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The Only Choice I made Was Not to Live a Lie (Anymore): Lesbian Role Models Presented by Sue Cirillo and Colleen Briner-Schmidt March 5, 2016 CTA Human Rights Conference

 Provide Role Models of Notable Lesbian Women, past and present.  Start the conversation on implementation of The Fair Education Act, also known as SB 48, authored by state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco).  Requires that roles and contributions of LGBT Americans be included in school curriculum." Purpose:

Talking in “Gay Code on National Television Ellen Degeneres & Rosie O’Donnell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk9K25iE0To

 Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon created Daughters of Bilitis - 1955 History

 Sally Ride- Astronaut ◦ Script  Kate Hutton – “The Earthquake Lady” ◦ Script Science

 Billie Jean King Script  http://www.makers.com/billie-jean-king  Martina Navratilova  http://www.biography.com/people/martin a-navratilova-9420862/videos Sports

 Col Margarethe Cammermeyer ◦ Script  Katie Miller ◦ Script Military

 Tammy Baldwin ◦ http://www.makers.com/tammy-baldwin ◦ http://www.makers.com/tammy- baldwin/moments/women-need-run  Barbara Jordan ◦ Script  Lupe Valdez ◦ Script ◦ http://lgbthistorymonth.com/lupe-valdez Politics

 Rita Mae Brown ◦ Http://www.makers.com/rita-mae-brown  Staceyann Chin ◦ Script Arts

 Wanda Sykes ◦ Script  Ellen DeGeneres  http://www.makers.com/ellen-degeneres-0 Entertainment

 LGBThistorymonth.com  www.lesbian herstoryarchives .org  www.makers.com  Practice creating a first person script ◦ Irshad Manji, Lupe Valdez, Frida Kahlo Resources & Practice

“It is important that each of us be aware of the power we have in our very being to come to be a…supporter of HRC…You have no idea who’s watching you…who you will impress and inform and change and enhearten and empower…because all of us are caged birds…caged by somebody else’s ignorance…When we have enough courage to come out —I don’t mean just our of the closet, I mean out of your spirit…you have no idea who you will inform.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BybZZM881Tw Maya Angelou’s Speech to HRC

Mandy Carter – Activist  Tracy Chapman – Singer/Songwriter  Angela Davis – Political Activist  Ruth Ellis – Printer /Activist  Sharon Farmer – White House photographer  Zora Neale Hurston – Author  Frida Kahlo – Artist  Sherry Harris – City Council  Audre Lorde – Poet  Ma Rainey – Singer  Bessie Smith – Singer  Sheryl Swopes – Athlete  Alice Walker – Writer  Lucy Valdez – Sheriff  Barbara Jordan – Congresswoman  Gloria Anzaldua -- Author  CeCe McDonald – Community Activist  Darlene Garner – MCC Clergy, Director of Emerging Ministries, Co-Founder of the National  Coalition for Black Lesbians and Gays Angelina Welde Grimke’ – Playwrite  And ….  GLBT of Women of Color

 Wanda Sykes  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_wW J-_4uSY Coming Out Black