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...Master of Fine Arts, Lord has traveled between the country’s universities and foundations for the past 40 years, accumulating fellowships and professorships almost continuously—including one from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her visual art has been shown at various venues, including the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center; her writings have been published in numerous artistic journals. Currently she holds a position as a professor of Studio Art and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Irvine...
...concert with the second annual Gay Rights as Human Rights Conference’s theme of “building coalitions, changing culture,” featured speaker Shannon P. Minter discussed “Do Transsexuals Dream of Gay Rights? The Struggle for an Inclusive Queer Movement...
...added that until very recently, LGB groups were reluctant to include the ‘T’ in their advocacy, suggesting that because gay people have had to fight so hard for their own humanity, it is difficult for them to embrace a group that tends to be even more vulnerable and marginalized than they are. In order to be included, he said, transgender people had to adopt an alternate way to address the issues...
...Transgender activists started arguing that gay and lesbian people are not discriminated against just because of their sexual conduct, but because they are seen as violating the rules of gender,” he said, adding that this notion of common resistance to gender stereotypes and the gender binary played a major role in uniting the movement. However, he cautioned against using this as the dominant framework...
...danger of losing sights of transgender in the midst of the discussion of gender nonconformity,” he said, noting that he spoke more out of concern than cynicism. “If I don’t say transgender issues are at the very center of gay identity, why should they care...