Event of interest...for Thurs. Anyone up for a little edumacation?
This was forwarded to me by a professor friend. It's happening on Thursday in DC. I hope I can make it.
>> "Gay Is Good": Stonewall-Era Activism in Washington, DC.
>>
>> The kick-off event in the seventh annual lecture series in LGBT
>> Studies at the University of Maryland, this roundtable discussion
>> will be moderated by Mark Meinke of the Rainbow History Project and
>> will feature veteran LGBT activists and community historians of the
>> Washington, D.C., area, including Dr. Frank Kameny, who founded the
>> Mattachine Society of Washington and coined the slogan "Gay is
>> good." Free and open to the public. Reception to follow discussion.
>>
>> Thursday, February 12, 2009
>> 5:00pm - 7:00pm
>> Art-Sociology 2309
>>
>> Mark Meinke, moderator
>>
>> As a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, Mark Meinke lived abroad
>> for most of his early adult life in Lebanon, Egypt, and Kuwait.
>> When he returned to the U.S., Meinke co-founded The Rainbow History
>> Project in 2000 with Bruce Pennington after noticing a lack of
>> historical preservation of D.C. gay activism. Collecting oral
>> histories, archiving social geographies, and creating intricate
>> timelines, Meinke has made it a priority to preserve and promote
>> LGBT voices in order to put D.C. back on the map in terms of gay
>> history.
>>
>> Joan Biren, speaker
>>
>> Joan E. Biren, also known as JEB, is a documentary artist who for
>> more than twenty years has been photographing, publishing, and
>> producing videos that chronicle the lives and times of lesbian and
>> gay people. As president of Moonforce Media, Biren has released
>> films that challenge people to work for social justice, such as
>> Lesbian Physicians on Practice, Patients and Power and For Love and
>> for Life: The 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
>> Her photographic work is housed in the collection of the Library of
>> Congress and has been exhibited at Lincoln Center in New York.
>>
>> Carlene Cheatam, speaker
>>
>> Affectionately known as the "queen mother," Carlene Cheatam has
>> worked for 30 years as an LGBT community organizer in the D.C.
>> area. As a member of Sapphire Sapphos, the Gay Activists Alliance,
>> and various other organizations, Cheatam has continually
>> demonstrated the importance of networking and making connections
>> between various communities. She was not only integral in
>> organizing the P Street Beach festival (later to become Capital
>> Pride), but later led the efforts to establish the Black Pride
>> festival. In 2004, she was presented with the Wellmore Cook
>> leadership award for her work with the D.C. Coalition of Black
>> Lesbians and Gays and her years of organizing.
>>
>> Frank Kameny, speaker
>>
>> Dr. Frank Kameny is one of the most public figures in theLGBT
>> rights movement. As co-founder of the Mattachine Society of
>> Washington, an organization that pressed aggressively for gay and
>> lesbian civil rights, Kameny brought a different energy to the gay
>> civil rights movement. He began efforts to reverse the
>> classification by the American Psychiatric Association of
>> homosexuality as a mental illness, helped launch the first public
>> protests by gays and lesbians with a picket line at the White House
>> in 1965, and drawing from Black activist slogans, coined the
>> phrase, "Gay is Good." Within the political sphere, Kameny began
>> the effort to overturn sodomy laws in 1963 and in 1971 became the
>> first openly gay candidate for the U.S. Congress.
>>
>> Boden Sandstrom, speaker
>>
>> Dr. Boden Sandstrom is a lecturer at the University of Maryland
>> specializing in gender studies and world popular music. She helped
>> to create The Second Wave, a feminist journal, and is the owner and
>> co-founder of Woman Sound Inc. (now City Sound Productions), one of
>> the first all-women sound companies. As a sound engineer and
>> producer in a male-dominated music industry, Sandstrom co-produced
>> a documentary, "Radical Harmonies," about an underground women's
>> music network that emerged during the Second Wave of feminism.
>> Sandstrom has also won the Philip Brett Award sponsored by the Gay
>> and Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Association
>> for exceptional musicological work in the field of LGBT Studies.
>>
>> For the full schedule of events in 69/09: The Queer Afterlives of
>> Stonewall, please visit http://www.lgbts.umd.edu/lectureseries.html.
>>
>> We are grateful to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its
>> support of the series. Additional sponsors include the departments
>> of American Studies, English, and Theatre, the Clarice Smith
>> Performing Arts Center, and the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center
>> for Historical Studies in the Department of History.
>> --
>> Marilee Lindemann
>> Associate Professor, English
>> Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
>> University of Maryland
>> 301.405.6349
>> www.lgbts.umd.edu
>>
>> "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our
>> country." Abraham Lincoln (1862)
>> "Gay Is Good": Stonewall-Era Activism in Washington, DC.
>>
>> The kick-off event in the seventh annual lecture series in LGBT
>> Studies at the University of Maryland, this roundtable discussion
>> will be moderated by Mark Meinke of the Rainbow History Project and
>> will feature veteran LGBT activists and community historians of the
>> Washington, D.C., area, including Dr. Frank Kameny, who founded the
>> Mattachine Society of Washington and coined the slogan "Gay is
>> good." Free and open to the public. Reception to follow discussion.
>>
>> Thursday, February 12, 2009
>> 5:00pm - 7:00pm
>> Art-Sociology 2309
>>
>> Mark Meinke, moderator
>>
>> As a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, Mark Meinke lived abroad
>> for most of his early adult life in Lebanon, Egypt, and Kuwait.
>> When he returned to the U.S., Meinke co-founded The Rainbow History
>> Project in 2000 with Bruce Pennington after noticing a lack of
>> historical preservation of D.C. gay activism. Collecting oral
>> histories, archiving social geographies, and creating intricate
>> timelines, Meinke has made it a priority to preserve and promote
>> LGBT voices in order to put D.C. back on the map in terms of gay
>> history.
>>
>> Joan Biren, speaker
>>
>> Joan E. Biren, also known as JEB, is a documentary artist who for
>> more than twenty years has been photographing, publishing, and
>> producing videos that chronicle the lives and times of lesbian and
>> gay people. As president of Moonforce Media, Biren has released
>> films that challenge people to work for social justice, such as
>> Lesbian Physicians on Practice, Patients and Power and For Love and
>> for Life: The 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
>> Her photographic work is housed in the collection of the Library of
>> Congress and has been exhibited at Lincoln Center in New York.
>>
>> Carlene Cheatam, speaker
>>
>> Affectionately known as the "queen mother," Carlene Cheatam has
>> worked for 30 years as an LGBT community organizer in the D.C.
>> area. As a member of Sapphire Sapphos, the Gay Activists Alliance,
>> and various other organizations, Cheatam has continually
>> demonstrated the importance of networking and making connections
>> between various communities. She was not only integral in
>> organizing the P Street Beach festival (later to become Capital
>> Pride), but later led the efforts to establish the Black Pride
>> festival. In 2004, she was presented with the Wellmore Cook
>> leadership award for her work with the D.C. Coalition of Black
>> Lesbians and Gays and her years of organizing.
>>
>> Frank Kameny, speaker
>>
>> Dr. Frank Kameny is one of the most public figures in theLGBT
>> rights movement. As co-founder of the Mattachine Society of
>> Washington, an organization that pressed aggressively for gay and
>> lesbian civil rights, Kameny brought a different energy to the gay
>> civil rights movement. He began efforts to reverse the
>> classification by the American Psychiatric Association of
>> homosexuality as a mental illness, helped launch the first public
>> protests by gays and lesbians with a picket line at the White House
>> in 1965, and drawing from Black activist slogans, coined the
>> phrase, "Gay is Good." Within the political sphere, Kameny began
>> the effort to overturn sodomy laws in 1963 and in 1971 became the
>> first openly gay candidate for the U.S. Congress.
>>
>> Boden Sandstrom, speaker
>>
>> Dr. Boden Sandstrom is a lecturer at the University of Maryland
>> specializing in gender studies and world popular music. She helped
>> to create The Second Wave, a feminist journal, and is the owner and
>> co-founder of Woman Sound Inc. (now City Sound Productions), one of
>> the first all-women sound companies. As a sound engineer and
>> producer in a male-dominated music industry, Sandstrom co-produced
>> a documentary, "Radical Harmonies," about an underground women's
>> music network that emerged during the Second Wave of feminism.
>> Sandstrom has also won the Philip Brett Award sponsored by the Gay
>> and Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Association
>> for exceptional musicological work in the field of LGBT Studies.
>>
>> For the full schedule of events in 69/09: The Queer Afterlives of
>> Stonewall, please visit http://www.lgbts.umd.edu/lectureseries.html.
>>
>> We are grateful to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its
>> support of the series. Additional sponsors include the departments
>> of American Studies, English, and Theatre, the Clarice Smith
>> Performing Arts Center, and the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center
>> for Historical Studies in the Department of History.
>> --
>> Marilee Lindemann
>> Associate Professor, English
>> Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
>> University of Maryland
>> 301.405.6349
>> www.lgbts.umd.edu
>>
>> "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our
>> country." Abraham Lincoln (1862)