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Rita Mae Brown to be at Lucille Hart Dinner First public event at Convention Center after official opening Enjoy X-C skiing and hiking on 440 acres of meadows and for est. Private suite in old country farmhouse, quiet and restful, hot tub. Visit Ashland theatres, restaurants, galleries. Brochure available. A WILDERNESS BE D & BREAKFAST 658 Shale City Road Ashland, OR 97520 503-776-1728 JU M MOVING & STORAGE Since 1915... Portland's most harmonious movers. She now shares her home in Charlottesville, he keynote speaker for the Ninth Annual Virginia with several cats, dogs and horses.. Lucille Hart Dinner is noted author Rita Brown is philosophical about her ups and Mae Brown. The Right to Privacy Political downs, considering them all part of her Action Committee (PAC) has waited two years development as a writer and human being. “In for Brown to be available for this major fun my youth I was grape juice,” she says. “Now I draising event for Oregon’s lesbian and gay am fermenting.” community. Her latest novel Bingo, is a sequel to Six of “Writers will happen in the best of fami One. lies,” says Brown. She credits her own adoptive The gala Lucille Hart Dinner themed “Our parents for encouraging her curiosity and Points of View” will be on Saturday, October 6, creativity from an early age. They helped seal 1990 at the new Oregon Convention Center in her fate as the future author of bestsellers such Portland. The Convention Center is located at as High Hearts, Southern Discomfort, Sudden 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevqj-d, Death, and Rubyfruit Jungle a fictionalized near the Lloyd Center. The principal fundraiser version of her own life and growing up lesbian of Right to Privacy the annual Lucille Hart in America, which has sold over a million Dinner honors the only Oregonian mentioned in copies and been published in every major Gay American History. language in the world. This will be the first public event held in the The prolific Brown grew up in rural new Oregon Convention Center in Portland Pennsylvania but began a lifelong love affair after its official opening. With Rita Mae Brown with the South when she moved to the Deep as the keynote speaker, a record crowd of more South at age eleven (“before they paved Florida of 1,000 is expected to attend, including many over with concrete,” she says). Brown also elected officials and political candidates. authored Six o f One, a novel in which her real People are encouraged to get their tickets early life mother becomes the fictionalized heroine. for thiS landmark event. Tickets for the evening Her flair for lively—and often riotously arc $100 per person. funny dialogue—has led to writing screenplays The festive evening won’t be all speeches and teleplays for Walt Disney Productions, and awards. Formal attire is optional with Twentieth Century Fox, and Norman Lear, cocktails at 5:30 p.m. giving everyone a chance among others. She received Emmy nominations to socialize prior to an all-Oregon dinner at 7 for her work on Lear’s I Love Liberty television p.m. Entertainment will be provided by the special and her adaptation of Faulkner’s The Portland Lesbian Choir and the Portland Gay Long Hot Summer starring Don Johnson. Her Men’s Chorus. Following Rita Mae Brown’s original screenplay based on Southern speech, the evening will conclude with music Discomfort has been sold to Margot Kidder and and dancing. Godmother Productions. You can share the speakers table with Rita Brown’s commitment to her writing is not Mae Brown for an additional $250 over the her only passion. An early civil rights activist ticket price by contacting Sanford Director at she is an outspoken champion of the rights of 223-1679. Tickets are $100 and are available at the disenfranchised, and often finds herself on the Right to Privacy office. For reservation or the lecture circuit with the likes of Gloria more information call 228-5825. Those Steinem and Tom Wolfe. Yet the writer, who interested in becoming table sponsors should counts among her numerous academic degrees contact the RTP office early for best seating a Ph.D. from the Institute of Policy Studies, assignments. People are encouraged to take doesn’t describe herself as left-wing or even MAX to the dinner, getting off at the Holladay liberal, but rather as just plain old “bedrock Street stop, to alleviate parking congestion. Parking will be available at the south end American”. After living in New York City for ten years, parking lot for $4. she returned to the South she adores in 1976. 234-7855 T LRDD7 EDITIOÍ1/ BOOK/TORE — vy — ▼ MON-SflT 11 -7 SUN 12-5 T 1864 S€ HAWTHORNE 81VD. PORTLAND, O A 97214 (503) 2364628 Ladd's Editions thanks the lesbian and gay community for their tremendous support. We welcome special orders. Come and enjoy the lending library in a comfortable atmosphere. ¡usi out ▼ 13 ▼ September 1990
