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Vieux Carre MCC Responds
To New York Times AdVieux Carre MCC added its voice to religious leaders and human rights activists across the U.S. in condemning the full-page ad in the July 13 edition of the New York Times which offered to help homosexuals convert to hetereosexuality and offered this as God's plan.
VCMCC, which condemns the ad as false and misleading, welcomes inquiries from all people, including Gays and Lesbians, seeking to integrate their spirituality and sexuality. A line at the bottom of the ad read, "If you really love someone, you'll tell them the truth." VCMCC believes that the truth for God's Gay and Lesbian children is: --God loves you as you are. --God created you as you are, and God's creation is good. --To deny the essence of who you are, leads only to inner turmoil and emotional conflict. --To embrace yourself just as God has created you is the path of emotional wholeness and spiritual health. --The true message of the Holy Scriptures is affirmation and acceptance.
Fire Memorial Plaque Udate
Vieux Carre MCC would like to thank the community for its support of the recent commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Up Stairs Bar fire. Donations continue to be accepted for a plaque to be placed at the site of the fire. As the most devastating fire in New Orleans history in terms of human fatalities, it claimed over thirty lives including the pastor of the local MCC and its congregation members. Although over $600 has been collected for the plaque, it is estimated that it may cost as much as $1,000. Suggestions for the wording of the plaque are also welcome. Donations to the plaque may be made by making checks payable to Vieux Carre MCC with the note "Fire Memorial Fund" in the memo portion of the check. Checks may be mailed to: Vieux Carre MCC, 1128 St. Roch Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117.
Krewe Of Petronius
To Get Down And DecadentThe Krewe of Petronius is throwing a Decadence Party just in time for Southern Decadence and everybody is invited to attend. On Sat., Sept. 5, from 8pm to 1am, only hours before he leads the 26th Southern Decadence parade through the Quarter, Grand Marshal Robin Malta (Queen Petronius XXVIIII) will be holding court with his fellow krewe members at The Mint, 504 Esplanade, where there will be scrumptuously decadent entertainment, a free delicious Grand Buffet featuring Petronius' famous food and the first annual Southern Decadence costume contest-preview your Sunday ensemble Saturday night!
Eta Phi Beta
Holds National ConventionEta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. is holding it's National Convention through August 7 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Julia H. Davis, National President, will be the presiding officer at this celebration of the sorority's 56th Anniversary. Carrie P. Bradley, Omicron Chapter in New Orleans, is the chairperson. Joyce Taylor is president of the Omicron Chapter.
Eta Phi Beta is a national business and professional women's organization with chapters throughout the U.S.A. and Virgin Islands with headquarters in Detroit. Business and career development meetings are scheduled during the week as well as social events. The purpose is to sponsor, foster and promote programs and activities designed to improve the standards of all business and professional women.
Belle Reve Auction
Raises Over $20,000The Maison du Reve Auction held at the Royal Orleans Hotel in June raised more than $20,000. Event chair Eric Hess comments that this feat is a great start for this annual event. He also states that the community of New Orleans really came together to support Belle Reve and its residents.
Located on Royal St., Belle Reve is a nonprofit corporation that provides support services and housing for adults and children whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS. Since its incorporation in 1992, Belle Reve has provided residents and non-residents with services that include case management, contracted skilled nursing, social activities, mental health services and transportation to appointments.
Next year's auction co-chairs are Peter Braswell and Linda Freid. If you wish to be on the 1999 auction committee, call 504.737.5363. Businesses are also invited to make their donations early to: Belle Reve, P.O. Box 3305, New Orleans, LA 70177.
Many Swine Palace Artists
Winning Major AwardsSwine Palace, the professional theatre company in residence at LSU in Baton Rouge, is instrumental in bringing professional designers, directors and actors to Baton Rouge, and in launching careers for many actors. Many will remember Stephen Soderbergh's production of Geniuses at Swine Palace in 1996. His Film, Out of Sight, is currently playing on four screens in the Baton Rouge area and its cast members include former Swine Palace founding members Joe Chrest and Scott Allen and former actors Betsy Monroe and Wayne Pere.
In addition, Swine Palace artists are winning awards around America. David Zinn, who designed costumes for last year's Angels in America Part I and The Merchant of Venice recently won an Obie, the Off-Broadway equivalent of the Tony, as did Lenore Doxsee, who designed lights for The Merchant of Venice and Geniuses. Donald Holder, lighting designer for Swine Palace Productions' The Rocky Horror Show (1995) and lighting consultant for the renovations of the Swine Palace Pavilion, won a Tony for lighting Broadway's smash hit, The Lion King.
Swine Palace Productions 1998 season also promises to bring many top professional designers to Baton Rouge. Dawn Dedaux, internationally-renowned installation artist from New Orleans and New York, who also designed Confederancy of Dunces (1993), will design Gloria Duplex, and Robin Roberts, a Baton Rouge native with a very successful career in California, will return to Swine Palace to design sets for Angels in America, Part II.
Swine Palace's 1998 season kicks off with the American premiere of London director Edward Kemp's adaptation of the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying on Sept. 3. The Southern premiere of Gloria Duplex, a play by New York Times bestselling author and Louisiana native Rebecca Wells, begins Oct. 1, and Pulitzer prize and Tony award winning Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika closes the season beginning Nov. 5.
For information, call Swine Palace at 504.388.3533.
Duke University To Host
Southeastern LGBT College Conference;
Q-mmunity Is FormedDuke University has been selected to host the Southeastern Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender College Conference (SEC). Held annually, SEC is the largest queer conference of its kind in the region and encompasses colleges and universities south of the Mason-Dixon Line and as far west as Arizona. Duke will host the 8th annual college conference in Durham, NC next spring. Previous sites for SEC have included the University of Florida in 1998, Middle Tennessee State University in 1997, and the University of Alabama in 1996.
"The North Carolina Triangle, because of its geographically central location, fine universities, and history of queer activism was the logical choice for the 1999 conference," said Jeannette Johnson-Licon, Program Coordinator for Duke's Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Life and 1999 SEC Conference Coordinator. "Duke was invited to submit a bid. So we, along with local students and community organizers, wrote the proposal and Q-mmunity Partners was born."
Q-mmunity Partners is a consortium of LGBT campus activists and community leaders representing Duke, North Carolina Central, North Carolina State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Lambda Youth Network. Duke's Center for LGBT Life will act as fiscal agent for Q-mmunity Partners and the SEC conference. Most conference activities will take place on the Duke campus next March.
In keeping with the theme, "Constructing Q-mmunities," the programming of the conference will reflect timely and diverse topics, particularly in creating and examining the connections between grassroots activism and queer theory. Attending students will hear from prominent regional and national leaders, participate in educational workshops, and network with people from a wide range of LGBT and allied organizations.
Over the years, the Southeastern LGBT College Conferences have received increased media attention; however, visibility has come at a cost. The 1996 and 1997 conferences were the target of protest by right-wing activists and received threats of university-wide funding cuts from conservative state legislators.
For more information, call 919.684.6607 or email lgbcenter@duke.edu.
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