Join us as finalists for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards read from their work. Authors include:

Amy Heart is a queer storyteller committed to lifting the voices of transgender girls and women everywhere. Amy is part of the Lambda Literary Award Finalist book, 'The Resilience Anthology' in the Transgender Fiction category.

Luna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan artist and author of 'Heal Your Love.' They are part of the Lambda Literary Award Finalist book, 'The Resilience Anthology' in the Transgender Fiction category.

Maggie Shen King is Goodreads September 2017 Debut Author of the Month and the author of 'An Excess Male,' a Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category, a James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Finalist, and one of The Washington Post's 5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2017.

Kate Raphael is a radical queer feminist activist and journalist, and the author of two mysteries set in Palestine, including 'Murder Under the Fig Tree,' a Lambda Literary Award finalist in the lesbian mystery category.

Renate Stendhal is a German-born, Paris-educated writer of fiction and nonfiction, mostly known for her Lambda Literary Award-winning photo biography ‘Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures.’

Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa is a black, queer recluse and the author of 'Rummage,' a Lambda Literary Award finalist in Lesbian Poetry.

Randall Mann is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist for Gay Poetry, most recently for 'Proprietary,' published by Persea Books in 2017.

Avery Cassell’s “Blue Plate Special: Your Boot on My Cunt" appears in 'Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink,' which is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Erotica. Continuing with their love of butches, Avery just finished editing and writing over 40 butch biographies for the 'Butch Lesbians of the 50s, 60s, and 70s Coloring Book.'

Frederick Speers lives with his husband in Denver, works full time as a digital marketer for a software company in San Francisco, and his first book of poems 'So Far Afield,' published by Nomadic Press, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the category of gay poetry.

Anne-christine d'Adesky is a journalist, HIV and LGBTQ activist, filmmaker, and author of four books, including 'The Pox Lover,' a Lambda Literary Award Finalist nominee in the category of Lesbian Memoir.

Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian based in San Francisco.

Anne-christine d'Adesky at the Wisconsin Book Festival

The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by Anne-christine d’Adesky, a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, d’Adesky remembers “the poxed generation” of AIDS — their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

D’Adesky takes us through a fast-changing East Village: squatter protests and civil disobedience lead to all-night drag and art-dance parties, the fun-loving Lesbian Avengers organize dyke marches, and the protest group ACT UP stages public funerals. Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d’Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand trial and the new National Front rises in the polls, d’Adesky digs into her aristocratic family’s roots in Vichy France and colonial Haiti. This is a testament with a message for every generation: grab at life and love, connect with others, fight for justice, keep despair at bay, and remember.

Anne-Christine d’Adesky is a veteran AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and Haitian rights advocate who has lived several lives. In her new book, The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris, she takes measure of all she has learned from the chaotic, tragic, challenging and inspiring experiences along her way, including an analysis of the rise of populism and extreme nationalism that is now sweeping the globe.

Meandering through indelible moments in time, d’Adesky takes us on a tour of Manhattan’s once-funky and now-gentrified East Village: through squatter protests and civil disobedience clashes with police to all-night drag and art-dance parties. She relives the fun-loving anarchy of the Lesbian Avengers (which she co-founded) and their dyke marches, and the iconic public funerals staged by the AIDS activist group ACT UP.

Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d’Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand trial and the new National Front rises in the polls, d’Adesky examines the rise of the new right-wing in the popularity of Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, and his successor, daughter Marine Le Pen, a frontline 2017 presidential candidate.

The author implicates her own bloodline in this history, mercilessly but honestly digging into her aristocratic family’s roots in Vichy France and colonial Haiti.

D’Adesky will be interviewed by Edson Whitney, a behavior change communication specialist in public health for over 30 years, working at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in far-flung corners of the globe, experiencing first hand the devastating effects of the HIV epidemic, poverty, war and the resettlement of refugees.

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Anne-christine d'Adesky and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will meet and converse at the intersection of art, memoir, and 90's activism.

Ac d’Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include her 2017 memoir, The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris, Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone.

Called “a masterpiece” by Michelle Tea, The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, d’Adesky remembers “the poxed generation” of AIDS — their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

Described as "startlingly bold and provocative" by Howard Zinn, "a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda” by the Austin Chronicle, and “a gender-fucking tower of pure pulsing purple fabulous” by The Stranger, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a memoir, The End of San Francisco, winner of a 2014 Lambda Literary Award, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012), an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

Mattilda is a columnist and the reviews editor at the feminist magazine Make/shift. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Time Out New York, Utne Reader, AlterNet, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Bitch, Bookslut, and The Stranger.

Mattilda’s activism has included ACT UP in the early ‘90s, Fed Up Queers in the late ‘90s, Gay Shame, and numerous lesser-known (or even unnamed) groups.

Join us on the eve of the historic full eclipse (Aug 21 - the first since 1918) to gather our spiritual and political energies in a Living Tarot and magical reading of the political sphere and a celebration of our spiritual and creative resistance.

Cohosts Rabbit/Yeshe Matthews (The Sacred Well - Portland), a nationally renowned wiccan activist and author Anne-christine d'Adesky (The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris - thepoxlover.com) have planned a fantastic evening to help you eclipse these troubled times.

This is a benefit for the Russian LGBT Network to help rescue and resettle Chechen gay men under death threat, and we invite all Portland area witches, activists, artists, and progressives to come together and explore what’s ahead and HEX THE PATRIARCHY!

This is a living theatrical experience in which talented tarot artists and others will embody and interpret a public reading of the tarot in light of Trump and tyranny and the power of magic and unified resistance to transform our planet.

EMCEE: Rabbit

CAST:

Living Tarot actors:
Tarotobscuro (aka Stephanie Adams-Santos)
Michelle Tea (author, Modern Tarot; Black Wave)
Iris RedRaven (Manager & Tarot reader, The Sacred Well Portland)
Miss McCoy's Tarot (https://www.missmccoy.com/)

Literary artists & Readers:
Anne-christine d’Adesky
Karina Hodoyan

Musical Artists:
A quartet from the Portland Lesbian Choir will perform a song they are dedicating to the gay men being persecuted in Chechnya.

Admission: $5 donation; RSVP requested.

Tickets available via Brown Paper Tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3048013

Join us as we welcome Anne-christine d'Adesky and Mark King to present "The Pox Lover" and discuss the history of AIDS activism. 

The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS—their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

Anne-christine d'Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone. 

Mark S. King is an award winning blogger and HIV activist who has been writing about HIV since testing positive in 1985. His blog, My Fabulous Disease, is a multiple GLAAD Award nominee.

THE POLITICAL IS PERSONAL: A Conversation with authors Anne-christine d'Adesky and Michael Goff. They will discuss d'Adesky's memoir, The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris.

The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS-their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

D'Adesky takes us through a fast-changing East Village: squatter protests and civil disobedience lead to all-night drag and art-dance parties, the fun-loving Lesbian Avengers organize dyke marches, and the protest group ACT UP stages public funerals. Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d'Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand trial and the new National Front rises in the polls, d'Adesky digs into her aristocratic family's roots in Vichy France and colonial Haiti. This is a testament with a message for every generation: grab at life and love, connect with others, fight for justice, keep despair at bay, and remember.

Anne-christine d'Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, Out Magazine, The Nation Magazine, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR The Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP New York and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include "Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti", "Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS", and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, "Under the Bone".

Michael Goff is a magazine editor and partner in Towleroad, with Andy Towle, and with AskTell Media Group and other projects since May, 2006. He was a founding Editor of Out magazine and out.com in the 1990s, and built it to become a leading gay title. In 1996 he became editorial director on the team launching Microsoft's Sidewalk city guides (sold to Citysearch), and went on as a General Manager of MSN. Since 2001 he's launched numerous editorial projects, and served as a consultant and advisor to nonprofits and startups, including: a mobile publishing company, serving as the Clinton Foundation AIDS Initiative olunteer Lead in Haiti for a year; launching Bayosphere citizen-journalism effort, with Dan Gilmore; advising (pre-Google) Blogger, Treehugger.com, and NowPublic.com startups.  

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CHRONICLING A CRISIS: Writers on the History of HIV/AIDS

From the earliest reported cases in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spurred New Yorkers to innovate new forms of social services, expand conceptions of family, and explore new artistic terrain. Once life-saving drugs became widely available, many no longer had death sentences hanging over their heads but the road to survival was still not an easy one. Inspired by our exhibition, AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism, Anne-christine d'Adesky, David France, and Tim Murphy—three authors whose works offer a searingly honest glimpse into the hard fought battle against the disease and its aftermath—will be joined by journalist Mathew Rodriguez for a conversation about challenges of writing about HIV/AIDS across literary genres.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Anne-christine D’Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, Out Magazine, The Nation Magazine, and The Village Voice. Her most recent book, The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris, was released in June 2017. Visit https://thepoxlover.com/ for more information.

David France is an author, filmmaker, and a contributing editor for New York Magazine. His documentary film How To Survive A Plague was an Oscar finalist, won a Directors Guild Award and a Peabody Award, and was nominated for two Emmys. His book based on the film, How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, was released in November 2016.

Tim Murphy has reported on HIV/AIDS for twenty years, for such publications as POZ Magazine, where he was an editor and staff writer,Out Magazine, Advocate, and New York Magazine. He also covers LGBTQ issues, arts, pop culture, travel, and fashion for outlets including The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Details, and Yahoo! Style. His novel, Christodora, was published in 2016.

Mathew Rodriguez (moderator), is a queer, Latino, award-winning journalist, essayist, and activist. He is currently a staff writer for Mic and is the former community editor for TheBody.com. He is currently working on a memoir about his father, HIV, and heroin on New York City’s Lower East Side.

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$15 for seniors, students & educators (with ID)
$10 for Museum Members
Includes Museum admission.

With Paris as a backdrop in their newest respective books, join authors Anne-christine d'Adesky and Renate Stendhal for a Bastille Day conversation.

THE POX LOVER: A DECADE IN NEW YORK AND PARIS
Called “a masterpiece” by Michelle Tea, d'Adesky's new memoir, The Pox Lover, is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris. Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d’Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand trial and the new National Front rises in the polls, d’Adesky digs into her aristocratic family’s roots in Vichy France and colonial Haiti. 

Anne-christine d’Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers.

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KISS ME AGAIN, PARIS: A MEMOIR

Best-known for her photo-biography of Gertrude Stein, Lambda Literary Award–winner Renate Stendhal's memoir "Kiss Me Again, Paris" recalls a time in 1970s Paris when women were in fashion and every woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women. Recently escaped from her German family and student husband, Stendhal ekes out a living as a cultural journalist in Europe’s most cultured city. She walks Paris at night dressed as a boy, has friends and lovers among artists and writers. There are mysteries with and without clues: Is sexual obsession a way to avoid the risk of love?

Renate Stendhal is a senior cultural critic for the International Magazine for Arts and Media, Scene4, keeps a Gertrude Stein blog Quoting Gertrude Stein, and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. She also serves as a provost for UIL (University of Integrative Learning).

Author-activist Anne-christine d'Adesky in conversation with writer, oral-historian, and literary-drag-queen, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Executive Director of RADAR Productions, a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. Ac and Juliana will have an intergenerational conversation about activism, art, bearing witness, and applying the lessons of the past to today.

Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, oral-historian, literary-drag-queen based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel award, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants and Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017). She's received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation and The SF Grotto.

Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Four Way Review, Foglifter, The Bold Italic, Weird Sister, Revista Canto, Black Girl Dangerous, and SF Weekly among others. She’s performed in countless venues around the West Coast and lectured at San Francisco State University, Wayward Writers and 826 Valencia.

THE POLITICAL IS PERSONAL: A Conversation with author Anne-christine d'Adesky and A. Toni Young

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Anne-christine d'Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone.

D'Adesky's newest book, the memoir The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris, is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by this pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS - their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

A. Toni Young is the Chief Executive Officer of Community Education Group (CEG), which she founded in 1993 as NWAP. CEG organizes individuals and organizations at the grassroots level, empowering communities and building coalitions on issues associated with HIV/AIDS, women and the Black community. 

Toni has a long history of advocating for the coordination of services for women with HIV/AIDS and working with Black communities around HIV and other health issues in local, regional and national settings. As Community Co-chair for the San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Council, she facilitated a group of 27 community and government representatives who were responsible for the allocation of more than $8 million in federal and state resources. Since her return to D.C. in 2003, Toni has served as the Chair of the D.C. HIV Prevention Planning Council, a vital role that allows her to coordinate efforts in this community.

Toni has also lent her expertise to numerous projects, including developing and presenting HIV/AIDS congressional testimony for the White House working group, and working with lead staff of the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) to develop the 1996 Ryan White application to states. She has served on numerous federal panels and committees including the CDC Sterile Needle Committee, the CDC meeting on Woman to Woman transmission and the Ryan White Title I & II Review Committees. Toni has successfully planned and executed three regional forums concerning Woman and HIV/AIDS as it relates to women’s health for the National Women’s Health Network (NWHN).

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Please join us for Anne-christine D'Adesky and Alexander Chee in Conversation. The authors will be discussing D'Adesky's memoir, The Pox Lover. 

The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS-their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

D'Adesky takes us through a fast-changing East Village: squatter protests and civil disobedience lead to all-night drag and art-dance parties, the fun-loving Lesbian Avengers organize dyke marches, and the protest group ACT UP stages public funerals. Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d'Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand trial and the new National Front rises in the polls, d'Adesky digs into her aristocratic family's roots in Vichy France and colonial Haiti. This is a testament with a message for every generation: grab at life and love, connect with others, fight for justice, keep despair at bay, and remember.

Anne-christine d'Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone.

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February of 2016. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, NPR and Out, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He has taught writing at Wesleyan University, Amherst College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Texas - Austin. He lives in New York City, where he curates the Dear Reader series at Ace Hotel New York.

Conversation followed by reception.

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A Conversation on 90s Activism and Lessons for Today with Lesbian Avenger Founders and Members

Join veteran and founding members of the Lesbian Avengers to celebrate our 25th anniversary. The Lesbian Avengers were a direct-action organization focused on lesbian survival and visibility, founded in 1992 in New York City with longtime lesbian activists Ana Simo, Sarah Schulman, Maxine Wolfe, Anne-christine d'Adesky, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire.

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With a digital photography exhibit and banners as our background, we'll have a roundtable discussion of the legacy of the Avengers and other 90s movements and organizing and how it has impacted our current activism.

Some of the Lesbian Avengers present will include Marlene Colburn, Carolina Kroon, Kelly Cogswell, Lorna Gottesman, Valarie Walker, Anne-christine d'Adesky, Gail Dottin, Hadar Dubowsky Ma'Ayan, Ann Stott, Cindra Feuer, Valerie Kaye, Rachel Shearer, and Caroline Buckler.

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A memorial celebration to bring fresh attention to the lives and legacies of US journalists who died of AIDS, and others who covered the epidemic.

Program features planned tributes and new HIV Reporters Scholarship announcement.

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This lunchtime celebration takes place during NYC Pride 2017: The March weekend and the 30th anniversary of ACT UP. It is an official East Coast book tour event for author/journalist Anne-christine d'Adesky’s new memoir, The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Samuel G. Freedman is a columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University. He is the award-winning author of seven acclaimed books, including the 2015 book, "Dying Words", about the AIDS death of his colleague, Jeffrey Schmalz.

A joint event sponsored by NLGJA - The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, Knight Foundation, PrideLife, POZ, Positively Aware, TheBody.com, HIVandHepatitus.com, Plus; and Project Coordinator, event co-host, and author Anne-christine d'Adesky (thepoxlover.com).

With support from the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF).

Doors open 15 minutes before start of event. EVENT BEGINS AT NOON SHARP.

NYC area journalists covering AIDS are especially invited to attend. Journalists should email Anne-christine d'Adesky at talktothefuture.com to RSVP.

Includes light cocktail reception 1-2pm.

FREE. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Space limited. Registration via Eventbrite suggested.

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Veteran Global Journalists Masha Gessen and Anne-christine d’Adesky Discuss the Intersection of the Political and Personal

A dynamic public conversation between journalist-activists Masha Gessen and Anne-christine d’Adesky will explore the history and the current state of the LGBTQ movement in the US and globally, and offer reflection on the resurgence of far-right fascism and challenges for US progressives.

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Anne-christine d’Adesky is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, Out, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and Writing from Barnard College in 1979, and her Master’s Degree from Columbia Journalism Graduate School in 1982. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti (UCSB 2014); Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS (Verso, 2004), and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone (FSG, 1994). She received the inaugural Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research and the SF Community ‘AIDS Hero’ Award. D’Adesky lives in Oakland, California, with three daughters and pets.

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, to be published in October 2017. She is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). She is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She has received numerous awards and currently serves as vice-president of PEN America.

Gessen was born in Moscow and immigrated to the US with her family in 1981. She returned to Moscow as a correspondent a decade later, becoming a Russian-language journalist while working for American magazines. She re-immigrated to the US in 2013, after her family was targeted by Putin’s anti-gay campaign. She lives in New York City.

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The latest in the GLBT Historical Society's monthly "Fighting Back" series exploring contemporary queer-community issues in a historical context, "When The Dykes Went Marching In: A Celebration of 1990s Lesbian Activism" will offer a conversation about 1990s lesbian activism and the legacy and lessons of that decade for political resistance today.

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Local veterans of lesbian activism will join moderator Anne-Christine d'Adesky, journalist, activist and author of the new book The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017).

The Lesbian Avengers 25 Digital Exhibit will be on display, as well as 90's photographs by Judith Cohen and various photographers who documented 90's Dyke Marches, actions, and other events.

Everyone who attends will be encouraged to share their memories and observations on how to link activist energies across generations.

PANELISTS:

Alex U. Inn (Carmen Alex Morrison), SF Pride 2017 Community Grand Marshal. Bay Area resident for more than 35 years, Alex is an advocate for justice and equality, fighting for their rights and the rights of others, speaking truth to power. One of few to be named to sainthood by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and winner of 32 gold medals at Gay Games/Gay Olympics, Alex also has been a critical force for many important LGBTQAI institutions, such as a founder of the SF LGBT Center, MyNameIs Coalition, SF Pride’s NECTAR/Women’s Stage, UNLEASH! Dance Party for Women, and Committee for Queer Justice. Alex also founded Momma’s Boyz, a troupe of Hip Hop artivist Drag Kings and KINGDOM! Drag King House, a philanthropic arm for our community. Happily married to Ellen Morrison for 9 years.

Lenn Keller is the founder of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. She is a community archivist, activist, historian, curator, DJ, filmmaker, photographer, public speaker, writer, and mother. She is a graduate of Mills College in Oakland, CA and is an independent scholar in multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and historical research. She hails from Chicago, and has lived in the SF Bay Area for over 40 years. She has documented, archived, and exhibited Bay Area activist and marginalized communities, with an emphasis on people of color, and LGBT communities. Her photography and film work can be viewed at www.lennkeller.com.

Angela Garcia is an author, anthropologist, and activist. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her research, writing and activism focuses on themes of poverty, violence, and health. Garcia is the author of the award-winning book The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times and The Progressive Magazine, as well as queer literary anthologies. She was a co-founder and editor of Revista Parallax, a bilingual literary 'zine featuring artists and writers from the San Francisco Mission District during the 1990s. Garcia directed Project Inform's Women's HIV Treatment Information and Advocacy program, Project WISE, in the 90's.

Judith Cohen, activist, creative entrepreneur, disruptive rebel, and change agent, Judith is a passionate symphony of engaged action since 1989. Her volunteer background includes: Founder, San Francisco Lesbian Avengers; Founding Member, San Francisco Dyke March Organizing Committee; Founding Member, ACT UP Golden Gate. Professionally, she is the Founder and CEO of SOLVE Agency, Above 805 Media, & The TalentPath Group.

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Join author-activist Anne-christine d'Adesky in conversation with writer-psychotherapist Keiko Lane (ACT UP, Queer Nation) on 90s queer activism, writing, memory, girls, and take-home lessons for fighting Trump today.

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Keiko Lane, MFT, is a psychotherapist and educator in Berkeley, CA. A poet and essayist, she writes and teaches about the intersections of queer culture and kinship, oppression resistance, racial and gender justice, HIV criminalization, reproductive justice, and liberation psychology.

Her writing has appeared most recently in The Feminist Porn Book, Queering Sexual Violence, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Heath and Healthcare, and online on TheRumpus.com, TheFeministWire.com, and TheBody.com. She is working on a memoir about queer kinships and the experiences of outrage, grief, and artistic process in ACT UP and Queer Nation Los Angeles. www.keikolanemft.com

After-party 6-8pm at The Uptown Nightclub at 1928 Telegraph Avenue.

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GRASSROOTS LESBIAN & QUEER ORGANIZERS TELL ALL!

Part of the month-long "Lesbians To Watch Out For: '90s Queer LA Activism" Exhibit, this panel of Lesbian and Queer organizers from L.A. and NYC, and WeHo street activist & community groups, will bring their stories and insights to talk about what worked, what didn't, and what we can learn from 90's organizing that can help us in the current Resistance.

Hear what advice & strategies these organizers would pass on to young queer activists now, and what they're learning from today's movers and shakers!

PANELISTS (in alphabetical order):
Anne-christine d'Adesky (co-founder Lesbian Avengers)
Liz Friedman (Queer Nation)
Alice Hom (API groups)
Lisa Powell (ULOAH & BLU)
Helene Schpak (ACT UP)

MODERATED BY: Professor Yetta Howard, San Diego State University, former Lesbian Avenger, Boston chapter

Plummer Park Community Center, Rooms 5&6, West Hollywood

#LTWOF #Lez90s

BEFORE THE PANEL: Don't miss the LTWOF Exhibit - open 5:30pm in Long Hall, Plummer Park for viewing. Your chance to view the history, before this panel discussion with those who made it!

The LTWOF Exhibit is co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood (WEHO), the June Mazer Lesbian Archives, and LEX - The Lesbian Exploratory. This exhibit is presented as part of the City of West Hollywood's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, which takes place from Harvey Milk Day (May 22) through the end of June Pride month. For more info and to see a full roster of events please visit www.weho.org/pride or follow on social media @WeHo Arts.

West Coast Book Tour Launch

THE POLITICAL IS PERSONAL

We face a shifting political climate that calls for renewed feminist and LGBTQ advocacy to fight new far right attacks.

Join author-activist Anne-christine d'Adesky in Los Angeles for the West Coast book tour launch of her new memoir, The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris, in conversation with West Hollywood Councilmember Lindsey Horvath.

Councilmember Lindsey P. Horvath was elected to the West Hollywood City Council on March 3, 2015. She previously served as a Councilmember for two years from 2009-2011. Councilmember Horvath has a long history of civic and social justice advocacy. She has spearheaded policies to make West Hollywood an “Age-Friendly Community” to better serve residents of all ages. She also champions LGBTQ rights, and has led initiatives to denounce discriminatory legislation against LGBTQ individuals. Councilmember Horvath is also known for her leadership on women’s issues and served as a Global Coordinator for One Billion Rising, a global campaign to end violence against women and girls.

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Join Renate Stendhal, in conversation with author/activist Anne-christine d'Adesky, as Renate reads, discusses, and signs her new memoir, "KISS ME AGAIN, PARIS: A Memoir".

Best-known for her photo-biography of Gertrude Stein, Lambda Literary Award–winner Stendhal will read from her memoir that recalls a time in 1970s Paris when women were in fashion and every woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women. Stendhal will be joined in conversation with investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Anne-Christine d’Adesky. D'Adesky's forthcoming book examines LGBT activism in Paris and New York during the 1990s. The event will also feature a short book trailer with Parisian sights and sounds.

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KISS ME AGAIN, PARIS: A MEMOIR
Recently escaped from her German family and student husband, Stendhal ekes out a living as a cultural journalist in Europe’s most cultured city. She walks Paris at night dressed as a boy, has friends and lovers among artists and writers. There are mysteries with and without clues: Is sexual obsession a way to avoid the risk of love?

Renate Stendhal is a senior cultural critic for the International Magazine for Arts and Media, Scene4, keeps a Gertrude Stein blog Quoting Gertrude Stein, and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. She also serves as a provost for UIL (University of Integrative Learning).

THE POX LOVER: A DECADE IN NEW YORK AND PARIS
Called “a masterpiece” by Michelle Tea, The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris. Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d’Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand trial and the new National Front rises in the polls, d’Adesky digs into her aristocratic family’s roots in Vichy France and colonial Haiti. 

Anne-christine d’Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers.

$10 General Admission, $6 Students/Seniors

FREE for Beyond Baroque members.

A History and Art EXHIBIT... that evokes the spirit of lesbian & queer Activism and Organizing in '90s L.A. and WeHo. A #90sFlashback ... Avengers! Arrests! Street Resistance! Sexy Clubs! Bars & Zines! Queer Bands & Performance! Plus inspiration for the Resistance now. 

EVENTS & HOURS: 
* June 2, 7-9pm - OPENING NIGHT! https://www.facebook.com/events/1437733836249665/?ref=br_rs
* June 4, 2-4pm - Sunday Reception
* June 14, 7pm - Panel Discussion : Grassroots Organizers Tell All!: 
**VISIT the exhibit: June WEEKENDS -- Open Fridays 6pm - 9:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays 1pm - 6pm. 
Closed on LA Pride weekend (June 9-11) due to Pride logistics.
* June 30 - Closing night!

>> See the stories, protest signs & stickers, the L.A. places & spaces we hung out, the queer performances & zines that we made. :: LTWOF... features the Lesbian Avengers 25th Anniversary Exhibit ... & tales of L.A. queer women -- from ACT UP LA, Queer Nation LA & the LA Dyke March, to untold histories of local lesbian, bisexual, and transgender groups like United Lesbians of African Heritage (ULOAH), Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander Sisters (LAAPIS), Lesbianas Unidas (LU), Bi-Net, Transgender Menace ++ ... that created community & inspired a new generation of queer women activists to RECLAIM THE UNIVERSE

>> From protest and street activism to grassroots community groups, '90s activism in L.A. reflected the energy of the decade: massive dyke visibility marches, public kiss-ins and declarations of "we recruit!" ... 2017 marks two big anniversaries: 24 years since the historic National Dyke March in DC & the Lesbian Avengers 25th. These two events inspired national activist efforts & a legacy of Dyke Marches across the country - giving renewed public visibility to lesbians and queer women and calling attention to our issues and contributions in American political life and culture.

**#LTWOF #Lez90s exhibit created by: former members of these activist & community groups and other volunteers, in conjunction with June Mazer Lesbian Archives & @LEX - The Lesbian Exploratory**

**THIS EXHIBIT IS PRESENTED as part of the City of West Hollywood's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, which takes place from Harvey Milk Day (May 22) through the end of June Pride month. For more info and to see a full roster of events please visit www.weho.org/pride or follow on social media @WeHoArts. WeHo Arts**