Past Events

2006 Biennial National Gathering
Leave No Old Lesbian Behind!
August 17 to 20, 2006
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Durham, North Carolina

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The following women were speakers at the conference

Suzanne Pharr founded the Women's Project in Arkansas in 1981, was a co-founder of Southerners on New Ground in 1984, and was the director of the Highlander Center from 1999 to 2004. She is an organizer and political strategist who has spent her adult life working to build a broad-based social and economic justice movement. She works currently with Southerners On New Ground (SONG). Suzanne is the author of "Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism," (1988) and "In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation," (1996), both published by Chardon Press. Her books explore the links between all forms of oppression - race, gender, class, sexual orientation and age.

Mandy Carter, who was recently a keynote speaker at the national NOW conference in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the nation's leading African-American activists She has organized the grassroots in almost every major region of this country over the past 30 years. A noted speaker on LGBT rights and winner of the Stonewall Award, Mandy has served as a consultant for the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum. Mandy recently concluded three years of work as the Executive Director of SONG (Southerners On New Ground) which was founded in the vision of black and white southern lesbians to build movements across the South that connect race, class, culture, gender and sexual identity.

Alix Dobkin

Our entertainer for the gala Banquet and Dance (which is open to all women) was be OLOC's own old dyke, Alix Dobkin, who is back by popular demand. Alix's web site is: http://www.ladyslipper.org/alix_dobkin.html