NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN TASK FORCE
1734 14th Street, NW Washington, DC  20009
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THE NATION'S LARGEST CONFERENCE OF LESBIAN & GAY MOVEMENT ORGANIZERS TO TAKE
PLACE IN DURHAM, NC NOVEMBER 10-14

Washington, D.C.  The nation's largest annual gathering of gay and lesbian
activists will take place in Durham, NC, Nov. 10 - 14, 1993 at the Omni
Durham Hotel and Convention Center. The Creating Change conference, sponsored
by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, will feature more
than 35 skills-building workshops, and 10 day-long intensive sessions on
Fighting the Right, Civil Rights/Privacy, Anti-Violence, Health Policy,
Ageism, Age, and Aging, Work and Family, International Activism, Sex and
Sexuality, Southern Community Organizing, and Youth Organizing.  Digital
Queers will offer hands-on instruction in computer networking and other
skills.  In addition, Creating Change will feature a two-day Movement
Building Institute including People of Color Organizing, Diversity Training,
and a Race, Class, and Gender Institute.

Featured plenary speakers include Mab Segrest, a North Carolina-based
activist who will speak on her years of activism in the South, including
battles with the Klan and Nazi movements;  Dr. Marjorie Hill, currently of
New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation, and former Director of the
Mayor's Office for the Lesbian and Gay Community; and Dr. Franklin Kameny,
one of the founders of the Mattachine Society of Washington and the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force (National Gay Task Force at the time) in 1973. He
returns this year to honor NGLTF as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Special guests at the conference will include Soweto-born Cecil Nyathi,
president of a grassroots gay and lesbian advocacy organization in South
Africa, Micha Ramakers, from the Information Secretariat of the International
Gay and Lesbian Association, and a book signing by famed author/poet Adrienne
Rich.

Saturday, November 13, the Creating Change conference will feature Stand Up
for Your Rights III, a gala showcase of queer community talent at Duke
University's Page Auditorium. The evening will feature: Michele Crone, a Women's
music festival legend as emcee; lesbian comic Lea Delaria; performance artist
Brian Freeman (and co-founder of Pomo Afro Homos, Post Modern
African-American Homosexuals); performer and playwright Kate Bornstein (she
has a unique non-gendered point of view); a cappella group Sons & Lovers; and
North Carolina's Common Woman Chorus. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. Ticket
prices are $35 - general admission, $75 - includes cast party after the show,
and $20 -  limited income (a limited # of these are available).

This year's conference will also feature a town hall meeting on "Access to
Power; Whose Access, Whose Power,"  to be moderated by Sue Hyde, NGLTF Fight
the Right Organizer, and will include presentations by Bob Hattoy, Assistant
Deputy Secretary, Department of the Interior, and Amber Hollibaugh, Lesbian
AIDS Project Coordinator of the Gay
 Men's Health Crisis in New York. 

"Creating Change will allow time for activists to share 
experiences, discuss theory and develop unified strategies on the issues,"
according to Ivy Young, d
irector of the Creating Change.  "Activists who attend Creating Change will
better be able to explore issues in depth and learn from each other."

Last year more than  1200 organizers, students, and activists from 46 states
and six countries assembled in Los Angeles for the largest Creating Change
conference ever. Past conferences have also been held in Minneapolis and the
Washington, D.C. area.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is the country's oldest national gay
and lesbian advocacy organization and serves as the grass-roots organizing
arm of the lesbian and gay movement. NGLTF is currently undertaking an
organizational expansion that is carefully gauged to refocus the energies of
the Task Force on key issues such as state and local civil rights organizing,
developing a pro-active health care agenda, and fighting the anti-gay
activities of the Far Right, along with NGLTF's current anti-violence and
privacy programs. "The Task Force, while strengthening activism on a state
and local level, will continue to set the tone and pace of a national agenda
for securing full equality for lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals," said Peri
Jude Radecic, who takes over as executive director on November 1.