April 26, 1:00 – 3:00 pm - Panel Discussion
LGBT Rights in Tompkins County: Organizing for Change
Nancy Bereano, Joyce Muchan, Ross Haarstadt & Sandra Pollack
Nancy K. Bereano has been a grassroots activist in Tompkins County
for almost forty years, much of that time involved in LGBT issues.
She was the publisher and editor of the award-winning feminist and
lesbian press, Firebrand Books, and is a founding member of the
Tompkins County Working Group on LGBT Aging.
Ross Haarstad has lived in Ithaca over 30 years, 21 with his partner
Larry Roberts; they are members of the Ithaca 50, who sued New York
state for marriage equality. Ross co-founded AIDS Work of Tompkins
County and has been involved in LGBT rights and other diversity
issues at Cornell and in Ithaca and Tompkins County since the 1980s.
May 10, 2:00 – 3:00 pm - Talk
Twentieth Century Modern? Photography in the 1950s
Suzette Newberry, archivist and historian
Susette Newberry is the Outreach Coordinator for Olin and Uris
Libraries and VIVO Humanities Curator at Cornell. She holds a Ph.
D. in the history of art from Cornell University with a specialty
in the history of photography. A former archivist and exhibitions
manager, she has contributed to the production of numerous digital
collections, with an emphasis on collections of historic photographs.
May 13, 7:30 – 9:00 pm - Talk
The Women of Tauvirg: Remembering Lois O’Connor and Marion Wesp
Rebecca Logan, Women's Studies, Lesbian Studies Scholar
& Shad Reinstein, documentary filmmaker
At The History Center in Tompkins County, 401 E
State Street, Suite 100
