Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:14:01 -0400
From: Passingdyk@aol.com
Subject: Queer Coalitions Call for Papers


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QUEER COALITIONS
          The 6th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 
          Transidentified Graduate Student Conference
          Miami University, Oxford, Ohio April 4-7, 1996

CALL FOR PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS

Through panel presentations, performances, conversations, and cultural
events, QUEER COALITIONS offers a forum that builds bridges across
disciplines.  QUEER COALITIONS seeks to create communities across traditional
barriers.  

In November 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, located 50 miles south of Miami
University, Cincinnati City Council passed a Human Rights Ordinance
prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations.
 This Ordinance protected Cincinnati citizens on the basis of race, gender,
age, handicap, marital status, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin,
or Appalachian identity.  Exactly one year later a group known as "Equal
Rights Not Special Rights" called into question the category of  "sexual
orientation" in the Human Rights Ordinance and brought it to Cincinnati
voters on the November ballot.  Sixty-two percent of the voters passed this
charter amendment known as Issue 3 denying protection to anyone on the basis
of sexual orientation.  In addition to the defeat at the polls, Cincinnati
City Council voted this past March to repeal "sexual orientation" from the
Human Rights Ordinance that originally protected queer Cincinnatians.  And on
May 12th the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati
upheld the anti-queer initiative, Issue 3.  At present, Cincinnati's Issue 3
is waiting to be heard by the United States Supreme Court.

What occurred in Cincinnati is by no means an isolated series of events.
 Other communities have been devastated by such legislation; for example, the
passage of Proposition 187 in California.  Communication across racial,
class, and gendered barriers has been wounded by this series of defeats.
 QUEER COALITIONS invites students, activists, performers, and artists from a
variety of disciplines to engage in collective discussion of new approaches
to building bridges inside and outside of queer communities.

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The conference planning committee requests abstracts and/or proposals (1-2
pgs.) for papers and presentations that discuss, interrogate, and contest
these and other issues in "queer" studies:

ACTIVISM/ACADEMICS, AIDS RELATED RESEARCH, GENDER REASSIGNMENT TECHNOLOGY,
COLLECTIVE KINK POLITICS, BUILDING MOVEMENTS, TRANSGENDER, TRANSEXUALITY,
SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL NATIONALISMS,  QUEER POLITICS, HOMOPHOBIA IN HEALTH
CARE, LESBIAN AND GAY PARENTING, ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION RESEARCH, CHICANO/A
SEXUALITY, LESBIAN FEMINISM, SEXUALITY IN ETHNIC STUDIES, LEGALIZING SAME SEX
MARRIAGES, BISEXUALITY, DOMESTIC PARTNER LEGISLATION, LESBIAN AND GAY
SEXUALITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, POST COLONIALISM AND QUEER SEXUALITY,
LESBIANS WITH AIDS, SAFE SEX, S/M, PLEASURE AND SEXUALITY, ASIAN AMERICAN
SEXUALITY, LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORIES, ANTI-QUEER LEGISLATION, VIOLENCE/ABUSE
IN SAME SEX RELATIONSHIPS, HEALTH CARE REFORM FOR QUEERS, POLITICS OF
SEXUALITY IN ETHNIC STUDIES, PEDAGOGY, QUEER SEXUALITY IN THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES, QUEER GEOGRAPHIES, LESBIAN BEREAVEMENT, QUEER FILM, HETEROSEXISM,
QUEER THEORY

Please send submissions and queries to Queer Coalitions, c/o Marcy Knopf,
Miami University, Department of English, Bachelor Hall, Oxford, Ohio 45056

DEADLINE: JANUARY 16, 1996

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