Individual courses discuss each of these subjects from the perspectives of the past, the present and the future; selected topics include "Coming Out," "Computers and the Gay Community," "How to Argue for Gay and Lesbian Rights," and "Lesbian Culture: Creativity, Conflict and Coalition."
Co-sponsoring the event are the city of West Hollywood, Frontiers newsmagazine, A Different Light bookstore, PlanetOut, and ONE/International Gay and Lesbian Archives.
The keynote speaker is Tom Rielly, co-founder of the Digital Queers community-service group and Chief Executive Officer of PlanetOut, the largest Internet service for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Rielly will address college participants on "The Digitally Queer Future: Peril and Promise." Program instructors are psychologists Pat Alford-Keating and Greg Travis, anthropologist Walter Williams, historian (and regular contributor to LETTERS) David Bianco, film historians Sue Scheibler and Stephen Tropiano, social scientist Yolanda Retter, literary critic Luke Johnson, photographer Pat Branch, and brain scientist Simon LeVay (author of the gay biomedical thriller, Albricks Gold).
Torie Osborn, long-time lesbian activist and former director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, will moderate the concluding event, a town meeting where enrollees can debate an agenda for the lesbian and gay future. Other events include a historical exhibition organized by ONE/International Gay and Lesbian Archives and a game of Queer Jeopardy 2000. All classes and events will be held in West Hollywood, California.
Registration costs $75, with a special rate of $60 for those who register by September 5. Full-time students may participate for only $35. For registration information, contact the Gay and Lesbian Centers Community Education Dept., 1625 North Schrader Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Telephone (213) 461-2633.
Since its opening in 1992, West Hollywoods Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education has offered approximately 75 courses to over 2000 students, covering topics of queer interest in such diverse areas as screenwriting, gay and lesbian history, art and education.
The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center is the nations oldest and largest. The weekend college will inaugurate the Centers new Schools Out program, which aims to offer continuing-education classes on a wide variety of subjects to lesbians and gay men.
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