Date: Sat, 21 May 94 18:20:35 EDT
>From: EqualityKS@aol.com


		 FTR Conference at Stonewall 

NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN TASK FORCE MEDIA ADVISORY
1734 14th Street, NW Washington, DC  20009
(202) 332-6483  t  (202) 332-0207 fax  t  (202) 332-6219 TTY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   May 19, 1994

Contacts: David M. Smith   (202) 332-6483 ext. 3309,
(800) 757-7736 pager , dmsngltf@aol.com
Robin Kane (202) 332-6483 ext. 3311,  rakngltf@aol.com  

 "INTERNATIONAL RISE OF THE RIGHT WING" SYMPOSIUM
TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH STONEWALL EVENTS IN NEW YORK CITY

WHAT:  "International Rise of the Right Wing" symposium co-sponsored by the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the International Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Commission. The panel presentation will feature international speakers
addressing the rise of Right Wing extremism in Europe, Central and South
America and Islamic countries, as well as the exportation of U.S. Right Wing
extremism to other countries.

 The panel is part of a week-long series of events in conjunction with
Stonewall 25--the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in Greenwich
Village, 1969, which mark the beginning of the current wave of gay civil
rights organizing.

WHO: Panel members will include:

  --Rebecca Sevilla of the Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (MOHL), Peru and
Co-Secretary General of the International Lesbian and Gay Association

  --Lupita Sequira, of NECONI, Managua, Nicaragua

  --Representative of the Association of Bisexuals, Gays and Lesbians
(ABIGALE), Cape Town, South Africa

WHEN: Thursday, June 23, 1994
  8-10 p.m.

WHERE: Washington Irving High School
  40 Irving Place
  (One block east of Union Square)
  New York, NY

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