Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:20:16 -0500 From: IGLE@aol.com The Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education's Spring Term will commence on Monday, February 26th. IGLE, founded in West Hollywood in 1992, is a non-profit educational organization offering a broad curriculum of courses, lectures and special events on topics of interest to the gay and lesbian community, ranging in subject matter from gay and lesbian literature and the arts to psychological and biological development and legal issues. Spring 1996 courses and events are summarized below. See the IGLE Web page at http://www.frontiersweb.com/laguide/igle.html for full information or phone 310-652-1786. ***COURSES*** (Courses meet for ten weeks, meeting once a week 7-10pm, except as noted) WRITING AND LANGUAGE QUEER SCREENWRITING (Jim Boyle) - Thursdays 7-10:30pm beginning Feb 29 WRITING THE NOVEL (Pat Branch) - Tuesdays beginning Feb 27 INTRODUCTORY SPANISH (Peter Gomez) - Mondays beginning Feb 26 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH (Peter Gomez) - Wednesdays beginning Feb 28 CREATIVE ARTS AND CULTURE FROM BOYS TO ANGELS: THE EVOLUTION OF GAY THEATRE (Michael Kearns) - Tuesdays beginning Feb 27 QUEER READINGS OF POPULAR CULTURE (Sue Scheibler) - Five meetings on alternate Fridays beginning Mar 1 HISTORY AND POLITICS INTRODUCTION TO GAY & LESBIAN HISTORY (David Bianco) - Wednesdays beginning Feb 28 LESBIAN & GAY POLITICS: ISSUES AND STRATEGIES (David Bianco) - Mondays beginning Feb 26 PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY MORAL CONTROVERSIES IN LESBIAN & GAY LIFE (Jim Stramel) - Tuesdays beginning Feb 27 PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GAY MEN (Greg Travis) - Wednesdays 7-9pm beginning Feb 28 ***WORKSHOPS*** PHOTOGRAPHY: TAKING PICTURES FOR KEEPS (Pat Branch) - Two Saturdays, March 9 & 23, 1-4pm BUILDING OUR FAMILIES: GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTING (Greg Travis, Renee Gunther and Diane Goodman) - Saturday, April 6, 10am-3pm RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT FOR LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES (Vallerie Coleman & Patrick O'Hearn) - Saturday, April 20, 1-5pm ***OUTINGS*** BICYCLE THE EARTHQUAKE FAULTS (Kerry Sieh) - Sunday, April 14, 10am-4pm LESBIAN SEAGULLS OF ANACAPA ISLAND (George Hunt) - Sunday, May 5, 9am-4pm ***SPECIAL EVENTS*** IGLE WEEKEND COLLEGE IN SAN DIEGO Saturday and Sunday, February 24-25 AN EVENING OF OPERA AT UCLA (John Hall) - Friday, April 19, 7pm-11pm CURATOR'S TOUR AT LACMA: LARI PITTMAN EXHIBIT (Howard Fox) - Friday, June 28, 6:30-8:30pm ***LECTURE SERIES: QUEER VOICES*** (Nine-part series on Thursdays starting Feb 29) Feb 29: An Evening with Harry Hay Mar 7: A History of Lesbian L.A. 1970-1990 - Yolanda Retter March 14: Gay and Lesbian Youth: A Population in Crisis - Virginia Uribe March 21: The Poetic Prelude to Gay Liberation: Frank O'Hara, Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg - Luke Johnson March 28: Theories of Queer Love - Winston Wilde April 11: Repressive Tolerance as a Construction of Homosexuality in Italian Cinema - Steve Tropiano April 18: Why Are We Queer? What the Psychologists Say - Vallerie Coleman, Mary Hayden April 25: The Status of Legal Issues of Interest to the Gay and Lesbian Community - Lee Michaelson and Jay Fong May 2: Lesbian and Bisexual Asian-Americans -Alice Hom ----- End Included Message -----