From: RR.DTG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Troy Gilbert)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Conference on Relationships
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:26:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: morrow.1992Apr13.172611.22414
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA



The Stanford University Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance (BGLAS)
invites you to a Conference on Relationships, held Saturday, 9 May 1992,
10am-5pm, Tresidder Union, Stanford University.
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Keynote Speakers:
Betty Berzon, Ph.D.-"The Challenge of a Potent Life: Being Gay and Lesbian
in the 90's." Licensed psychotherapist; authored *Permanent Partners* and
edited *Positively Gay*.

Craig Dean.-"Gay Marriage: A Civil Right." After having his application to
marry his lover denied, he sued the District of Columbia in a test case
being watched nationally.

Barbara Cameron-"Reclaiming Our Family." Executive Director of
Community United Against Violence, co-founder of Gay American Indians,
and author of *This Bridge Called My Back*.
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At the conference, you will attend two workshops, one from each of the
following sets:
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Morning Workshop:
A. Domestic Partners: Rights in Businesses-Don Nelson, President, High
Tech Gays;  and George Kronenberger, EEO Project Manager, PG&E; Cynthia
Bologna, Corp. Communication Asst., Levi Straus & Co., each a co-founder
of their respective company's gay, lesbian, and bisexual employee
organization.

B. Lesbian and Gay Parenting: The New Family-Two noted MFCC couples
share their professional and personal experiences of parenting and the
options available for would-be/maybe parents.  Dan McPherson & Kevin
Gogin and Nancy Brown & Rosy Moffit.

C. Sensuality: Body & Soul-Howard Devore, licensed psychologist and
certified sex therapist explores the creative aspects of sex and romance
in the Nineties.
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Afternoon Workshop:
A. Intercultural Relationships-Bang Nguyen, co-founder of the Gay Asian
Pacific Alliance; Pat Norman, Executive Director of the Cali-fornia AIDS
Intervention Training Center and Board President of the San Francisco
Black Coalition on AIDS; Rudy Gaudio & Norma Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D.
candidates in Linguistics working with language and its interaction with
gender, religion, and sexuality.

B. Commitment Ceremonies: Tying the Knot-Lutheran Ministers and couple
Ruth Frost & Phyllis Zillhart, assistant pastors whose congregation
challenged the national church policy of denying ordination to openly
lesbian and gay people.  Byron Bland, University Minister who performed a
recent ceremony for Christian student Derrick Kikuchi and his Jewish
partner Craig Wiesner.

C. Legal Implications of Gay Fatherhood and Lesbian Motherhood-Maria Gil
de Lamadrid, staff lawyer for the National Center for Lesbian Rights,
represents clients across the nation in adoption and custody cases.

D. Intimate Relations: Merging and Fear-Diane Gray, Ph.D., psychologist,
Clinical Supervisor for the City of San Francisco, adjunct faculty for
Professional School of Psychology; Rik Isensee, MSW, author of Love
Between Men and Growing Up Gay in a Dysfunctional Family.
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Registration fee is $10.

To register, see our ad in the *San Francisco Bay Times*, 9-Apr-92 issue.

For more information about the conference or registration, contact me (Quang
Tue Nguyen) at august@leland.stanford.edu or call the Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
Community Center at (415) 723-1488.

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