From act-up-request@world.std.com Sat May 8 07:39:16 1993 Received: from world.std.com by mail1.its.rpi.edu (4.1/SMHUB41); id AA08721; Sat, 8 May 93 07:39:14 EDT for buckmr Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA16241; Sat, 8 May 1993 07:04:42 -0400 Errors-To: act-up-request@world.std.com Sender: act-up-request@world.std.com Reply-To: act-up@world.std.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: Received: from JACK (jack.clarku.edu) by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA16223; Sat, 8 May 1993 07:04:39 -0400 Received: from vax.clarku.edu by vax.clarku.edu (PMDF #12289) id <01GXX9PG5KCG9I98JN@vax.clarku.edu>; Sat, 8 May 1993 07:00 EST Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 07:00 EST From: GANDERSON@vax.clarku.edu Subject: Worcester MA Pride Schedule To: act-up@world.std.com, qn@queernet.org Message-Id: <01GXX9PG5KCG9I98JN@vax.clarku.edu> X-Vms-To: IN%"act-up@world.std.com", IN%"qn@queernet.org" Status: U Wednesday, May 5 Video Festival Women's Films Clark University 950 Main Street, Worcester Jefferson 218 8PM - Gertrude Stein and Companion 9:30PM - Domestic Bliss Suggested donation: $3.00 Wednesday, May 12 Video Festival Community Interest Films Clark University 950 Main Street, Worcester Jefferson 218 8PM - Tongues Untied 9PM - Seventeen Rooms or What Do Lesbians Do In Bed? 9:15PM - Salut Victor Suggested donation: $3.00 Friday, May 14 Art Sale and Concert## Worcester Artist Group 21-69 Main Street, Cherry Valley 8PM - Entertainment by Laura Berkson and Barbara Malone Admission - $6.00 $5.00 with a Pride Button Saturday, May 15 Pride Dance## Lithuanian War Veterans Organization 206 South Quinsigamond Avenue, Shrewsbury 8PM - 1AM Admission - $5.00 $3.00 with a Pride Button Saturday, May 15 Complimentary admission to the Worcester Art Museum with Pride button## Buttons will not be sold at this event Sunday, May 16 Noche de Extravaganza## an evening of performance sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Latino Organization (GALLO) Club 241 241 Southbridge Street, Worcester 8PM Admission - $3.00 $2.00 with a Pride button. Contact Ray Pifferrer at 755-3773 for advance tickets. Monday, May 17 Readings by authors Leslea Newman, Robert Rimer, and Neil Miller## Barnes & Noble 470 Southbridge Street, Auburn 7PM Celebrating Women's Strength Together sponsored by Women's Energy Against Violence Rainbow Bridge Coffeehouse First Baptist Church Salisbury Street at Park Avenue, Worcester 7:30PM Admission - $6.00 $5.00 with a Pride button Wednesday, May 19 Video Festival Classic Films Clark University 950 Main Street, Worcester Jefferson 218 7:30PM - Maurice 10PM - Rocky Horror Picture Show Suggested donation: $3.00 Multi-Faith Service## Morning Star Metropolitan Community Church 231 Main Street, Cherry Valley 7:30 PM Thursday, May 20 Pride Lecture: "Gays in the Military"## Clark University Professors Gary Lehring and Neta Crawford New England Science Center 222 Harrington Way, Worcester 7:30PM - hors d'oeuvres 8PM - lecture Friday, May 21 Sports Night - Volleyball and Basketball## United Congregational Church Gymnasium 6 Institute Road, Worcester 6PM - 10PM Pride Night## Club 241 241 Southbridge Street, Worcester Complimentary admission with a Pride Button Saturday, May 22 1993 Worcester Lesbian Gay, & Bisexual Pride March Rally## City Hall Common, Worcester 12PM March from City Hall, Worcester to Institute Park, Worcester. 12:30PM 1993 Worcester Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Pride Rally## Institute Park, Worcester rain location: United Congregational Church, 6 Institute Road 1:30PM (Immediately after march) Speakers listed next page Women's Floating Dance Floor Frohsinn Club North Quinsigamond Avenue, Shrewsbury 8PM Admission - $5.00 $4.00 with a Pride button Pride Night## Club 241 241 Southbridge Street, Worcester Complimentary admission with a Pride button Sunday, May 23 Pride Brunch## sponsored by The Gay & Lesbian Community Coalition of Central Massachusetts Milano's Restaurant 592 Main Street, Worcester 11AM - 2PM $15.00 per person: Advance reservations suggested - call 799-0352 Tea Dance## to benefit local AIDS service agencies Club 241 241 Southbridge Street, Worcester Safe Company and Safer Sex Games 6PM - 10PM ## = Handicap Accessible 1993 Worcester Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Pride Rally 1:30PM (immediately following march from City Hall) Saturday, May 22 Institute Park Guest Speakers: Frank Bidart. Bidart is a nationally recognized poet from Cambridge, MA. Some of his published works include The Book of the Body (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), Golden State (New York: G. Braziller, 1973), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990). Albert M. Toney III. Toney is a Worcester community organizer and police officer. He serves as a board member and buddy at AIDS Project Worcester; a key member of the 1993 Worcester Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Pride Planning Committee; and co-chair and co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Community Coalition of Central Massachusetts (GLCCCM). Toney is currently the only openly gay officer in our city's police department. Jennifer Firestone. Firestone is the Coordinator of Gay and Lesbian Family and Parenting Services at the Fenway Community Health Center, in Boston. Firestone first saw her cervix and began work in women's health during the seventies at the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland and in a women's health CR group in St. Louis, Missouri. She has been active in a variety of gay/lesbian, feminist, and labor related issues and events including the Gay and Lesbian Defense Committee, the St. Louis and New England Women's Sports Connections, and the Cambridge Feminist Anti- Censorship Task Force. Michael Quercio. Quercio, a 1988 graduate of Assumption College, has spent the last two years sharing his life story with thousands of people. Since his diagnosis as a person living with HIV/AIDS, Michael has become one of the epidemics most visible faces in Central Massachusetts. In January Michael attended The Clinton Inaugural as one the President's "Faces of Hope." He has developed an innovative HIV/AIDS Education Program at a local Private High School. Michael is employed as an Adolescent HIV/AIDS Case Manage for YOU, Inc. and The Linkage Project. He is on AIDS Project Worcester's Board of Directors and is a member of Health Awareness Services' Educators Living With HIV Project. Donna Red Wing. Red Wing is The Advocate newsmagazine's choice for 1992 Woman of the Year. She was instrumental in the defeat of Oregon's Measure 9, a state constitutional amendment which would have declared homosexuality to be abnormal and perverse. She currently works with the Police Bureau Advisory Committee, the Homophobic Violence Reporting Line, the NO on HATE PAC, the Summit Committee on Hate Crime, the Portland Bias Crime Task Force, the Mackenzie River Gathering Foundation, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Cascade AIDS Project Advisory Committee. Urvashi Vaid. Urvashi Vaid is an attorney, community organizer, political strategist, and nationally acclaimed leader. Vaid has served as Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), coordinating news media and public education campaigns to advance gay and lesbian rights. Vaid has also worked with Gay Community News, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, Roadwork, the National March on Washington (1987 and 1993), the 1988 ACT NOW demonstration at the Food and Drug Administration, the 1989 White House Civil disobedience action on World AIDS Day, and a variety of grassroots community organizations dealing with violence against women.