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When: February 13, 6pm

Where: Richards Gallery in the Center for the Arts
	Go in the front doors and it's on your left.

Who: PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)


        GALA will be hosting speakers from PFLAG to discuss Project
Open Mind, an extensive campaign directed towards those who are
misinformed or unaware of the problems facing the gay community.
As a part of this campaign, PFLAG produced a number of controversial
TV commercials, which the Atlanta stations refused to air. The commercials
were  meant to show the connection between hate speech and violence against
lesbians and gays, as well as its contribution to homosexual suicides.
If you are at all curious about the commercials that we weren't given the
oppurtunity to see, this is your chance.  It's also your chance to speak
your mind, whatever your viewpoint on the campaign.


>From the PFLAG newsletter:
	"The Christian Broadcast Network notified TV stations that ran 
the ads that they would be sued if they ran them again.  Currently, all 
TV stations in the other cities have pulled the ads.  Of course, Atlanta 
never ran them in the first place, except as part of one newscast on the 
day of the press conference."

Below are some quotes used in the commercials:

Jesse Helms:  A lot of us are sick and tired of all the pretense of 
injured innocence.  They are not innocent.

Pat Robertson:  Homosexuality is an abomination.  Many of those people 
involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals. 
 The two things seem to go together.

Jerry Falwell:  Homosexuality is moral perversion and is always wrong.  
God hates homosexuality.

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