UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 4, 1997
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Pride Week to celebrate gays
Events designed to raise awareness of accomplishment
By Amy Rush Special to the Kansan
Pride Week, an event co-sponsored by KU Queers and Allies, will feature events on Sunday through Wednesday to educate, energize and entertain those who attend.
Joe Cuevas, Topeka junior and KU Queers and Allies events committee co-chairman, said Pride Week would show that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community had made contributions to society.
In the past, the week-long celebration has been called Awareness Week. This year, the events committee chose to call the event Pride Week, while continuing to raise awareness and educate the KU and Lawrence community about human rights issues through film, forums and discussions.
"We now call it Pride Week because after the contributions we've made in the community, we're proud of it," Cuevas said.
Pride Week also is sponsored by Student Senate, the Student Assistance Center, the Organizations and Activities Center,the Multicultural Resource Center and Women in Law.
In the past, the most widely attended event during the week
has been the Brown Bag Lunch Drag Show. This year it will be held at noon Monday outside the Kansas Union.
"It's during passing period," Cuevas said, "so students stop and watch. It's usually packed because people want to be outside in the nice weather."
Cuevas said that eight to 12 people from Lawrence, Kansas City and Topeka would perform at the drag show.
"It's a great first drag show to see because everybody is psyched up. It's fun to try to figure out which of the performers are KU students," Cuevas said.
Poet and author Minnie Bruce Pratt will give a lecture and readings on Thursday. Pratt has been awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets and the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature. She also has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book, Crime Against Nature, about her relationship with her two sons as a lesbian mother.
A performance by Cuban-American lesbian comedian Marga Gomez will be held on Saturday, April 12. Gomez was featured, on Rosie O'Donnell's Stand-Up Spotlight on VH-1 and also on other comedy specials: Comedy Central's Out There, HBO's Comic Relief VI and Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival.
Cuevas estimated that about 200 people would attend the Annual Human Rights March and Rally.
"We now call it Pride Week because after the contributions we've made in the community, we're proud of it."
Joe Cuevas KU Queers and Allies events committee co-chairman
also on Saturday, April 12. The rally will feature speakers from Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Women's Transitional Care Services, Freedom Coalition and KU Queers and Allies.
Celia Shacklett, Lawrence junior, attended an event last year and plans to attend some of the events this year. too.
"It raises awareness and promotes education about such issues because all human rights issues are important and should be paid attention to by students," Shacklett said.
All Pride Week events are free and open to the public. Contact KU Queers and Allies at 864-3091 for more information.
Pride Week's events
Sunday, April 6
1 to 3 p.m. — Staged readings of Torch Song Trilogy, 100 Smith Hall Monday, April 7
10 to 11 a.m. — Forum featuring people who are living with AIDS, Big 12 Room, Kansas Union
8 to 9:30 p.m. — Film: Female Bidentity: Women Tellin' It Like It Is, presented by filmmaker Jen Hardacker, Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Tuesday, April 8
- Tuesday, April 7:30 to 9 p.m. — Creating Families workshop, Lawrence Public Library
- Wednesday, April 9
Thursday, April 10
8 to 9:30 p.m. — Cartography—reading of the short story featured in Men on Men 6 by author and KU doctoral student Karl Woelz, Auditorium, Multicultural Resource Center
Tuesday, April 16
7:30 to 9 p.m. — Minnie Bruce Pratt, lecture and reading by lesbian poet and author. Book signing and reception to follow. Big 12
Room, Kansas Union
Saturday, April 12
1:30 to 3 p.m. Annual Human Rights March and Rally. Meet at Sixth and Massachusetts streets. Finish with rally in South Park, Downtown Lawrence
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. — Marga Gomez,
comedian, Alderson Auditorium,
Kansas Union
Sunday, April 13
Sunday, April 13 noon to 1 p.m. — Community-wide interfaith service. Danforth Chapel
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