[Vision2020] transgender issues speaker

[Bill London]

                                                  Richard LaFortune 
  Native Two Spirit and GLBT organizer

  Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 7:00 PM in the WSU CUB Auditorium

  (read a profile of Richard at http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=169)

   

   

  Artist, activist, and organizer Richard LaFortune speaks about his work with two spirit, Native, and LGBT communities. Two-spirit is a term for Native American people who have both a female and a male spirit in their bodies; the term is modern and includes a number of different gender roles from a variety of tribes.

  Richard was born in Bethel, Alaska and is a citizen of the Yupik (Eskimo) tribe. He was born in the province of the Kuskokvagmiut - "People of the Great River"- to the Qaug'qumiut- "People from the Inner Reaches of the Great River". He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.



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