FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF PARENTS AND FRIENDS
O F LESBIANS AND GAYS, INC. AT THE WESTIN BENSON HOTEL
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FRIDAY
chedule of
SEPTEMBER 19
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MORNING SESION:
$ 10.00
9:00 A M -10:00 AM
Opening Session
Welcome
Announcements
10:15 AM -1130 AM
Workshops:
1. Couples
2. Small Town Survival/Successful Rap Groups
3. Networking with the Gay/Lesbian Community
4. Helping Kids Who Love Som eone Gay
FRIDAY
ANNUAL MEETING LUNCHEON:
SEPTEMBER 19
12:00 PM -1:45 PM
$15.00
“Welcome " by Mayor Bud Clark
Adele Starr, Presiding (International President PFLAG)
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 19
2:15 PM-4:15 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION:
$15.00
Plenary Session on AIDS — “<
Medical, Political, Social,
Psychological, Local, national"
Coordinator — Gary MacDonald, Executive Director,
AIDS Action Council, Washington, D.C.
Mathilde Krim, Ph.D., Co-Chair American Foundation
for AIDS Research, New York City
Estill Deitz, M.D., Suburban Medical Clinic, Portland
Thom as Koberstein, Executive Director Cascade AIDS
Project (CAP), Portland
4:30 PM-5:45 PM
Workshops:
1. Youth Groups
2. Discrimination in the Work place.
3. Substance abuse in the Gay/Lesbian Community.
4. Repeat of a Workshop.
B arbara Roberts
Portland hosts 5th annual
P/FLAG convention
The Portland chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Inc. will host the
international organization's fifth annual convention September 19-21 at the Westin Benson
Hotel.
Highlights o f the convention inlcude a plenary session on AIDS coordinated by Gary
MacDonald, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based AIDS Action Council: a keynote
speech by Martin Weinberg, sex researcher and author of ‘‘Development of Sexual Orienta­
tion” ; workshops on politics, health, homophobia, etc.; and a Columbia River stemwheeler
cruise.
Registration fee for the convention is $98 and includes all sessions, workshops, materials,
Friday night entertainment, Saturday night banquet and three luncheons. Make checks
payable to Portland Parents FLAG and send to registrars Charles & Rita Knapp, 7215 SE
Hawthorne, Portland, OR 97215. For further information phone (503) 223-5293.
In the schedule please note each session may be attended upon payment o f the fee
indicated. The Columbia River cruise costs an additional $33.
SATURDAY
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 19
EVENING ENTERTAINMENT:
7:00 PM-8.00 PM
N O HOST EAR
8:00 PM -1030 PM
Darcelle, Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
$7.00 Advance- $8.00 at the Door
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 20
9:00 A M -10:15 AM
103 0 A M -11:45 AM
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 20
12:00 PM -1:45 PM
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 20
MORNING SESSION:
$7/8.00
$ 10.00
Workshops:
1. Homosexuality & the New Testament
An Issue of Contexts.
2. Portland Hotlines — Being responsive to a
community’s needs.
3. What's Different about the Lesbian Culture?
4. Repeat of a workshop.
SEPTEMBER 20
$15.00
Oregon Secretary of State
Barbara Roberts, Speaker
AFTERNOON SESSION:
2:15 PM-4:15 PM
Plenary Session on Politics
Coordinator — Keeston Lowery
4:30 PM-5:00 PM
Regional Caucuses
NO HOST COCKTAIL Party
and Author Signing
7 3 0 PM -10:00 PM
Banquet and Awards
9:15 PM -10:00 PM
Keynote Speaker
Martin Weinberg Development of Sexual Orientation ”
SUNDAY
MORNING SESSION:
SEPTEMBER 21
8 3 0 A M -930 AM
Ecumenical
Religious Service
SUNDAY
MORNING SESSION:
SEPTEMBER 21
9:45 A M -11:45 AM
(No Charge)
$10.00
Plenary Session on Religion — G eorge Edwards
Panel: Dr. George Edwards — Moderator
Dr. John Anderson, Presbyterian
Macia Moskowitz, Jewish
Bishop Wheatley, Methodist
Rev. Chris Johnson, Roman Catholic
Dr. Eldon Olson, Lutheran
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 21
12:00 PM -1:45 PM
NEW BOARD LUNCHEON:
$15.00
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Dick Ashworth — Presiding
Recognitions
New Logo Announced
Final Closing
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$ 10.00
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 21
5:00 PM-5:15 PM
Just Out. September. 1986
$25.00
EVENING BANQUET & AWARDS:
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Workshops:
1. Homophobia in High School
2. Human Sexuality: Values, Diversities, and Ironies.
3. How to mount a campaign promoting
legislation to protect Gays and Lesbians
4. Grant writing for your group.
POLITICAL LUNCHEON:
M artin W einberg
STERNWHEELER CRUISE:
$33.00
Board bus at Westin Benson
for dinner and cruise on Columbia Gorge Stemwheeler
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