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Contents, QueerE #80, November 16, 1999:

STUDENTS:

During this preregistration time, have you been trying to figure outwhat courses in the 5 College area contain GLBTcontent? It is easy now!Just check out the on-line version of the Five College GLBT CourseGuide at http://www.umass.edu/stonewall/5_college_guide.htm.

This guide is prepared by the GLBT Academic Concerns Committeeof the Chancellor's Task Force on GLBT Matters, in conjunction withThe Stonewall Center.

INSTRUCTORS:

Are you teaching spring courses that contain GLBT content? Checkthe guide at http://www.umass.edu/stonewall/5_college_guide.htmto see if your course is already listed. If it isn't, please email thedescription and relevant information to Donnie Roberts at TheStonewall Center at dcr@stuaf.umass.edu to be posted to the site.
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QueerE #80, November 16, 1999 Contents:

Events:

RESPOND TO RAPE: TAKE BACK THE POND - SAFETY FOR ALL, TODAY, 12:30-2:30 PM
MISMEASURE OF DESIRE, ED STEIN LBGT STUDIES LECTURE, 11/18, 12:30 PM
SPRINGFIELD G&L CIVIC ASSOC. MEETING "AFTER STONEWALL", 11/18, 5:30- on
QUINTESSENTIALLY QUEER CAFE, NOVEMBER 18, 7-10 PM
THIS NEW DANCE NOW, 11/18, 7:00 pm
RIGHTWATCH VIDEO SERIES: "ONE NATION UNDER GOD," 11/18, 7 PM
1999 FENWAY DINNER PARTY VOLUNTEER EVENT, NOVEMBER 18, 1999, 7 P.M.

STAGED READING OF NEW SCREENPLAY STARRING LOCALS, 11/21, 4 PM
FOOD FOR THOUGHT READING SERIES: NOHO POET JANET AALFS, 11/21, 2 PM
ROM SINNER TO CITIZEN: AN OVERVIEW OF SWEDISH AND SCANDINAVIAN GAY
HISTORY TALK BY JENS RYDSTRM, 11/22, 7 PM
WORLD AIDS DAY CAFE: PERFORMANCE POET CLARA SALA, 12/1, 7:30 PM

Announcements:

ARTIST CALL: BEAR ICONS: PHASE II EXHIBITITION MARCH 4-19, 2000
WEBSITE FOR VERMONT AND NH LBT WOMEN
VALLEY QUEER FORUM NOW UP AND RUNNING
CALLING ALL LOCAL ARTISTS AND WRITERS:
CALL FOR PAPERS, SPEAKERS, AND PRESENTATIONS:
WHAT MAKES A MAN?--QUEER MASCULINITIES (AND OTHER
ALTERNATIVES TO "THE HEGEMONIC MALE"), April 20-23, 2000
HELP DEFINE "HAVING SEX" FOR GLB PEOPLE
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RESPOND TO RAPE: TAKE BACK THE POND - SAFETY FOR ALL, TODAY, 12:30-2:30 PM

There have been two rapes at the Campus Center pond at UMasson the last two Tuesdays. Last year there were 192 reportedincidents of sexual violence on this campus, including 28 rapesor attempted rapes.

Please Come to the Rally and Support A Safe Community

Tuesday, November 16th from 12:30-2:30 at the NortheastCorner of the Campus Pond.

For additional information call Everywoman's Center @545-0883or email smandel@admin.umass.edu.

MISMEASURE OF DESIRE, ED STEIN LBGT STUDIES LECTURE, 11/18, 12:30 PM

Edward Stein holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from M.I.T. and has taught atYale University, New York University, and Mount Holyoke College. Hewill present on his new book, "The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science,Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation." November 18, Room 804-08

SPRINGFIELD G&L CIVIC ASSOC. MEETING "AFTER STONEWALL", 11/18, 5:30- on

After Stonewall tells the story of a community that forever changed the wayAmerica and the world would view not only its homosexuals but itself, andbegin questioning its own fundamental values with regard to family, work,religion and relationships.

You saw their film on PBS, now come hear their story. We are proud topresent two very special speakers: John Scagliotti, Executive Producer andDan Hunt, Co-Producer and Editor. What did they experience in makingthe Films Before / After Stonewall? How did they put it together?

When: Thursday, November 18th, 1999 At the Old Storrowton Tavern
Big E Fairgrounds, W. Springfield, MA

Social Hour 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Speakers 6:30 PM to 7:15 PM, Dinner 7PM

$17.00 for Dues Paying Members, $20.00 for Non Dues Paying Members
Dinner * Chance to meet new friends * Hear Great Speakers*

November is the Civic Association's Toy Drive month. Please bring anunwrapped toy. The agency that will benefit from this years toy drive isBetween Family & Friends.

For more information you can browse our web page at
http://members.aol.com/GLCivicAsn/index.html

QUINTESSENTIALLY QUEER CAFE, NOVEMBER 18, 7-10 PM

The Stonewall Center is pleased to present our annual, QuintessentiallyQueer Caf, a showcase of 5-college queer expression. Seeking singersto sing, performers to perform, writers and poets to read and so on. If you'vegot an itch to perform, this could be your calling... Could the caf beYOUR big break?

Come as performer or just to check it out,Thursday, November 18th, from7-10pm at the Graduate Student Lounge, at the Campus Center. For moredetails or to sign up to perform (some slots still available)call Aaron Hans at545-4824.

THIS NEW DANCE NOW, 11/18, 7:00 pm

In an effort to bring individuals together in solidarity against the deathpenalty, Edward Bartok-Baratta, an established poet and survivor ofchildhood abuse, will recite poems of loss, grief, love, and forgiveness.A community dialogue will follow. Thursday, November 18, 7:00 pm,First Churches. Main St. Northampton. Art and Social Justice SeriesContact: Katy Ryan 585-5841

RIGHTWATCH VIDEO SERIES: "ONE NATION UNDER GOD," 11/18, 7 PM

Explores the world of "ex-gay" ministries, "conversion" therapies andtechniques used to "straighten out" homosexuals. Focuses on two formermale leaders of an ex-gay ministry who fall in love with each other. A filmby Teodora Maniaci and Francine M. Rzeznik. Executive Producer ZinkaBenton.

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999
Time 7:00 p.m.
Location: Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence 220 Main St., Northampton

Cosponsored by the Peace and Justice Committee of the Unitarian SocietyCall for more information: (413) 585 - 1293

1999 FENWAY DINNER PARTY VOLUNTEER EVENT, NOVEMBER 18, 1999, 7 P.M.

Kettle Cafe, 288 Columbus Ave, Boston (between Berkeley & Clarendon)

You made the 1999 Fenway Dinner Party a success! This year more than 1200women attended the Dinner Party, the largest event of its kind in New England.

As we begin the real planning for The Dinner Party 2000, we are looking forvolunteers. There are many committees, such as Silent Auction, Promotion,and Table Captains, that can use your skills and enthusiasm. When youvolunteer you not only play a huge role in the outcome of the event, it isalso a wonderful way to meet other women in the community. Join us at theVolunteer Party to find out how you can become involved.

If you cannot make the Volunteer Party, but would like to help, pleasecontact us by the email addresses below . Thank you for your support andwe look forward to working with you and seeing you, in your absolute finest,on May 20, 2000.

The Dinner Party is the primary fund raising event held by the Women's CareFund at Fenway Community Health. The purpose of the Fund is to maintain andexpand the variety of services available to women. By your ongoing support,you are helping women with limited financial resources to access an array ofquality medical and mental health services. The Fund also provides supportgroups as well as educational programs.

Thanks for your support and hope to see you there! The Fenway DinnerParty co-chairs, Kirsten af Klinteberg (Kirsten_afklinteberg@dfci.harvard.edu)& Gail Ponzek (GPonzek@aol.com)

STAGED READING OF NEW SCREENPLAY STARRING LOCALS, 11/21, 4 PM

WHO: Screenwriter Tzivia Gover; Director/Actor Van Farrier; Actors JeannineHaas, Julie Waggoner, James Emery, Lesla Newman, Mary Vazquez and DavidWolgin
WHAT: TO THE CHAPEL: A COMEDY OF GENDERS Screenplay Reading
WHERE: Third Floor Theater, Thornes Marketplace, Northampton
WHEN: Sunday, November 21, 4 p.m.
COST: Free, but donations will be gratefully accepted

Let's face it. Some of the best screenplays ever written have yet to be seenon the silver screen. So, in order to introduce her award-winning romanticcomedy to the public while she waits for her big break in Hollywood, writerand editor Tzivia Gover has organized a reading of her screenplay, TOTHE CHAPEL: A COMEDY OF GENDERS.

In addition to being the first public reading of Gover's script, the event,slated for Sunday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m., will be a showcase for local talent,including director and actor Van Farrier, and actors Jeannine Haas, JulieWaggoner and James Emery. The supporting cast includes Lesla Newman,Mary Vazquez and David Wolgin.

TO THE CHAPEL is a feature-length romantic comedy about a lesbian couple onthe verge of tying the knot -- and the man who comes between them. Thescreenplay was named a semi-finalist in the Massachusetts Film Officecompetition.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT READING SERIES: NOHO POET JANET AALFS, 11/21, 2 PM

November 21, 2 PM Northampton resident and poet Janet Aalfs reads from her3rd collection of poetry called Reach.

FROM SINNER TO CITIZEN: AN OVERVIEW OF SWEDISH AND SCANDINAVIAN GAYHISTORY TALK BY JENS RYDSTRM, 11/22, 7 PM

Coming all the way from Sweden, Jens Rydstrm, a co-author on a major newstudy on homosexuality in the city of Stockholm, Sweden will be presenting"From Sinner to Citizen: An Overview of Swedish and Scandinavian GayHistory." November 22nd, at 7pm, in the Campus Center Room 917.Jens is a Doctoral Student at University of Stockholm, studying malehomosexuality in Sweden from 1880-1980. He also works within a projectcalled State and Individual in the Welfare State, which is funded by theTercentennial Fund of the Swedish National Bank. His main reasoning forfocusing his study mainly on male homosexuality is that in Sweden between1880 and 1950, only 11 individuals out of the 2000 charged with homosexual"crimes" were women.

WORLD AIDS DAY CAFE: PERFORMANCE POET CLARA SALA, 12/1, 7:30 PM

Join us in Remembrance of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1st 1999, by joining usfor a performance of spoken word and poetry, at the Graduate StudentLounge, in the Campus Center, starting at 7:30 pm. Our featured poet,activist, actress, is Clara Sala. She will be performing her works onissues of living with HIV, race and other issues. This event isco-sponsored by Health Education and Outreach Program - UniversityHealth Services.

Announcements:

ARTIST CALL: BEAR ICONS: PHASE II EXHIBITITION MARCH 4-19, 2000

Phase II Installation, expanding and elaborating on the Premiere exhibition,to include photography, two-dimensional art media (oil, pencil, engraving,pen and ink, and other), and historical artifacts. Aesthetic objects includefine-arts portraiture, commercial erotica, documentary photography,cartoon art, CAD and virtual images, as well as historical artifacts,created andfound, involved in the defining, dissemination, and construction of what isperhaps the worlds first truly global Siberia community. We hope to continueto introduce emerging artists as well as feature established artists workingeither with bear-related themes or from a bear-artist perspective regardlessof subject matter).

The first installation featured noted photographers John Rand, Mark I.Chester,TJ Norris, Lynn Ludwig, Paul Roberts, Agostino Bianchi; artists Tony C. Brown,Anthony Weir, Dwayne Bryk, Neil Bruce, Mike Thorn, David Grieg, cartoonistsAli Lopez, Richard Braswell, A. M. Angell, and others.

The Phase II exhibition will include additional historical and culturalartifacts,including the Bear Sex campaign by Alan Nyitray (included in Phase I); theearly nineteenth-century scandal over Joseph Palmer "Persecuted for theWearing of the Beard"; a focus on San Francisco-based Bear-A-Tones acapella quintet ands other current bear musicians; bear vanity plates photoessay, and other artifacts form the Bear History Project archival collection.

Natural target audiences for this show would include: self-identifying gaybearsand bear clubs; the gay community; those segments of the art world involvedin sexuality, transgressive art, emergent (sub) genres; academics in thefieldsof g/l/b/t/-queer studies, gender studies, mens studies, culturalanthropology,art collectors and gay community historians.

Please send inquires, proposals, or submissions to Les Wright atcodybear@bearhistory.com or at PO Box 926, Fitchburg, MA 01420. Pleaseinclude phtostat, reprints, slides or original artwork with you query, no laterthan November 19, 1999. Updates will be posted at http://www.bearhistory.com.

WEBSITE FOR VERMONT AND NH LBT WOMEN

The Upper Valley women's group, Amelia's, is now keeping a current calendarand announcements site for LBT women from VT and NH on the net athttp://www.barney.org/amelias/index.html . This appears to be the onlysuch site on the net for NH & VT. Our aim is to cover events from the NHseacoast to Burlington, from Brattleboro to the Connecticut Lakes,concentrating on the Manchester- Plymouth-Montpelier-Brattleboro areas .

In order to make this work, YOU have to send info to us to post. So pleasesend your group's info to us at this address and we will post it on oursite. Thanks a lot!

PS. you may not be aware that the Gay Info Line of NH has recentlypublished a resource directory for the GLBT community of VT and NH. It'sonly $5 plush S&H. Email me for more info.

VALLEY QUEER FORUM NOW UP AND RUNNING

Wondering where to begin in the world wide web of forums? Why not startlocal: The LGBT Forum, the newest networking tool for the valley queercommunity has arrived. Looking for a great place to shoot the breeze, blowoff steam, talk about the local issues? Find out the latest at the LGBTForum.

Check us out: http://www.masslive.com/forums/lgbt
(Or just log on the masslive.com, go to the forums list and click on LGBTforum.)

CALLING ALL LOCAL ARTISTS AND WRITERS:

Are you a Western Massachusetts based GLBTQ Artist or Writer?Do you have a web site exhibiting your work? If you do, we wouldlike to add your link to the http://www.queerhamp.org web site. Weare collecting links on our web site to show off the artistic segmentof the local GLBTQ community. If you have a page you would likeus to consider, please send us a note including the address of thesite to info@queerhamp.org. Thanks!

CALL FOR PAPERS, SPEAKERS, AND PRESENTATIONS:
WHAT MAKES A MAN?--QUEER MASCULINITIES (AND OTHERALTERNATIVES TO "THE HEGEMONIC MALE"), April 20-23, 2000

Mount Ida College, Newton Centre, MA 02459

Interested individuals and groups are encouraged to submitproposals for papers, workshops, presentations, speakers, orother program suggestions for a "Queer Masculinities"conference to be held April 20-23, 1999
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The aim of the conference is to serve as an interdisciplinary andmulticultural symposium to address theoretical and practical issues,to provide an environment for engaged dialog among those onthe margins of the sexual debates, among those who have nottraditionally dialoged with each other, and to explore togethernon-traditional perspectives on masculinity. Participants aresought from both community-based and academic communities,affiliated and independent scholars, social-action orientedorganizations, and other interested folk.

Ideally, the conference will be highly interdisciplinary, mixing highand low discourses and analyses, class and community dynamics,cross-cultural perspectives, feminist, transgender, hypermasculinist,androgynous, non-Western concepts and issues, real or illusoryshifts in "the postmodern man," new male heterosexualities,contextualizing mens issues within queer and feminist genderstudies, such as the etiology and role of male violence,developmental psychology issues for queer men, spiritualdimensions of male sexuality, the male body as consumer object,ethnicities of masculinity, alternative communities, and other class,race and ethnicity, social, legal, ethical, spiritual, sexual, or aestheticconcerns.

Organizers are currently exploring publishing possibilities, co-sponsors,and organizing flashes of insight. This conference will be preceded bythe Bear IconsPhase II exhibit in early March and both are part of the"Remaking Men Program, Spring 2000," an initial exploration in thefuture development of a Gender Studies program at Mount Ida College,to include Womens Studies, Mens Studies, and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual/Transgender Studies. Project Director Les Wright, Associate Professorof Humanities, is editor of The Bear Book (1997), Bear Book II (2000),curator of Bear Icons (New York City, April 1999), founder of two gayhistorical archives, and author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews.He is an active scholar of Gay Studies (Bear History Project, San FranciscoGay History), Sexology, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, CulturalAnthropology, Traumatology and Thanatology, German, and Russian).

Deadline: January 10, 2000

HELP DEFINE "HAVING SEX" FOR GLB PEOPLE

What does it mean when you say two people of the same sex "had sex?" Iam a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at IndianaUniversity who is trying to answer this exact question. This question isimportant for many reasons including epidemiological studies of GLBpeople, and more simply it is important so that we as a GLB communitycan understand our sexuality. To help answer this question, please go tohttp://www.indiana.edu/~sexquest and take the short, on-line survey. Thesurvey will take approximately 5 minutes.

Brian Mustanski, Indiana University Department of PsychologySexquest@indiana.edu

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Donnie Roberts, Assistant Director, The Stonewall Center
Crampton House/SW, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-4824, 413-545-6667 - fax, http://www.umass.edu/stonewall

To join QueerE, a listserv of LBGT activities/information for queer WesternMassachusetts, email:queer-e-request@stuaf.umass.edu.
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