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STONEWALL Author to Speak on Gay Rights at USM

April 6, 2005

David Carter, author of "STONEWALL: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution", will speak at 5 to 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, April 14, at the University of Southern Maine, on the 6th floor, Special Collections area, of USM's Glickman Family Library on Forest Avenue, Portland.

David Carter became a gay activist in 1977 as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. Carter founded the Madison Committee for Gay Rights, and later co-founded the United, an organization that successfully defeated an effort to rescind Madison, Wisconsin's gay rights ordinance. He also co-founded one of the nation's first gay television programs.

David moved to New York City in 1985 to pursue a career as a writer. Since then he has published a number of books including the book he will be discussing, "STONEWALL: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution."

This event is part of USM's Pride Week, and is sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Collection of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, the Women's Studies Program, and the American and New England Studies Program at USM.

For more information about David Carter's lecture, please call Susie Bock at 780-4269, and to arrange for interviews prior to his lecture, please call Judie O'Malley at 780-4200.

Other free public events during USM Pride Week include:

Monday, April 11
4-5 p.m., Woodbury Campus Center, Portland "Gaily Canonical: What We Will Have to Give Up" Local actors read excerpts from great books of the Western canon that are about gays and lesbians or by homosexual authors including Plato, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf and Audre Lorde.

Tuesday, April 12
5:30-6:30 p.m., Rooms A/B, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland "Transgressive Identities, Transgender Lives" A panel discussion with USM students. Wednesday,

April 13
3-4:30 p.m., USM's Gorham Campus Library Lecture and discussion led by Howard Solomon, scholar-in-residence of the USM Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Collection "Charlie Howard and His Impact on Gay Rights in Maine." The traveling exhibit, "Charlie Howard 20 Years Later: How Far Has Maine Come. Anti-Gay Discrimination and Violence in Maine 1984-2004," is on display in the Library until May 31.

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