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Creating Change: Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Date: 6/15/1905Call Number: JG/ 026Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
6th annual "Creating Change conference" in Durham, NC. Keynote speaker Mab Segrest, southern gay/lesbian activist, anti-Klan organizer and author of "Memoirs of a Race Traitor". Speech was a call to bring racism and inhumanity of capitalism into the discourse.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference
Date: 11/1/1993Call Number: JG/ 030Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference in Durham, NC. Various speakers present on the Right and its agenda, violence, rhetoric and organizing tactics against it. Speakers include Jean Barstown from political research associates in Boston which does oppositional research about the right.
Gay & Lesbian Programming
Call Number: JG/ 031Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Part of eight hours of programming put together by Judy Gerber on Gays and Lesbians. Great into song "Glory, Glory I'm a Homosexual". Interview with Carlos Ortiz, a Puerto Rican Independista and member of National committee to free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. Ortiz discuss the Stonewall riots, AIDS work in Puerto Rican community, and repression and acceptance of homosexuality in the national liberation movement. Also interview with Carmen Vasquez a Puerto Rican Independista and member of GLTF. Music from local Atlanta gay/lesbian bands. Interview with Bill Haskill of ACT UP SF on the investigation NC senator Jesse Helms instigated against ACT UP.
Lesbian Live: Lesbians of Color, Triple Jeopardy, Multiple Strength
Date: 6/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 032Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
"Lesbian Live: Lesbians of Color, Triple Jeopardy, Multiple Strength" This show was put together by Judy Gerber and includes the voices of Latina, African American and Native American women.
Queer Pride: coming out and obstacles
Call Number: JG/ 039Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Tape begins with a young girl discovering her love for other womyn in a comical story telling style by Clare Mc Park. music. A panel of four courageous queer folks share their experiences with coming out and obstacles. Connie Tutell, Carolyanne Pagent, Jone Garner, and Gary Calman all describe how privilege plays a big part in how a person comes out politically, socially, and emotionally; emphasizing that its not just about sexuality. Homophobia, discrimination, and safety issues are also discussed throughout the segment. As well as the need to take personal risks.
Political Prisoners in the United States: Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans
Call Number: JG/ 062Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
An interview with Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans, two North American political prisoners currently serving long sentences at the Federal Prison in Pleasanton as a result of their political activities. Linda and Laura have been anti-imperialist activities for twenty years, most recently in the anti-Klan, Black solidarity and lesbian and women's movements. Part of a series on U.S. political prisoners, produced by Judy Gerber.
Note: Since the broadcast of this program, both Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans have been freed.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #1
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 073Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. Diedra McCalaugh (sp?) is a feminist singer/songwriter from Berkeley and performs songs from her album, “Everyday Heroes and Heroines”.
Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 074Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. On this tape many of the speakers talk about the need for increasing the public lesbian community through demonstrations and gatherings. This recording follows JG/LS 073.
Focus on Race in Black History Month
Date: 2/2/1996Call Number: JG/ 097Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Focus on Race in Black History Month. Interview with Charlene Kotherine, publisher of 'Venus' magazine and an activist in the African American Gay community in Atlanta, GA. Kotherine discuses the recent rally of gay and lesbian blacks in honor of Bayard Rustin at the Atlanta Martin Luther King celebrations, done in hopes of raising visibility for the movement and educating the larger black community about black gays and lesbians. She notes
a recent more positive reception towards the gay community as a whole in Atlanta and increasing numbers of black gays and lesbians who have come out in the past five years. Kotherine believes nonetheless that coming out still unfortunately remains a privlidge of high economic status for blacks. She notes the need for a separate black gay and lesbian movement outside the mainstream gay and lesbian movement in Atlanta because of unique race concerns and the black need for acceptance from within the power bases of their community which has thus far been hesitant to accept them. She notes the steps forward that black gays and lesbians have made at organizing over the past year, including organizing a black gay pride parade.
