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LYNDONVILLE — The
Lyndon State College Gay-
Straight Alliance and the Student
Activities office are hosting a
three-week showing of Love
Makes a Family this month.

The traveling exhibit of pho-
tographs by Gigi Kaeser of
Amherst, MA, features 20 fami-
lies of all races with gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender moms,
dads, grandparents and/or youth.
Each photograph is accompanied
by text edited from interviews
with family members.

Used to help promote accep-
tance of all kinds of people and
family structures, Love Makes a
Family has been endorsed by
organizations such as the
National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, Gay and Lesbian Parents
Coalition International and
Parents, Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. It has already
been exhibited at various univer-
sities, churches, businesses, com-
munity centers, and
across the country.

The exhibit was also the sub-
ject of controversy in Amherst,

schools ’

where five families unsuccessful-
Iy sued to prevent the exhibit
from being shown in local ele-
mentary schools.

Love Makes a Family will be
at Lyndon State College from
April 21-May 7 in the Alexander
Twilight Theater Lobby and will
be open to the public during reg-
ular business hours.

For more information, contact
the Lyndon State College Gay-
Straight Alliance or Student
Activities Ofiice.

BURLINGTON — The Uni-
versity of Vermont’s largest
undergraduate department .is
tackling‘ problems of prejudice
and discrimination with a week
of free workshops, films and
seminars.

“Psychology Challenges
Biased Behavior” runs from
March 28 to April 2. Chaired by
Professor Sondra Solomon, the
event stems from concern about
graffiti, verbal sIurs‘and other
continuing racist and anti-gay
incidents at UVM.

Department chair Professor
Justin Ioffe says the initiative is
intended to expose the evils at the
roots of biased behaviors and
spark change.
and

James H. Sidanius, Ph.D. will
deliver keynote addresses on
unintentional bias and the links
between gender and ethnic dis-
crimination. Workshops will
address cultural competence,
strategies for challenging racism
and homophobia and cross-cul-
tural mental health challenges.

A number of films will also be
presented, including Straight
from the Heart, about parents of
GLBT children struggling with
homophobia, and The Way Home,
in which women from a variety
of races talk about experiences
withoppression.

In addition, psychology facul-
ty have scheduled activities in
their classes that week that will
focus on challenging biased
behavior.

All events are free and open to
the public. More infonnation and
schedules are available from the
psychology department.

Solomon says she hopes that
other departments will follow the
psychology department’s lead in
combating discrimination and
prejudice.

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Rutland native Steve Howard

photo Maxwell Stroud

   

Last Lau gh S - Acknowledging critics of his recently announced campaign
for the office of State Auditor, Steve Howard says, “What makes them different
from the people who have been laughing at me ever since the grade school play-
ground?” i

run for the office of State Auditor
of Accounts being vacated by Ed
Flanagan. _,__:

Elected to the Vermont House
of Representatives at age 20,,
Howard served six years before
becoming the chair of the state
Democratic Committee. He now
works as a political consultant.

Howard intends to “build on what .
Ed Flanagan has done in the‘ ‘

office.” He believes the auditor

needs to be an experienced leader 

unafraid to take on -the fights. His
priorities for the office are the
protection of health care and
childcare consumers and the
elimination of corporate wel-
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