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(D’EMILIO, from page I)
movement requires—a sympathetic voice
rendered in a dispassionate voice. And
they found that his conclusion—that homo
sexuality has become less threatening and
more like an integral part of society
"seems as welcome as it does
inescapable."
John D’Emilio received his Ph.D. in
history from Columbia University, and is
cur'C0ntly a professor of history at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
-Kint
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Southeast Conference
No sooner had the chlorine gas cleared
at the 1983 Southeastern Conference of
Lesbians and Gay Men in Atlanta than plan
ning began for the 1984 conference.
Hundreds of attenders of the Atlanta
conference in late April were routed from
a Saturday night variety show in a hotel
ballroom by a chlorine gas leak in the
swimming pool above. The disruption led
speakers for the evening, Rita Mae Brown
and Armistead Maupin, to speak standing
atop a sports car to the attenders who
gathered in the hotel's parking lot.
Later the same evening, the Buffalo Chips,
a Texas gay men's clogging group set to
entertain in the ballroom, instead took
over the hotel's lounge bar, and Con
ference goers footstomped and cheered amid
other hotel guests who looked slightly
bewildered.
The following day, as Conference events
returned to a more normal schedule, plan
ning got underway for the 1984 Conference.
Representatives from Alabama offered to
host next year's gathering in Birmingham
at the Holiday Inn—Medical Center on May
17-20.
Billing the conference as "Celebration
'84 — Pulling Together and Reaching Out,"
organizers have to date engaged speakers
Qinny Apuzzo of the National Gay Task
Force and Abby Rubenfeld of the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund.
The Alabama planners are placing
special emphasis on solidifying the
lesbian/gay network in the Southeast. At
the 1983 conference, efforts were made to
revitalize the Southern Association of
Lesbian and Gay Organizations (SALGO).
The Association, coordinated by Stewart
Butler in New Orleans, is putting together
a regional mailing list of people repre
senting various geographic areas in each
state.
Ron Lambe of RFD magazine in Bakers-
ville, NC, volunteered to be the SALGO
coordinator for North Carolina. Lambe has
compiled a list of all lesbian and gay
groups, publications, and businesses which
have a primarily gay clientele in North
Carolina, to be combined by SALGO with
similar lists from other Southern states.
The list will be used for mailings of news
of regional interest, including publicity
for the Southeastern Conference. One of
SALGO's aims is to make the list available
to all lesbian and gay organizations in
the region.
To ascertain that your group is
included in the regional list, contact:
SALGO
c/o Stewart Butler
1308 Esplanade Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70116
-Lee Mullis