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Women’s Bldg Anniversary • Freedom Fighters • Dance in The Cily COMINGLargest Lesbian/Gay Circulation in theUP! Bay Area FREE May, 1982 A Multi-Cultural Gathering A Night of Fury Remembered Jewish Feminist Conference by Sue Zemel The Voices of May 21 st Kenahora!' Several hundred women will celebration (leatui g Ashkenazic and attend a Jewish Feminist Conference in San Sephardic music, ritual, poetry.storytelling, by David Lamble Francisco scheduled tor May 29-31 at Eve and bellydancing), and a reading at Old rett Middle School, 450 Church at 16th St Wives Tales presented by a Jewish lesbian On or about January 6.1984 Dan White is scheduled The three-day gathering, organized by a writers' group, have provided an opportun to walk out of a California state prison, having served Bay Area group of mostly Jewish lesbian ity (or Jewish women and their non-Jewish his manslaughter sentence for the city hall assassina feminists, will include a variety of cultural triends to come together and share a diver- tions of Harvey Milk and George Moscone November events, as well as provide a context for sit« ot cultures 27. 1978 coalition-building, networking, and "A form of antisemitism that I find most This month the Fruit Punch Gay men's radio collec shm oozing' among Jewish and non-Jewish pernicious is invisibility." observed confer tive presents a two part remembrance of the assassina participants, who are welcome to attend ence organizer Andrea Land Land told tions. the trial o f Dan White and the subsequent White conference activities on Sunday Coming Up! that until she began working Night Riot. The first program (May 19) rebroadcasts While in the past there have been many w ith women on the conference. Jews in the the documentary which won the Outstanding conferences held for Jews, and many for Bay Area women's com m unity were fairly Achievement in Broadcast Journalism. 1982 Cable Car women, there have only been a few for Jew invisible. "Jewish culture was also invisible, Award The program traces the career of Harvey Milk in ish Feminists The conference brochure even to Jewish women." she stated. "What his own words (in an exclusive interview recorded five states: "We hold this conference in the con we wanted to do. and have done, is to raise months before his death) and in the words of his close tinuing traditions ol lemmist and Jewish res- consciousness around the face that Jews friends and political allies istance. The Jewish community had are not one culture or one race. There are The following broadcast (May 26) is devoted to dis oppressed us as women and as lesbians, Ashkenazic Jews. Sephardic Jews, and covering why the May 21 White Night Riot lives as a and the feminist movement is often hostile Ethiopian Jews who are African people." second ‘'Stonewall" in the hearts and minds of Lesbian to us as Jews. We meet m this conference Early on in the planning of the conference and Gay radicals and left activists and why it's been toeducafe. to ignite our rage and to mobilize the organizers made the decision to pay as politically downgraded by the Gay political establish ourselves to fight against our own oppres much attention to their process as to the end ment and lingers in an ambivalent limbo in the minds of sion and the oppression ot others " result ot their work An internal education more conservatively orientated Lesbians and Gay men The focus of the upcoming conference is committee was (continued on page 8) The program also traces the legal fates of the May 21 prim arily secular: however, ritual 'spitirual/ Defendants and explores the forthcom ing civil trials in ethical concerns will be addressed which victims of the "police rio t" at the Elephant Walk throughout the weekend A variely of work bar seek to recover damages and gain a measure of shops will fake place on topics such as anti justice from the city of San Francisco and the dozen or semitism, internalized oppression. Jews in so police officers thought to have invaded the Castro other countries, particularly in the Middle Street bar that night. Those civil trials are expected to East, and awareness around class^race-'dis- begin in about six to seven months and represent the ability. and cultural differences within last legal chapter in the history surrounding May 21. the women's-commumty-at-large Both programs will be broadcast from 10 to 11 pm on According to conference organizers, KPFA, 94FM in Berkeley women are s till needed to facilitate What follows presents highlights of the May 19 workshops on revelant topics and broadcast, recalls the voice of Harvey, our collective can contact Yohimbe (at 824- night of rage, and looks to what it all means to our lives 7723), or Leah (at 540-0671 ext: as Lesbians and Gay men. (continued on page 2) 349) with workshop proposals. Since last July a core group of women have been preparing for the conference. 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May, 1982 boy. the morning after' Ray Hill: (Houston activist and interviewer along Voices of May 21st with Lamble) Harvey, this enemy approach to the (continued from front page) whole thing, that sounds strangely familiar to other political movements, that there is an enemy Harvey Milk: tSan Francisco's hrst openly Gay out there, let us identify it and go after it Are you elected supervisor, man interview recorded June sure that's the sort ol thing that you're entirely 10. 1978 m Dallas. Texas) My fifsl press release, comfortable with? the first sentence, this was way back, the first time Harvey Milk: I'm not saying we re going after it. I ran in '73.1 got staying power, said Harvey Milk, just be aware of it. and let's go positively lo where white, male, Jewish, homosexual, age forty-three, we have to go. but be damn sure where we're announces his candidacy for the board of going and whose opening the door for us and supervisors coming into their room Be aware of your enemy' Harvey Milk: (Swearing-in ceremony on the steps One of the columnists in the San Francisco news ol City Hall. January 1978. a rainy dayi Anita paper said basically he was tired about all this talk Bryant said that Gay people brought the drought about Gay rights, and Gay rights, and Gay rights, to San Francisco, and look what's happening he was getting a little tired of it. why don't you be quiet about it lor a little, 'cause we have ours in Dianne Felnsleln: (November 27. 1978. on the San Francisco, so to speak And I said to'him steps ot the rotunda. San Francisco City Hall) As "The day you stop talking about freedom of press President of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty is the day you don't have it. and for us not to to make this announcement both Mayor Mos- acknowledge the fact that there are people who cone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot want to pul us in jail is crazy The day we stop and killed (crowd reaction) The suspect is worrying about those people is the day we're Supervisor Dan White going to start going to jail. I don't devote my time Wayne Friday -.(Friend and advisor to Harvey Milk, defensively. I'm a very positive person. I'm a very in a recorded phone conversation at Milk's forceful, aggressive-type person who looks for apartment, within an hour ol the city hall shoot where we can go and tries to get there Some ings) There were no personal problems . there times I succeed, sometimes I fail I never let my were certain people on the Board that Harvey defense down, because I learned whai happened disagreed with politically and Dan certainly was wilh Hitler, with Germany He started with the one of them; he was.