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Amnesty International: Working for the Human Rights of LGBT People Around the World
This workshop will present a brief history of Amnesty International's work on LGBT human rights and information about the worldwide movement to document human rights abuses against LGBT people. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and learn about ways that you can take acion to end these human rights abuses.
Michelle Mohr is a member of Amnesty International Members for Lesbian Gay Concerns Steering Committee. She interned at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission during the summer of 1993 and has presented more than 20 programs on the subject of LGBT human rights. She is currently the Membership Program Coordinator at the Midwest Regional Office of Amnesty International in Chicago.
Awareness and Sensitivity Towards GLBT University Students in the Classroom
An interactive, hands-on orientation workshop that addresses training Graduate Teaching Assistants to be aware of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender students in their classrooms. This session aims to help raise consciousness as well as give future GTAs resources/ideas that can be applied to their classrooms.
Joseph McClanahan is a Graduate Student in Spanish at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he works as both a Spanish Course Supervisor and a Spanish instructor. His areas of interest are Nineteenth Century Spanish Theater and Foreign Language Education. Amy Young is a Doctoral Student in German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has worked as a German Language Instructor. She has her M.A. in German from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her primary area of interest is 20th Century German Women Writers.
Being a Campus Media Watchdog
Courting the media has always been important in the battle against heterosexism. Here's your chance to draft recommendations on how to use non-heterosexist language to benefit your local campus media.
Presenter: Phil Jessel has been out and involved in local queer groups since his freshman year of college at Northwestern. He has been BGALA's public relations chair, technology chair, coming out group facilitator, and logistical coordinator. He is an undergraduate majoring in psychology with a cross-disciplinary interest in issues of sexuality.
Bi the Way... : A Discussion By, For, and About Bisexuals and Bisexuality
This roundtable discussion is intended to provide a safe space for bisexuals and allies to discuss what it means to be bi, experiences with biphobia (both internal and external), the need for a bi community, and the stereotyped images others hold of bisexuals.
The discussion will be facilitated by Holly Barnes and Willi Horner-Johnson, two female bisexuals who are graduate students in Community Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. While working together on a study of the UIC campus climate for lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals, they have become aware that very little research has been done on bisexuality or on biphobia and how it differs from homophobia.
Breaking the Silence!
The National Day of Silence, to be held on April 8, 1998, will show the world how GLBT people everywhere are silenced by hate and discrimination. This workshop will provide ideas on how to organize a Day of Silence for your school. BGLT people everywhere pledge silence from 8 to 5 on the day, when the silence is broken and sexuality is reaffirmed throughout the world!
Facilitator: Jason Kamrath is a gay second-year choral and instrumental music education major at Western Illinois University. He is the Midwest Regional Coordinator for the 1998 National Day of Silence and is also active in Western's Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians, and Friends Association. In his spare time, he is an assistant manager for WESTEC, the university's student-run sound and lighting company.
A Circle Of Friends Should Never End
This workshop will present a comprehensive peer approach to safer-sex for the LGBT Community as an HIV-prevention intervention. It involves negotiation skills and peer support through discussions and contracts to deal with individuals under the influence of drugs/alcohol who are unable to act on their own decisions for reducing risks.
The primary presenter is Arlene F. Valentine, who serves on the Illinois State Prevention Community Planning Group Executive Committee, is Co-Chair of the Regional Implementation Group, Co-Chair of the Ryan White Care Consortia of Central IL, and a member of the Illinois Statewide HIV/AIDS Network Steering Committee, McLean County Advocacy Council for Human Rights, PFLAG and other local, regional and state related groups. Also presenting is Bruce T. Lang.
Counseling in Genderland
This presentation aims to offer a basic foundation about transgender issues. Often professional mental health providers, i.e. doctors and counselors, are not well informed about this complicated topic. In-depth information about counseling interventions, surgical procedures, and hormone replacement therapy for patients/clients will be presented.
Presenters: Pornthip Chalungsooth holds an Ed.D. in Counseling, NCC, LCP. Dr. Chalungsooth is a consultant for TR-ESS (a support group for crossdressers in Springfield, MI) and provides counseling for spouses/partners and family members of transgender clients.
Encountering our Own Heterosexism and Sexism: Now What?
The primary task of this presentation is to explore the ways in which heterosexism and sexism intersect and pervade interpersonal interactions and assumptions about others. The format includes both didactic and experiential components.
The presenters are Joy Whitman, a full-time professor of counselor education at Purdue University-Calumet who has conducted research and presentations on the topics of identity management of lesbian women, and on heterosexism and sexism for counselors and educators; and Cyndy Boyd, who has a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from SUNY-Buffalo and is currently a staff psychologist at the counseling center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her areas of specialty include sexual orientation issues, feminist therapy, eating disorders, sexual abuse, and crisis intervention.
Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Work Life and Activities at Ford Motor Company
An interactive talk by members of Ford Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Employees about Ford GLOBE and gay, lesbian and bisexual life at Ford Motor Company. Company diversity efforts and pertinent policies will be covered. The workshop will feature a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, and a question-and-answer session.
Ford GLOBE is an officially-recognized employee resource group of Ford Motor Company with active chapters in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany and worldwide membership. After serving two years on the Ford GLOBE Board of Directors, Cindy Clardy now serves as the group's External Communications Coordinator. She is a cost estimator in Product Development, Truck Vehicle Center. Cindy is also one of Ford's certified diversity trainers and a member of the Finance Diversity Council. John Carter currently serves on the Ford GLOBE Board of Directors and was instrumental in developing a PowerPoint presentation for Ford management. John is a product design engineer for Advanced Vehicle Technology. Both are located at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI (a Detroit suburb).
Integrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Scholarship into Curricula
This program is based on experience in developing and teaching a course and integrating GLBT scholarship into existing courses. The first portion of the program will address: 1) strategies to cultivate faculty and administrative support; 2) ideas and resources to assist in developing sexual orientation scholarship; and 3) obstacles to success. The second portion will involve participants in a discussion about curriculum development issues.
The presenter, Christine Yared, has practiced law since 1985 and joined the Grand Valley State University faculty in 1993. She has an extensive service record involving GLBT issues including faculty advisor for a GLBT student group, member of Gay and Lesbian Advisory Committee to the President (of GVSU), and President of the Lesbian and Gay Community Network of Western Michigan. She has also published an article on discrimination of teachers based on sexual orientation.
Make a Friend! How Delta Lambda Phi Promotes Lasting Bonds of Friendship Across the Country
Interested in helping your organization foster meaningful friendships among its members? A group of Delta Lambda Phi National Social Fraternity's brothers will discuss social and service activities that promote camaraderie within organizations. We will also briefly cover how to start a chapter of Delta Lambda Phi.
Facilitators: Jon Hageali is an undergraduate student at Eastern Michigan University and the Midwest Extension Representative and Alpha Mu Chapter Vice President of DLP. He has served as a planning board member and presenter at the 1996 EMU Winter Leadership Conference. Mike Dushane is an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and a founder and past president of the Alpha Mu Chapter of DLP. Other past leadership experience includes work with the U of M Queer Unity Project Planning Team, the Triangle Foundation of Michigan, and U of M's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Programs Office.
Mentor, Mediator, Advisor, Friend: The Many Roles of a Faculty/Staff Advisor
Advising LGBT student groups can be an ambiguous and time-consuming role which leaves advisors struggling to find the line between advising and directing. This roundtable discussion will provide an opportunity for advisors from different schools to share their experiences, discuss strategies for balancing their responsibilities, and explore ethical issues related to professional and social interactions with students.
The discussion will be facilitated by Margaret M. Cook , who has served as faculty co-advisor for the NIU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Coalition (LGBC) for three years and also serves on the NIU President's Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation and Mark Harniss, who is in his first year as faculty co-advisor for the LGBC and also serves on the President's Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation.
Queers 'R' Us
"Queers 'R' Us," an anthology in progress, combines documentation of queer activism ephemera -- graphics, rants, agit prop, 'zines, manifestos -- with polemics, first-person accounts, interviews, and critical writings on assimilation and marginalization, visibility and "progress," and the future of various "radical" political projects and subcultures in contemporary queer/L/G/B/T life.
The QRU Collective shares a history of activism, most recently in the AIDS movement; we all bridge academic and activist worlds. The primary presenters are Debbie Gould, who is a Ph.D candidate in the Political Science Department at the University Of Chicago and Mary Patten, an artist who teaches in the Video Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Other members presenting include Darrell Moore, who teaches in the Philosophy Department at DePaul University, and Erica Rand, who teaches in the Art Department at Bates College.
Researching Our Own Lives: LGBT Students' Experiences Conducting LGBT Research
This workshop will serve as a forum for LGBT students who are planning to begin or who have completed research on LGBT issues. The personal, logistical, and methodological concerns involved in conducting research in this area will be discussed, along with concrete strategies that students can utilize in their research.
Facilitator: Julie Konik is currently a master's candidate in clinical psychology. She has presented her research at professional conferences and has won several national public speaking awards. She is also a member of West Chester University's LGBT Alliance in Pennsylvania and a member of the American Psychological Association's division of LGBT psychology.
Warming the Chilly Climate and Budging the Rigid Culture: The Emerging LGBT and Ally Presence at Iowa State University
The climate for LGBT students, faculty and staff is rapidly shifting at Iowa State University. An ever-expanding core group of students, faculty and staff have worked hard in recent months to effect changes in the underlying culture in order to benefit LGBTs. At the forefront of these changes is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services (LGBTSS). In this session, two of us will discuss how LGBTSS is instrumental in engineering these cultural and climatic shifts through a discussion of important initiatives undertaken over the last year.
Presenters: Houston Dougharty is the Associate Dean of Students at ISU. He holds advanced degrees in student affairs administration from Western Washington University and educational leadership and organizations from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation research investigates homophobia on the college campus; other areas of interest are ally development, group dynamics, leadership, and teamwork. Sine Anahita is the coordinator of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services (LGBTSS) at ISU. She is studying for her master's degree in sociology, with a concentration on social inequality based on race, class, gender, and sexuality. She has researched rural lesbians, particularly landdyke communities, for over a decade. Recently her research interests have broadened to studying exotic dancers, prostitutes, and other gender outlaws.
What Do We Do Now? Getting Your Organization Off the Ground or Out of a Rut!
Is your organization new? Has your membership dropped drastically? This workshop will give students the tools to get their organization off the ground or out of a rut. Dare to dream of impossible goals. The presenter's organization did and they've achieved them. "Your group can too!" Topics will include increasing membership, getting recognized, and applying for funding.
This workshop's primary presenter is Eldon C. Brown, founding member of BGLFA at Western Illinois University. He's been involved in nearly all aspects of student leadership, from academic committees to campus programming boards. He taught a semster-long class for student leaders, and presented educational and leadership programs to classes, organizations, and student leaders of all backgrounds.
What You See Is What You Get
Gay youth are faced with an alarming lack of positive gay role models. As a result, they are often forced to forge an identity through hard-won insights and stereotypes. Incorporating discussions and role-plays, this presentation will address how role models influence us, how to find positive role-models, and the pros and cons of mentoring.
Facilitators Jim Dolan and Ken Papineau work at Eastern Michigan University. Jim is currently a Graduate Assistant in Housing Services and Ken is EMU's Health Educator.
What's In It For You: HIV Prevention Community Planning and Implementation
This workshop will provide an overview of HIV prevention programs in Illinois, including HIV prevention community planning. It will provide information on how members of populations most at risk for HIV can have input on delivery of prevention interventions.
Presenter Judith Barsema-Kauerauf has been employed by the Illinois Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Section since 1989. Since 1993, she has served as coordinator of HIV/AIDS prevention programs. She also manages the state's contract for the HIV/AIDS & STD Hotline and oversees the distribution of HIV prevention and risk reduction materials.
Why Engage the Church?
Why do some queers choose to be activists within the church? This workshop will explore reasons and strategies for church activism, including discussion of gay/lesbian/bisexual student activism that is working for change in campus ministries and churches now.
Kelly Love is an intern in the the Reconciling Congregation Program National office in Chicago, where she focuses on outreach to student groups, campus ministries, and churches in the Northeast. Kelly is a second-year Masters of Divinity student at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.