The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), in association with The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, announces it’s summer 2001 Seminar in the City, which will be held during the month of August. This groundbreaking series of free discussions for primarily nonacademic readers centers around major works in lesbian / gay / transgender / bisexual/ and queer (LGTBQ) studies. CLAGS Board Members, themselves leading scholars in the field, facilitate the discussions. The August 2001 Seminar, Contending Forces: Black Feminism and Queer Studies, led by E. Frances White of New York University, will take place at The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York City and is free, open to the public, and will be American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted. This group will read and discuss E. Frances White’s Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability, Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and her Sister Outsider, and Dangerous Liasons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality, edited by Eric Brandt, over the course of the first four Wednesdays in August. They will look at questions including: How do race, gender, and sexuality transform each other in our lives? What do race and sexuality have to do with class? What do black feminists have to say about sexuality and class? What does Audre Lorde tell us about growing up black and queer? The books discussed each week are available on loan from the CLAGS office on a first-come first-serve basis, and Bluestockings, New York’s women’s bookstore, stocks texts that will be covered by the group.

If you have questions regarding registration, reading materials, or access for this FREE reading discussion group, contact CLAGS at (212) 817-1955.