Lesbian Rights Summit Overview

a feminist strategy session for lesbians & allies

April 23-25, 1999, Washington, DC
 

The national summit will focus on current challenges and future strategies. We will celebrate our diversity and commonality, share ideas, have fun, and create a framework to ensure the values, vision and inclusion of lesbians in the feminist movement and feminists in the LGBT movement.

AGENDA

  • Friday        April 23  9:00am-midnight
  • Saturday    April 24  9:00am-midnight
  • Sunday      April 25  9:00am-noon/Rally at 1:00

    • GUEST SPEAKERS (partial list)

  • Tammy Baldwin, US House of Representatives
  • Grethe Cammermeyer, Col.; 1998 Candidate for US Congress
  • Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women
  • Willa Taylor, Executive Director of the National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum
  • Urvashi Vaid,  Author of Virtual Equality; Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task  Force Policy Institute

    • FEATURED PANEL (partial list)

  • Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign
  • Ruth Harlow, Managing Attorney for Lambda
  • Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women
  • Kirsten Kingdon, Executive Director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
  • Kerry Lobel, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  • Dilia Loe, Director of Programs, for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
  • Willa Taylor, Executive Director of the National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum
  • Olga Orraca Paredes, Board of Directors Co-Chair from the National Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization

    • ENTERTAINMENT

    Friday April 23 The Butchies and SONiA of disappear fear

    AWARDEES (partial list)

    Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin

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