GAY TASK FORCE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1982 - PHILADELPHIA The Celluloid Closet LESBIANS AND GAY MEN IN HOLLYWOOD FILM

by VITO RUSSO Author of THE CELLULOID CLOSET; writer for Esquire, Moviegoer, The Village Voice, New York Native This lively lecture illustrated with film clips traces the ways lesbians and gay men have been portrayed in movies from 1895 to today. It has been presented at over 100 universities and col­ leges in North America and Europe, and at Chicago International Film Festival , Seattle International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Swedish Film Institute, and American Film Institute.

Monday July 12 at 2 p.m., Clover Room, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel

Everyone Welcome ! Sign Language Interpretation Provided Photo: Copy Berg

GAY BOOK AWARDS

SURPASSING THE LOVE OF MEN : ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT by Lillian Faderman (William Morrow and Co ., 1981)

THE CELLULOID CLOSET : HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE MOVIES by Vito Russo (Harper and Row, 1981) and

The Jeannette Foster Memorial Award for Bibliography: BLACK LESBIANS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by JR Roberts receptions (Naiad Press, 1981) Sunday July 11, 7 to 8:30 p,m, The awards will be presented at the opening of the Gay Task Gay Community Center of Philadelphia, Force program at 2 p. m. on Monday, July 12, 1982, in the 222 S. camac St, (within block bounded Clover Room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. by Locust, Spruce, 12th and 13th Sts,) Help celebi:ate 13arl:a.:ra Gittings' 50thl Dr, Faderman (photo at left) and Mr. Russo (photo at upper right) will accept their awards in person. Acceptance Monday July 12, 5 to 7 p,m. remarks by Ms , Roberts will be read in her absence by Becky Giovanni's Room--largest {in titles) Birtha, a black lesbian writer. Texts of all presentation gay/lesbian/feminist bookstore in the and acceptance speeches will be available from the Gay Task country--at 12th and Pine Streets Force after August 1; please send SASE with your request. From "Boston Marriage 11 to the Tell-All 1970 1s: 100 Years of the Lesbian in Biography

Premiere of a New Slide Lecture by MARIE KUDA

Lesbian activist since the late 60's; editor and publisher of WOMEN LOVING WOMEN (1974), the first annotated bibliography of the lesbian in literature; co-founder of four gay/lesbian periodicals; organizer of five national Lesbian Writers Conferences held from 1974 to 1978, Marie Kuda's other slide shows including "The Lesbian Couple: An Historical Perspective" and ''Women Loving, Women Writing" have been presented at the Chicago Public Library, Gay Academic Union, Amer. Booksellers Assn, , Amer, Library Assn, (Midwinter 1980), Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Purdue University, Northwestern, Michigan at Dearborn , Illinois and other schools, and at gay conferences in Arizona, California, D, C,, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio,

This 1-hour slide talk is main agenda item at G'IF business meeting: Our Publications Tuesday, July 13, 9:30 a,m, Send SASE for price list, Our publications Independence Room, Philadelphia Centre Hotel include a pamphlet of tips on how to get gay (18th and JFK Blvd,) materials into libraries; A GAY BIBLIOGRAPHY (6th ed, 1980); & handy brief lists such as Sign Language Inter­ Everyone Welcome Gay Resources for Religious Study, Gay Aids pretation Provided for Counselors, Gay Materials for Use in Just Walk In! Schools, and A Short Lesbian Rea.ding List,

ABOUT OUR GROUP

The Gay Task Force of the American Library Association (Social Responsibilities Round Table division) was launched in 1970 and was the first openly gay subgroup in a professional a,sociation. We work to get more and better gay materials into libraries and out to users, and w deal with discrimination against gay people as librarians and library users. For a lively account of our activities up to fall I 975, see "Combatting the Lies in the Libraries" in THE GAY ACADEMIC edited by Louie Crew (ETC Publications, 1978). Among our accomplishments: Getting ALA to pass resolutions in 1971 and 1977 supporting the rights of gay people as librar­ ians and library users ... Breaking open the subject of gay reading for young people, starting with our program at the 1975 ALA conference called "The Children's Hour: Must Gay Be Grim for Jane and Jim?" and our subsequent publication of "Guidelines for Treatment of Gay Themes in Children's and Young Adult Literature" ... Launching the Gay Book Award to recognize and honor books of exceptional merit on the gay experience. History of the Gay Book Award: 1971 - PATIENCE AND SARAH by Isabel Miller 1972 - LESBIAN/ WOMAN BY Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Joint award) THE GAY MYSTIQUE by Peter Fisher 1973 - No award 1974 - SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE by Jeannette Foster 1975 - HOMOSEXUALITY: LESBIANS AND GAY MEN IN SOCIETY, HISTORY AND LITERATURE edited by Jonathan Katz 1976 - No award 1977 - FAMILIAR FACES. HIDDEN LIVES by Howard Brown 1978 - OUR RIGHT TO LOVE edited by Ginny Vida 1979 - NOW T HAT YOU KNOW by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward 1980- NOW T H E VOLCANO edited by Winston Leyland 1981 -CH RISTIANITY, SOCIAL TOLERANCE AND HOMOSEXUALITY by John Boswell and (Two awards) THE CANCER JOURNALS by Audre Lorde Our only money allocation is $250 a year from the Social Responsibilities Round Table, our parent group within the American Library Association. We try to have our publications pay for themselves, but do not always succeed in this. To make up any deficit, and for all our other expenses. we depend on donations. So we welcome contributions for our work! Every bit helps and is appreciated! Please make donation checks payable to "Barbara Gittings-GTF" and send to address below. Gay Task Force, American Library Association (Social Responsibilities Round Table) Box 2383, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Coordinator: Barbara Gittings (215) 471-3322.