Probably lots of you are also subbed to BRC-NEWS, but allow me to forward the following to this list, for it seems to me that black radicals have often been unjustly accused of being more homophobic than white lefties and that the tendency to assume this occasionally surfaced when the threads on black nationalism ran here.
Yoshie
>Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 02:55:28 -0800 (PST)
>From: News & Letters <nandl at igc.org>
>Subject: [BRC-NEWS] "To the Left and Over the Barriers": Legacy of Queer
>Leftist Thinkers
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>"To the Left and Over the Barriers," a discussion on the legacy of queer
>leftist thinkers and the contemporary struggles for human freedom, will
>take place on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. The featured speaker is
>author and activist Jennifer Rycenga. The meeting will be at the News &
>Letters library, 59 E. Van Buren St. (between Michigan and Wabash), Room
>707, in the Chicago Loop. Admission is free.
>
>The presentation will delve into the rich history of a queer left legacy,
>extending from the French Revolution through the establishment of the
>Mattachine Society and on to the Gay Liberation Fronts which formed after
>the Stonewall Rebellion. It extends to the present when there is a visible
>queer dimension in the Black Radical Congress and new Queer Liberation
>Fronts springing up in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.
>
>The meeting will bring to this discussion a Marxist-Humanist philosophy of
>freedom which traces the movements both in thought and in activity,
>developing how a lesbian-bisexual-gay-transgendered dimension is integral
>to human liberation. The ideas of queer thinkers Edward Carpenter
>(1844-1929), Harry Hay (b. 1912), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Mario Miele (d.
>mid-1980s), and Gloria Anzalda (b. 1942) will be considered in the
>discussion.
>
>The meeting will also hear about new directions for a les-gay-bi-trans
>movement today as seen in the development of philosophic revolutionary
>writings in the "Queer Notions" publication of News and Letters
>Committees, and in the existence of a new student group at San Jose State
>called "Queer Revolution." The discussion will focus on how queers
>understand our history and our tasks, as described by gay thinker Edward
>Carpenter (1844-1929) who said, "We have solid work waiting to be done in
>the patient and life-long building up of new forms of society, new orders
>of thought, and new institutions of human solidarity."
>
>Jennifer Rycenga is a professor and campus activist for queer causes,
>former chair of the GLBT Faculty Association at Pomona College and San
>Jose State University, and author of many articles on lesbian history and
>themes, including in Queering the Pitch, Lesbian Academia, Lesbian Review
>of Books, and News & Letters. She is as well a member of News and Letters
>Committees, a former activist in Women's Action Coalition in Los Angeles,
>and a veteran of women's clinic defense movements.
>
>For an interview with Prof. Rycenga, a press packet, or more information,
>call 312 663 0839.
>
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>
>"Human Power Is Its Own End."--Karl Marx
>
>News and Letters Committees / NEWS & LETTERS
>59 E. Van Buren Ave., Room 707, Chicago IL 60605, USA
>www.newsandletters.org
>nandl at igc.apc.org
>
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>the author and/or originating organization.]
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