CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
PANEL 1A: "INTRO TO BOWERS"
PANEL 1B: "AIDS"
PANEL 1C: HATE CRIMES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Workshop)
Panel 2A: BOWERS AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Panel 2B: "If I Had Clerked for Justice Powell . . . " : Reflections on Whether Justice Powell's Clerk Should Have Come Out
Panel 2C: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HATE CRIMES
Panel 2D: When High School Students Have AIDS . . . An AIDS Legal Council of Chicago Workshop
Panel 2E: AIDS and Children
Panel 2F: AIDS, Gay Rights, Marriage, and Politics
Panel 3A: "Bowers in the State Courts"
Panel 3B: Marriage: Where after Hawaii?
Panel 3C: Marriage and Immigration
Panel 3D: Group Rights and Representation
Panel 3E: Lesbian Identity
Panel 3F: HATE CRIMES and VIOLENCE -- CIVIL ACTIONS
Panel 4A: Teaching Bowers
Panel 4B: Marriage and Immigration
Panel 4C: LITERATURE
Panel 4D: CAREER SERVICES FOR LESBIAN AND GAY STUDENTS
Panel 4E: RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR SCHOLARS
Panel 5A: BOWERS AND THE FAMILY
Panel 5B: HUMAN RIGHTS ORDINANCES
Panel 5C: INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS
Panel 5D: LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY
Panel 5E: BOWERS AND CRIMINAL LAW
Panel 6A: BOWERS AND PRIVACY
Panel 6B: INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS
Panel 6C: LESBIAN AND GAY BAR ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (LAGBAC) OPEN MEETING
Panel 6D: MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, LAW AND POLITICS
Panel 7A: INTERNET Advocacy
Panel 7B: ANTI-GAY BALLOT INITIATIVES
Panel 7C: MARRIAGE DEBATE
Panel 7D: REPRODUCTION AND PARENTING
Panel 7E: CASES OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS AND PWAS
Panel 8A: INTERNET ADVOCACY
Panel 8B: LAW, LIBERATION AND IDENTITY
Panel 8C: GAYS AND THE MILITARY
Thursday, March 14
2:00 - 3:15
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Mary Bernstein, New York University Department of Sociology
Donald A. Dripps, University of Illinois School of Law
Leslye Huff, Cleveland State University
Devesh Agnihotri, Cleveland State University
Melissa Dean, Cleveland State University
Brian Morrison, Brandeis University
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PANEL 1B: AIDS
Deborah Shields, Former Instructor, Harvard Law School AIDS Clinic,
and Former Director, AIDS Law Project of Portland, Maine
Barry S. Taylor, AIDS Project Staff Atty, Lambda Legal Defense &
Education Fund, Inc.
Michael L. Closen, The John Marshall Law School
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PANEL 1C: HATE CRIMES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Workshop)
Ellen Meyers, Cook County States Attorneys Office
Jeri Lynn Fields, Horizons Anti-Violence Project
Rose Oliveri, Chicago Police Department
Vernita Gray, Cook County States Attorneys Office, Liason for Lesbian
and Gay Issues
Barbara A. Sherry, Assistant Cook County Public Defender
Susan Brody, Associate Dean, The John Marshall Law School
SESSION 2
Thursday, March 14
3:45 - 5:00
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Panel 2A: BOWERS AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
David Cruz, Office of the Solicitor General of the United States (but
not representing that office at the Conference)
Jay Deacon, Unity Temple Universalist Congregation (and one of the
Bowers 600 who were arrested while protesting inside the U.S.
Supreme Court Building in 1987!)
Fr. Robert Nugent, "The Roman Catholic Church and Gay/Lesbian Civil
Rights"
Rev. Wayne T. Bradley, Metropolitan Community Church
Prof. Walter Kendall, The John Marshall Law School
Roger Leishman, American Civil Liberties Union (speaking on
litigation against the Boy Scouts!)
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Panel 2B: "If I Had Clerked for Justice Powell . . . " : Reflections on Whether Justice Powell's Clerk Should Have Come Out
STUDENT ROUNDTABLE
Law students, political science students, and others students from
Yale, Harvard, Duke, Tulane, John Marshall, Kent, DePaul, etc. etc.
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Panel 2C: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HATE CRIMES
Ellen Meyers, Cook County States Attorneys Office
Rose Oliveri, Chicago Police Department
Scott Nelson, Felony Trial Division, States Attorneys Office
Barbara Sherry, Cook County Public Defender
Vernita Gray, Victim-Witness Coordinator
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Panel 2D: When High School Students Have AIDS . . . An AIDS Legal Council of Chicago Workshop
Julie Justicz, AIDS Legal Council
Justin Hayford, AIDS Legal Council
Lenore Gonzales-Bragaw, AIDS Legal Council
David Austin, European Council of AIDS Service Organizations and
Visiting Research Scholar, University of Illinois School of
Public Health
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Panel 2E: AIDS and Children
Dr. Ram Yogez, Infectious Diseases Dept, Children's Memorial Hospital
Jim Harisiades, Director of Child Advocacy, Children's Memorial
Hospital
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Panel 2F: AIDS, Gay Rights, Marriage, and Politics
Dr. Richard F. Mohr, University of Illinois Department of Philosophy
Bryan Wildenthal, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Jay Kohorn, Los Angeles
Karen Nagel, Editor, Illinois Politics
Rick Garcia, Founder and Executive Director, Illinois Federation for
Human Rights
Sarah Slavin, Buffalo State College Department of Political Science
Steve Wakefield, The Night Ministry
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A party sponsored by the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago
will follow the Thursday sessions. A reception at a local bar will
follow and continue the party. People Like Us Bookstore is also
holding a literature reading of conference participant Ruthann Robson
and Others on March 14.
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SESSION 3
Friday, March 15
9:00 - 10:15
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Panel 3A: "Bowers in the State Courts"
Larry C. Backer, University of Tulsa
Marc Fajer, University of Miami
William Adams, Nova Southeastern
Ann Lousin, The John Marshall Law School
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Panel 3B: Marriage: Where after Hawaii?
Evan Wolfson, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York)
Pat Logue, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (Chicago)
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Panel 3C: (May be combined with 3B) Marriage and Immigration
The Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights
LesBiGay Immigration Rights Task Force of Chicago
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Panel 3D: "Group Rights and Representation"
Michael McVickar, Chicago
Mindy Hervey, The John Marshall Law School
Walter Kendall, The John Marshall Law School
Yvette Barksdale, The John Marshall Law School
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Panel 3E: "Lesbian Identity"
Mary Becker, University of Chicago School of Law
Mary Coombs, University of Miami School of Law
Jane Dolkart, Southern Methodist University School of Law
Deb Henson, University of Pittsburgh (speaking on her suit for
same-sex insurance benefits)
Leslye Huff, Cleveland State University (speaking on "Black Lesbians
Do Not Exist")
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Panel 3F: HATE CRIMES and VIOLENCE -- CIVIL ACTIONS
Elizabeth Shuman Moore and Jose Navarro, Chicago Lawyers' Committee
for Civil Rights
Mary Cay Marubio and Tanya Jachimiak, DePaul University College of
Law
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SESSION 4
Friday, March 15
10:30-11:45
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Panel 4A: "Teaching Bowers"
Marc Fajer, University of Miami School of Law / Cornell University
Mary Becker, University of Chicago School of Law
Francisco Valdes, California Western School of Law
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Panel 4B: Marriage and Immigration - Seeking Asylum on the Basis of Sexual Orientation
The Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights
LesBiGay Immigration Rights Task Force
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PRESS NOTE: THERE WILL ALSO BE A PRESS CONFERENCE DURING SESSION 4
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Panel 4C: LITERATURE
Ruthann Robson, City University of New York, reading from her new
novel "Another Mother"
Marian Staats, The John Marshall Law School, speaking on gay and
lesbian characters in modern movies
Dr. Elizabeth Morrish, Nottingham Trent University, England
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Panel 4D: CAREER SERVICES FOR LESBIAN AND GAY STUDENTS
An open roundtable for career service centers on how to improve
services to lesbian and gay students, including discussants from The
University of Chicago, Marquette University, and The John Marshall
Law School
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Panel 4E: RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR SCHOLARS
-- An Open Session on how
to improve your research on lesbian, gay, and AIDS-related issues
Michael Lutes, University of Notre Dame
S. Burgh, City of Chicago Law Library
Tom Budny, The John Marshall Law School
Bill McCann, The John Marshall Law School
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Over the Lunch Break, the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago
and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund will hold a "lawyers
lunch" at the Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court. For
those not attending that session, the Community Expo and Movie House
will be open.
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SESSION 5
Friday March 15, 1996
2:00 - 3:15
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Panel 5A: BOWERS AND THE FAMILY
Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University
Marc Elovitz, ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project
Deb Henson, University of Pittsburgh
Diane Post, Valley of the Sun Gay and Lesbian Center
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Panel 5B: HUMAN RIGHTS ORDINANCES
Jennifer D. Vidis, Cook County Commission on Human Rights
Miriam Pickus, City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations
Patricia M. Logue, Lambda Midwest Regional Office
Rick Garcia, Illinois Federation for Human Rights
William Kelley, Cook County Commission on Human Rights
William Greaves, Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues
JoAnne Tripani, Cook County Commission on Human Rights
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Panel 5C: INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS
Elizabeth Moorish, Trent University (England)
Larry Backer, University of Tulsa
Carl Stychin, Keele University (United Kingdom)
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Panel 5D: LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY
Sarah Slavin, Buffalo State College
Kellye Testy, Seattle University
Ruthann Robson, City University of New York
Mary Becker, University of Chicago
Renee Hanover, Chicago
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Panel 5E: BOWERS AND CRIMINAL LAW
Andrew Rosen, Los Angeles
John Duran, National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
Jay Kohorn, Los Angeles
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SESSION 6
Friday, March 15
3:45-5:00
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Panel 6A: BOWERS AND PRIVACY
Edgar Friedenberg, Dalhousie University (Canada) (invited)
Mark Chekola, Moorhead State University
Richard Mohr, University of Illinois
Vincent Samar, Loyola University of Chicago
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Panel 6B: INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS
Jason Moore, Cambridge University (England)
James Wilets, University of Miami
Ryan Goodman, Yale University
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Panel 6C: LESBIAN AND GAY BAR ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (LAGBAC) OPEN MEETING
The board members of LAGBAC will be present to illustrate their
activities and meet participants of the conference interested in
exploring common areas of interest.
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Panel 6D: MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, LAW AND POLITICS
Tim Murphy, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Liz Sayce, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
John Harrison, Harvard Law School
Renee Hannover, Chicago
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SESSION 7
Saturday March 16, 1996
9:30 - 10:45
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Panel 7A: INTERNET Advocacy
An Interactive Hands-On Demonstration Workshop in the Computer Lab
David Sorkin, John Marshall Law School
Ron Buckmire, Occidental College
David Moore, Quincy University
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Panel 7B: ANTI-GAY BALLOT INITIATIVES
Anthony Winer, William Mitchell College of Law
Marc Fajer, Cornell Law School
Michael Wilson, Cleveland
Scott Greenwood, Greenwood & Associates
William Adams, Nova SouthEastern
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Panel 7C: MARRIAGE DEBATE
Dianne Post, Valley of the Sun Gay and Lesbian Center
Steve Sanders, Indiana University
Amelia Craig, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders - Boston
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Panel 7D: REPRODUCTION AND PARENTING
Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University
Ilise Levy Feitshans, Columbia University
Joelle Munchak, DePaul University
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Panel 7E: CASES OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS AND PWAS
(This session will include the breaking news stories about high school
guidance counselors who out their students and funeral homes that
discriminate against persons who die of causes related to HIV)
Roger McCaffrey, Chicago
William Borah, Homewood (Illinois)
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SESSION 8
Saturday March 15, 1996
11:15 - 12:30
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Panel 8A: INTERNET ADVOCACY
A second interactive demonstration workshop in the computer lab.
David Sorkin, John Marshall Law School
Ron Buckmire, Occidental College
David Moore, Quincy University
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Panel 8B: LAW, LIBERATION AND IDENTITY
Ruthann Robson, City University of New York
Mary Becker, University of Chicago
Marian Staats, The John Marshall Law School
Beth Povanelli, University of Chicago Department of Anthropology
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Panel 8C: GAYS AND THE MILITARY
Christine Yalda, Arizona State University
Marc Fajer, University of Miami
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Program is subject to change. Please contact 7wojcik@jmls.edu for
questions about the program, additions, or corrections.
Thanks everyone for your support of the conference. I hope you all
have a wonderful time.
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Mark Wojcik
Mark E. Wojcik, Assistant Professor of Law
The John Marshall Law School
315 S. Plymouth Court
Chicago, IL 60604 USA
(312) 987-2391 or 7wojcik@jmls.edu