From: Facessd@aol.com Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:51:12 -0400 Subject: Events in Brookings: Spring Closet Cleaning Party and Human Rights Forum The following information is forwarded from FACES of South Dakota, Inc. at the request of SDSU Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual organization, Son's & Daughters. Table of Contents: 1. Schedule of Party sponsored by SDSU Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual organization Son's & Daughters 2. Schedule of Events: City of Brookings Human Rights Committee forum "Our Violent Society" 3. News Release from Free Americans Creating Equal Status of South Dakota, Inc. about Executive Director Barry Wick's upcoming appearance at "Our Violent Society" forum. 1. Son's & Daughters of South Dakota State University invites you to attend the following events: Spring Closet Cleaning Party Saturday, April 27, 1996 Time: 6 pm Location Tompkins Alumni Center on the SDSU Campus, corner of 9th Street & Medary Avenue, across from the Campanile (the big belltower on the campus) Potluck: Please bring a dish to share or bring some dish to share. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and eating utensils will be provided. Socializing will follow and last to around midnight. Bring your favorite CD. INVITE A FRIEND!!! Come help us celebrate the end of a very successful school year. For further information: Angie 692-9312, Cheryl 688-7087, Lawrence 692-6026 2. HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM: OUR VIOLENT SOCIETY Date: Monday, April 29, 1996 Place: Volstorff Ballroom, SDSU, SDSU Student Union The City of Brookings Human Rights Committee is sponsoring a forum "Our Violent Society." One of the four sessions will focus on violence against gays and lesbians. Please attend as much of the forum as possible. Schedule: 1:30 pm Welcome by Geoff Grant, Chair of the Brookings Human Rights Committee. 1:35 pm Introductory remarks by Rev. Carl Kline, Non-Violent Alternatives 2:00 pm Session I: "Violence, Discrimination and Harassment of Gays and Lesbians in South Dakota" with Barry Wick, executive director of FACES of SD, Inc. 2:00 pm Session II: Hate Crimes with Senator Chet Jones, State Senator from Brandon, SD 3:15 pm Break 3:30 pm Session III: Free Speech with Chuck Woodard, Professor English, SDSU 3:30 pm Session IV: Racism with John LaVelle, Professor of Law, University of South Dakota 7:30 pm Keynote Address, John LaVelle, Professor of Law, USD for further information contact Lawrence at 692-6026 3. For Immediate Release Free Americans Creating Equal Status of South Dakota, Inc. today announced planned remarks on violence, harassment and other discrimination against gays and lesbians in South Dakota by Executive Director Barry Wick of Rapid City on April 29, 1996. Wick will be speaking at the forum "Our Violent Society" sponsored by the City of Brookings Human Rights Committee beginning in Session 1 at 2:00 pm in the Volstorff Ballroom at the SDSU Campus. He will also discuss reaction, action and inaction by police agencies that have occurred in the state of South Dakota since the summer of 1994 of which he has been made aware since becoming an activist in the state. Wick will also discuss troubling sets of events that have occurred to several South Dakota high school students since February 1995 when the South Dakota Legislature first started it's efforts against marriage for same-sex partners. Wick, born in Rapid City, is a 1974 broadcast communications graduate of Washington State University. He is the great-grandson of the late Governor Carl Gunderson. He and 8 others have founded Free Americans Creating Equal Status of South Dakota, Inc. which owns the South Dakota Alternative Library, a growing collection of books and publications for the gay and lesbian communities, and publishes " FACES of South Dakota", South Dakota's first statewide gay and lesbian monthly publication with a print run of 1,000. FACES also coordinates the first ever South Dakota internet news service that provides information for gays on-line in South Dakota by rebroadcasting letters to the editor and articles that appear statewide to nearly 50 activists and interested parties around the state.