Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 19:54:41 CST From: "B Walker" *QUEER FRONTIERS* The 5th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles March 23-26 1995 *CALL FOR PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS* Through panel presentations, performances, conversations, and cultural events, QUEER FRONTIERS offers a forum for imagining further horizons in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender debates throughout the disciplines. While California and the West have served in European and American history as the mythic and actual frontier, we hope to engage and question that mythic trajectory from queer, ethnic, and other perspectives. Indeed we might consider what a post-frontier ideology would represent. With the founding of the Mattachine Society and ONE Institute in the early 1950s, Los Angeles served as the birthplace of homophile activism in the U.S., and helped to usher in a powerful international lesbian and gay movement. Today, lesbian and gay filmmakers, artists, and activists continue to push political and social boundaries in Hollywood, shaping the media representations of queer life seen by all of America. In the conference we will draw on both the historical beginnings of the Gay movement and the new frontiers of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender academic work and representation. This conference invites students, activists, performers, and artists from all disciplines to engage in collective discussion of new approaches to queer worldmaking in its broadest, most inclusive sense. Alternative presentation formats are encouraged. *The conference planning committee requests proposals (1-2 pages) for papers and presentations that discuss, interrogate and contest these and other issues on alternative sexuality, for example: ASIAN-AMERICAN SEXUAL POLITICS * BUILDING MOVEMENTS * ACTIVISM/ACADEMIA * QUEER STRAIGHTS * GAY AND LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION * BIPHOBIA * LESBIAN AND GAY PARENTING * TRANSGENDER/TRANSEXUALITY * THEORIZING LESBIAN SEXUALITY * LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORIES * GAY MEN AND AIDS * LESBIANS AND AIDS * LESBIAN AND GAY FILM * FANTASY AND SUBJECTIVITY * SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL NATIONALISMS * PERFORMING IDENTITIES * PROTOQUEER CHILDHOODS * GAY AND LESBIAN HOMELESSNESS * HOMOPHOBIA AND TEEN SUICIDE * HOMOPHOBIA IN HEALTH CARE * EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING HETEROSEXISM * HETEROSEXUAL ALLIES * CHICANO/A SEXUALITY * QUEER THEORY * LESBIAN FEMINISM * GAY MALE FEMINISM * THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY IN ETHNIC STUDIES * RITUALS OF BEREAVEMENT * LEGALIZING SAME-SEX MARRIAGES * ALTERNATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP/LESBIAN AND GAY BUSINESS * ABUSE IN SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS * SEXUALITY IN THE GENDER/CULTURE WARS * LESBIAN AND GAY SEXUALITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA * HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA * BISEXUALITY * LOOKING EAST: ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES * LOOKING WEST: SEXUAL UTOPIAS AND APOCALYPSE **Please send submissions and queries to *Queer Frontiers*, 420 Taper Hall, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354 email brief queries to: meeker@scf.usc.edu DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: DECEMBER 16, 1994 Walker, AIDS History Project Box 0840 UCSF Library SF, CA 94143-0840 (415) 476-4570 voice; 476-4653 fax Walker@library.ucsf.edu