Human Rights Task Force (HRTF) Pre-March Party; March on Washington; HRTD Family Values Picnic, 1993

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Box 15, Object 3

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7:33pm April 17, 1993.

Pre-March Party by HRTF at banquet hall. Dancing & socializing, selling tee shirts, shots and food. Next weekend on May 5^th GM at University of Tampa there will be a march under Tampa banner. Announcer talks about avenging Tampa for what happened last fall. Also mentions the growing list of GLBT supportive businesses (total of 350). He gives the mic over to a woman from Palm Beach, Susan Guckman, Director for the People of the American Way. She talks about Bob Martinez, David Caton. She urges individuals to come out to friends and family. Announcements continue: May 1^st Saturday from 10-8pm the MCC is voting to elect a representative to statewide organization, a gay and lesbian organization against the religious right. One man and one woman will be elected. Clinton is currently meeting with LesBiGay leaders, one of which is Nadine Smith, yesterday on April 16, 1993. 130 cities have protections for gay and lesbians, and ban in military is being discussed. The news turns to local issues. Car windows have been broken as thugs yell out anti-lesbian slurs. Death threats are being received. He mentions a gay man beaten outside of a bar in SC, where the assaults were acquitted. There is a March in St. Petersburg being organized for those that can't go to Washington D.C. A caravan of buses to go to the March will meet on Friday at 5pm. May 16^th, Sunday from noon to five pm, the Family Values Picnic will take place at USF Riverfront Park to show the straight community about continued diversification of family and equal values.

April 24^th 1993 [-00:48] The March on Washington. Footage of marchers, speakers over the loud speaker, flags from Tampa, Ybor City, and Florida visible. Chanting "March" and singing "God Bless America" [00:32- 00:29].

May 16, 1993, Family Values Picnic. PFLAG Polk and Hillsborough County, USF Coalition, and HRTF. Announcements: HRO; Buycott has spread throughout Florida (the Urban League has signed on); Direct Action arm of HRTF to protest and be visible being created; Floridians United Against Discrimination, a statewide org. under auspices of HRTF.

July 16, 1993, "A Night for Nadine". Human Rights Task Force, held at USF. Speakers: Tom Sherbert, who worked with Nadine at the Tampa Tribune; Billy Hale, who organized the March on Washington with Nadine; Silva Kebble, a county commissioner who met Nadine when she was working as a reporter; and Nadine herself. Performances by: Halcyon, Bayshore Cruisers, Rainbow Pride Band, and others.

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