From: liz@ai.mit.edu (Liz A. Highleyman) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 08:41:20 EDT Message-Id: <9406211241.AA05405@ravenna> To: aaa-web@gnu.ai.mit.edu, bisexu-l@brownvm.brown.edu, stonewall25@queernet.org Subject: Stonewall Alternatives Events listing Here it is, one last time, with a few more events added by request: 6/22 STONEWALL NOW FORUM QUEER LIBERATION: FROM STONEWALL TO ... SELLOUT? ----- ----------- ---- --------- ------ -------- Date: Wednesday, June 22 Time: 6:00-7:00 (networking); 7:00-9:00 p.m. (speakers); 9:00-10:00 (discussion) Place: Washington Square Church Sponsor: Stonewall Now, Queers Against U.S. Militarism Speakers: Colleen Gallagher (War Resisters League) Joan Gibbs (Ctr. for Constitutional Rights) Christine Lipat (Phillipine L&G Organization) Gabriella Network (Phillipine women's organization) Jeremiah Newton (Gay Liberation front, present at 1969 Stonewall riot) Leslie Feinburg (author, ``Stone Butch Blues'') Rita ``Bo'' Brown (former political prisoner) (from the flyer) We are Queers who are concerned about the glorification of the U.S. military, as evidenced by the three gay and lesbian dances planned for the U.S. Intrepid (battleship) over the Stonewall 25 weekend. Other aspects of the commercialization of Stonewall trouble us as well. We want to provide an opportunity for Stonewall veterans and other Queer activists to speak out about what the spirit of Stonewall means to us today. Topics like: empowerment, feminism, confronting racism, celebrating our queer diversity, and opposing the U.S. military instead of begging for inclusion. We will also discuss networking and improving communication among the radical queer community. For more info call 212-642-8451 ********************************************************************* 6/23 LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB FORUM ANARCHISM AND ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITY --------- --- ----------- --------- Date: Thursday, June 23 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Penn South Community Room 7A, 330 W. 28th St. (btwn 8th & 9th Aves.) New York City Sponsor: the Libertarian Book Club Anarchists have a long history of interest and involvement in issues of sexuality, gender and relationships; unlike those of many other political persuasions, anarchists have felt that these issues are too important to wait until ``after the revolution,'' but rather must be an integral part of our work to create the type of societies we want to live in now. How are modern-day anarchism and sexual liberation struggles connected? Are sexual repression and authoritarianism related? How can anarchists relate to the mainstream gay and lesbian movement, and how can we address that movement's focus on issues such as the military, marriage and consumerism? How can we build a more broadly-focused sexual and gender liberation movement that will benefit people of *all* orientations, genders and relationship preferences (not just monogamous homosexual couples). Can anarchists and others who are interested in smashing prevailing paradigms broaden discussions about sexuality and gender beyond the dualistic ``gay versus straight'' and ``male/masculine versus female/feminine'' frameworks? What might be the place in an ``ideal society'' for alternative sexual preferences and practices that are stigmatized today (for example pornography and prostitution)? How can we reconcile a desire for sexual freedom with a desire to end exploitation of all types? This discussion will be presented by Liz Highleyman, a writer and activist who has been involved in issues of sexuality, gender, AIDS etc., and has written about these topics for ``Anarchy'', ``Love & Rage'' and ``Fifth Estate'' magazines and the bisexual anthology ``Bi Any Other Name.'' This forum will not be a typical ``lecture'' but rather a participatory discussion. The forum will not focus on only gay and lesbian issues -- people of all orientations, genders and proclivities are welcome. Changing the way our society thinks about sex, sexuality, gender and initimate relationships is a project that rightly concerns everyone! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 6/24 HOMOCORE -------- Date: June 24 Time: 6:00pm Place: ABC NO RIO, 156 Rivington Street, on the Lower East Side ("F" train to Delancy Str) ARTLESS H.W.A. (Homos With Attitudes) I.C.U. (Intensive Care Unit) THRUST and the ever popular T.B.A. Time: 10:00pm Place: Collective Unconscious (aka Gargoyle), 28 Ave. B, also on the Lower East Side DOUBLE ZERO VITAPOP CHEESECAKE For further information call on Stonewall Weekend Only: 875-7039 for weekend only! For a recorded message of all punk-related activities during the Stonewall week, you can call the OPEC-SID hotline at: 212-673-2743. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 6/25 DYKES AGAINST THE RIGHT/LAGAI MEETING ------------------------------------- Date: Saturday, June 25 Time: 1:00pm Place: 339 Lafayette Str., AJ Muste Room (3rd floor). Closest subway stops are Broadway-Lafayette stop and W 4th stop Sponsor: DAR & LAGAI Dykes Against the Right (DAR), Seattle and LAGAI (Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention), San Francisco are holding a meeting for Radical Dykes. We're meeting to talk about what we are doing and can do to strengthen our community, fight racism, the right wing, militarism, classism, sexism...(you know the list). We won't have much time but maybe we can make some connections, and create a network or newsletter for future communication! SPIRIT OF STONEWALL FORUM ------ -- --------- ----- Date: Saturday, June 25 Time: 3-6:00 p.m. Place: Irving Plaza (near Union Square) Sponsor: Steam Magazine, On Our Backs Magazine, Spirit of Stonewall. A celebratory forum of speakers, discussion and sexual entertainment, including: Harry Hay Joan Nestle Annie Sprinkle Samuel Delaney Harry Hay Scott O'Hara Strip performaces, s/m demo and more! $10 -- benefit for a lesbian safer sex project (excerpts from Spirit of Stonewall flyer) Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) calls on Stonewall 25 and the gay and lesbian movement to return to its roots. The Christopher Street uprising was an outcry by those at the bottom and on the margins of society against puritanical self-righteousness and bigotry. It was a cry for full sexual liberation as part of the struggle for social justice. Stonewall was the spontaneous action of marginal people oppressed by the mainstream - of teenaged drag queens, pederasts, transsexuals, hustlers, and others despised by respectable straights and "discreet" homosexuals. They did not call for their rights, they seized their own freedom. They did not ask for integration into middle-class America, they screamed against its pretensions of propriety. Spirit of Stonewall is an ad hoc committee of lesbian, gay and other individuals and groups formed to bring Stonewall 25 back to the principles of gay liberation. We focus on one of the most glaring departures from those principles: the attempt to exclude the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and possibly other groups, from the Stonewall 25 March and from their place within gay/lesbian space and discourse.... We find this the height of hypocrisy - to invoke the name of Stonewall to cast out the alleged molesters among us. The issue is not, first of all, intergenerational sex... SOS takes no stand specifically on age of consent laws or sex between adults and those deemed legally "children." The issues that now confront Stonewall 25 are free speech, free association and inclusiveness. SIGNED: Harry Hay, Pat Califia, Gayle Rubin, Chris Bearchell, Scott O'Hara, Charley Shively, David Thorstad, Tom Reeves, Jim Becker and many more STONEWALL NOW ACTION --------- --- ------ Date: Saturday, June 25 Time: 10:00 p.m. Place: Sheridan Square, Greenwich Village Sponsor: Stonewall Now An action in the spirit of the Stonewall Rebellion. PRE-ACTION MEETING: Friday June 24 at 6:00pm Place TBA -- call 212-802-8219 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 6/26 SPIRIT OF STONEWALL CONTINGENT ------ -- --------- ---------- Date: Sunday, June 26 Time & Place: TBA Sponsor: Spirit of Stonewall There will be a contingent in the main march on Sunday June 26 for all who support an inclusive, non-assimilationist gay and lesbian movement and oppose exclusion of marginal groups. SOS will attempt to take an alternative march route from the Stonewall Inn in Sheridan Square to join the ``official'' route at the U.N.; SOS is rallying other radical and anti-assimilationist groups (such as ACT UP) to join in the alternative march. Probable SOS marchers include Harry Hay, Camille Paglia, Gayle Rubin, members of Outpunk magazine and groups from the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. HOMOCORE -- SUNDAY NIGHT JUNE 26 -------- Date: 26 June Time: 10:00pm Place: Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston St. GOD IS MY COPILOT WISE ACRE VAGINAL CREAM DAVIS For further information call on Stonewall Weekend Only: 875-7039 for weekend only! For a recorded message of all punk-related activities during the Stonewall week, you can call the OPEC-SID hotline at: 212-673-2743. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DATES/TIMES/PLACES TBA QUASM DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST U.S. MILITARISM (AND THE GAY/LESBIAN COMMUNITY'S GLORIFICATION OF IT) ---- --- ----------- ----------- ------------- -- --- Date, Time & Place: TBA Sponsor: Queers Against U.S. Militarism Plan are in the works for demonstrations against ``Operation World Pride,'' ``A Few Thousand Good Men'' and ``Big Guns Over Manhattan'', the series of large mainstream gay and lesbian benefit dances being held on the Intrepid, a retired battleship (famous for its role in the Vietnam war, now a military museum showing an exhibit on the U.S. ``liberation'' of Kuwait). Although the benefits support good causes, including AIDS funding, many members of ACT UP and direct service groups oppose the use of Intrepid as a party site. For more info, call QAUSM at 212-642-8451 or contact allan@virtualx.com (please put QUASM is subject field).