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Madeline Davis (born 1940) is a noted gay rights activist. In 1970 she was a founding member of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, the first gay rights organization in Western New York. In 1972, Davis taught the first course on lesbianism in the United States. She was also a founding member of HAG Theater, the first all-lesbian theater company in the US. ==Politics== Davis was a founder of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier in the first quarter of 1970. She eventually became President of the organization. In the 1970s, Davis organized "Legislative Night", at which local candidates for public office, for the first time in Buffalo political history, answered questions and sought endorsements. She was a regular lecturer on the subject of human sexuality to preceptors and medical students at the University at Buffalo (U.B.), an also organized workshops and study groups. Davis marched and spoke at the first gay rights rally at the New York State Capitol in 1971, and participated in the original effort to lobby that state's legislature on behalf of the gay rights movement. In 1972, she became the first openly lesbian delegate elected to a major political convention when she was elected to the Democratic National Convention in Miami, Florida. She addressed the convention in support of the inclusion of a gay rights plank in the Democratic Party platform. Davis became a member of the Democratic Committee, and worked within the party for the acceptance of gays and lesbians. As part of the Political Action Committee of Mattachine, she confronted the Buffalo Vice Squad on the issue of entrapment and gay bar raids. She challenged the publication of the names of gays and lesbians arrested for misdemeanors by ''Buffalo Evening News'', and of other denigrating news articles in a number of publications. She spoke up against hate speeches by local politicians, including the District Attorney for Niagara Falls. In 1972, Davis, along with Margaret Small, taught the first course on Lesbianism in the United States: Lesbianism 101 at U.B. She taught a renamed version of the course, "Woman + Woman", in 1978, with a focus on lesbian history. The interview tapes from this course's final project were used as a foundation for the 1978 Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, seeking to document the lives of older lesbians. In 1981, they won an Astraia Foundation grant. In 1973, Davis organized a Pride workshop for friends and families of gays and lesbians, which later became the local PFLAG chapter and continues to chair yearly Pride workshops on GLBT history and culture. From 1982 to 1984, Davis was a member of the board of the Western NY Association of Professionals Working in Human Sexuality, researching sex and gender issues for medical publication. She worked to gain acceptance of gay congregants in their religious institutions. In 2011, Davis is the 1972 inductee choice for The Advocate Hall of Fame. In 1988, she addressed the American Library Association's 95th Conference on AIDS in the Workplace. Davis has lectured on women's history and sex and gender issues at a number of universities. In 1994, Davis co-authored ''Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community''. She has published numerous journal and magazine articles on sexuality and women's history, as well as short stories and poetry. In 2001, Davis founded the Buffalo Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Archives, which is collecting and preserving the history of Buffalo's gay communities. In 2007, the name of the Archives was changed to the Madeline Davis Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Archives of Western N.Y. Davis continues to work as a writer, archivist, historian, political activist, and director of the Archives. In 2002, Davis and Danny Winter co-founded Rainbow Elders of the Niagara Frontier, a peer support and social group for GLBT seniors. She currently serves as co-chair of the organization. In 2007, she co-founded a committee that met with Tonawanda Police to discuss the issue of arrests for solicitation in local public parks. In 2009, Davis was the subject of the documentary film "Swimming with Lesbians" (directed by David B. Marshall) which outlined her work with the Archives as well as her personal life and that of her close friends. The documentary won the Mary Elizabeth Knight Award (Jury Award for Best Local Film) at the 2009 ImageOUT film festival in Rochester, N.Y. and both Marshall and Davis were present at the screening at the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre. In 2012, Davis was named as an inductee of ''The Advocate'' magazine's Hall of Fame. Davis is the inductee representing 1972. In that year she became the first openly gay delegate to a major party's national convention. Davis continues to be involved in politics, and is Vice President for Community Liaison for Stonewall Democrats. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madeline Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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