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     Sample Activity List- Lesbian and Gay History Month
        
               OCTOBER: LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY MONTH
        
     WHAT TO DO FOR NATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY MONTH
     
     Request that your local library order books on our history
     
     Order the Project 21 poster on 57 famous l/g/bi people from
     GLAAD/SFBA--call 415-861-2244 for ordering form or to charge by phone.
     
     Make certain your local library is aware that October is LGHM; ask 
     that they make a display of books.
     
     Make certain your local bookstores are aware that October is LGHM; ask
     that they make a display of books.
     
     Request that your local school order the Chelsea House teen series on
     "Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians."
     
     Make certain that your local school is aware that this October is 
     LGHM; request that your local school celebrate LGHM just as they 
     celebrate other history months around the year.
     
     Organize a film festival; show the films "Before Stonewall," "After
     Stonewall," etc.
     
     Read books on lesbian, gay and bisexual history.
     
     Ask that your local newspapers (gay and nongay) publish a column on 
     gay and lesbian history.
     
     Ask your local TV and radio stations to do news and features on 
     lesbian and gay history.
     
     Organize a lecture on lesbian/gay history, especially local history.
     
     Write a theatrical production about lesbian and gay history.
     
     Throw a gay-and-lesbian themed Halloween party to say so-long to the 
     first annual LGHM.
     
                                Remember: 
                        LGHM will be controversial.  
     
     Thus the words of Frederick Douglass come to mind: 
     
        "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  Those who profess 
     to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want 
     crops without ploughing the ground."
     
     This sample activity list by Rodney Wilson, founder of Lesbian and Gay
     History Month.  Rodney is a teacher.  He can be reached at 
     314-352-6011.