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   Queer Coalitions

      The 6th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
      Transidentified Graduate Student Conference
      Miami University, Oxford, Ohio April 4-7, 1996

   Call For Papers/Presentations

   Through panel presentations, performances, conversations,
   and cultural events, Queer Coalitions offers a forum that
   builds bridges across disciplines.  Queer Coalitions seeks
   to create communities across traditional barriers.

   In November 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, located 50 miles
   south of Miami University, Cincinnati City Council passed
   a Human Rights Ordinance prohibiting discrimination in
   employment, housing, and public accommodations.

   This Ordinance protected Cincinnati citizens on the basis
   of race, gender, age, handicap, marital status, sexual
   orientation, national or ethnic origin, or Appalachian
   identity.

   Exactly one year later a group known as "Equal Rights Not
   Special Rights" called into question the category of
   "sexual orientation" in the Human Rights Ordinance and
   brought it to Cincinnati voters on the November ballot.

   Sixty-two percent of the voters passed this charter
   amendment known as Issue 3 denying protection to anyone on
   the basis of sexual orientation.  In addition to the defeat
   at the polls, Cincinnati City Council voted this past March
   to repeal "sexual orientation" from the Human Rights
   Ordinance that originally protected queer Cincinnatians.

   And on May 12th the United States Sixth Circuit Court of
   Appeals in Cincinnati upheld the anti-queer initiative,
   Issue 3.  At present, Cincinnati's Issue 3 is waiting to be
   heard by the United States Supreme Court.

   What occurred in Cincinnati is by no means an isolated
   series of events.

   Other communities have been devastated by such legislation;
   for example, the passage of Proposition 187 in California.
   Communication across racial, class, and gendered barriers
   has been wounded by this series of defeats.

   Queer Coalitions invites students, activists, performers,
   and artists from a variety of disciplines to engage in
   collective discussion of new approaches to building bridges
   inside and outside of queer communities.

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   The conference planning committee requests abstracts and/or
   proposals (1-2 pgs.) for papers and presentations that
   discuss, interrogate, and contest these and other issues in
   "queer" studies:

      Activism/Academics
      AIDS Related Research
      Gender Reassignment Technology
      Collective Kink Politics
      Building Movements
      Transgender, Transexuality, Sexuality and Cultural
         Nationalism
      Queer Politics
      Homophobia in Health Care
      Lesbian and Gay Parenting
      Artificial Insemination
      Chicano/a Sexuality
      Lesbian Feminism
      Sexuality in Ethnic Studies
      Legalizing Same Sex Marriages
      Bisexuality
      Domestic Partner Legislation
      Lesbian and Gay Sexuality in the African Diaspora
      Post Colonialism and Queer Sexuality
      Lesbians With AIDS
      Safe Sex, S/M, Pleasure and Sexuality
      Asian-American Sexuality
      Lesbian and Gay Histories
      Anti-Queer Legislation
      Violence/ABuse in Same Sex Relationships
      Health Care Reform for Queers
      Politics of Sexuality in Ethnic Studies
      Pedagogy
      Queer Sexuality in the Social Sciences
      Queer Geographies
      Lesbian Bereavement
      Queer Film
      Heterosexism
      Queer Theory

   Please send submissions and queries to Queer Coalitions,
   c/o Marcy Knopf, Miami University, Department of English,
   Bachelor Hall, Oxford, Ohio 45056.

   Deadline: January 16, 1996.

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