From: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:28:22 -0500 Subject: Yale Keynote ******************** MEDIA RELEASE************************ Keynote address at opening of Yale University's Gay Pride Week Sunday, April 2, 1995 1:00 PM Cross Square (outdoors) at Yale University New Haven, CT Contact: K Robbins @ (804) 887-5407 _________________________________ Don Davis, the newest member of the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and one of the only Board members who has lived and worked exclusively in rural America, will be presenting the keynote address at Yale's Gay Pride Celebration on Sunday, April 2, 1995 in New Haven, CT. In his address, Don will call for a reassessment of our community's true goals and true enemies in the ongoing battle to secure equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. He will bring an indictment against those urban queers who have abandoned the far larger constituency of rural and suburban queers for lives of comfort and supposed safety in the gay ghettos. He will call for an end to the Uncle Tom'ing that is a rampant toxin withing certain sectors of our community. Don will speak about the shift that has brought rural queers out of the stagnant shadow of our city-living brothers and sisters. He will call for a recognition that it is on the streets of Everytown, USA, and not only in the ghettos of San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles that our community is making its most important strides. Don has been self-identified as "queer" since he came out at the age of 20 and was disowned by his "religious" family. His keynote message will call for an end to in-fighting amongst the ranks of queer America and a recognition that not only is our fundamental struggle not over, it's only just picking up speed. ----------------------------------------- On-line interviews may be arranged by contacting Don Davis directly at DDavisVA@AOL.COM Release: Monday, March 27, 1995