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Milwaukee Named Best Place
for Lesbians to Live

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Washington, D.C.--The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has echoed recent praise of the city of Milwaukee, urging all GLBT activists to visit as soon as possible!

Milwaukee is the host city of the fourteenth annual Creating Change(TM) conference, convened by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation, from Nov. 7-11, 2001.

This week, Girlfriends Magazine has named the city #1 in its ranking of best places for lesbians to live. Citing the state nondiscrimination law and the city's relatively low cost of living, housing costs, and crime rate, Milwaukee topped the list for the first time this year.

The ranking was reported on this week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Also, last Sunday, the New York Times carried a travel section story highlighting recent progress made in Milwaukee.

"NGLTF chose Milwaukee as the site for our Creating Change(TM) conference precisely for these reasons," said Lorri L. Jean, executive director of NGLTF. "In light of all this recent publicity, I urge all GLBT activists and organizers to visit the city as soon as possible - I'll meet you there in a month!"

Milwaukee and Wisconsin have played significant roles on the national stage. Wisconsin made GLBT history in 1982 by becoming the first state ever to enact an anti-discrimination law; the next year, Wisconsin repealed its anti-sodomy law.

Home of the country's first openly lesbian Congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin is also the home of America's Black Holocaust Museum, founded by Dr. James Cameron, who survived a 1930 lynching in Marion, IN. Milwaukee and Wisconsin are the birthplaces of schools vouchers and welfare "reform," respectively.

Creating Change(TM), the premier national conference of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement, will be held at the Milwaukee Hyatt Regency in November. U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin and Anthony D. Romero, the newly appointed executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, will be among the keynote speakers.

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Programming changes are currently underway to allow the conference to contribute to the national debate surrounding our current national crisis with details to be released soon. To register or get more information, please visit http://www.creatingchange.org or call 202-332-6483 x3301.