SPRING 1999

 

February 9, 1999

What Are Your Politics? Leadership Skills to Address Critical Social Issues/Needs: Hate Crimes and Homophobia

This workshop examines media coverage of the fatal beating of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. How was the incident portrayed? What sorts of analysis were presented, implied, or left out? Why did the case receive such widespread attention? A workshop co-sponsored by Student Programs and LGB Studies.

4-6pm Room 281, Memorial Student Union

 

February 12 , 19 and 27, 1999

Lesbian Looks Film and Video Series

 

February 12, 1999

New Lesbian Histories

The UA Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies celebrates the arrival in Tucson of renowned lesbian historian Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, co- author of the prize winning Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold. Also presenting will be the important young historian, Nan Alamilla Boyd, recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in NY. These scholars innovative new work explores sexuality in public and in private, the meaning of bisexuality in the 1940s, and the relations between lesbians and prostitutes in San Francisco in the 50s. UA Campus. Free and Open to the Public. For more info call 626-7580.

4-6pm
Center For English as a Second Language, Room 103
(1100 East North Campus Dr.)

 

February 26, 1999

The 4th Ever-Fabulous Sex and Scholarship Symposium: Mexican and Chicano Masculinities

In its Fourth Annual Symposium the UA Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies confronts our stereotypes of the Macho, presenting a panel exploring masculinity and sexuality in the Chicano movement, in small towns in Sonora, and in popular Hollywood film. Bringing together important queer scholars from Mexico and the US, this panel includes distinguished historian Ramón A. Gutiérrez, author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico,1500-1846, anthropologist Guillermo Nuñez Noriega, and pop culture expert, Adriana Estill. The panel will be moderated by Charles Tatum, Dean, College of Humanities, UA. Funded by the Arizona Humanities Council. Free and Open to the Public. For more info call 626-7580.

7-9 pm
Center For English as a Second Language, Room 103
(1100 East North Campus Dr.)

 

February 26, 1999

Mexican and Chicano Masculinities Colloquium

Tucson area AIDS activists, gay youth counselors, and artists will present their work with and about Mexican-American men. Panelists include Ernie Perez of the Latino Prevention Program, Arthur Padilla of QueerVoice, photographer, Jose Galvez, playwright Guillermo Reyes (author of "Deporting the Divas"), actor Albert Soto, and activist Gustavo Lozano. Free and Open to the Public. Refreshments provided. For more info call the UA Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies at 626-7580.

6-9 pm
Rincon Room, Memorial Student Union