The "Lips" section of our web site will provide you with information on who will be part of the forum panel. As we receive confirmations from individuals, their names and bios will be posted on this page.

The panel will be made up of 10 women. Five will be lesbian youth and five will be leaders from the LGBTQ community. Our goal is to create a diverse panel that will deliver a forum that is interesting, thought-provoking, entertaining, funny, and educational.

A 'Q&A Session' will be part of the forum as well. Members of the audience will be able to interact with the panel and ask questions.

 

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Margaret "Margo" Edwards

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Zsa Zsa Gershick is the author of “Gay Old Girls” (Alyson Books), winner in 1999 of Foreword magazine’s Best Gay & Lesbian Book of the Year Award, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and nominee for the American Library Association’s Best Gay & Lesbian Book Award. Her latest book, “Secret Service: Untold Stories Lesbians in the Military” (Alyson, 2005), was recently featured on C-SPAN’s “Book TV” and was an NPR Summer Reading Pick. Publisher's Weekly calls “Secret Service” “an indictment of America's pointless and destructive policy barring gays and lesbians from serving in the military.” Ms. Gershick’s stories are featured in Alyson’s 2003 and 2004 “Best Lesbian Love Stories,” and her screenplay “Rozzie & Harriet” (co-written with Marion Levine) was a recent Los Angeles OutFest finalist. Her bylined work has appeared in Newsweek, the Advocate and the Texas Observer, among other publications. A veteran newspaperwoman, she worked as a reporter for the Daily Journal and Progress chains, and the Texas Triangle, the Longhorn state’s first GLBT weekly. She holds a master’s degree in non-fiction writing from the University of Southern California’s Master of Professional Writing Program, where she has also has taught, and an MFA in playwriting from the USC School of Theatre. Her play “Bluebonnet Court” – a dramedy about sex, civil rights and finding family in the most unusual places – will have its world premiere in July, 2006, at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in Hollywood.
 

Brigitte Tolson is the current Co-Chair, and a founding member, of the C.I.T.Y. x1 Youth Group. Brigitte has been a youth activist since the age of 14. Brigitte, who is now 23, is also the creator of GIRL TALK, the only youth group/emotional support group for lesbian youth in the City of West Hollywood.
Some of Brigitte's other accomplishments include serving on the Bike Out Board (2003), Co-chairing the L.A.U.S.D. Gay and Lesbian Advisory Board (2004), and founding the Hamilton Music Academy's first Gay Straight Alliance Club (G.S.A.). Brigitte and her lesbian youth peers also participated in the 2005 Lesbian Dyke March during the L.A. Pride weekend.
Currently the longest standing member in C.I.T.Y. x1, Brigitte is a driving force behind the creation of the "L Youth Forum".

 

MORE NAMES AND BIOS COMING SOON!