Hi, girls! Just before next week's Gay Games, New York will host a fabbo 
one-day conference on queer sports issues. Amazingly enough, I'm giving a 
speech there! It'll be a rip-roarer, too, with good pithy analysis and tons
o' 
sexy slides. Here's the poop on the whole day:


The First International Gay Games Congress
of Athletes, Arts & Sciences

Date: Friday June 17th
Baruch College, City University of New York
17 Lexington Ave. @ 23rd St., Room 306
Registration: 10:00
Introduction: 10:30 to 10:45
Speeches are usually 20 minutes long after that.
(I don't know if there's an admission charge-- I asked twice and have
received 
no answer.)

Brenda Pitts, [affiliation unknown]: "Leagues of their own: Growth and 
development of lesbian and gay sports in America"

Mary Kalyna, Pittsburgh, and Ann Neale, London: "Overcoming barriers of 
participation of lesbians in sports and fitness."

Jim Genasci, Springfield Coll. Multimedia Project: "Lesbian and gay
athletes 
who enrich the world."

Pat Griffin, U. Mass.: "Using a video curriculum to address homophobia in 
women's athletics."

David Cheng, Baruch Coll., CUNY: "Multiculturalism and stereotyping."

Lillian Morrison, author of _The Sidewalk Racer_, _The Break Dance Kids_, 
etc.: Various poetry readings.

Vikki Krane, Bowling Green State Coll., Lee Ann Werner, and Mary Beth
Liebold: 
"Athletes' attitudes about gays, lesbians and bisexuals in sport."

Gary N. Reese, sportswriter, _Texas Triangle_: "Issues facing gay athletes
and 
media coverage."

Joe Clark [that's me!]: "Jox Appeal: Homoeroticism and denial in sports 
media." [I'm on at 13:50 hours.]

Elinor Nauen, author, _Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend_: Readings of
poetry 
and stories on women and their relationship to baseball.

Cornelia Muth, Freie University, Berlin: "Body awareness among women in
sports 
organizations."

Joan C. Gondola, Baruch Coll., CUNY: "A study of lesbians competing in Gay
Games III."

Patricia Nell Warren: Some speech, probably from her new book, _Harlan's
Race_ 
(sequel to _The Front Runner_)

A presentation from the Women's Sports Foundation.

Mariah Burton Nelson presents from her book _The Stronger Women Get, the
More 
Men Love Football_, followed by a book signing [!].

Sportswriter, analysts, and journalists panel, featuring Robert Lipsyte,
_New 
York Times_; Jacquie Bishop, AIDS activist/freelancer; me, Joe Clark; Gary
N. 
Reese; Marjorie J. Hill, psychologist and former lesbian & gay liaison to
Mayor 
Dinkins; Bob Nelson. [This ought to be fabbo.] Topic: "The representation
of 
gay and lesbian athletes in the media."


See you there!
-- 


                                           Joe Clark
                                      joeclark@scilink.org