Please join The Commission for LGBT People in welcoming award-winning author Dorothy Allison on November 13, 2009.  The event titled, Out from Appalachia: Story Telling with Dorothy Allison will focus on her stories of being a lesbian and feminist in the South.  Author of Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, and Trash, Allison is noted as being "one of the finest writers of her generation."