Our 1998 conference was quite successful. We sold out all available spaces -- 1100 people from across the country attended. Registrants for the 1998 conference came from 138 colleges and universities and nine secondary schools. We had people from 21 states (from California to New York), the District of Columbia, and from England. Want to see a complete list of schools represented at the conference?
The University of Wisconsin Madison Ten Percent Society hosted 1400 people
at the 1999 Midwest BLGT College Conference, February 19-21, 1999 at Monona
Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. You can visit their archival 1999
conference website which offers information on hotel accommodations,
keynote speakers, registration, their schedule, scholarship information,
and workshops. The 1999 conference was held in conjunction with the sesquicentennial
of UW and was titled "Moving Forward, Looking Back." Keynote speakers
and special guests included Virginia Apuzzo, Larry Kramer, Rebecca Walker,
Kevin Jennings, Robyn Ochs, Donna Red Wing, Alexis Sainz, and Riki Anne
Wilchins. The conference included a play, a film, two dances, a drag show
and over sixty workshops.
The 8th annual Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender College Conference
will be held at St. Cloud State
University in St. Cloud, Minnesota in February, 2000. For more information
about MBLGTCC 2000, please email Tracey Ore at tore@STCLOUDSTATE.EDU.
At the 1998 conference we were pleased to offer Urvashi Vaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Michelangelo Signorile as our three keynote speakers. In addition, we were delighted that a Homocore queer punk show (featuring Glen Meadmore as well as the 12" Tor-Tea-Ahhhs), A Real Read (Chicago's premiere African-American lesbigay/trans performance ensemble), and singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick appearrf as our featured entertainers. In addition, we were pleased that the Artists Formerly Known as the WAC Drum Core and the Radical Faeries will help to open and close two of our keynote sessions. The photo-text exhibit, "Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families" was also be open for conference registrants. We also offered a variety of films on Friday and Saturday evening.
The conference featured dozens of workshops,
panels, and programs, two dances, a vendor fair/exhibits area, and more.
Complete program listings are still available from our schedule
page. Our vendor fair had a dozen exhibitors selling a variety of items
or distributing free information about their organization. We also set aside
space for those in recovery for use in scheduled and ad hoc meetings. Want more information?
This site will continue to be available as an archival resource.
The conference was cosponsored by:
Additional funding was provided through the generosity of:
You can get an archival look at our conference brochure in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You can download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe web site.
Our registration
form is still available on-line for archival purposes. Registrants
were able to submit it via the web/e-mail or print it to mail or fax. You
can also get an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of
this form here (download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader from
the Adobe
web site).
We were pleased to be able to offer
a limited number of scholarships
to cover conference registration costs . We formally encouraged high school
students to apply for these scholarships and participate in the conference!
Additional scholarships based on financial need were available. Applications
were awarded on a first submitted, first considered basis. Want
more information?
Do
you want to know more about Chicago?
The conference has been a regular event in the Midwest for the past half decade. The 1997 conference was held at Indiana State University in Terre Haute with attendance near 600 -- the highest to date. Previous conferences have been held at Beloit College in Wisconsin, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Earlham College in Indiana, and Iowa State University in Ames. 1998 marks the first time the conference will take place in a major metropolitan area. Due to space constraints, UIC can accommodate a maximum of 1100 registrants at this conference. Register early to avoid disappointment. This is how we invited people to host the 1999 conference on their campuses.
Questions can be directed to the Office of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Concerns at (312) 413-8619 (weekdays, 8:30 - 4:45 Central Time) or email
them to mblgcc98@uic.edu
Check
out these other regional student conferencesThe University of Wisconsin Madison Ten Percent Society hosted 1400 people
at the 1999 Midwest BLGT College Conference, February 19-21, 1999 at Monona
Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. You can visit their archival 1999
conference website which offers information on hotel accommodations,
keynote speakers, registration, their schedule, scholarship information,
and workshops. The 1999 conference was held in conjunction with the sesquicentennial
of UW and was titled "Moving Forward, Looking Back." Keynote speakers
and special guests included Virginia Apuzzo, Larry Kramer, Rebecca Walker,
Kevin Jennings, Robyn Ochs, Donna Red Wing, Alexis Sainz, and Riki Anne
Wilchins. The conference included a play, a film, two dances, a drag show
and over sixty workshops.
The 8th annual Midwest Bisexual
Lesbian Gay Transgender College Conference will be held at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud,
Minnesota in February, 2000. For more information about MBLGTCC 2000, please
email Tracy Ore at tore@STCLOUDSTATE.EDU
or visit their website: http://www.stcloudstate.edu/~mblgtcc/
This site will continue to be available as an archival resource.
Partial funding has been generously allocated by:
The Undergraduate Student Government &
This site last updated: October 27, 1999 page address: http://www.uic.edu/depts/quic/mblgtcc/low_tech.html
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