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• Friday evening After Dinner speaker:
  Shaun Woodward, MP for St Helens South.

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  Papers accepted to 22^nd June 2004

• Keynote speakers:
  Susan Stryker
  Jamison Green

• Saturday Evening event:
  The Titanic Exhibition at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

After Dinner speaker: Friday evening

Shaun Woodward, MP for St Helens South.

Shaun Woodward has been a member of parliament for since 1997. Previously he had worked for the National Consumer Council, then at the BBC in News and Current Affairs, before leaving to work for Prime Minister John Major and his newly appointed Chairman, Chris Patten as Director of Communications. He then taught at in the East End of London at Queen Mary and Westfield College, before becoming a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Orignally he entered parliament as a member of the Conservative party until after 2 years he faced up to “the brutal reality that the values in which I believed were to be realized within Labour”. After crossing the floor of the house. It was not an easy time. As he puts it:

“Some of my family were horribly picked on by some of the media - not least my elderly parents who were the subject of a media stake out; as was my brother, now sister Lesley, who was made the subject of several tabloid front pages (and one broadsheet newspaper) because of her decision to have a sex-change. This vilification of my brave sister , because of my decision to join Labour, caused huge pain and suffering. The later realisation that it had been staff at Central Office in the Tory Party who had ’led’ the journalists to pick on my sister was final proof ( if more were needed) that I was right to leave the Tories. The time had come to stand up to these extremists.”

Shaun has supported the Gender Recognition Bill through its stages in parliament, speaking very eloguently on the need for equality and respect. He chaired ’The Joint Human Rights Committee’ in government which considered whether the Gender Recognition Bill did meet the requirements of the Human Rights Act.

Shaun is a speaker who always speaks to his audience without patronising them, and with great knowledge. We feel very honoured that he has agreed to be our after dinner speaker.

Keynote speakers:

Susan Stryker: researcher, writer, queer historian, artist, and former executive director of the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California.

Author of: Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Co-author of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area; Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography; The Transgender Reader

SHOWING and DISCUSSING her Special Screening of the Pre-Release Version of her new film: “Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria”

Jamison Green: Past president of FTM International. Writer, Speaker, Educator, & Advocate for Transgender and Transsexual People.

Jamison “James” Green is an internationally respected leader within the Transgender movement. A dynamic speaker and compelling writer, James has appeared in eight documentary films, and received every major award given by the largest national transgender organizations. Mr. Green is known as an articulate champion for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights and dignity of all trans people, everywhere. He has published several essays and articles, and writes a monthly column for PlanetOut.com. His book, Becoming A Visible Man, will be published in late 2004.

Special Saturday Evening Meal:

The Titanic Exhibition at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.

This will be a 2 course ’Below Decks’ meal at the Museum of Science and Industry, with plenty of time to visit the exhibition of artifacts rescued from the wreck of the Titanic. There will be light musical entertainment as part of the evening.