Subject: Events in Brookings: Spring Closet Cleaning Party and Human Rights Forum
From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:51:12 -0400

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.