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Workshops for women
The Tenth National Conference on Women and the Law will meet Mar. 29-31, Apr. 1, at the Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Keynoting the annual event on Mar. 30 will be Vilma Martinez, President and General Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).
The Conference of over 135 workshops and speeches is expected to attract 3,000 persor s interested in the law as it affects women. They will include not only law students and legal personnel, but also health workers, social scientists, social workers, community organizers, and civil rights activists. This year the Lesbian Law Section is planning workshops on lesbian clients, domestic issues in lesbian relationships, combatting discrimination against lesbians in the courts, lesbians in the military, lesbians custody issues, and lesbians in prison. Implementation strategy
sessions will be offered to discuss strategic use of the media, community organization and consciousness raising; combatting repressive legislation; and passage of supportive legislation. The Conference will also host lesbian rights events.
Additional workshops reflect other feminist and minority concerns such as employment and educational discrimination, the criminal justice system, abortion
and sterilization, economic and social welfare issues, immigration, and problems of the aging
woman.
For information and registration materials, write: Women's Law Caucus, University of Texas School of Law, 2500 Red River, Austin, Texas 78705.
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The Women's Law Caucus at Cleveland Marshall College of Law is co-sponsoring with the American Bar Association/Law /Students Division a Women's Legal Rights Workshop. The Workshop will be held at the law school on 18th and Euclid on Saturday May 5, 1979 from 8:30
to 5:00.
Individual workshops on such
topics as Women and Credit, Domestic Relations, Landlord and Tenant Law, Handicapped Women. Rape, Battered Women, Rights of Lesbians, and Women and Tax will be conducted. The purpose of the workshop is to allow law students and other individuals to share their knowledge with the community and to provide basic legal information in areas of interest and concern
to women.
For more information call 216-
687-2344 or write Women's Legal Rights Workshop, Women's Law
Caucus, Cleveland Marsha College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.
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Law and the fight for gay rights
The Lesbian and Gay Law Student Association of New York University and the Rutgers Gay Caucus, in conjunction with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, will hold a national conference entitled "Law and the Fight for Gay Rights" on March 10-11, 1979, at the New York University School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, New York. Speakers, including New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, New York City Councilwoman Jane Trichter and numerous attorneys with expertise in areas of gay interest, will consider the role of the gay attorney in securing equal rights for lesbians and gay men.
Litigation techniques in court cases affecting the status of gay people will be discussed at workshop sessions. These sessions include "Child Custody for Gay Parents," "Imagination and Naturalization of Gays," "Trusts and Estates Problems Facing Gays," "Job and Housing Discrimination Against Gays," and "Gay Rights Through Constitutional Litigation." Speakers will also explore the implications of statutes making homosexual conduct illegal, and the prospects for changing such statutes. The conference participants will consider the bar association which would possibilities of establishing a gay
serve as an ongoing center of communication for the gay legal community.
The conference is open to the general public, and all those interested in the gay rights movement, both within and outside the legal profession, are encouraged to attend. Activities will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, and at noon on Sunday, March 11. A cocktail reception will be held on Saturday evening, March 10, to provide attendants an opportunity to meet the speakers and informally discuss agenda topics.
Disco burns
GRAND RAPIDS, MI Sometime after closing at 2:30 AM, on January 24, 1979, the popular disco bar, Three Sons Plus One, inGrand Rapids was completely destroyed by fire. Ms. Margaret Marcinowski, who bought the
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The registration fee for the conference is $15.00, $5.00 for registered students and those with limited incomes. Registration fees, as well as badly needed donations to help defray conference expenses, are tax deductible. Children's day care facilities will be available. The conference sponsors will also offer their assistance in securing accommodations for those needing them. Checks should be made payable to Lesbian and Gay Law Students and sent, along with any questions, to Lesbian and Gay Law Students, 33 Washington Square West, Room 1C, New York, New York 10011.
bar in 1971, and operated it with her sons as a well known gay bar, reports that damage amounted to at least $100,000. The building was a 70 year old historic structure in downtown Grand Rapids.
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