Hiya – hope all's well with all.
I extend a special invitation to folks in New England and NY to attend the excellent
gay/lesbian/bi/trans/etc academic event coming up this Thursday-Saturday at URI – Kingston. It's three days of really interesting talks and presentations, and I hope everyone can make part or all of this terrific annual FREE event.
Headlining will be a talk at 7pm Thursday by Providence mayor David
Cicilline, who spoke at last year's Mr Bear RI contest just the week after he
took office. Personally I consider Mayor David a clean-shaven bear. Woof!
In any case, he's an excellent public speaker and I really look forward to
seeing him speak.
I'll be speaking on Friday afternoon about bear communities, including my
experiences back from the late 1980s Bear magazine/Lone Star bear crowd
in SF, through my big bear book tour of 2002, and up to the great and
wonderful Bears of Ocean State! Fun visuals and stories – certainly of interest
to bears who feel they belong to this or any bear community.
Friday evening features the bear-inclusive Gay Men's Chorus! I'll also be
participating in the bisexual panel on Saturday.
Please look at the schedule below and support the URI Symposium by
attending. Remember, it's free, you can come to any or all of the events,
although you need to register by filling out a brief form. Well worth the effort!
Pass the word. Thanks, and see you there!
allbest, with bearhugs,
Ron
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THE 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL,
TRANSGENDER, AND QUESTIONING ISSUES will take place March
25-27 at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. All talks are in the Galanti
Lounge on the third floor of the University Library (except where noted).
Thursday at 9:30 a.m., Margaret Cruikshank on “The Disappearance: Lesbian
Feminism In Queer Theory.” At 10:20 a.m., Jason L. Mallory on “Queering
Prison Abolition.” At 11:05 a.m., Alberto S. Galindo on “Deciphering AIDS In
the (Published) Letters of Caio Fernando Abreu.” At 1:30 p.m., Lisa Bowleg,
Amy Black, Kelly Brooks, and Jennifer Huang on “Triple Jeopardy and
Beyond: Multiple Minority Stress and Resilience Among Black Lesbians.” At
2:15 p.m., Lisa Bowleg and Melynda L. Craig on “African American Lesbians
and the Psychological Benefits and Costs of Coming Out.” At 3 p.m., Carole
Seeley on “If Mom's 'Happy-Ever-After' Means Being a Lesbian, What
Happened to the Family?” At 3:45 p.m., Olivier “Michael” L. Vocino on
“Cruising the Web.” At 7 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, a keynote speech by
Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline.
On Friday at 10 a.m., Mac Cunningham and Sandy Reynolds on “Screw the
System Get Your Finances Straight.” At 11 a.m., Sally Ann Hay, Peter Cassels,
Fred Kuhr, and Michael Guy on “Is There Life After the Personal Ads? LGBTQ
Press Not and In the Future.” At 1:30 p.m., “The Lesbian Avengers Transform
'Lesbian' Chic' Into 'Lesbian Activist Chic.' ” At 2:30 p.m., Ron Suresha on
“Bears: A Personal Scrapbook, a Worldwide Community.” At 3:30 p.m., an
open forum on same sex marriage. At 7 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, Seth
Kilbourn, the national field director of the Human Rights Campaign, on
“Counting Votes: Building a Majority for GLBT Equality.” The Providence Gay
Men's Chorus and the Rhode Island Feminist Voices will perform after the
talk.
On Saturday at 10 a.m., an open discussion on queer relationships. At 1:30
p.m., a panel on “Queer Activism Beyond Marriage, Bisexual Perspectives.”
Free. Call 874-2116.
http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/html/03-0311.html
