Subject: Worcester MA Pride Schedule

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 07:00 EST

Wednesday, May 5
Video Festival
Women's Films
Clark University
950 Main Street, Worcester
Jefferson 218
8PM - Gertrude Stein and Companion
9:30PM - Domestic Bliss
Suggested donation: $3.00

Wednesday, May 12
Video Festival
Community Interest Films
Clark University
950 Main Street, Worcester
Jefferson 218
8PM - Tongues Untied
9PM - Seventeen Rooms or What Do Lesbians Do In Bed?
9:15PM - Salut Victor
Suggested donation: $3.00

Friday, 
May 14
Art Sale and Concert##
Worcester Artist Group
21-69 Main Street, Cherry Valley
8PM - Entertainment by Laura Berkson and Barbara Malone
Admission - $6.00
$5.00 with a Pride Button

Saturday, May 15
Pride Dance##
Lithuanian War Veterans Organization
206 South Quinsigamond Avenue, Shrewsbury
8PM - 1AM
Admission - $5.00
$3.00 with a Pride Button

Saturday, May 15
Complimentary admission to the Worcester Art Museum with Pride button##
Buttons will not be sold at this event

Sunday, May 16
Noche de Extravaganza##
an evening of performance sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Latino Organization (GALLO)
Club 241
241 Southbridge Street, Worcester
8PM
Admission - $3.00
$2.00 with a Pride button.
Contact Ray Pifferrer at 755-3773 for advance tickets.

Monday, May 17
Readings by authors Leslea Newman, Robert Rimer, and Neil Miller##
Barnes & Noble
470 Southbridge Street, Auburn
7PM

Celebrating Women's Strength Together
sponsored by Women's Energy Against Violence
Rainbow Bridge Coffeehouse
First Baptist Church
Salisbury Street at Park Avenue, Worcester
7:30PM
Admission - $6.00
$5.00 with a Pride button

Wednesday, May 19
Video Festival
Classic Films
Clark University
950 Main Street, Worcester
Jefferson 218
7:30PM - Maurice
10PM - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Suggested donation: $3.00

Multi-Faith Service##
Morning Star Metropolitan Community Church
231 Main Street, Cherry Valley
7:30 PM

Thursday, May 20
Pride Lecture: "Gays in the Military"##
Clark University Professors Gary Lehring and Neta Crawford
New England Science Center
222 Harrington Way, Worcester
7:30PM - hors d'oeuvres
8PM - lecture

Friday, May 21
Sports Night - Volleyball and Basketball##
United Congregational Church Gymnasium
6 Institute Road, Worcester
6PM - 10PM

Pride Night##
Club 241
241 Southbridge Street, Worcester
Complimentary admission with a Pride Button

Saturday, May 22
1993 Worcester Lesbian Gay, & Bisexual Pride March

Rally##
City Hall Common, Worcester
12PM

March
from City Hall, Worcester to Institute Park, Worcester.
12:30PM

1993 Worcester Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Pride Rally##
Institute Park, Worcester
rain location: United Congregational Church, 6 Institute Road
1:30PM (Immediately after march)
Speakers listed next page

Women's Floating Dance Floor
Frohsinn Club
North Quinsigamond Avenue, Shrewsbury
8PM
Admission - $5.00
$4.00 with a Pride button

Pride Night##
Club 241
241 Southbridge Street, Worcester
Complimentary admission with a Pride button

Sunday, May 23
Pride Brunch##
sponsored by The Gay & Lesbian Community Coalition of Central Massachusetts
Milano's Restaurant
592 Main Street, Worcester
11AM - 2PM
$15.00 per person: Advance reservations
suggested - call 799-0352

Tea Dance##
to benefit local AIDS service agencies
Club 241
241 Southbridge Street, Worcester
Safe Company and Safer Sex Games
6PM - 10PM

## = Handicap Accessible

1993 Worcester Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual 
Pride Rally
1:30PM (immediately following march from City 
Hall)
Saturday, May 22
Institute Park
Guest Speakers:

Frank Bidart. Bidart is a nationally recognized poet 
from Cambridge, MA.  Some of his published works 
include The Book of the Body (New York: Farrar, 
Straus and Giroux, 1977), Golden State (New York: 
G. Braziller, 1973), and In the Western Night: 
Collected Poems 1965-90 (New York: Farrar, 
Straus and Giroux, 1990).

Albert M. Toney III.  Toney is a Worcester 
community organizer and police officer.  He serves 
as a board member and buddy at AIDS Project 
Worcester; a key member of the 1993 Worcester 
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Pride Planning 
Committee; and co-chair and co-founder of the Gay 
and Lesbian Community Coalition of Central 
Massachusetts (GLCCCM). Toney is currently the 
only openly gay officer in our city's police 
department.

Jennifer Firestone.  Firestone is the Coordinator 
of Gay and Lesbian Family and Parenting Services 
at the Fenway Community Health Center, in 
Boston.  Firestone first saw her cervix and began 
work in women's health during the seventies at the 
Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland and in a 
women's health CR group in St. Louis, Missouri.  
She has been active in a variety of gay/lesbian, 
feminist, and labor related issues and events 
including the Gay and Lesbian Defense Committee, 
the St. Louis and New England Women's Sports 
Connections, and the Cambridge Feminist Anti-
Censorship Task Force.

Michael Quercio.  Quercio, a 1988 graduate of 
Assumption College, has spent the last two years 
sharing his life story with thousands of people.  
Since his diagnosis as a person living with 
HIV/AIDS, Michael has become one of the 
epidemics most visible faces in Central 
Massachusetts.  In January Michael attended The 
Clinton Inaugural as one the President's "Faces of 
Hope."  He  has developed an innovative 
HIV/AIDS Education Program at a local Private 
High School.  Michael is employed as an 
Adolescent HIV/AIDS Case Manage for YOU, Inc. 
and The Linkage Project.  He is on AIDS Project 
Worcester's Board of Directors and is a member of 
Health Awareness Services' Educators Living With 
HIV Project.  

Donna Red Wing.  Red Wing is The Advocate 
newsmagazine's choice for 1992 Woman of the 
Year.  She was instrumental in the defeat of 
Oregon's Measure 9, a state constitutional 
amendment which would have declared 
homosexuality to be abnormal and perverse.  She 
currently works with the Police Bureau Advisory 
Committee, the Homophobic Violence Reporting 
Line, the NO on HATE PAC, the Summit 
Committee on Hate Crime, the Portland Bias Crime 
Task Force, the Mackenzie River Gathering 
Foundation, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and 
the Cascade AIDS Project Advisory Committee.

Urvashi Vaid.  Urvashi Vaid is an attorney, 
community organizer, political strategist, and 
nationally acclaimed leader.  Vaid has served as 
Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian 
Task Force (NGLTF), coordinating news media and 
public education campaigns to advance gay and 
lesbian rights.  Vaid has also worked with Gay 
Community News, Gay and Lesbian Advocates 
and Defenders, Roadwork, the National March on 
Washington (1987 and 1993), the 1988 ACT NOW 
demonstration at the Food and Drug Administration, 
the 1989 White House Civil disobedience action on 
World AIDS Day, and a variety of grassroots 
community organizations dealing with violence 
against women.