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Well, I guess this is the home stretch! When you read this, it will Leon Bey, Male Co-Chair be a few weeks before ALA 's Annual Conference in Chicago and the GLBTF's 25th Anniversary. This issue contains the full sched By the time you receive this Newsletter (and let's hope it is before ule of our events and meetings, including several special celebra June 19 - the deadline for purchasing tickets to GLBTF's 25th tions to commemorate the establishment of the task force, the frrst Anniversary Dinner Gala Dinner), all the planning will be in place g/l/b professional organization in the U.S. Leon and I especially to celebrate a milestone event. If you are looking for a ticket, hope to see all of you at our Gala Dinner on Saturday, June 24, contact Roland Hansen. There is a fonn for Gala Dinner tickets in 1995. This will be a wonderful evening, featuring dinner speaker thisNewsl etter. Roland and his Chicago committee have organized Quentin Crisp and the presentation of our Book A wards. If you a festive evening for June 24. You won't want to miss it! haven't purchased your tickets for the Gala Dinner, please do so as soon as possible: the deadline is June 19 and tickets will not be It is gratifying to see all the volunteer planning on behalf ofour 25th available at the door. Anniversary. Wendy and I invite you to join us for all the exciting activities planned for the celebration of twenty-five years of the In addition to the Gala Dinner, we will be having our frrst all-day first gay. lesbian and bisexual professional organization in the preconference on Friday, June 23, 1995. (Please note that the United States, founded 1970. It's a terrific lineup, from the special registration deadline for the preconference has already passed.) pre-conference to the dinner with keynote speaker Mr. Quentin Entitled ''Reaching Inside, Reaching OUT: Supporting Growth in Crisp, the annual book awards, with three of the four authors Libraries and Society," the preconference will feature keynote scheduled to attend - the Book Awards presentation follows the speaker Donna Minkowitz, columnist for the Village Voice and the Gala Dinner on the 24th in the Hotel Intercontinental - join us at Advocate, as well as several breakout sessions on topics relating to 9:30 p.m. The Book Awards Presentation is open to all andfree of g/l/b library issues. Other 25th Anniversary events inlcude a charge! Don't miss the special reception in the Gerber-Hart reception at the Gerber-Hart Library, marching in Chicago's Gay Library and Archives on Friday, featuring local authors and there's Pride parade, and the usual schedule of GLBTF meetings. The the Library History Roundtable program on Saturday, the Read-A GLBTF will be staffing the SRRT booth in the exhibit hall in Loud, the Pride Parade, etc. See the schedule on page 1 for details. Chicago on Saturday, June 24, 1995, so please stop by and visit us. Above all, come join us in the celebration! Also, visit the Advocate booth and thank them for their support for our Gala Dinner. We are grateful to The Advocate for their support of the Gala Dinner, but we still need to raise additional funds. To cover the Although we have all been focusing on the 25th Anniversary deficit of selling $50 tickets at $30 each to 141 GLBTF Newsletter events, there are other new developments since Midwinter: Subscribers, a number of commemorative items are being sold. H you did not receive a mail order form listing these items (T-Shirts with the Task Force logo; coffee mugs with GLBTF, 25th Anniver sary, Chicago, June 24.1995; conference badge 25th Anniversary ribbons; autographed photos of Mr. Quentin Crisp), please contact me (address below) and I'll send a copy. Since t-shirts require advance orders, we'll not have any available at Conference; how ever, be prepared be prepared to buy (and sell!) mugs, ribbons and photos. I'd especially appreciate your help in selling these items at Conference. Get in contact with me if you are interested in being a salesperson for GLBTF. All profits go to cover the deficit. We have no "slush" funds. Other fundraising did not meet expecta tions. With your help we'll be able to cover the deficit. It's a challenging situation and I'm putting all my efforts into resolving it. I look forward to your support and to celebrating with you at the annual conference. Leon Bey Dayton & Montgomery Co. Public Library 215 E. Third St., Dayton, OH 45402-2103 (513) 227-9500, ext 324 (voice mail) (S13) 227-9528 (FAX) ADS [email protected] T At press time, we were on the verge ofestablishing a listserv for the GLBTF Steering Committee members, which will greatly facilitate communication between conferences (and hopefully cut down on those phone/fax bills).
T We have started to work on fundraising for the long-team, 199& GLBTF Book Awards in hopes of making the book awards self-sustaining. The American Library Association Gay. Lesbian, and Bisexual T Leon and I have revised Roland Hansen's GLB1F info Book Awards Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the sheet, which we will send to those who inquire about the 1995 Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Book Awards. The awards are given GLBTF. annually to two books of exceptional merit examining lesbian, gay and/or bi experience and published during the prior calendar year. T We now have official GLBTF letterhead, designed by Established in 1971, the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Awards Publicity Chair Mark Martin. are the nation's oldest and most long-lived. The award winning books were selected by a group of thirteen academic, public, and T I have started something which I hope future co-chairs will special librarians from institutions throughout the United States. continue: writing welcome letters to all ' new' GLB1F meet This year the ten finalists considered for the awards were selected ing attendees after each conference. I hope this will be a way from a list of 64 nominated titles, which in turn were drawn from to increase membership and get more people involved! a listing of over eight hundred titles, fiction and non-fiction, that were identified as having gay, lesbian, or bisexual content Speaking of getting involved ... It's time, once again, to ask for volunteers for various GLBTF positions. First, we will have an Literature Award election for Male Co-chair (1995-1997) during the Membership Meeting in Chicago (Monday, June 26, 9:3012:30). If you are The 1995 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award for Literature interested in running for Male Co-chair, or would like to nominate goes to Marion Dane Bauer for Ami Blue?:ComingOutfrom the someone to run, please submit names to GLBTF Secretary Michael Silence (HarperCollins). NitzbeforeJune 17, 1995 inorderfortheballottobeprepared. You Non-Fiction Award can reach Michael by e-mail ([email protected]) orphone(414/ 832-61 84). Please remember that to vote you must be a SRRT Two books tied for the 1995 Nonfiction a ward: Dorothy Allison's member (we'll have the membership list) and that you must be Skin: Talking About Sex, Class&: Literature (Firebrand Books) present at the Membership Meeting. FYI, although we 're asking and ... for nominations in advance, our by-laws indicate that showing up Phillip Shennan' sand Samuel Bernstein's Uncommon Heroes: A at the Membership Meeting and letting us know that you want to Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian run is allowed. Americans (Fletcher Press)
Also, we need a new Clearinghouse Co-coordinator. a position that Both books were selected froe11 a list of ten finalists. Runners up of the is appointed, not elected. As many of you know, the Clearinghouse awa-d.s, all wCl'thy of recognitioo as some of the best books of 1994, work has been shared by Gail Defendorf and Dan Hodge for the last include: year. Dan has to resign after Annual, so we need a new Co Utaratura Flnallsts coordinator. If you are interested in working on the Clearing - house, which is a unique collection of g/J/b bibliographies, reading T Campo, Rafael. The Other Man was Me: A Voyage to Jiu New lists, and documents, please let me know as soon as possible. If you World (Arte Publico Press) would like more infonnation about what the position would entail, T Fadennan, Lillian, ed Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of contact Gail Defendorf ([email protected]; phone: Lesbian and Bisexual Littraturefrom the Seventeenth Century 302/831-8721). The Co-chairs would like to thank Dan Hodge. to the Present (Viking Penguin) who ably assisted Gail with the Clearinghouse duties. T Galford, Ellen. The Dyke and Dybbuk: a Novel (Seal Press) 'Y Hacker, Marilyn. Winter Numbers: Poems (W.W. Norton) Leon and I are looking forward to seeing everyone in Chicago for what promises to be an exciting and historic occasion! Non-Flcllon Rnallsts T Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Cullure, and Wendy Thomas, Ou Makings oftlu Gay Mak World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books) Schlesinger Library T Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Radcliffe Colleg Gay and Lesbian Film and Video (1LA Publications) Cambridge, MA 02138 T Nestle, Joan, and John Preston, eds. Sister and Brother: phone: (617) 495-8647 Lesbians and Gay Men WriU about Their Lives Together fax: (617) 496-8340 (HarperSanFrancisco) [email protected] -
The book awards will be presented on June 24, 1995, during the Afternoon Breakouts 25th Anniversary Gala of the Gay. Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force of the American Library Association annual conference in Cyberpaths to Lesbigay Infor•••ation Resources Chicago. Ill. This session will feature demonstrations on general Internet With the selection of the 1995 award winners, the Gay. Lesbian, procedures, as well as examples of LesBiGay resources lo and Bisexual Book Award Committee now turns its attention to cated OUT there! reading titles for the 1996 awards. 1De committee welcomes and encourages nominations from the general public. The nominees Lesbigay Issues in Collection Development and must be English-language books published in calendar year 1995. Community Services Nominations must include a brief statement-about one-half page in length - as to why the title is being recommended. This session will feature panelists speaking on various aspects of collections and services and how to address seen and unseen Nominations may be sent to the incoming Book Awards Commit LesBiGay patrons. tee Chair: Program Schedule John Desantis, Chair-Elect Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Awards Committee Registration I Coffee time 8:30- 9:30 Amherst College Library, Keynote address 9:45 - 10:30 Box 2256 Amherst College, Morning Breakouts 11:00- 12:30 P.O. Box 5000, Lunch 1:00- 2:00 Amherst, MA 01002. Aften1oon Breakouts 2:30 - 4:00 FAX (413) 542-2662 email [email protected]. The registration deadline has passed. But ask around at the Confer ence for more details about this Preconference. Look for more highlights in the next issue of the GLBTF Newsletter[
fxtral f•b'BI GLBTF 26th Annlversrary Commemorative hems Avallable Chicago P111confarence Preview Fer a mail order fo1111 of GLB1F 25th Anniversary items (t-shirts, Donna Minkowitz, of the Village Voice, and the members of the coffee mugs, commemorative 25th Anniversary conference badge SRRT Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force celebrate 25 years ribbons, and autographed photos of Mr. Quentin Crisp), get in touch of progress in librarianship. At this preconference, co-sponsored with Leon Bey by e-mail: [email protected] .IB.OH.US or by ACRL's Women's Studies Section and by the Intellectual by FAX: (513) 227-9528 or by VOICE MAIL: 513-227-9500, ext Freedom Round Table, we'll be exploring many LesBiGay issues 324 or by mail: Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, 215 that should and do concern libraries, librarians. and the communi E. Third Street. Dayton, OH 45402-2103. As soon as Leon gets your ties they serve. READ ONI request for a mail-order fOllD, he'll send you a copy. Don't miss out on the 25th Anniversary commemorative items.
• WHERE: The Palmer House, 17 East Monroe Street WHEN: 9:00 am -4:00 pm Friday, June 23, 1995 GLBIF Spacial Citation Morning Breakouts Barbara Gittings, one of the founders and fonner chair of the Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals in the Library Workplace: GLBTF, will be the recipient of the GLBTF Special Citation, as Human Resources ~ues voted by the GLB1F Newsletter and GAY -LffiN subscribers. The citation will be presented at om 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner on This session will feature panelists speaking on sensitivity Saturday, June 24. 1995. Please join us in honoring Barbara for her issues, domestic partner benefits, and discrimination in the visionary commitment to the GLBTFI workplace.
Joining Together Chicago Frontn1nners This session will feature representatives from other profes The Chicago Frontrunner/Frontwalker's Proud to Run SK Com sions' LesBiGay groups addressing their himories,achievments, mittee has chosen 4 sponsors for this year's event: the AIDS and future goals. Alternative Helth Project. HealthWorks Theater, the Women's Program at Howard Brown Health Center, and (ta-dat) the Gerber Encyclopedia of AIDS seeks contributors Hart Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives. The race will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 24, with a start location somewhere in Submissions are now being solicited for the Encyclopedia of Lincoln Park (which should be accessible to the conference hotels AIDS: A Social, Polilkal, CuUurtd, and Scientific Record ofthe by short taxi ride or CT A bus). For more information, call 312-409- Epidemic, the first general reference work to provide comprehen 2790. Chicago Frontrunners has joined the Chicago Area Runner's sive coverage of all major aspects of the fust fifteen years of the Association, so Proud to Run is now part of the CARA circuiL AIDS crisis. The Encyclopedia will comprise approximately 250 entries with an average length of 1500 words, covering the broad areas of: ttansmission, prevention, treatment, epidemiology. pa· Library History Round Tabla presents thology, impacted populations, culture and society, policy and law, LGBprogram politics and activism, and international issues.
The Library History Round Table (LHRn has quite a program To be released by Garland Publishing of New York in 1997, the planned for Chicago. ''The Importance ofGay and Lesbian Library Encyclopedia is being edited by Raymond A. Smith, a researcher History'' (Saturday, June 24, 2-4 p.m.) features keynote speaker, at the lilV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and manag Dr. Rose Gladney, of the Department of American Studies, Univer ing editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia ofH omosexu sity of Alabama. Dr. Gladney is the editor of Am I To Be Heard?: ality, Volume I: Male Homosexuality. Acting as co~ulting edi The Letters of Lillian Smith. She will speak on the difficulties of tors are two members of the Governing Council of the International interpreting the lesbigay past. Brenda Marston, Curator at the AIDS Society: Joyce Hunter. who is also president of the National Center for Human Sexuality. Cornell University will speak to the Lesbian and Gay Health Association and co-chair of the Global difficulties ofestablishing the archival record Dr.Jam es Cannichael, AIDS Action Network, and Dr. PauJ Volberding, who is also Professor. Dept of Library and Information Studies, University of professor of medicine at UCSF and chief of the AIDS program at North Carolina-Greensboro will focus on library lesbigay biogra SF General Hospital. Potential contributors are encouraged to phy. Marie Kuda will present a multimedia ''docu-his/herstory" contact the editor at PO Box 1788, NY. NY 10025 or via e-mail at celebrating lesbigay history. The program is open to all and is co [email protected]. All potential contributors should include sponsored by the GLBTF. As we look at the past 25 years of the their affiliation, an address and phone number, and their areas of GLBTF. this program will offer us the opportunity to examine the interest/expertise. larger issues of LGB library history. Come learn about library history from a gay point of view. •
• Thousands of Internet users have already visited the one-month old Home Page established by Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples. Dedicated to the needs of same-sex couples, the Partners site has a wide variety of free infonnation. such as resource lists and advice on handling a partner's medical emergency. No1 iii Kester'& Book on LGB Librarians' Uves: Submissions Wantedl The pages that have received the most attention are those offering info101ation on domestic partnership benefits, quotes about couples, Norman Kester will meet with tentative and prospective contributors a report on recent developments concerning legal marriage for in Chicago to his anthology, Liberating Minds: The Stories and same-sex couples, and a summary of results from Partners' land ProfessionalUves ofGay, Lesbian and Bisexual.Librarians. Please mark national survey of same-sex couples. note that the CAI.I. FOR SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE has been But by far the most popular page is the ''Couples Gallery." With a extended to September 15, 1995. Web site browser program, Internet users can view photographic Submit essays, speeches, position papers, poems. short fiction, portraits ofcommitted couples. Mostrecentlyplacedonthe Website manifestos, nostalgic remembrances, personal occounts on gay and are sound files from the video ''The Right to Marry," a doc11mentary lesbian librarianship. Contributors may want to write about coming being produced by the Task Force in support of this civil right out; reference work with gay patrons; censorship of gay and lesbian The Partners site has more than 40 pages of text and images located matmals in libraries; work with GLBTF; work with sp::cial collec at the following address: http://www.eskimo.com/-demian/ tions, compiling gay book marks, bibliographies, pathfinders; coor partners.htmV dinating library displays, programs and exhibilS; challenging and confronting homophobia, racism and sexism in the profe~ion. The Task Force also offers its Indispensable Guide for Gay & Lesbian Couples, a 64-page booklet with chapters devoted to Early submissions are encouraged. Anonymous submissions wel validation, family life, getting suppo~ legal precautions, mar come. Send with Canadian SASE to Norm Kester/Editor, 1418.620 riage, sex and domestic partnership. The Guide costs $8, or $4.50 Jarvis Stree4 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y 2R8 Feel free to per copy for three or more. Order by check, VISA or MasterCard. contact the editor. Phone: (416) 944-9319. Fax: (416) 922-0824. -
Partners also offers a full range of resources for same-sex couples, includingpartnershipandanniversarycertificates,asetofPartners LGB Hlstorr Mo11d1 Competitions Magazine back issues, a list of employers offering domestic You've heard of Black History Month (February)! You've heard of partnership benefits, a fanwy musical video about a male couple Women's History Month (March)! Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual and coming out to mom, and an address list of more than 2,000 gay History Month is based upon other successful history projects, and lesbian media. such as the National Women's History Project, and intends to bring Steve Bryant and Demian, 13-year partners, founded Partners nine gay history into secondary classrooms, college campuses and into the community (gay and non-gay)!! This October 1995 marks the years ago. The organization develops publications and videos promoting the rights of same-sex couples to full, legal equality, second annual celebration of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual History including the right to marry. Partners can be contacted at: Partners, Month in the United States! Box 9685, Seattle, WA 98100-0685. Voice: (206) 935-1206. E The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network (GLSlN) and mail: [email protected] the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual History Month (LGBHM) Coordi nating Council seeks essays or posters to be used nationally in publicizing History Month. Guidlines: Entrants must be 22 and Announcing the ~·11 Annual under. Winners in each category will receive a $250 prize. Entries National Lesbian and Gay Book Month must be received by June 15, 1995.
The Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in ~Y Competition the publishing industry, is pleased to announce thatJune 1995 will be the fowth annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, where Writers are asked to submit essays of 750 words or less answering all segments of the book publishing industry join together to the question, ''Why is Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual History Month an celebrate lesbian and gay books. important event?" These essays will then be reprinted in main stream and gay publications around the country in October. Started three years ago as a way to bring lesbian and gay titles to the attention of a wider reading public and timed to coincide with Gay Visual Arts Competition Pride Month celebrations around the country, National Lesbian and Gay Book Month has begun taking on a life of its own, much Artists will submit work which takes off on the theme of lesbian. as Black History and Women's History Months have done. Previ gay and bisexual history to produce a design which will then ous years ' events received attention in the New York Times, San become the official logo of the October 1995 event The chosen Fra11cisco Chronicle , Publishers Weekly, American Bookseller, artwork will be reproduced on T-shirts and posters which will be Library Journal, The Advocate, and numerous other mainstream sold to help fund activities around the country. and alternative media nationwide. Independent and national chain Send entries to: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual History Month Com stores created special marketing displays, wholesalers and publish petition C/O The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Techers Network Box ers offered special discounts, and small and large publishers alike 390526Cambridge,MA 02139-0006 E-Mail: ''GLS1N@aolcom" reported significant gains in publicity and sales during the month. For more information about LOB History Month, write to the Last year National wholesaler Inland and In book offered substan GLSlN snail-mail ad~ above. or E-Mail: [email protected] tial discounts off their gay and lesbian checklist and Womansource catalog; Random House offered Book Month shelf talkers and a 50% discount on backlist titles; Naiad Press offered a 50% discount on all titles. Already, these publishers and wholesalers and others ProJact 21 Su11u11ar lntemshlps have announced to build on last years successes and offer booksell ers discount packages and promotional materials. Summer internships available with Project 21. Ten to tewnty (10- 20) hours per week (UNPAID). Students (preferably graduate) The Publishing Triangle will once again distribute bookseller could get independent study ere.di~ though, no doubt, through their promotions kits that include advice on how to sell lesbian and gay own institution. titles, listings of publishers with lesbian and gay offerings, and other inf01111ation on how to plan for the month. For the second Project 21 also strives for inclusion of long-censored information year. we have added a Book Month poster, suitable for in-store and regarding the same-gender orientation of significant historical and window displays. Last year, more than 500 lesbian and gay, cultural figures in course content throughout the public school feminist. independent and chain bookstores requested kits. curriculum. Promotional kits are available for booksellers, librarians, and The organizational nexus of Project 21 is GLAAD. It began when universities to help effectively market and promote lesbian and gay GLAAD/SFBA was joined by the Bay Area Network of Gay and titles as a category. To receive a press kit contact Michele Lesbian Educators (BANGLE) and the Gay and Lesbian Youth Karlsberg Publicity Services, 47 Dongan Hills Ave., First Floor, Advocacy Council of San Francisco to launch Project 21 in 1990. Staten Island. New York 10306. •
We campaign for educational equity for LGBT people through Instructional Resources Evaluation Panel of the Health Subject curricular POLICY refonn, preferably at the state level. We intend Matter Committee of the Cmriculum Commission. And remem to influence State Bds. of Ed. and State Depts. of Ed. and their ber, even if you don't live in California, let your voice be heard! As policies. Our current project is to complete an
place and through Education; and of course, Recreation (we tlrrow • the most fabulous parties at the Trade Shows!) What is the Atlanta Lambda Center? The vision of the Atlanta Lambda Center is to be 'Y The associate book review editor at Library Journal is looking a central service and support facility for the metropolitan Atlanta for book reviewers with expertise in or an interest in the following Queer community. This facility will become a center for education subject areas: anthropology, gardening, gay and lesbian studies, and activism throughout the Southeast Partial Wish List for government and politics, health and medicine, home economics, Lambda: Pentium workstation or two486-66 stations, 1 gig. 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If you are interested, you can e-mail Wilda 'Y The Library of Congress Gay, Lesbian, Or Bisexual Employees Williams at [email protected] or call me at 212-463-6472. My association (LC-GLOBE) had its first annual meeting on April 17, snail mail address is Library Journal, 249 West 17th St., New York, 1995. James Billington, Librarian of Congress, made the opening NY 10011. • remarks and then introduced Bruce Lehman, the ftrst openly gay PUBUB posting Clinton appointee. Bruce used history of slavery and women's oppression to make the point that other groups had overcome great 'Y Check out Melissa Gross' article: ''Sex Education Books for resistance to achieve their goals. He said the opposition we face will Kids, Grades K-6". Includes an annotated resource list give way to sanity and reason in time. He pointed out that Anne Frank Journal of Youth Services 1n l1brar1u, v.8, no.2 Winter on the way to Auschwitz didn't know that liberation was just around 1995 p. 213-218 the comer. He said the act of coming out was the most impoI1ant 'Y Call Of The Wilde . . . The Kentucky Gay and Lesbian Library e~ion of liberation and freedom in the late 20th century and that and Archives is calling upon individuals everywhere to w1ite no matter what the opposition we cannot be turned back er put back letters to newspapers for publication on May 25, 1995. That date in the closet It was quite inspirational and uplifting to those of in struggling with oppression, harassment, and abuse of every kind marks the lOOth anniversary of Oscar Wilde's imprisonment London for ''indecency and sodomy." Letter writers can use this GAY-LIBN posting historic occasion to draw attention to the continuing oppression of 'Y "Does AIDS Hurt?: A Reading List for Children, Young lesbian, gay and bisexual people. For a sample letter or more Readers and Teens" appeared in The Unabashed Librarian. information about the Oscar Wilde Project, e-mail Unal:>ashed librarian, no. 91 , p.17 [email protected]. SFBA GUA.D Media lVatch by Al Kielwasser 4n.8/95 .- Ganymede Press, a gay-owned publisher plans to introduce a tronic Journalism." This SO.page booklet summarizes the results of new national magazine. The magazine called Topia will be a full a two-year survey of radio/TV news managers and gay/lesbian color/upscale/all-inclusive publication and will feature people broadcast journalists. Contact NLGJ A, 87 4 Gravenstein Highway working in what can be loosely considered as the applied arts. They So., Suite 4, Sebastopol, CA 95472, tel. 707-823-2193. are currently seeking freelance writers, artists and photographers SFBA GLAAD Media Watch by Al Kiclwasser, 5/8/95 (paid). They are also looking for people to spotlight in articles. People featured will be anyone from a caterer to an architect, a stage .- The wbian Review of Books is an international quarterly designer to a photographer, a graphic artist to a interior designer review of books by, for, and about lesbians. 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SLA's very [email protected] fust convening of its new Gay and Lesbian Issues Caucus is slated E- Dir~ctory of WB ScJwlari Posting to occur during the ''all-caucus-corral" which is held on Saturday afternoon, June 10 (check program for location & time). So far, the .- GLESOL-L Gay, wbian, [Bisexual] Educators of [English] to Gay and Lesbian Issues Caucus has got over 50 members. For Speakers of Other l.anguages (and their friends). The purpose of those whose SLA membership is paid by their employer, you can this discussion group is to foster serious dialog and exchange of still join the caucus without including it on your business invoice Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual issues in the field of Teaching English by sending in a separate check to headquarters. to Speakers of Other Languages. Talcing on a national as well as GAY-LIBN Posting aglobalfocus,GLESOL-Lseekstofacilitateprofessionalcommu nication among individuals with an interest and vision for a more • Ken W achsberger' s article, ''Underground Press Veteran Dis enlightened approach to curriculum development and program covers Thriving, Self-Described Underground Press Scene" in administration. The audience for this discussion group will be cludes a sidebar by Chris Dodge titled ''Zines about Zines". second and foreign language educators, educational administra Strial.s Review, Winter 1994, v.20 no.4, p. 59 tors, material writers, publishers, students and those who know that a curriculum of inclusiveness can be an effective curriculum. To .-Richard M. Buck provides a look at recent attempts to suppress sign up for GLESOL-L, send an e-mail to: [email protected]. In freedom of suppression which have focused on the arts and the body of the message, type the following: subscribe glesol-1 humanities in his article, "For Suppression and Fear-'See Librar E-Dirtctory ofWB Scholars Posting ian': Censorship of the Arts and Humanities in Libraries." Rt/trtnct Librarian, no. 47, 1994, p. 121-127 .- Sandy Bezman 's Prejudice and AntipaJhies (2nd ed. 1993) ~won tre 19'J4 Carey McWJ.lliarm Award piesented by Multicultural Review . .- On May 2, 1995 the LC-GLOBE Literature Forum presented a Press release program entitled, Lesbian Poets. The program featured Ally Acker and Meredith Pond reading from their new works of poetry. The .- ''School's Out'' -yes, it pretty much is, and I wanted to tell you program took place in the LC Madison Building. about my new book of the same name, published this month by GA Y-I.ffiN posting Alyson Publications. I hope you'll pass this information on to your membership at large. The official title is School's Out: The Impact .- ''Be prepared, get the community on your side, and avoid of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools. Based on 300 overreacting," advises Carolyn Caywood of Virginia Beach Public interviews with teachers, principals, coaches, counselors, students Library System in her article, ''Censorproof Your Library." The and parents across the country, it's an anecdotal look at what's article is part of the Teens & Libraries Column. going on - homosexually speaking - in our public and private School Library Journal, Dec 1994 p.44 high schools,junior highs and elementary schools. For background infonnation, contact Christine Sanni at Alyson Publications: 40 .- Report On Reporting . . . The National Lesbian and Gay PlymptonSt.,Boston,MA02118, tel.: 617-542-5679. Author Dan Journalists Association (NLGJA) and the Radio and television Woog can be contacted directly at: 301 Post Rd. East, Westport, News Directors Foundation (RTNDF) have just published 'An CT 06880, tel.: 203-227-1755 other Perspective: A Report on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Elec- E·Dirtctory of LIJB Scholars Posting T "Conflict and Compromise over Homosexual Literature'' is the title of Herbert Foerstel's article dealing with the resolutions of challenges to LOB materials. Emergency Librarian, v. 22, no. 2, Nov-Dec 1994, p. 28-30
T Ungrateful, a new zine/newsletter for poor and working class lesbians is now available. Free to lesbians making less than $7500 (up to $3 for lesbians making more). To get information write to Ungrateful P.O. Box 7471, Minneapolis, MN 55407. /ocusPO/NT 2!22-2fl8, 1995 p.8
T Many places are involved in controversies resulting from challenged materials. GLBTF Newsletter spotlights these places and the questioned titles every issue. For specific details refer to local newspapers and the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom & Feminist Bookstore News. Batavia, Ohio The Advocate Oconee Co., Georgia "explicit" material - ban rescinded Wellesley, Mass. Playboy Ren~elaer, Indiana Ryan White: My Own Story Pittsburgh, Penn. Usenet Newsgroup alt.binaries .pie tures.erotica (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) Hermiston, Oregon Daddy's Roommate Montgomery Co., Va. Daddy's Roommate
T Sandy Berman reports the following additions to HCL Subjects: AIDS activists. Boy sexual abuse by Scout leaders, Butch and femme (Lesbianism), Children of AIDS patients, Drag balls, Drag Black Tie Optional - The REAL Story queens. Erotophobia in language, Gay Afro-American authors. Gay Afro-American detectives, Gay adoptees, Gay AIDS patients, lntially, we wanted the anniversary dinner to be drag, but we Gay and Lesbian rights, Gay and lesbian studies, Gay autobiogra changed our minds, just kidding. We would like to make this a phies. Gay ballet dancers, Gay comm11nities, Gay culture, Gay fairly ''dressy,. event, even though it will probably be hellish that divers, Gay men- Relations with lesbians, Gay runners, Gay night. I have arranged a group discount of 15 % on any tuxedo rental soap-opera actors, Gay soldiers. Gay teenagers Rights, Gay through Gingiss Fonnal Wear. Their main store is at the comer of track and field athletics coaches, Homophobia in sports, Job Adams and Wabash, literally a stone's throw from the Palmer hunting for gay men, Job hunting for lesbians, Language and House. and about a 20 minute walk from The Inter-Continental, or sexuality, Lesbian erotica, Lesbian letters. Lesbian mystery sto The Hilton. They will be open Sunday for returns. I have the form ries. Lesbian singers, Lesbian soldiers. Lesbian teenagers Rights. you need to gel your measurements, and order your tux directly Lesbian vampires, Lesbian vampires in film, Lesbians- Relations from Gingiss. They have stores nationwide. so all you need to do with gay men, Women's AIDS services, Women's HIV services. is go to one and tell them you are with the American Library • Library of Congress Subject Headings weekly lists report the Association. for the event on the 24th at the Hotel Intercontinental . following HCL heading accepted as LC: Gay bodybuilders, Gay It's all computerized I'm sure. The prices range from $50.95 to military cadets, Gay newspapers, Gay press, Gay press publica $67.95, that includes the discount. Tax is added. and shoe rental is tions, Gay rights, Homo (The English word). Lesbian artists, 12.75. I have no idea how many people will wear tuxedos, I know Lesbian cartoonists, Lesbian dramatists, Lesbian theater, Lesbian of three who will, but we may be the only 0nes. I just want to re vampires in motion pictures, Transsexualism. To receive regular, emphasize that this is strictly optional, black tie that is, but you complete updates of HCL subject analysis, subscribe to the Cata MUST WEAR SOMETHING. Any questions or concerns about loging Bulletin. $12/institutions, $6/individuals. ASD/Account renting, please contact me. I will fax you the fonn. Roland Hansen, ing, Hennepin County Library, 12601 Ridgedale Drive, 312.899-5097, 312.899.1465 fax or [email protected] e-mail. Minnetonka. MN 55305-1909. HCL Cataloging Report, #132-133 Black Tie (or Evening Gown) Optional
The 1995 Annual Conference (Chicago) marks the 25th anniversary of the GLBTF. Many activities are planned, centered around the anniversary dinner, which will be Saturday night, June 24th, 1995. Cocktail Hour begins at7:00 p.m. Dinner begins at 8:00p.m., and the Annual Book Awards Presentation will begin at approximately 9:30 p.m. All of this takes place at the Hotel Inter-Continental, Ballroom of the Americas. Reservations for the DINNER ONLY are REQUIRED. (The Book Award Presentation is a free event)
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