I make no claim that this calender is comprehensive. I will add events as I become of aware of them or as people give me information.
Tickets are still available.
In reponse to their actions, local conservatives whipped up anti-lesbian hysteria and some 70 hate crimes followed. The Hensons, who are not newcomers to social change, had been operating a food and clothes bank, adult literacy programs, counseling and referral services and had produced the Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival. Their mission, to bring feminist education and community-based services to women in rural Mississippi, has made them the target of the religious right. Now they are on speaking tours to rasie funds to file a federal lawsuit that would extend civil rights law to gays and lesbians. For more information call 277 5014.