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21, 2012. This one day our voices will be heard worldwide and we will enlighten societies

and governments to recognize our basic Human Rights. The LGBT Community demands and

intends to gain our Full Civil Rights NOW!

All LGBTQ individuals, organizations and our straight allies in the Athens area are asked to

please help make this event a HUGE SUCCESS!

What can you do??? Spread the word, make signs/banners to bring to the March and bring all of

your members to the March. Please wear a purple shirt to this event.

We will be having a meeting on Thursday, April 5 from 6-8pm at Highwire (269 N Hull St) to

continue the planning. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Event Schedule:

*11:30am- Assemble, gather signs and banners at Lay Park (297 Hoyt St.)

Please wear a purple t-shirt to this event

*12pm- Welcome and March rollout

For March Route see website

*12:20pm- Hear from Speakers at the UGA Arch

Ricky Roberts, Event MC

Confirmed Speakers:

Mayor Nancy Denson, Welcome

Jared Bailey, Athens Clarke County Commissioner

Mike Chadwick, Athens PRIDE Chair

Annette Hatton, Founder of GLOBES

Mark Dawkins, Black Faculty Staff Organization, UGA

Rev. Dr. Renee Dubose, Our Hope MCC

Dr. Tim Riley, Candidate for State Senator District 47, Georgia

Matthew Willis, Lambda Alliance, UGA

Ande Stone, Campaign Against Spiritual Violence, UGA

Whitney Dekle, Ally Outreach Campaign, UGA

The Institute for Women's Studies would like to remind you that the 18th Annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture will take place on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 12:30pm in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium in the Georgia Museum of Art.  A reception honoring the Coley family will precede the lecture at 11:30am in the GMOA lobby.

This year's lecture, "Friends & Family: Coming Home," will be presented by Dr. Tricia Lootens, Josiah Meigs Teaching Professor in the English Department at the University of Georgia.  This past semester, Dr. Lootens taught her first class on queer approaches to Victorian literature.  Speaking less as a specialist in lesbian and gay studies than as a beneficiary of the Coley lecture itself, she will honor the lecture's eighteenth year by taking Victorian poetry as a starting point for exploring the Coley Lecture's connections to vital, ongoing histories of academic, intellectual, and community work, beginning with the 1970s at UGA and extending to the current-day life of UGA, Athens, and beyond.  For more information on Dr. Lootens, please visit our website<http://iws.uga.edu/events/coley/2012_coley_lootens.htm>.

The Andrea Carson Coley Lecture in Women's Studies at the University of Georgia was endowed through a donation from Andrew and Kathy Coley in memory of their daughter, Andrea Carson Coley (1972-1993), who was a certificate candidate in Women's Studies. Each spring, the lecture brings scholars conducting cutting-edge research in lesbian and gay studies to campus.

This year's lecture is co-sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and the LGBT Resource Center.  If you have any questions about this event or would like more information, please call 706/542-2846.

Both the lecture and reception are FREE and open to the public.  We hope to see you there!  Please share widely.  Please announce to your classes and invite your friends and colleagues.