam Pollack
  3. ↑ Circumcision Videos: Whose Body, Whose Rights?
  4. ↑ Attorneys for the Right of a Child - Safeguarding Children's Bodily Integrity: Male Circumcision - An Issue of Relevance to the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Community
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