GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

JANUARY 29, 1999

Hi...would you like to go

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to the Womyn's Variety

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after the party?

Show with me?

wonder if my "ex" will be there.

Oven Productions Proudly presents THE 24TH WOMYN'S

VARIETY SHOW and FABULOUS PARTY

(216) 321-7799 for more info

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1999

The Civic, 3130 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights Doors open at 6:00pm show starts at 7:30pm

$18 in advance sliding scale available at the door only ($10-$18)

A womyn only event 18+ only

Purchase tickets in advance beginning Feb 1st. Inn on Coventry, 2785 Euclid Hts, Cleveland Hts; Red Star Cafe, 11604 Detroit Ave, corner of W. 116 & Detroit; Body Language, W. 115 & Lorain;

5¢ Decision, 4365 State Road, Cleveland.

A WICK POETRY READING Tuesday, February 9, 7:30

Room 306, Student Center, Kent State University

RICHARD TAYSON

Winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, judged by Marilyn Hacker, for his collection The Apprentice of Fever. Hacker calls Tayson's book "...brilliantly corporeal...rooted in the day-to-day life of a man implicated in the AIDS epidemic, living on the edge, crossing, transforming and transgressing boundaries..." And Tim Miller says, "Read [these poems] and take a breath of intimate real life.”

MARILYN HACKER

Recipient of the National Book Award, a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Lenore Marshall Award. Maxine Kumin says, “Hacker is [now] at the top of her form, bending rhyme and meter to her uses, dazzling us with her formalist prowess and breaking our hearts with her impassioned narrative. ...[She] critques our life and timesAIDS, the Holocaust, breast cancer, and wars-with an unparalleled lyrical candor. The tone is elegiac; the thrust is life-affirming."

For more information, contact The Wick Poetry Program at (330) 672-2067.

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Pride at Work to hold third national convention

by Martha Grevatt

Pride at Work, the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Labor Organization, will hold

its third national convention February 1215 in Washington, D.C. The theme of this convention is "Out and Organizing."

As an official constituency group of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Pride at Work is strongly committed to organizing unorganized workers.

Pride at Work recognizes that the majority of LGBT workers, like their heterosexual counterparts, do not have the benefit of union representation. However, studies show that unionized workers earn higher wages and are more likely to have health insurance. In addition, many unions are fighting for and winning non-discrimination language in their contracts, as well as with domestic partner benefits.

civil and human rights director Richard Womack; and Kent Wong, founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.

Linda Chavez-Thompson

A major focus throughout the convention will be the need to develop strategy to specifically target unorganized LGBT workers. Other workshop topics include workplace safety and HIV education, building coalitions and alliances, equal benefits bargaining, transgender awareness and education, and organizing workers of color.

Speakers at the conference include AFL-CIO vice president Linda ChavezThompson; U.S. Reps. Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank; Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors and Transgender Liberation— Beyond Pink and Blue; Barbara Smith, author of The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Kerry Lobel; AFL-CIO

Community Groups

DOREENCUDNIK

Linda Chavez-Thompson was a featured speaker at NGLTF's Creating Change conference in Pittsburgh last November.

Pride at Work was founded in 1994 in New York City, during the Stonewall 25 weekend. In August of 1997 the AFL-CIO executive council voted unanimously to make Pride at Work an official constituency group, joining the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Labor Committee for Latin American Advancement, and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.

For more information on the conference or on Pride at Work, call 216531-5188. ♡

Martha Grevatt, of Cleveland, is the national co-vice chair of Pride at Work, AFL-CIO.

The "Community Groups” column on this page is published by theGay People's Chronicle free of charge, as a public service. It is written by members or officers of the non-profit organization, reflecting the views of their group.

If your organization would like to submit a column for this page, contact the Chronicle's managing editor, Doreen Cudnik at 216-631-8646, toll-free 800-426-5947, or e-mail editor@chronohio.com.

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