Sun Shines On Gays

Please visit our Art Fair booth! We will be with the other non-profit organizations every day of the ArtFair (Wed. July 22-Sat. July 25). Remember that August brings the annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival; this year it's the seventeenth! Plan to go "up and over" to Hart (northwest of Grand Rapids) for a day or for the entire Festival. Information is available at (616) 757-4766; LGMPO has copies of the Festival brochure-come during regular working hours to the reception area of LGMPO next to room 3116 in the Michigan Union.

"Speak Out" is a grassroots lobbying project organized and sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign Fund in Washington, DC. The project "watchdogs" Congress to promote legislation favorable to the concerns of Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals and to prevent homophobic legislation. In 1991, more than 163,000 "Speak Out" Letters were sent to members of Congress. There are more than five hundred participants in Michigan. If you would like to help enroll new members in the project, call Lena Thompson at (313) 547-7907 or the national canvass unit at (800) 777-HCRF.

Female rap artists Salt-n-Pepa have joined the National Minority AIDS Council in the fight against AIDS. The artists will donate a percentage of the proceeds from their recent single, "Let's Talk About AIDS," to the Council to help communities of color fight against HIV. For information about the single, contact Anita D. Taylor, National Minority AIDS Council, 300 I Street NE, Suite 400, Washington, DC 200002; telephone (202) 544-1076.

If you are looking for housing for fall, come to the LGMPO office reception area to check out the housing bulletin board. You are welcome to post your own ad. While you are visiting LGMPO, be sure to look for postings of current events that did not make the AGENDA Calendar.

Gay Liberation Front's Purpose is to provide information, counseling, and related social services for people concerned about sexual orientation. We maintain a hotline for crisis intervention, peer counseling and referral. We help provide factual information to offset prejudice and misinformation about Lesbians, Gay men, and Bisexual people. We work to obtain human and civil rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation. We help organize groups for Lesbians, Gay men, and Bisexual people and are a link to other community groups.

Community Services include: a Hotline for crisis intervention, peer counseling, referral. Education: workshops and conferences on concerns of Lesbians, Gay men, and Bisexual people with an emphasis on how people in the "helping professions' and "teaching professions" can work positively with clients, patients, & students who are Lesbians, Gay men, and Bisexual people. Speakers Bureau: phone for information. Human & Civil Rights: information and referral to help people who are being discriminated against because of their actual or presumed sexual orientation or because of their presumed "cross-gender" characteristics; lobbying for human and civil rights. Community Organization & Liaison: information and assistance in organizing groups, setting goals, addressing conflict, linking with other groups and resources. 

Gay Liberation Front Meetings vary according to purpose; we do most of our work in subcommittees (counseling, groupwork, education, civil rights). Call for time and place. Gay Liberation Front includes U-M students, staff, faculty and people from the larger communities. We have a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. We're a registered non-profit organization.

Gay Liberation Front, 4117 Michigan Union, 530 S. State, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1349; (313) 763-4186.