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Gay Peoples Chronicle
1986 CONFERENCE
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ized Interpersonal Exercise, designed to charge them with energy and broaden their circles of acquaintances. The first Workshops session begins at 10:30, ending at noon for lunch.
"Before Stonewall"
After lunch the film "Before Stonewall" will be shown in Hatch Auditorium. An award-winning documentary inspired by John D'Emilio's book Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, the film was directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg. Rita Mae Brown is narrator..
Through interviews with the famous--Harry Hay, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Grier, Evelyn Hooker, Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, Martin Duberman and Ann Bannon--and the obscure,
obscure, and through film clips and photographs, the film presents our history in the earlier years of this century, before liberation.
One of those interviewed is Mable Hampton, reminiscing about gay life during the 1920's, when she was a dancer. Now 83 years old, with the Lesbian Herstory Foundation, Ms. Hampton will be featured in a question and-answer session immediately after the showing. Both Hampton and the film are being sponsored by the CWRU University Program Board.
Saturday Afternoon Workshops Session II begins at 3 p.m.
At 5, the Lesbian/Gay Community Services Center will host a cocktail hour. This will coincide with the Organizational Fair, where groups and establishments will exhibit their activities and artifacts.
The period between 6 p.m. and 7:30 has been set aside for dinner.
Oven Productions Concert
At 7:30 Oven Productions will present a 3-hour concert. Opening act is Diedre McCalla, followed by Teresa Trull with Bonnie Hayes (see Barbara Siegel's article on page 8). The last part of the concert features Romanovsky and Phillips (see page 14).
Spring into Summer Bash Saturday night the Northern Ohio Coalition, Inc. (NOCI) also holds its Spring Into Summer Bash party downtown at Engineers Hall, 1365 Ontario Avenue. This lasts until 1 a.m.
A Quiet Sunday
Coffee and doughnuts will be served from 10:30 a.m. at Thwing Center Sunday morning. Workshops Session III starts at 11a.m., running until lunch time.
At 1:30 the conference participants will gather again at Hatch Auditorium for the keynote speech by Jeff Levi, National Gay/Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF Director, immediately followed by the brief closing cere-
monies.
Workshops
In spite of the attention garnered by featured speakers, the workshops are in many ways the backbone of the Conferences.
Session I
The workshops scheduled for Saturday morning, and their facilitators, are:
College Student Caucus; Mike Smith and Bill Davis, Case Western Reserve Lesbian /Gay Student Union.
Couples; for gay and lesbian couples; Peter Beebe and Debra Dunkel, Gay and Lesbian Institute (GALI).
AIDS; Buck Harris, Gay Health Consultant, Ohio Department of Health.
Coping with your Parents; Anne Beebe, Akron Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG).
Peace Camps/International Workshop; Woody Blue.
Session II
The Session II Workshops on Saturday afternoon include:
Sarah Older Gays and Lesbians; Lesbian Alliance (NCLA). Adams, North North Coast Chemical Co-Dependency; Tim Thomas and Martha Webb,
GALI.
Aerobics; Geno Taylor, NoSweat Body Works and GALI (in Thwing Atrium).
Lesbians and Gay Men Working Together; Shana R. Blessing and Charles Mossberger, Lesbian/Gay Community Services Center.
Violence Against Women; Take Back the Night Collective.
HIT Psychosocial Drama During the Saturday afternoon session, and again on Sunday, the Health Issues Taskforce is presenting a psychosocial arama, Who Made Up the Rules and Why Don't I Have a Vote?"
A 30 minute one-act play written for the occasion, this concerns people with AIDS and the people dealing with them. It explores such emotions as fear, courage,
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Barbara Gittings at first homosexual rights demonstration, 1965. From Before Stonewall.
and frustration.
The theater piece will be followed by a talk about these feelings with the Health Issues Taskforce. This will include discussion about what relatives and friends can do, and what they can't do.
Session III Session III workshops and facilitators_are:
Men and Intimacy; Peter Beebe, GALI.
Race Relations; Black White Men Together.
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Coming Out; Antone Feo, GALI.
Women's Health and Wellness; Angie Spidel, R.N., Women's Wellness Consultant. Lesbian/Gay Politics; Win Weiser, ERGPC.
Cosponsoring Organizations Organizations combining with the Case Western Reserve University Lesbian/Gay Student Union to cosponsor the Conference include: Eleanor Roosevelt Gay Political Club; Equals; HUGS; the Gay and Lesbian Institute; Lesbian/Gay Community Services Center operated by the GEAR Foundation); North Coast Lesbian Alliance;, Northern Ohio Coalition, Inc.; and Oven Productions.
Registration
Registration for the Conference, free to CWRU students, is $6 for others, but $5 if you pre-register (see form on page 11). For registrants the Oven Concert is $8 and the NOCI Bash $3.
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