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Entertainment will be provided by WASHINGTON Denice Franke on Friday night, and by EDITOR'S NOTE:Due to our printing the Therapy Sisters and Girls In The schedule, we will not have a report on Nose on Saturday night(followed by a the 1993 March on Washington in this dance with DJ Cherry Wolf). issue. However, we will bring you the Registration is $65 and includes atten complete story in our June/Gay Pride dance to all workshops,speakers, three issue. meals and a free showing of the film,A Place OfRage. The Saturday nightcon 199B Texas Lesbian cert and dance is an additional $15. A "hard times" discount rate is available. Conference For more information ot to register,call HOUSTON - Hundreds oflesbians will (713)867-8904 and leave a message. be gathaing in Houston May 21-23 for the 6th Annual Texas Lesbian Confer Minnesota Passes ence (TLC). Keynote ^)eakas at the confnence will be Akasha(Gloria) Hull, Gay Ri^ts Bill; Other Susie Bright and Dr. Nancy Lee Jose. States Consider Akasha Hull is a poet, author, lecturer WASHINGTON, D.C. - Minnesota and professor of Women's Studies and became the eighth state in the country Literature at the University of Califor nia at Santa Cruz. Susie Bright is an to extend civil rights to its gay and author, lecturer and self-proclaimed lesbian citizens when Gov.Ame Carlson signed a bill on April 3.Meanwhile, the "Sexpert" who has appeared on na National Gay and Lesbian Task Force tional talk shows and p^orms across (NGLTF) reports that similar legisla the country. Dr.Nancy Lee Jose is with MCC Cathedral of Hq)e in Dallas. tion failed in New Mexico and that bills Workshops will cover a diversity of are pending in six other states. lesbian-oriented subjects including The Minnesota law prohibits discrimi sexuality, intimacy, parenting and les nation based on sexual orientation in bian legal issues. the areas of housing,public and private Lesbians in Business(LIB) will hold an employment and education. However, open meeting Friday evening as a part four amendments muted the bill's im of the conference. They will present pact:language specifically prdiibits gay Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin,founding and lesbian marriage; owner-occupied members of the first national lesbian dwellings of two units are exempted organization in the U.S.—The Daugh- firom the housing statute; religious in tCTS of Bilitis, helped publish the first stitutions are exempted; and groups lesbian publication. The Ladder, and providing services to youth are also have written several books including permitted to discriminate on the basis Lesbian/Woman. The LIB meeting is of sexual discrimination. New Mexico's gay and lesbian civil Page 8 • Dimensions •May '93 rights bill was tabled by the House If you would like to help activists in any Judiciary Committee after it had cleared of these states, please contact Robert two Senate hurdles and passed on the Bray or Robin Kane atthe National Gay Senateflow. New Mexicoactivists were and Lesbian Task Force at (202) disappointed that the bill died after it 332-6483 for a list of resources. had made such progress, but are deter mined to make an even stronger show Gays in Military ing next sessicHi. In Maine, gay and lesbian activists Hearings Called cheered as a gay and lesbian civil rights Disappointing bill was report^ out ofcommittee with WASHINGTON D.C. - The long- a huge vote margin. By a vote of 11-2, awaited hearings conducted by the Sen the JointJudiciary CtMnmittee approved ate Armed Services Committeeon Presi the biU, which won the support of the dent Clinton's pix^sal to lift the ban Maine Chamber of Commerce and the against gay men,lesbians, and bisexu- Maine Banking Association.However, als in the U.S. military began on March a referendum question to repeal the 28th. What follows are the reacitcms of civil rights law has already been filed in some legal scholars, histCHians, civil anticipation of the law's passage. An rights leaders and veterans to the first organization called Maine Families, day of testimony. based in Auburn, has said it will begin CMS Coordinator Thomas B.Stoddard gathering signatureson repeal petitions. stated, "We have been working with In nearby Rhode Island, openly gay SenatOT Nunn in anticipation of these SenatOT Will Fitzpatrick and the Rhode hearings, while fully knowing his pre Island Alliance for Gay and Lesbian disposition against us.