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Planning for National Lesbian
Conference Continues
Y?
The first National Lesbian
Conference will be held April 24-28,
1991, in Atlanta. More than 5,000 les
bians are expected to attend the meet
ings, workshops, and plenary sessions
will planned for this historic event.
Other events are also in the planning
stages such as a lesbian softball tourna
ment and a business and trade exposi
tion. All lesbians are invited.
Why a national lesbian conference?
Lesbians are a diverse community
often seeming to be a number of differ
ent communities with only the most
tenuous connection.
This conference is to help us learn
"Who we are, what our priorities are,
and how our energies are being used,"
according to Claudia Scarborough, a
planner for the Atlanta Lesbian Agenda
Conference Committee (ALACC).
According to M. P. Schildmeyer,
another Atlanta planner, the purpose of
the conference is "to have a conference
which is inclusive and accessible to as
many lesbians as we can provide for.
For example, some women have envi
ronmental illnesses, so no scented
products will be worn at the confer
ences."
"Our greatest strength is our diversi
ty," adds Claudia. (The conference is
happening) "so that lesbians can get
together to work on our issues and
identify our goals and issues. For
example, we have legal issues. And
misogyny is certainly an issue, both
from outside sources and the misogyny
we've internalized. We need to get
together to determine what our collec
tive issues are and form a plan to pre
sent them so that we can be heard."
"The participants are going to estab
lish an agenda," says M. P. "There is
some talk of establishing a national
organization. The purpose of the con
ference [however] is to bring together
as many lesbians as possible. We're
expecting 5,000."
A number of women from around
the country have have been meeting to
plan the conference. The first such
meeting was held in Durham, North
Carolina, in March 1989; a second
national planning session took place in
Portland in July of that year. An inter
im task committee was created there
and it met in October 1989 in Atlanta
to define the membership of the steer
ing committee that will guide the con
ference planning process.
Substantial effort has been expend
ed to insure that the steering committee
is representative of all lesbians, and
that the conference will be accessible
to all particularly those who have pre
viously been under-represented at sim
ilar events. Therefore, 50% of the
steering committee will be composed
of women of color, and 20% will be
lesbians with disabilities. Three plan
ners will be antiwar activists over fifty,
two will be deaf, and three will be
Jewish. The remaining planners will be
representative of young lesbians, les
bian mothers, s/m lesbians, lesbians in
the military, and lesbian separatists.
The interim task committee just
completed a meeting to establish the
exact composition of the steering com
mittee and prepare the agenda for the
final planning meeting in Kansas City,
April 28-29, 1990. The first meeting of
the official steering committee will
take place in Kansas City, on April 27.
This past weekend, the planners
"talked a lot about money," says M. P.
"We’re renting the entire Hilton, and
we have to give $15,000.00 as a
deposit."
Such a large conference, of course,
costs money. The total conference
budget is $100,000.00; Georgia's obli
gation is 30% of that amount. The
money goes for publicity, transporta
tion, workshop site, supplies, inter
preters, disabled support services and
transportation, childcare, and local
housing for conference attendees.
ALACC has a full battery of fund
raising efforts planned for 1990.
Events, both fun and serious, are
planned - dances, concerts, auctions,
and workshops on racism.
"We want everyone's voice to be a
part of Atlanta's part of the
Conference," says Claudia
Scarborough, "Come and let your
voice be heard!" If you would like to
be a part of the planning process, call
378-9769 for information. ALACC
meets at the ALFA House on the first
Tuesday of every month at 7PM. All
interested lesbians are invited.
"Tongues Untied"
Cont'd from page 9
poignancy to the film's more somber
moments. When hatred rears its head in
the form of a mugging, Riggs' voice
intones, "...and a white boy came to my
rescue." Racism emerges as Riggs
walks the Castro and talks about being a
snow queen "immersed in vanilla"—and
invisible. AIDS is introduced in a mon
tage that starts with lovers embracing.
While Hemphill performs a poem
("Now we think/as we fuck/this
nut/might kill us"), newspaper obituar
ies flash on the screen, ending with a
shot of Riggs’ face.
Riggs says learning he was HIV pos
itive made him realize that "there are
things I can't take for granted anymore.
If I have the opportunity, the energy, the
resources to do this; do it. There's no
excuse."
But throughout "Tongues," humor
leavens seriousness. It may be campy
funny, describing Castro clones as
"body by Nautilus, mind by Mattel." Or
a mock-serious dissertation on the snap,
followed by an equally hilarious
demonstration of its use by dueling snap
divas. And the Temptations will never
sound the same after hearing a lavender
R&B quartet perform their composition,
"Hey Boy, Can You Come Out
Tonight."
In "Tongues Untied," Riggs has
found the harmony he lost with adoles
cence. He's learned how to touch people
and make them laugh, not just play the
clown. As he told the opening night
audience, "The lesson is; There is a
virtue in your own voice."
Tongues Untied" will screen in
March, 1990 at the Modern Museum of
Art in New York.
UlSouthern Voice • February 15,1990