Rita Mae Brown to be at Lucille Hart Dinner
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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.
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