GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE Pride Guide 1994

Osborn to speak at Stonewall Cleveland dinner

The Third Annual Stonewall Cleveland Pride Dinner is one of the first activities leading up to the March and Festival in Cleveland. This year, the event moves to the Grand Ballroom at Stouffer's Tower City Plaza. If you haven't made a reservation, you'll be missing out on the social event of the year.

Featured speaker at the dinner is nationally-known activist, author and community leader Torie Osborn.

Osborn, described by the New York Times as the lesbian and gay community's "revolutionary with an M.B.A.," is currently a consultant, lecturer, and writer, with a monthly column in the Advocate and a book contract from Putnam for Coming Home to America: A Manifesto for the Gay 90's (due out in early 1995).

An activist for over 25 years, Osborn served most recently as executive director of two of the country's most prominent gaylesbian organizations—the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (1993) and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center (1988-1992).

Through her dominant role in the media, and in brokering the historic Oval Office meeting of gay leaders with President Clinton, Osborn emerged as a major national figure at the April 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights. Before this, Osborn was one of Los Angeles' top AIDS and gay-lesbian leaders for several years through her effective combination of community organizing, political lobbying and street activism. She served on the Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS and a host of other civic groups, was arrested with ACT UP, and was a major spokesperson and organizer of 17 days of sustained street demonstrations in October 1991 following California governor Pete Wilson's veto of AB 101, a basic job equity

bill for gays and lesbians.

In her brief but dynamic tenure at NGLTF, membership doubled from 17,000 to 34,000; the annual budget almost tripled; staff grew from 15 to 25; new, cutting-edge programs in lesbian health advocacy and workplace organizing were adopted. At the March on Washington, Osborn was featured on over 60 TV and radio shows and in 300 newspapers nationally.

At the Center in L.A., the $8 million, 44,000-square foot new facility was dreamed, planned and built under Osborn's leadership; the annual budget grew from $3.2 to $7.5 million; staff grew from 60 to 160; the agency's mission and profile expanded significantly in the areas of AIDS medical services, lesbian programs, and youth issues; and, gender and racial parity

on staff was achieved for the first time in the agency's 20 year history.

In the mid-1970s, Osborn helped build the lesbian-feminist "women's music" network as a concert producer and promoter of over 25 events; she co-founded and coproduced the West Coast Women's Music Festival.

Osborn began organizing in the student, anti-Vietnam war, and early women's movements of the late 1960s while a high school student and then at Barnard and Middlebury Colleges. The Middlebury College Women's Union which she founded in 1971 still thrives today.

She, along with numerous politicians and community leaders, will be at the Stonewall Dinner which is being held on Sunday, June 5. Last year 375 people attended, in-

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cluding almost a dozen elected officials. This year the number will be much higher. The event gets underway at 6:30 pm with a cash bar, followed by dinner at 7:45. Tickets are $50. To make reservations, call 741-9105.

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