What do we do as sex-positive activists when the Radical Right uses sex to depict the leather community as perverts and threats to American “ideals”?
Do we deny the value of sex to our communities and denigrate the diverse ways the leather community organizes their sex, desires, and emotional relationships? Do we split our community into the good monogamous people and write off the polyamorous and kinky folks? Utilizing real-life case studies from the presenters and participants, this workshop will be a place to think both strategically and tactically in addressing the Right's obsession with alternative sexualities.
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About the presenters:
Yoseñio V. Lewis is a dark skinned Latino female to male transsexual who has been an activist since 1973. A health educator, speaker, writer, performer, trainer, facilitator and spiritual hugger, Yoseñio is a member of the Board of Directors of The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Foundation and of Tenderloin Health (in San Francisco). He was most recently on the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). Yoseñio is also a co-founder of Big Boys Ink Productions, a theatrical writing and performing company. Yoseñio is also a co-founder of The TransAms, a barbershop quartet composed of transsexual men. Yoseñio has been a subject of several documentaries, including Christopher Lee’s Trappings of Transhood and the television channel A&E’s Transgender Revolution.
Carol Queen is a well-known activist, performer, teacher and author Carol Queen is a national figure in the campaign for sexual freedom. She founded and is currently president of The Center for Sex and Culture and serves on the board of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Federation. Carol has written extensively on LGBT subjects and on alternative sexuality.
Dick Cunningham has been involved in civil rights, sexual freedom and gender advocacy for more than 40 years, including litigation of the Supreme Court case that gave women the right to attend the U.S. military academies. Dick is a founding board member and Chairman of the Boards of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Federation and is the senior international trade partner at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C.