GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS TO BE SUBJECT
 OF TALK AT U.VA. LAW SCHOOL

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct.  5 -- Kate Kendall, legal
director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco,
will speak at the University of Virginia School of Law at
1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9.  Her talk in Room 110 is open to the public
and is sponsored by the U.Va. Gay and Lesbian Law Students
Association and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia's gay
and lesbian rights committee.
	Kendall's talk about the current status of gay and lesbian
rights will take place the day before U.S. Supreme Court arguments
regarding Evans v. Romer, the Colorado case in which the state is
seeking to remove current protection for gay and lesbian rights.
	The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a non-profit
public interest group founded in 1977 to work through the courts and
legal system to eradicate discrimination against lesbians and gay
men.
	Kendall, a graduate of the University of Utah College of
Law, has also been a staff attorney with American Civil Liberties
Union of Utah.
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October 4, 1995
	REPORTERS:  For additional information, contact Jacqueline
Stephens at (804) 984-2304.