Allison/Prida reception should have been open to all

To the Editor: Thursday morning (May 7) a BlitzMail message was sent out by Giavanna Munafo, head of the Women's Resource Center, stating that, contrary to what had been printed in The Dartmouth, the Dorothy Allison/Dolores Prida reception planned for Friday afternoon was not the first event of the Women Writers Conference (which was open to the public). Rather, the reception was "meant primarily for ... the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities." In other words, straight people are not invited and should please come only to the reading in the evening. The blitz began to bother me.