Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 01:17:12 EDT
From: GLAADSFBA@aol.com

August 25, 1994			
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Karen Wickre, DQ, 415-252-6282		
Tom di Maria, GLAAD/SFBA, 415-861-2244
Al Kielwasser, GLAAD/SFBA, 415-826-5203

Digital Queers Gives GLAAD a High-Tech Make-Over !

San Francisco --  Digital Queers, a high tech activist group, will help bring
yet 
another community organization onto the fast lanes of the information
superhighway. 

On Tuesday, September 13, Digital Queers will be holding a benefit to 
technologically-upgrade the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation/San 
Francisco Bay Area Chapter (GLAAD/SFBA).  The benefit will be from 6:00 PM to

10:00 PM at the Delancey Street Town Hall at 600 Embarcadero between Brannan 
and Townsend Streets.  Entertainment will include Morty Okin and his Golden 
Trumpet and Connie Champagne.  A video screening will include segments from 
Seen Anything Good Lately?, The Straight Agenda and The Gay Agenda (there is
a 
$25.00 minimum suggested contribution).

The benefit party has four primary goals:
	1) To upgrade GLAAD chapters nationwide so that each has at least one 	
		complete workstation,
	2) Establish the GLAAD/SFBA chapter as a nationwide communication 	
		hub for GLAAD activities including activist alerts, daily news 		
		reports, inter-chapter communication, media advocacy and 		
		education by building a state of the art electronic publishing 		
		system,
	3) Provide for the services of a project coordinator to install, train and 	
		maintain this network during its formative stages,
	4) Establish an active national GLAAD on-line forum.

Digital Queers is a national organization of computer technology
professionals and 
aficionados serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
through 
service, visibility, and professional and social networking.

GLAAD is a national nonprofit organization working to improve and defend
images 
and depictions of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the media and
throughout our 
popular culture.  Currently, GLAAD chapters are active in eleven cities
across the 
country, and GLAAD/SFBA is the largest local chapter.  
 
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