Out & Equal Workplace Advocates - 2007 Workplace Summit

2007 Out & Equal Workplace Summit
2007 Presenting Sponsor

Thursday Night Entertainment Thursday, September 27 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. International Ballroom Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson
	The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience. Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 27 albums, including their latest, Springtime for Liberals. They've been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials. www.capsteps.com
	Summit participants are sure to take pleasure in the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company, which offers artists and audiences the unique opportunity to experience dance as a movement that links the arts, cultures, and social causes. By exploring the definition of dance within the United States and connecting it to Indian, Latin, social, and modern dance forms, the company seeks to provide participatory opportunities in which audiences can experience dance as a system of communication. www.dakshina.org
	BETTY is a five-piece pop rock band fronted by Elizabeth Ziff, Alyson Palmer and Amy Ziff. The band’s unique sound is a blend of tight harmonies layered over rocking guitars and a solid rhythm section. Since 1986, BETTY has performed their memorable live show--full of exciting, hook-laden songs, clever word play and manic energy--in clubs, theatres and arenas all over the world. BETTY’s national tour of their hit Off-Broadway show, BETTY RULES , their controversial new theme song for Showtime Television’s most popular show, The L Word, and their acting appearances on that program have catapulted this deeply beloved cult band to wilder international recognition. BETTY began as an edgy a’cappella/spoken word/techno-beat trio in Washington DC. Fierce Elizabeth (vocals, guitar), funky Alyson (vocals, bass) and funny Amy (vocals, cello) are the songwriters, while virtuoso guitarist Tony Salvatore and sizzling drummer Mino Gori complete the band, now based in downtown NYC. www.hellobetty.com
Out & Equal/Frameline Film Screenings Chevy Chase Room
	Rainbow’s End Directed by Jochen Hick & Christian Jentzsch 2006 * 75 min. * Germany Language: English, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish w/English subtitles With the advent of same sex marriage, homosexuals have achieved near-equality in much of Europe. Everything seems rosy, so why should they keep on fighting? Rainbow’s End is a revealing and entertaining multinational journey from the center to the borders of Europe. From parades and protests in Warsaw and Krakow to touching personal stories with social, religious, and political insights, the film moves from street activism to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Rainbow’s End suggests that there remains a great deal for the LGBT community to accomplish in the new Europe.
	The Fall of ’55 Directed by Seth Randal 2006 * 90 min. * USA In the fall of 1955, a gay sex scandal erupted in wholesome and “viceless” Boise, Idaho. Overnight, Boise’s homosexual underworld—comprised mostly of married family men—was splashed onto headlines nationwide. Reputations were shattered and lives ruined as rumors and accusations flew. What followed was a classic witch-hunt, in which the whole town became embroiled.
	Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mother’s Custody Movement Directed by Jody Laine, Shan Ottey, Shad Reinstein 2006 * 60 min. * USA While the beginning of the LGBT civil rights movement was gaining momentum, the 1970s witnessed horrific custody battles for lesbian mothers. Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’ Custody Movement revisits the early tumultuous years of the lesbian custody movement through the stories of five lesbian mothers and their four children. Narrated by Kate Clinton and featuring music from iconic lesbian musicians Margie Adam, Alix Dobkin, Mary Watkins and Cris Williamson.
	Freeheld Directed by Cynthia Wade 2006 * 40 min. * USA Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner, Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no, they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel—a veteran New Jersey detective—launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman’s bitter fight to provide for the love of her life.
	In My Shoes: Stories of Youth With LGBT Parents Directed by Jen Gilomen and COLAGE 2005 * 31 min * USA In a time when LGBT families are debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to state houses across the country, five young people who are children of LGBT parents give you a chance to walk in their shoes—to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family. This film was produced by the COLAGE Youth Leadership and Action Program and directed by Jen Gilomen.
	Out: the Movie Directed by Michael Day 30 min. * USA Out: the Movie was created to raise awareness and understanding of the LGBT population. Produced by the Kaiser Permanente Diversity Development Department Colorado Region in association with the KP Pride Colorado Region and directed by Michael Day—an accomplished independent filmmaker. A Q&A with KP representatives Alicia-Marie K. Smith and Stephen Noran will follow.
	transparent Directed by Jules Rosskam 2005 * 61 min * USA Pink or blue. Male or Female. Mommy or Daddy. Categories that we all take for granted are broken apart in transparent, a documentary about 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children. Through these extraordinary men, the film challenges the ways that people relate to one another, particularly within our immediate families, based on gender. Screening with Swim Suit Directed by Lucretia Knapp 2006 * 14 min. * USA A powerful and evocative experimental documentary about a young person’s conflict between the desire to transition, and passion for swimming.
	Out At Work Directed by Kelly Anderson & Tami Gold 1996 * 56 min. * USA In 1991 Cheryl Summerville, a cook in a suburban Atlanta restaurant, received a termination paper stating that she was fired for “failing to demonstrate normal heterosexual values.” She was shocked to discover that in 47 American states, including her own, it was legal to fire workers simply for being homosexual. Out at Work chronicles the dramatic stories of three gay workers over the course of five years: it follows them at home, at work and through their collective fight to secure workplace safety, job security, and employee benefits for gay and lesbian workers.
Plenary 1 Entertainment Thursday, September 27 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. International Ballroom Sponsored by Deloitte
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Plenary 3 Entertainment Thursday, September 28 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. International Ballroom
	Patrick Boothe is a Texas musician based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and currently gigs around the metroplex. His second CD, Finally the View has Changed, is a mix of piano based melodies, electronic bursts, and jagged, haunting harmonies melted into an industrial package of rock, pop, Americana, blues, soul, and other unnamed and maybe unexplored entities of music. The lyrics on the album reflect an unsure and unstable but introspective view of the life of a twentysomething vying to see beauty in the tribulations of establishing your life.
Plenary 4 Entertainment Saturday, September 29 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. International Ballroom
	The Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington, D.C. (LGCW) is a 35-voice, non-audition, consensus-based, community chorus. For 22 years, the LGCW has featured a broad repertoire of choral music that affirms social justice, gay and lesbian pride, cultural diversity, and humor. The LGCW presents two major concerts annually and appears at numerous community events supporting local organizations. The LGCW is proud to be under the musical direction of C. Paul Heins. In 2002-03, they celebrated their 20th Anniversary of singing boldly.