Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. Join us to celebrate OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture, edited by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross. In addition to the editors, other panelists include: Nancy Bereano, Cheryl Clarke, and Michael Bronski.

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PANELISTS

Michael Bronski is Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist, organizer, writer, publisher, editor, and independent scholar.

Nancy K. Bereano is the former editor and publisher of the groundbreaking, award-winning lesbian and feminist press, Firebrand Books. During its fifteen-year existence (1985–2000), Firebrand published many significant authors including Dorothy Allison, Alison Bechdel, Cheryl Clarke, Leslie Feinberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Katz, Audre Lorde, and Minnie Bruce Pratt.

Cheryl Clarke is still a black, lesbian, feminist poet. She is author of the collections Narratives: poems in the tradition of black women (1982), Living As A Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), and By My Precise Haircut (2016). Clarke’s iconic essays are included in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color (Anzaldúa and Moraga, eds., 1981, 1983, 2000, 2015) and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Smith, ed., 1984, 2000). Clarke retired from Rutgers University in 2013 after 41 years of service. With Barbara J. Balliet, her partner, she co-owns Blenheim Hill Books in Hobart, N.Y., the Book Village of the Catskills and co-organizes the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers.

Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross are co-editors of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture.