Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 15:12:54 -0400 From: David B. O'Donnell Subject: Queer Fest at Middlebury College Middlebury College Rainbow Festival Expressions of Gay & Lesbian Lives Saturday November 5, 4:00 & 7:30 Film "Totally F***ed Up" Twilight Auditorium, College Street Film Series, admission free Thursday November 10, 4:15 Poetry Reading by Mark Doty Chateau Grand Salon Friday November 11 11:00 Plenary Address Roman Graf Dana Auditorium 1:30 Paper Presentations I, Dana Auditorium Mug Wright '94: "Photoalbum: Lesbian Mothers in Vermont" Mary Bernstein '85: "SO-DO-MY: Sexual Orientation: Policy, Protest, and the State" Ed Weissman '66: "In Your Face: Student Opinions of Gays & Gay Issues at Another Liberal Arts College" 3:00 Paper Presentations II, Dana Auditorium Guy Kettelhack '73: "Why Sex Means Everything to Us: Gay Men, Erotic Conflict, and Self Discovery" Tom Armbrecht '92: "Heterosexual Hegemony and Gay-Male Pornography." 4:30 Keynote Address: Dr. Marshal Forstein '71 "Normal Homosexual Development In a Homophobic Society" 7:00 & 9:30 Film 'Go Fish' Dana Auditorium, $1 Remarks by Director Rose Troche at 8:30 Saturday November 12, VCLGR Conference: Queer Town Meeting 7 & 9 p.m. "Beyond the Closet" A Middlebury College student production in the Hepburn Zoo Sunday November 13 11 a.m. Chapel: Kim Crawford Harvie '79 ***** The program will feature cultural events and academic panels. Mark Doty is a nationally recognized gay poet. His book My Alexandria won the National Book Critics Circle award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Roman Graf teaches German language and literature at Middlebury College. He has published on J.M.R. Lenz, homosociality and homosexuality, and is currently working on a book on homosexuality in the 18th century. Dr. Marshall Forstein (Middlebury '71) teaches Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is Director of HIV Mental Health Services at the Cambridge Hospital. He has published on the psychological effects of HIV and AIDS and on gay parenting. Rose Troche directed "Go Fish," this year's big hit at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has been called a romantic comedy about young, post ACT-UP dykes. Kim K. Crawford Harvie (Middlebury '79) is senior minister at the Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church in Boston, where the congregation has doubled in size since she assumed the pulpit. She received a Middlebury Alumni Achievement Award in 1992, and a First Decade Award from Harvard Divinity School the same year. All events are open to the public. For more information, call Leroy Nesbitt, 388-3711, ext. 3166 or Student Activities, 388-3711, ext. 3100 For information on the VCLGR (Vermont Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights) Conference, call (802) 889-9413. Kevin Moss Middlebury College moss@midd.cc.middlebury.edu