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NEWS LINK
Project of Community Link, Inc.
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER
COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATION
January 21, 2011
Issue V, Volume XVI, Number 185
FREE monthly GLBT publication * Since 1995 * www.CommunityLinkFresno.com
“Legally Proud”
Fresno Rainbow Pride 2011
LOGO CONTEST!
Community Link has chosen the
theme for this year’s Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Parade
and Festival.
“LEGALLY PROUD,” was selected
as a result of our legislative repeal victory in the 17 year old Don’t Ask Don’t
Tell law and the court victories we have
won as of late.
Does this mean our fight and struggles are over for full dignity and our
civil rights as Gay Americans? That
would be a big no! We are not done and
we will not stop until we have reached
the summit.
But let us celebrate these triumphs
with pride, as we refocus on the battles
ahead.
Fresno Rainbow Pride announces a a
logo contest that will incorporate our
theme “LEGALLY PROUD” with a
$100 prize for the winner.
Deadline: February 11th, 2011
Submissions must be RECEIVED by
Friday, February 11th, 2011
(NOT postmarked...received!), so we
suggest using e-mail to get them to us!
The winning Logo will be chosen on
Saturday,
February 12, 2011 and will be
revealed in the February edition of the
News Link.
The designer of the chosen logo will
receive a $100 prize, an official Pride tshirt, and their name credited in the
Pride Program.
Artwork will not be returned to the
artists and Fresno Rainbow Pride will
retain the right to use ALL logo submissions for additional promotional materials as it sees fit.
You may incorporate these phrases in
GLEE & Chris take
Golden Globes
The Golden Globe Awards
are presented by the Hollywood
Foreign Press Association.
Chris Colfer despite being
up against some rather difficult
competition, the "Glee" star
walked away with an award for
Best Supporting Actor in TV.
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We offer free condoms and
LGBT Community Center &
HIV/AIDS
information, courtesy of the
Office Now Open
Fresno
County
Department of Health.
Gay Central Valley is thrilled to
We
have
a
lounge
area to relax in,
announce that we have opened an
LGBT Community Center & Office in socialize, read or work. We have also
the Tower District. We are located at started a collection of books and maga1055 N Van Ness Avenue, Suite C, zines to stock our LGBT Community
Fresno, CA 93728. Our 24 hour phone Library. We currently have several
number is 559-325-4429 or 559-325- LGBT classic novels (Dancer From The
Dance, Rubyfruit Jungle, etc.) some
4GAY.
As we are just starting out we are anthologies, nonfiction titles, and back
unable to be open every day. Our current issues of The Advocate, OUT Magazine
and Instinct, as well as other titles.
schedule is...
While we will eventually have a
WEDNESDAYS - 12PM-6PM
community
computer available, currentFRIDAYS - 12PM-5PM
ly
we
have
two computers available in
SATURDAYS - 12PM-6PM
our
office,
with
one typically free during
SUNDAYS - 9AM-12PM
open
office
hours.
We also have a conDuring open hours, we are open to
the public, and offer access to informa- ference table with 8 chairs available to
tion and LGBT resources both local and local groups and organizations for meetnational, including local publications ings. Meetings must be pre-scheduled
such as News Link and the CCA with our office and are open even on
Newsletter. We have reference materials days when our office is not open,
relating to the LGBT civil rights move- depending on availability.
The Gay In The Central Valley Art
ment as well as print outs of recent court
decisions effecting the LGBT communi- Project which we started last year is displayed and we have the materials necesty.
your design:
“21st Annual GLBT Pride Parade &
Festival”,
”Fresno Rainbow Pride 2011” or
“Fresno 2011”.
We reserve the right to add those, or
similar, phrases to submitted designs.
Please e-mail your designs to:
[email protected] or mail to:
“Community Link, Pride Logo Contest,
PO Box 4959, Fresno CA 93744.”
The file format requirements: JPG,
BMP, TIFF, PDF or PSD (flattened layers) at 300dpi resolution.
If you design freehand, the drawing's
quality needs to be good enough to scan
clearly!
Max. 6 colors + shades of grey +
black and white.
If the logo has more than 6 colors, we
will also need an alternate, simplified
version limited to 6 colors.
The logo's details should look good
on anything between an 8-foot banner
and a 150x150 pixel button on a website.
If you have questions, call us (559)
486-3464 or e-mail [email protected]
Pride Applications
Applications are now available
online
Sponsorship Info
Sponsorship benefits packets are also
available online
Get Involved
Become a member of the Pride Team.
Call
486-3464
or
email
[email protected]
Check Out Everything Pride
@ www.fresnorainbowpride.com.
Our First Meeting of 2011
Wednesday, January 26th at 7pm at
1055 N. Van Ness Avenue, Room D.
All interested parties are invited.
DON’T ASK
DON’T TELL
REPEALED
WITH THE
SIGNATURE
OF THE
PRESIDENT
Go to page 9 for more
sary for anyone to create their own addition to this creative project. The Art
Project shines a light on what it's like to
grow up in the Central Valley as a member of the LGBT Community, as well as
those who support us.
On Sundays we provide coffee and
donuts or other treats from 9AM-Noon.
Also on Sundays Kate Henry of Gay
Central Valley is happy to provide assistance to anyone regarding social justice
advocacy and grant writing.
On Sunday, February 13th from
2PM-5PM we will be hosting an Open
House at the Community Center with
complimentary food and drink, as well
as a rainbow ribbon cutting ceremony.
You can find a promotional flier in this
edition of News Link with all the
details.
Any groups wishing to have business
cards, fliers, pamphlets, etc, available at
the Community Center are welcome to
do so. Items can be mailed to us at the
above address, or dropped off during
open office hours. We also have a large
mail slot in our office door through
which items can be left 24 hours a day.
If there is anything you would like us to
pick up for you please leave a message
and we'll do our best to do so.
We will also be regularly accepting
donations. In another article in this edition of News Link you can read about
our request for books, magazines, etc.
We are also in need of LGBT art pieces,
large stuffed pillows and/or bean bag
furniture, shelving, brochure racks,
office supplies including computer
hardware and software, etc. If you
would like to donate anything please let
us know.
Gay Central Valley is an official
501(c)3 nonprofit organization. We
operate
the
websites
w w w. g a y f r e s n o . c o m ,
www.gayvisalia.com, www.gayhanford.com, www.gaymerced.com and
www.gaybakersfield.com . All those
working for Gay Central Valley and its
Divisions do so on a strictly volunteer
basis. Everything raised through our
nonprofit goes back into the community
and toward operating expenses.
www.CommunityLinkFresno.com
NewsLink
2
Are Homeless “Advocates”
Really Helping?
By Dan Waterhouse
There's been a heated debate online lately about how best to help
Fresno's homeless. One side sees the
City of Fresno as the villain of the
piece.
First of all, there seems to be a
(mis)perception that one of the City
of Fresno's missions is to do direct
delivery of social services. It isn't.
That responsibility belongs to the
County of Fresno. The City's role traditionally has been to pass federal
Housing and Urban Development
money through to groups that provide
direct services, such as emergency
shelter funds.
The city really didn't realize what
they had gotten into when it first
looked into doing something more
than passing money through to other
agencies. In early 2008, then Mayor
Alan Autry contacted the FresnoMadera Continuum of Care. His city
needed help and he thought the
Continuum provided direct services.
The Continuum does not, and so
informed Autry.
The City later combined forces
with the county to put the 10-year
plan to end homelessness in Fresno
together two years ago. The desired
outcome of the plan was re-housing.
But, there was no real funding
attached to the planning effort.
However, the city obtained federal
stimulus dollars and decided to use
them to get homeless people into
housing.
I've heard that very few of the people who were placed in housing
remain there. For re-housing to work,
there have to be supportive services in
place, preferably close to those who
need them. In the fragmented delivery
system delivering safety net social
services typical in California, Fresno
County is primarily responsible for
providing those services.
And, we all know how battered the
county's delivery system is. Layoffs
have decimated staff. Mental health
services have been reduced to the
bare minimum allowed by the state.
The county's crisis intervention center
was closed down over a year ago, and
replaced with hospital emergency
departments and a mobile crisis team
that is noteworthy for the fact the hospitals will not use its services. County
staff have informed providers that it
might be best for them to contract
through the state instead of the county, because doing that stretches service dollars further. Now, new/old
governor Jerry Brown is proposing
returning total responsibility for
social services to the counties, with
(perhaps) block grant funding to go
with it-where the counties, not the
state decide what services at what
level will be provided..
Meanwhile, some of the advocates
ignore fiscal reality, and attack the
City for not doing more--regardless of
what it and its lead person on homeless issues try to accomplish. They
kick around the “First Steps Home”
non-profit and deride most of the
established homeless service groups
in town as “poverty pimps.” The
homeless find themselves caught
between the City and “advocates”
who seemingly have some other
agendas.
Last spring, the attacks on-line
aimed at City homeless point person
Greg Barfield became so virulent that
Barfield finally told the attackers
there was no way he would continue
dealing with them. As best as I can
tell, Barfield is a reasonably decent
guy with a difficult job, constrained
by city policy and lack of funds.
Some people thought he was a “czar”
who could do all things. But he isn't.
Barfield is stepping down from his
homeless duties and will be
Councilmember Oliver Baines' council aide in a few months. It is unclear
whether anyone else will assume the
lead on homeless issues.
FRESNO GLBT+ EVENT CALENDAR
JANUARY
21 Friday
21 Friday
21 Friday
21 Friday
22 Saturday
25 Tuesday
26 Wed.
27 Thursday
27 Thursday
28 Friday
29 Saturday
30 Sunday
30 Sunday
5p
“It's A Queer Thang” Radio Show - KFCF 88.1 FM
www.communitylinkfresno.com and www.kfcf.org
January issue of “NewsLink” comes out
www.communitylinkfresno.com
6p
Men's Mixer @ TBA
www.sunapsis.org/lgbt/mixer
6:30p Mariposa Azul - Meeting @ call for location
Gaby (559) 266-5650 (Spanish), Rachel (559) 255-4075 (English)
Circle Awards @ the North Tower Circle
2777 N Maroa Ave, northtowercircle.com
5:30p Central California Alliance - Talent Show
@ Roger Rocka's, 1226 N. Wishon, ccafresno.org
9a
Project: MALE - HIV Think Tank
@ 1584 N Van Ness Ave, (559) 268-1969
6:30p The Group In Fresno - Munch
www.tgifresno.org
10p
Xotica: Nicki Minaj @ the Express
708 N Blackstone, www.xotica.net
9p
Imperial Dove Court - Last Friday Show
@ the Red Lantern , 4618 E Belmont, idcfresno.org
8p
The Group In Fresno - Social
www.tgifresno.org
11a
Golden State Bears - Brunch
www.goldenstatebears.org
9p
Mariposa Azul - Divas Night
@ Los Amigos, 1752 W. Shaw Ave, losamigosmex.com
FEBRUARY
2 Wed.
Ellos Latinos - Meeting
(559) 907-2995, myspace.com/elloslatinos
4 Friday
6p
Men's Mixer @ TBA
4 Friday
5 Saturday 5p
Trans-e-motion - Social Meeting
(559) 255-4075, www.trans-e-motion.org
5 Saturday 6:30p Central California Alliance - Out On A Clef in concert
@ North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa, ccafresno.org
5 Saturday
Club Flesh: Goth Night @ the Express
708 N Blackstone Ave, thefresnoexpress.com
6 Sunday
1p
Golden State Bears - Meeting
6 Sunday
3p
Superbowl Party
@ the Red Lantern, 4618 E Belmont (559) 251-5898
7 Monday 7:30p Imperial Dove Court - Meeting @ the IDC Club House
4030 E. Belmont, www.idcfresno.org
8 Tuesday 7p
The Group In Fresno - New Member Orientation
www.tgifresno.org
9 Wed.
9a
@ 1584 N Van Ness Ave, (559) 268-1969
9 Wed.
7p
Stonewall Democrats - Meeting @ Carrows
4280 N. Blackstone Ave, www.mangen.com/stonewall/
11 Friday
6:30p Golden State Bears - Game & Movie Night
11 Friday
10p
Ellos Latinos - Show & Party @ the Red Lantern
4618 E Belmont, (559) 907-2995, myspace.com/elloslatinos
11 Friday
Fresno LGBTQ Social Group
www.gayfresno.com/social/
12 Saturday 6p
Gay-Straight Alliance Network - The Valentine's Mixer
@ the Downtown Community Arts Collective, 754 P St.
www.facebook.com/clovisnorthgsa
12 Saturday 8p
Golden State Bears - Pre-V.D. Party @ The Express
708 N. Blackstone Ave, www.goldenstatebears.org
12 Saturday 9p
Masquerade @ the Express
708 N. Blackstone Ave, www.thefresnoexpress.com
12 Saturday
The Lady Gaga Valentine Party @ the North Tower Circle
2777 N Maroa Ave, northtowercircle.com
13 Sunday 2p
PFLAG - Meeting @ Wesley United Methodist Church
1343 E. Barstow Ave, www.pflag.org, (559) 434-6540
13 Sunday 2p
GayCentralValley.org Open House
@ 1055 N. Van Ness Ave. suite C, www.gaycentralvalley.org
13 Sunday
BIG Dance Party: Big Boys In The House
@ the Red Lantern, 4618 E Belmont (559) 251-5898
14 Monday 12p
Marriage Equality USA & Gay Central Valley - Marry Me
@ Fresno County Clerk's Office, 2221 Kern St.
RSVP to [email protected], (559) 862-4559
16 Wednesday
6:30p Golden State Bears - Dinner Night
18 Friday
5p
“It's A Queer Thang” Radio Show - KFCF 88.1 FM
www.communitylinkfresno.com and www.kfcf.org
18 Friday
6p
Men's Mixer @ TBA
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18 Friday
18 Friday
Staff
Editor........................................Jeff Robinson
Assistant Editor ....................................Kirk C
Proofreader...........................Dan Waterhouse
Research Editor...................Juan Bustamante
Accounts Receivable.............................Kirk C
Advertising Coordinator...........Jeff Robinson
Calendar Coordinator........................... Kirk C
Distribution..Lorraine Wing, Kevin Caldwell
Advertising Rates
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For Each Ad
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Quarterly (Three Months)
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26 Saturday
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27 Sunday
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open and free to the community or at reduced rate for advertising for fundraising
events that include a donation/addmission charge when a writen request has been
submitted to [email protected] no less then six weeks prior to the event.
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Advertising Policy
The News Link reserves the
right to refuse any written content and graphics that are
explicitly sexual in nature.
Including logos and advertisements. No portrayal of genitalia
or real or simulated sexual
activities are appropriate for
publication in the News Link,
Pink Pages, Pride Program or
any other Community Link
publication.
We reserve the right to edit
content and ads without notification.
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Male-Cochair & CEO
Lorraine Wing
Female-Cochair
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Secretary
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Treasurer
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Gray Alliance Representatives
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David Bergant
Youth Alliance Representatives
At-Large Members of the Board of Directors:
Renee Potik,
Kay Taus,
Jerry & Ron,
Kirk,
Mark McKay,
Andrew Strambi,
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WEEKLY GLBT & FRIENDLY EVENTS IN FRESNO
* daily: Serenity Gay AA Group, Mon 7pm, Tue 7pm, Wed 8pm, Thu 6pm &
8pm, Fri 7:30pm, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, 407 E Olive (location closed as of 1/31/11)
* Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 8am-11am, 1pm-4pm: Confidential HIV testing; Tuesdays 8am-11am & Thursdays 1pm-4pm: Anonymous HIV testing @
Fresno Co. Dept. of Community Health, 1221 Fulton Mall, 559-445-3434
* every Monday 6:30pm: Meditation Classes with Renee Potik, Tai Chi Center
of Fresno, 1474 N. Van Ness Ave.
* every other Monday starting 2/21 - 10pm: The Haus of Hit @ Pure, 18+ gay
night @ Aldo's, 617 W. Belmont Ave, myspace.com/aldosnightclub, (559) 473-9362
* every Tuesday 6:30pm - Clogging Classes @ The Dance Studio of Fresno, 7491
N. Palm Bluff Ave., cagroundpounders.com, Barry (559) 259-9904
* every Tuesday evening - GLBT Support Group at a private residence, call Bill
Robinson (559) 268-4015
* every Wednesday 11am: United Student Pride @ CSUFresno, meets at
Women's Resource Center, see www.csufresno.edu/StudentOrgs/LGBSA/
* every Thursday 7:15pm Community Link's Rainbow Bowling League @ Cedar
Lanes, 3131 N. Cedar Ave, (559) 824-1417, communitylinkfresno.com
* every Friday 2p: Diversity - Fresno City College GLBT group @ SO-208
* every Friday 7p - 8:30p: LGBTQI Youth Alliance @ Big Red Church, 2131 N.
Van Ness Ave, www.communitylinkfresno.com
* GayCentralValley.org office open Wednesdays 12-6pm, Fridays 12-5pm,
Saturdays 12-6pm, Sundays 9am-12pm @1055 N. Van Ness Ave, suite C, (559) 3254429, www.gaycentralvalley.org
Corrections or event notices? E-mail: [email protected]
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5p
Trans-e-motion - Business Meeting
(559) 255-4075, www.trans-e-motion.org
6p
Imperial Dove Court - Mr., Miss, Ms. Gay Fresno Pageant
@ the North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa Ave, idcfresno.org
7pm Visalia Pride Lions Club - Valentine's Dinner & Dance
@ Holiday Inn, 9000 W Airport Dr, Visalia
(559) 732-6732, visaliapridelionsclub.org
9p
The Gaga Ball @ the Express
708 N. Blackstone Ave, www.thefresnoexpress.com
10p
The Haus of Hit @ Pure, 18+ gay night
@ Aldo's, 617 W. Belmont Ave
www.myspace.com/aldosnightclub, (559) 473-9362
6:30p Yosemite Knights - Meeting & Dinner @ Carrows
4280 N Blackstone Ave, www.kofmfresno.com
9a
@ 1584 N Van Ness Ave, (559) 268-1969
6:30p The Group In Fresno - Munch
www.tgifresno.org
9p
Imperial Dove Court - Last Friday Show
@ the Red Lantern , 4618 E Belmont, idcfresno.org
The Group In Fresno - Social
www.tgifresno.org
11a
Golden State Bears - Brunch
9p
Mariposa Azul - Divas Night
@ Los Amigos, 1752 W. Shaw Ave, losamigosmex.com
FEBRUARY
3
GCV Office Seeks
Book Donations
Chris Jarvis - GayFresno.com
Gay Central Valley is seeking
donations of LGBT themed books.
We are working to establish a small
library for our start up LGBT
Community Center, which is located
at our office at 1055 N Van Ness
Avenue, Fresno, CA 93728. Our
phone number is 559-325-4GAY.
We are also seeking donations of
annual magazine subscriptions to
LGBT publications such as the
Advocate magazine. Items can be
dropped off at our office, which is
open Wed Noon-6PM, Fri Noon5PM, Sat Noon-6PM and Sundays
9AM-Noon. There is also a large mail
slot in our front office door, through
which certain items can be dropped
24 hours a day. Please attach a note to
any such items.
If any donations need to picked up
we can do that as well. Simply call
our phone number and leave a message. Gay Central Valley is an official
501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
The following books have so far
been donated to Gay Central Valley to
help us start our LGBT Community
Center Library...
CITY OF NIGHT
by JOHN RECHY
DANCER FROM THE DANCE
by ANDREW HOLLERAN
GIOVANNI'S ROOM
by JAMES BALDWIN
RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE
by RITA MAE BROWN
A BOY'S OWN STORY
by EDMUND WHITE
THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM
IS EMPTY
by EDMUND WHITE
QUEER AND LOATHING
by DAVID B FEINBERG
ANGELS IN AMERICA
PART ONE
by TONY KUSHNER
ANGELS IN AMERICA
PART TWO
by TONY KUSHNER
STONEWALL
by MARTIN DUBERMAN
BOYS LIKE US
(GAY WRITERS SHARE THEIR
COMING OUT STORIES)
by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Expression Not Suppression
ENS is a FREE conference for
LGBTQQIA high school, junior high
school students, youth activists and
their allies who are dedicated to
defeating homophobia and transphobia and creating safe and supportive
schools for everyone. The target audience is high school & middle school
students. Beginning college students,
teachers & GSA advisors are also
welcome.
ENS will be held on Saturday,
March 26th from 12pm-9:30pm. The
location of the event is 2131 N Van
Ness Blvd, Fresno, 93704 (the proposed schedule may be changed as we
are looking at starting earlier at 10am.
To be announce later if possible)
The conference will help you
become more comfortable with who
you are, how you want to express
yourself, who you want to be, and the
world around you. The day features
workshops and speakers. After the
workshops, there is a free dinner, and
dance!
If you'd like more info or would
like to help with planning, please call
[email protected]
All interested youth should register
at www.gsanetwork.org
ENS is presented by Gay-Straight
Alliance Network in partnership with
Community Link’s Fresno GLBTQ
Youth Alliance.
Here is what you can expect:
You will hear two inspirational
keynote speakers from the Queer
Community.
Andrew McIntosh, openly Gay
Collegiate Athlete, featured in “The
Advocate” and “OUT” magazines.
Robin McGeHee Queer Rights
Activist
and
co-founder
of
GetEqual.org and of of “The
Advocate” magazine’s 2010 people of
the year.
12 Amazing workshops:
3 of which are mandatory for all
attendees:
1. A Queer Survival Guide by the
Trevor Project
2. A Safer Sex Workshop for youth
by Planned Parenthood
3. Healthy Relationships by
Community Link
Plus you can chose 3 other workshops from this list of fantastic
options:
1. How to have a kick ass GSA
2. Campaigns and Days of Actions
3. Flight for your rights
4. QueerArts
5. Qistory, Our Own Queer History
6. Coming Out - 101
7. Spiritually Queer
8. OMG I’m Gay...Fitting in
9. Getting it Together...Creating
Queer Youth Happenings
Community Link will be providing
food and drinks for a morning pickme-up, then you’ll get a brown bag
lunch, and for dinner Pizza.
Capping the day off will be a
dance, dejayed by DJ BINX of X/O
Productions.
This event is a smoke free event,
meaning that there is no smoking on
the church’s property or the neighboring area. All conference attendees are
expected to attend both the key note
speeches and attended 6 of the workshops.
This year there will be two special
work shops for adults only at the
beginning of the conference. One for
academic advisors, teachers and
school administrators on how to be a
supportive resource for LGBTQQIA
students put on by SAFE. The second
special work shop will be for parents
and families who are looking at ways
to be more supportive of their children and family members hosted by
PFLAG. Call 486-3464 for info.
NEW EVENTS FOR THE NEW YEAR
AT THE RED LANTERN
EVERY MONDAY IS UNDERWEAR NIGHT
$1.00 DRAFT
FOR PARTICIPANTS
DANCE WITH DJ KUDRO EVERY TUESDAY
$2.00 DRAFT
KARAOKE IS NOW EVERY WEDNESDAY
AND SUNDAY
$1.75 DRAFT
______________________________
SUPER BOWL PARTY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 3:00 PM
$1.75 DRAFT
LOTS OF FOOD AND FUN
Sunday, February 13
NewsLink
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4
BIG
!!!!!!!
A Dance Party With Heart
"Big Boys In the House"
with DJ Jimmy Mack
I am Empress Diva Licious of the
Imperial Dove Court and I wanted to
take a minute to personally Invite you
out to our Annual 3M Pageant
(Mr,Ms, & Miss Gay Fresno Pageant).
This Year's Festivities will be taking
place on Saturday February 19th at the
North Tower Circle. The Doors will
be at 6pm with the pageant starting at
7pm. The Ticket price for this evening
will be $10 in advance and $15 at the
door tickets are available at the North
Tower Circle and The Red Lantern or
you may contact me @ (559) 9602716 or Regent Empress Margo Starr
@ (559) 905-6674. We would love to
see you at the event!
Sincerely,
The Jaded Dove Scorching
Empress From The Flames of Hell
H.M.I.M. Empress XXXV of
Fresno, Ca
Diva Licious of Stolengoodz
An Invitation
from the IDC
Calling all Central Valley Gay
Straight Alliance's! You are invited to
a Valentine's Mixer brought to you by
the Clovis North High School G.S.A!
The Valentine's Mixer will be held at
the Downtown Community Arts
Collective on February 12, 2011 from
6pm-9pm. Help us bring in the new
year with some G.S.A. Pride! This
mixer will provide a chance for
Central Valley teens to interact with
one another during the season of love!
The night will consist of food,
drinks and music all with a splash of a
Valentine's theme. G.S.A members
across the California Central Valley
will be asked to wear a name tag when
they arrive to the event. Your name tag
will display what G.S.A campus you
are from, as well as if you hold a
G.S.A Officer position. If you are
willing to partake in even more fun,
put your relationship status and your
sexual orientation in hopes that when
the night ends you will have someone
special to spend the true Valentine's
Day with! If you are Single and ready
to mingle, Clovis North G.S.A has got
you covered! Red roses will be available for purchase throughout the night
to give to that special someone that
has caught your eye! Taken but still
looking for a good time? No worries!
Bring your special someone to have a
night out! The fun will begin right
Talent Show
The 10th Annual Talent Show, once
again directed by Fred Bologna!
Tuesday, January 25th at Roger
Rocka's Dinner Theatre, 1226 N.
Wishon Ave., Fresno, CA.
Show & Dinner $35 (doors open
5:30pm). Show only $20 (doors open
7:15pm).
Tickets available via PayPal at
www.ccafresno.org
Out On A Clef concert
Out On A Clef is a San Francisco
Bay Area lesbian vocal quartet that
has been entertaining Northern
California audiences since 1997 with
a variety of styles including swing,
barbershop, and jazz. Savvy baby
boomers with attitude, they are known
for a blend of polished, tight harmonies performed in a unique and
whimsical way. They often "de-range"
their original and standard tunes, with
humorous and twisted lyrics that poke
fun at convention and at themselves,
as well as conveying socially progressive messages. The group has a commitment to contribute to such community efforts as raising funds for AIDS
services, assisting women with cancer, and in demonstrating validation
and pride for people of all sexual identities.
Continued on page 8
NewsLink
GSA Valentine Mixer
when you walk through the door!
If the party scene is not for you, slip
into the lounge area where you can
chat with G.S.A. members from
across the Valley. Socializing and networking with other individuals that
attend the event will provide a new
opportunity to hear ideas to bring back
to their G.S.A as well as making new
friends.
Snacks and drinks will be provided
to everyone who attends. There will
be a live DJ playing your requests for
the night from XO Productions, as
well as a photo booth to take some fun
pictures! All proceeds that the Clovis
North G.S.A raises from this event
will be going towards a fund to create
an LGBT community center!
*** $5 minimum donation for
entry! Proceeds will go towards funding a LGBT Community Center here
in the Central Valley!***
Volunteers and donations are needed to help make this a great event!
Four to five volunteers are needed in
the following areas.: set up before the
event and cleanup after the event,
supervision volunteers to ensure the
event is maintained at a controlled
level, as well as security volunteers to
ensure that students are escorted to
their vehicles safely after the event is
over. Please contact Justin Kamimoto
via
email
at
[email protected] for all
donations inquiries and volunteer
interests.
The Clovis North Gay Straight
Alliance hopes to see you and your
G.S.A at the Valentine's Mixer in
February! Details for this event are
also available on our Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/clovisnorthgsa
located under events.Talent Show
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Bear With Us!
by Bill Bassett
The Golden State Bears have finished another year that saw many
changes. The club experienced sadness with the passing of two cherished
Members, Tom H, and Allan G.
Earlier in the year, The Den's fire
forced the club to find another location for the monthly busts. The
Golden State Bears would like to
thank The Express's management for
allowing us to use their facilities.
Finally, during the Christmas Party,
the club members also elected the new
Board for 2011. Bryce retains presidency, Bill Bassett is now Secretary,
Dan Waterhouse - Treasurer, Sammy
Pace - Membership Chair, and Bill
Robinson is Events Coordinator. With
the exception of the “newcomer” Dan,
all the other members were at one time
the club's presidents!
The Bears also voted on their
favorite charities, and the Board determined the amounts of the charitable
contributions. They are: $1,000 to
Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade &
Festival, $500 to Oral Cancer,
Foundation, $366 to Community Food
Bank. $200 was also given to our
member Paul Moore to help with
expenses resulting from the Den's fire.
The club thanks Paul & The Den for
all of the support over the years! With
the year's earlier donations of $200 to
Kampout Fresno and $102 to
Community Link's Bowlathon, the
Golden State Bears have donated a
total of $2,368 in the year 2010!
In addition, Santa Bear's canned
food drive netted 565 non-perishable
food items, which were donated to the
Living Room's food pantry.
What's next for the club?
The Bears will be hosting
February's Beverage Bear Party at The
Express (708 N. Blackstone Ave.)
with every lover's theme, “Pre-V.D”.
Come on down on Saturday February
12th from 8:00pm to midnight, and
get your $3 “Anti-V.D Shots”... Jell-O
that is! Other activities will be a
Handmade Valentine Card, to the
Bears, contest. Create a handmade
card with the “Pre-V.D” theme at
home or during the Party, and possibly
win a prize!
There's a $5 cover for the bust and
most drinks will be half-off. Look for
us in either the Starzz Lounge or the
Bourbon Street rooms!
After that, many of our members
will go to the International Bear
Rendezvous in San Francisco
(February 17 - 21). It's not too late to
register at www.bearrendezvous.com
NewsLink
Photos by Dan Waterhouse and Kirk
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2011 IBR
the Last Ever
Due to the persistent economic
downturn and the ever-increasing cost
of producing an event the size of
International Bear Rendezvous, the
Board of Directors of the Bears of San
Francisco has made the difficult decision that the upcoming IBR 17 "Close Encounters of the Bear Kind,"
will be the last International Bear
Rendezvous. IBR 17 will take place
over Presidents Day Weekend,
February 17-21, 2011 at the Parc 55
Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco.
Since this will be the final
Rendezvous, we are going all out:
There will be four hosted dances at the
host hotel, free beer at selected events
for those staying at the hotel, and free
beverages in the Bear Den /
Hospitality Suite for all registered
attendees. Saturday's Club Day, at
which clubs from around the world
can promote their clubs and events, is
followed by the President's Reception
with Bloody Marys and Mimosas. An
excellent buffet dinner and the 20th
and
final
International
Bear
Competition, followed by the weekend's fourth dance party, will round
out IBR on Sunday, February 20.
The decision to end International
Bear Rendezvous will not affect
BOSF's regular schedule of monthly
fundraisers and other activities.
The board is committed to the same
4-F's that have been the hallmark of
BOSF's entire 17-year history: Fun,
Fur, Fellowship, and Fundraising.
Further information is available
online at www.bearrendezvous.com.
... well, almost. Congratulations to
Two Chopsticks, Two Enchiladas
(Sunny, Les, Daniel, Carlos) on winning the first half of the season of
Community Link's 4th edition of Fall
/ Winter Rainbow Bowling League.
Now the standings have been reset
and all 8 teams have an equal shot at
winning the second half of the season.
The winners of the two halves will
then meet in the Championship Game.
Of course, if Chopsticks win that second half as well, they will be the
Champions! The season will end on
March 17th, 2011.
But the league is not just about
games, it's also about fun: just before
Christmas, three frozen turkeys were
awarded to the lucky players who
scored a turkey (3 strikes in a row)
that night. And fun happens outside
the bowling alley: it's now almost a
tradition to head to the Million
Elephant Bar following the games for
a late-night meal, or to Yosemite Falls
Cafe on Shaw & Blackstone for dinner and karaoke (or “crappyoke”, as
President Rich Howard puts it). Also,
nearly every week there's been a
Movie Night at River Park's theaters,
or a social night at someone's house
such as poker (thanks, Kirk P.!) or
New Year's Eve party (thanks, Brian
& Abel!).
Even if you don't bowl, join us and
45 regulars and substitutes at Cedar
Ethnic Escapades
by Kevin Caldwell & Kirk, NewsLink
... this month we're going to
Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Argentina!
The Golden State Bears visited one
of club's favorite Fresno restaurants in
November - Lucy's Lair. This time,
though, we stopped there for
Ethiopian brunch! About a dozen of
our members were treated to a
scrumptious buffet (yes, all you can
eat!) consisting on traditional
American breakfast items as well as
meat & vegetarian Ethiopian dishes.
The selection included: plain
Standings for the first half of the
season:
1.
Two
Chopsticks,
Two
Enchiladas 8pts (28-16)
2. Bamms (Abel, Brian, Marco,
Marcos) 7pts (27-17)
3. Splits or Swallows (Richard,
Ramiro, Mike, Terry) 6pts (25.5-18.5)
4. The Contenders (Rob, Roy, John,
Joey) 5pts (24.5-19.5)
5. Friant Pharmacy (Rich, Paul,
Angel, Harold) 4pts (23-21)
6. Barry & Da Beavers (Barry,
Judy, Sharon, Michelle) 3pts (19-25)
7. Pinheads (Bill, Kerry, Kirk P.,
Jeff) 2pts (17-27)
8. Hardwoods (Doug, Eric, Lewis,
Stella) 1pt (12-32)
The top performers in the first half
were (team / male / female):
High Game Scratch - Chopsticks
683, Marcos 256, Angel 207.
High Game with Handicap Chopsticks 683, Marcos 281, Angel
261,
High Series Scratch - Chopsticks
1915, Les 579, Angel 486.
High Series with Handicap Chopsticks 1915, Barry 699, Angel
645.
Average game - Sunny 175, Angel
145.
Two games have been played
already in the second half of the season, and the standings currently are:
Contenders 7-1, Friant 5-3,
Bamms, Barry, Splits, Pinheads 4-4,
Chopsticks 3-5, Hardwoods 1-7.
Any questions? Call Rich Howard
at (559) 824-1417 or visit www.communitylinkfresno.com and click on
Bowling!
scrambled eggs; scrambled eggs with
sauteed bell peppers, onions and
spices; beef (Siga Tibs - chunks of
meat sauteed with garlic, rosemary
and onions), lamb (Yebeg Wot chunks of meat in spicy berber sauce),
chicken (in a medium-hot sauce with
bell peppers, made especially for
brunch, this sauce is not on their regular menu). There were also several
vegetarian dishes: zucchini wot (spicy
sauce), Misir Kik Wot (spicy red
lentils with herbs), Kik Alitcha (yellow split peas in mild sauce), Tekil
Gomen (boiled cabbage and potatoes)
and Fosolia (carrots and green beans).
We were also offered a neverending
supply of injera (Ethiopian bread) and
pancakes. The verdict was unanimous: the bears were fed, happy and
vowed to return. Many times over. At
only $10.95 the price is lower than
most Fresno-area brunch buffets and
the food is definitely not run-of-themill!
Sunday brunch is served 11am2pm. Lucys Lair is located at 10063
N. Maple Ave. (between Copper and
Shepherd). Phone number is (559)
433-9775. Restaurant is also open for
lunch Tuesday - Friday, and for dinner
7 days a week.
Then, while the club bears were in
hibernation, Kevin, Bryce, Kirk and
Jeff (“Sparky”) took a trip to East Bay
for New Year's Eve weekend. While
there, they enjoyed the best Afghani
dinner yet, and a pretty good
Argentinian lunch.
It was New Year's Day and Salang
Pass restaurant in Fremont was halffull for dinner service. We wasted no
time ordering our favorite appetizer:
Bolani (a quesadilla-like grill-seared
crepe, stuffed with potatoes and leek),
which came with a side of yoghurt for
dipping. Adventurously, we also tried
and enjoyed Borani Badenjan,
smoothly sauteed eggplant with tomatoes and garlic, topped with yoghurt
sauce (yoghurt is used a LOT to cool
down the spiciness of a dish).
Then the salads arrived: lettuce,red
onions, tomato, cucumber, cilantro
and mint in oil and vinegar dressing.
Their muted flavour was a nice contrast to the Afghani bread, which we
dipped in medium-hot cilantro & mint
as well as spicy tomato chutneys.
Next was the traditional Aush soup,
a broth with noodles, ground beef,
split peas and yoghurt. The soup is
very fresh (a slice of lemon is served
on the side) and robust, but at the
same time hearty and very much
“comfort food”.
NewsLink
We Are The Champions...
by Kirk, NewsLink
Lanes every Thursday at 7:15pm and
make some new friends!
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As Chris Sees It!
Opinion Does Not
Equal Bullying
Chris Jarvis - GayFresno.com
Why oh why do we have to hear
from so many in the LGBT community who aren't even close to understanding any of the issues? Okay, let's
get this straight, people. I know the
general public always jumps on the
current trendy terms and applies it to
everything. That's common. But you'd
think that the LGBT Community
would be a little more politically
astute.
"Bullying" is the term I'm referring
to. A whole parade of thin skinned and
unthinking LGBT citizens are now
taking this very serious term (as it
applies to children and teens in
school) and using it to condemn normal criticism.
The latest I found was this outrageous quote from Reichen Lehmkuhl,
one of the stars of the ludicrous and
brain killing TV series, "The A List",
a show revolving around a bunch of
empty headed, self absorbed gay men
who couldn't find their way out of a
simple maze with a bottle of poppers
on a chair at the exit. By the way, on
"The A List" the stars regularly criticized and condemned other people for
Out on a Clef
NewsLink
Continued from page 5
Performance venues have included
the Hopland Women's Music Festival,
Theatre Rhinoceros, Herbst Theatre
in San Francisco, Josie's Cabaret in
San Francisco, L/G/B/T Pride
Celebrations throughout the Bay
Area, The Montclair Women's
Cultural Arts Club, Mama Bears,
Harvey's in the Castro, Rose Street
House of Music, The Bishop's Ranch
Retreat Center in Healdsberg, the
Northern California Women's Choral
Invitational in Napa, University campuses, the San Francisco Women's
Building, numerous fund raisers. Out
On A Clef has produced and performed in cancer benefit concerts,
and has been featured several times
on "Gayble TV." They also entertain
at house concerts, weddings, and celebrations throughout the Bay Area.
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Opening act: singer / songwriter
Andre dos Santos Morgan
Saturday, February 5th at 7:30pm
At the North Tower Circle, 2777 N
Maroa Ave., Fresno, CA
Price: $15 advance - $20 at the
door
Doors open at 6:30pm - Show at
7:30pm
www.ccafresno.org
being "fatties" and other such delicate
terms. Lehmkuhl is responding to an
editor, writing in New York's NEXT
MAGAZINE,
who
said
that
Lehmkuhl and his boyfriend were
"vapid queens".
Lehmkuhl responded...
“I don't appreciate your bullying
words. You can save your 'vapid
queens' comment for, well, no one. I
can't even imagine speaking this way
about other human beings. That you
would reduce my existence to someone who is a 'vapid queen' says more
about what you don't know about me,
along with the kind of person you
must be. Is this seriously how a 'senior
editor' at a magazine talks about people?”
Recently on one of my own
Facebook postings someone went
after me for pointing out the overwhelming evidence not that someone
else was gay (well known) or mean
(well known) but was an idiot (more
than well known). She labeled it as
"bullying". No, it was opinion, totally
honest. It wasn't praise, but it wasn't
bullying.
I'm sick to death of thin skinned,
pie in the sky idealists who want to
ban the word "fag" without paying
attention to any of the other million or
so offensive words out there, or people who label the civil rights battle for
marriage as a battle for "love". At
some point in recent years, during the
LGBT battle for civil rights, a whole
new hybrid of activists popped up.
Those who say we should "respect"
all opinions and all work together in
harmony. Are you serious? Why do
we criticize those who get it wrong?
So we can weed out the crop. Do we
want to turn into a mass of passionless
lumps of harmony, or do we want to
get rid of those who are abusing their
positions of voice to mutate a message
until it's meaningless? There are
things to get angry about, and there
are a whole lot of things to NOT get
angry about. Why can't we tell the difference anymore? Censorship leads to
blindness.
In Canada, the broadcast standards
council has ruled that Dire Straits'
1985 hit "Money for Nothing" cannot
be played on the radio unless it is
played only as a censored version,
leaving out the word "faggot". This
decision was reached after a single
caller to a radio station complained
about the word. Does it matter that the
word was used by Dire Straits in a sarcastic manner, not as a slur?
The council said it realized Dire
Straits used the word sarcastically
when the best-selling "Brothers in
Arms" album was released in 1985,
but said it was inappropriate.
This comes after the ludicrous outrage displayed by GLAAD late last
year after the pro-LGBT series GLEE
used the word tranny in an episode
featuring a production of the Rocky
Horror Picture Show. This was after a
complaint from GLAAD about the
word faggot being used in the world
of entertainment as well a complaint
about the movie THE DILEMMA
using the term "that's so gay". Their
articles, by the way, never printed out
the actual offensive words. How do
we weight the LGBT community's
outrage over the censorship of art, catapulted to the public forum in the late
1980's by the controversial censoring
of the Mapplethorpe exhibit, and still
continuing all over the country today?
Is it that we can't have our stuff censored but we're happy to censor other
forms of entertainment and speech,
even when it doesn't line up with the
valid outrage of the day? I'm tired of
those who work to censor writing and
speech everywhere by capitalizing
and trivializing the very real and
important issue of bullying as it per-
tains to children and teens.
Another incident recently arose in
our own community over one person's
review of Club Legends, and more
particularly, the Cover Girls Drag
Show. The review was a harmless, critique of the club itself and went on to
cover the Sunday show. It was edgy,
humorous and sarcastic, criticizing
the show and performers for what he
felt was a lackluster performance.
This person was not attacking personally. You either know the words to the
song or you don't. You either know
how to put an outfit together or not.
You either do your best to put on a
creative, entertaining show, or you
just walk out on stage and move your
mouth. These were his points. Others
may disagree. I didn't see the show,
but these are valid points for any
show. Not once did I hear anyone
argue anything specifically, just that it
was negative. To step on a stage without a thick skin seems a tad self
destructive.
People are judged more harshly on
television virtually every day of the
week. Have you ever read a negative
movie reviews? Opinion pieces in the
paper? Joan Rivers commenting on
fashion disasters? Any right wing
radio commentator? Can anyone say
SIMON COWELL? The reaction was
way over the top. The performers
claimed, you guessed it...bullying.
Another example of how the LGBT
community is now trying to silence
even opinions on entertainment as
bullying.
You don't strengthen the campaign
against the cruel bullying of children
who then kill themselves by pretending that honest criticism of adults,
regardless of whether it's sarcastic and
biting and cynical, is the same. In fact,
you weaken everything we fight for.
The Senate voted 65-31 on to end
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, defeating a 17year policy of banning gay and lesbian
service members from serving openly
in the military. Six Republicans initially crossed the aisle to vote against
the policy: Susan Collins (R-Maine),
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark
Kirk (R-Ill.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.),
Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and
George Voinovich (R-Ohio).
The Senate vote is a vindication of
Obama's decision to push for congressional repeal as opposed to unilateral
executive action, though activists note
he could have done both.
In the first procedural vote on
Saturday morning, 63 senators voted
in favor of the bill and 33 against. In
the final passage, Sens. John Ensign
(R-Nev.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
switched their vote to "aye," despite
initially voting against moving forward with the bill.
"The important thing today is that
63 senators were on the right side of
history," Joe Solmonese, president of
the Human Rights Campaign, told
HuffPost after the first vote, adding he
sees the bill as a "stepping stone to
further advances for the gay and lesbian community."
Gay-rights activists owe a small
debt to their Latino brethren, as the
DREAM Act, which the House and
Senate have been considering at the
same time, showed the way forward
for repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Roughly a week before a crucial cloture vote failed, said one top aide,
Democratic leadership staff saw that
the same legislative tactic could be
used to bring a standalone version of
the repeal bill to the Senate floor as
was currently being used to bring
DREAM up. For needlessly complex
reasons, a bill that comes to the Senate
as a "message from the House" faces
fewer obstacles to a floor vote than
one that originates in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) proposed to House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that the
House consider moving first. Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) had the
same idea.
"Senator Lieberman and Senator
Collins determined that they would
introduce a bill," Hoyer told HuffPost
earlier this week. "I called and talked
to a number of people. I then called
Senator Lieberman and said 'Joe, my
intent will be to talk to Congressman
Murphy' -- who's the sponsor of the
amendment that was adopted in the
defense bill -- 'and put this in as a free
standing bill, because we can probably send it over to you more quickly
than you can send to us.' And he
agreed and we introduced exactly the
same bill that they have in the
Senate."
The bill passed in the House 250175 on Dec. 16.
During debate before the cloture
vote, Republicans ran through the
usual list of arguments against repealing DADT, claiming it would hurt unit
cohesion and that troops had not been
given an adequate chance to voice
The President Signs Repeal
of "Don't Ask Don't Tell":
"Out of Many, We Are One
The White House Blog
With his signature today, the
President put in motion the end of a
policy that has hurt our military as a
whole, that has forced thousands of
those who serve to do so under a cloud
of anxiety and isolation, and that has
stood as a symbol of the barriers to
unity and equality in our country. As
the President put it, "For we are not a
nation that says, 'don't ask, don't tell.'
We are a nation that says, 'Out of
many, we are one.'"
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - one of
many to receive a standing ovation
during the signing ceremony - has
express complete confidence that
those who serve in our military will
easily adapt, quoting one service
member who contributed to the
Pentagon's exhaustive study:
As one special operations warfighter said during the Pentagon's review - this was one of my favorites -- it
echoes the experience of Lloyd
Corwin decades earlier: “We have a
gay guy in the unit. He's big, he's
mean, he kills lots of bad guys.”
(Laughter.) “No one cared that he was
gay.” (Laughter.) And I think that
sums up perfectly the situation.
(Applause.)
Fresno gay-rights activist at
White House ceremony
By Tracy Correa / The Fresno Bee
Fresno gay-rights activist Robin
McGehee is going back to the White
House -- but this time as an invited
guest.
McGehee was invited to watch
President Barack Obama today sign a
bill repealing the "don't ask, don't tell"
policy that prevents gays from serving
openly in the military.
She received the invitation Monday
and was on a plane Tuesday morning,
said GetEQUAL spokesman Brad
Luna. GetEQUAL is a gay-rights
organization
co-founded
by
McGehee.
In a brief telephone interview,
McGehee said the repeal of "don't ask,
don't tell" is on par with the integration of blacks and whites in the military in the late 1940s. And she called
it a watershed moment in moving
toward marriage rights for gays and
lesbians. She added: "Being in that
space [on Wednesday] is going to be
hugely humbling."
McGehee wrote on her Facebook
page Tuesday that she was taking her
young son Sebastian along to witness
the historic signing.
"I am only going to the DADT
repeal signing to show Sebastian that
standing up for what you believe in
matters. The time I was away from
him and his sister will hopefully lead
to a more equal world," she wrote on
Facebook.
McGehee has been involved in
numerous gay-rights causes and
helped organize "Meet in the Middle
for Equality" in Fresno.
The statewide rally to protest the
passage of Prop. 8 -- California's ban
on same-sex marriage -- was held in
May 2009 and drew thousands,
including celebrities.
She also helped organize the
National Equality March in October
2009 in Washington, D.C. The march
led her to co-found GetEQUAL with
Kip Williams in March.
She has been a vocal supporter of
ending the 17-year-old policy that
bars uncloseted gays from serving in
the military.
McGehee and Lt. Dan Choi were
arrested after they chained themselves
to the White House fence to protest
the ban. Choi also is expected to
attend the signing.
The White House invited a number
of people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community,
including those who served in the military under the policy as well as those
who advocated for its repeal, Luna
said.
Friends of McGehee's wrote of
their pride at having her attend the
signing and credited her with keeping
up the pressure for repeal of the policy.
"Tomorrow when you stand at the
White House with President Obama,
you are representing all of us," read
one of the posts.
Ryan Grim contributed reportin
made the case consistently on the
effect this policy has had on thousands
of our troops, and the President quoted him saying “Our people sacrifice a
lot for their country, including their
lives. None of them should have to
sacrifice their integrity as well.” The
President added:
I want to express my gratitude to
the men and women in this room who
have worn the uniform of the United
States Armed Services. (Applause.) I
want to thank all the patriots who are
here today, all of them who were
forced to hang up their uniforms as a
result of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” -- but
who never stopped fighting for this
country, and who rallied and who
marched and fought for change. I
want to thank everyone here who
stood with them in that fight.
The entire event was profound, and
the President's remarks are well worth
reading in full, but perhaps the most
moving part of the President's remarks
was a story he opened with:
You know, I am just overwhelmed.
This is a very good day. (Applause.)
And I want to thank all of you, especially the people on this stage, but
each and every one of you who have
been working so hard on this, members of my staff who worked so hard
on this. I couldn't be prouder.
Sixty-six years ago, in the dense,
snow-covered forests of Western
Europe, Allied Forces were beating
back a massive assault in what would
become known as the Battle of the
Bulge. And in the final days of fighting, a regiment in the 80th Division of
Patton's Third Army came under fire.
The men were traveling along a narrow trail. They were exposed and
they were vulnerable. Hundreds of
soldiers were cut down by the enemy.
And during the firefight, a private
named Lloyd Corwin tumbled 40 feet
down the deep side of a ravine. And
dazed and trapped, he was as good as
dead. But one soldier, a friend, turned
back. And with shells landing around
him, amid smoke and chaos and the
screams of wounded men, this soldier,
this friend, scaled down the icy slope,
risking his own life to bring Private
Corwin to safer ground.
For the rest of his years, Lloyd
credited this soldier, this friend,
named Andy Lee, with saving his life,
knowing he would never have made it
out alone. It was a full four decades
after the war, when the two friends
reunited in their golden years, that
Lloyd learned that the man who saved
his life, his friend Andy, was gay. He
had no idea. And he didn't much care.
Lloyd knew what mattered. He knew
what had kept him alive; what made it
possible for him to come home and
start a family and live the rest of his
life. It was his friend.
And Lloyd's son is with us today.
And he knew that valor and sacrifice
are no more limited by sexual orientation than they are by race or by gender
or by religion or by creed; that what
made it possible for him to survive the
battlefields of Europe is the reason
that we are here today. (Applause.)
That's the reason we are here today.
(Applause.)
The President stressed for the sake
of those in uniform now that he, the
Defense Secretary and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs still need to certify
that the military has made any needed
preparations for the transition before
repeal goes into effect, but also gave
this assurance: “I have spoken to
every one of the service chiefs and
they are all committed to implementing this change swiftly and efficiently.
We are not going to be dragging our
feet to get this done.” He went on to
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Repeal Passes Senate 65-31
their opinions on the bill. A survey on
ending DADT was sent to 400,000
service members, at least 100,000 of
whom responded. Of those who
responded, 70 percent said they would
"work together to get the job done" if
there was a gay service member in
their unit -- and 69 percent said they
know or suspect there is a gay service
member serving with them already.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said
the reason survey results were mostly
positive because troops already
thought the repeal was "a done deal"
because politicians had said they
planned to repeal it. Repealing DADT
would harm recruitment and retention,
he said. "I was shocked at how well
this has worked for a long period of
time," Inhofe said. "We have a saying
in Oklahoma, 'if it ain't broke, don't
fix it.' Well, this isn't broke, it's working very well."
Republican senators said their
opposition was not related to homophobia or lack of appreciation for
those who have served or are serving
in the military. "This has nothing to do
with the gays and lesbians who have
given valuable service to our military," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (RGa.). "That's a given."
Still, they rejected the idea that the
military could adjust seamlessly to a
more open policy. "Some people will
say this is about civil rights and its
time has come. The Marine Corps
doesn't have that view," Graham said.
"This is about effectiveness on the
battle field, not about civil rights."
In the end, though, support for a
repeal won out. A number of
Democrats made impassioned appeals
for the bill in the debate. "I can't think
of something more egregious to our
fabric, to our military," said Kirsten
Gillibrand (D-N.Y). "If you care
about national security, if you care
about military readiness, you will vote
against this corrosive policy."
President Barack Obama applauded
the Senate for moving toward repeal.
"By ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' no
longer will our nation be denied the
service of thousands of patriotic
Americans forced to leave the military, despite years of exemplary performance, because they happen to be
gay," he said in a statement. "And no
longer will many thousands more be
asked to live a lie in order to serve the
country they love."
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ENDA's Absence
by Chris Geidner
The employment bill started
strong, but was barely breathing at the
close of the 111th Congress
It wasn't supposed to be like this
for
the
Employment
NonDiscrimination Act.
As the members of Congress put in
place the final priorities for the lameduck session of the 111th Congress,
nary a word has been heard about the
bill - the longest-standing piece of
legislation, in one form or another,
sought by LGBT advocates.
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (DWisc.)''It's dead for now,'' the bill's
blunt House sponsor, Rep. Barney
Frank (D-Mass.), said on Dec. 14.
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And things had started so well.
The bill had a hearing in the House
Education and Labor Committee,
with supportive testimony from the
Obama
administration.
Then,
Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.)
slated ENDA for a mark-up in the
House Education and Labor
Committee in November 2009.
But Miller canceled the mark-up
and that was, more or less, the last
that was heard of the bill, which
would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for most
employers with 15 or more employ-
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Soon enough, ''Don't Ask, Don't
Tell'' moved to the fore - both in
Congress and in the public's consciousness. By January of this year, it
appeared already that the employment
measure - which had, albeit without
the protection for gender-identity discrimination, been passed previously
by the House and come within a vote
of passing in the Senate - had taken a
back seat to ending the 1993 law banning openly gay or lesbian military
service.
Even the spokesman for House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
acknowledged this week, ''The longagreed-upon order was hate crimes;
ENDA; 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'''
But, speaking with Metro Weekly,
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill
said, ''We then went into health care,
and obviously that took much longer
than anticipated.''
As Frank acknowledged, ''One of
the things that delayed [ENDA] was
the health bill - because it was in the
same committee.''
Then, Hammill said, ''There were
issues with the motion to recommit.''
Explaining the ''issues,'' he said,
''Everyone thought we had the votes
on the underlying measure, but it
depended on what language the GOP
[brought up] on the motion to recommit.
''Many felt it would be a troublesome sign to take it to the floor and
not to be able to overcome the motion
to recommit.''
Frank expanded upon that, adding
some specificity to the fears, saying,
''What they were worried about was a
motion to recommit, like saying that
an elementary school teacher can't
transition in the middle of the year.''
But, as Rep. Tammy Baldwin (DWisc.) explained, ''[O]ur vote counts for two sessions in a row - we didn't
reach the same conclusion [as the
House Democratic leadership] about
the confidence in, not so much passage, but being able to defeat a
motion to recommit.''
A House Democratic leadership
aide, who asked not to be named to
present an open assessment of the
whip process, criticized the count of
members or the advocacy organizations, saying, ''You'd have the whip
check it or the speaker check it, and it
wasn't there. At the end of the day,
there were serious problems with the
motion to recommit. People who they
had on the list, people who signed on
as co-sponsors because they never
thought it would come to the floor….
The 'yes' was not there.''
Baldwin said, however, ''I don't
question the accuracy of the information I have. I also think there's a reason why there wasn't a complete
match-up.''
To explain, she said, ''The conversation that individual has with the
leadership whip team may not end up
with his revealing how he's going to
vote. He may simply say, 'I'm asking
you, as leaders, don't bring this up.
Don't make me take this vote. You're
the ones who decide.'''
But, when she or other members
press them for how they would vote,
she said, they get an answer, and she
had a good deal of confidence in the
ability to defeat a motion to recommit
related to the gender-identity protections.
Frank was not as sure, saying, ''I'm
not confident how it would have
turned out. I think people in the community underestimate the opposition.''
He added that, without the genderidentity provisions, ''We clearly have
the votes for that.''
Baldwin concluded, though, ''I
certainly articulated, both sessions,
that I felt we should move forward. I
know others shared that.'' Frank,
despite his reservations, agreed. ''I
wanted to go to the floor,'' he said. ''I
agreed with Tammy.''
Hammill disputed that characterization as being antagonistic to the
speaker's position, saying, ''Everyone
wanted to go forward. I don't think I
disagree with that at all.''
But, he added, ''As you well know,
and she's said this a number of times,
moving on two priorities at the same
time would be problematic and could
endanger the outcome of both.''
The National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force's executive director, Rea
Carey, fought back against that
premise.
''They are smart enough to walk
and chew gum at the same time,'' she
said. ''These two bills have been in
play for years, and there are other
examples of Congress taking up two
similar bills at the same time.''
As to that, though, Hammill said,
''There was a decision made with
some of the groups - some of them
wanted to move forward with 'Don't
Ask, Don't Tell.'''
National Center for Transgender
Equality Executive Director Mara
Keisling said that, if such a decision
was made, that was unacceptable.
''The problem,'' she said, ''is that they
were signaled that it was okay to pick
one over the other.''
Outside of DADT-specific organizations, neither the Human Rights
Campaign nor the Task Force
acknowledged pushing DADT repeal
in front of ENDA.
HRC spokesman Fred Sainz said,
''I can tell you that HRC was not that
group. Our position was always that
both should proceed.'' Asked whether
HRC officials had, in a lesser way,
acknowledged that the LGBT community would approve of DADT
repeal being prioritized over ENDA,
Sainz said, ''No choice was ever made
between two important priorities.
There was a path forward, tied to a
process, with DADT repeal.''
Rep.
Barney
Frank
(DMass.)Carey said, ''The Task Force
did not express, to any member of
Congress in any way, that 'Don't Ask,
Don't Tell' should move forward at the
expense of ENDA.'' She added that it
is the ''responsibility'' of LGBT organizational leaders is to ''push … to
make sure that the needs of LGBT
people are tended to'' - in multiple
areas at the same time.
Further, said Carey, regarding the
political
strategies
employed,
''Neither has been enacted. That's the
real problem.''
As to the specter of a lame-duck
vote on ENDA, which had been floated as a possibility throughout the
summer and fall, Baldwin said, ''If I
were to give you my best opinion on
this, [chances of a lame-duck ENDA
vote] disappeared when it became
clear that if we had any chance of
repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' that
that would happen in the lame duck.''
Carey added, however, ''We all
appear to be hindered by the reticence
of the speaker's office to move forward on an inclusive ENDA.''
Keisling was more specific.
''It had to do with there being staff
members in leadership who were
afraid of the trans part,'' she said.
''And leadership stalled on it. They
stalled and they stalled.''
Other LGBT advocates concurred,
with different advocates pointing to
varying members of the Democratic
leadership team as the individuals
most responsible for holding back the
bill from a vote. All, though,
acknowledged that the motion to
recommit was the main concern and
that, because of that, Pelosi was
unwilling to bring the bill to a vote.
Hammill, however, also noted
another major concern for the speaker's office, saying, ''Possibly we could
get it out of the House, but I don't
think anyone sees a path in the
Senate.''
HRC's Sainz and others acknowledged that the lack of a path for
ENDA's passage in the Senate was a
major obstacle to getting movement
in the House.
New Hospital Visitation
Regulations for LGBT
Families Go into Effect
Tragedy Leads to New Protections
for LGBT Families
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 federal regulations regarding patients'
hospital visitation rights will go into
effect. These new regulations require
all hospitals participating in Medicaid
and Medicare programs - virtually
every hospital in the country - to permit patients to designate visitors of
their choosing and prohibit discrimination in visitation based on a number
of factors, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
Moved by the tragic story of an
LGBT family - Janice Langbehn, Lisa
Pond and their children - who were
kept apart as Lisa lay dying in a
Miami hospital, President Obama
issued a presidential memorandum in
April 2010 directing the Department
of Health and Human Services to
develop regulations protecting hospital visitation rights. HRC has prepared
a Hospital Visitation Guide.
“LGBT people experience discrimination in many aspects of their lives,
but it is perhaps at its worst during
times of crisis,” said HRC President
Joe Solmonese. “We thank President
Obama and HHS Secretary Sebelius
for recognizing the hardships LGBT
people face and taking this important
step toward ensuring that no one will
be turned away from a partner's hospital bedside again.”
In addition to working with the
Obama administration on the hospital
visitation issue, HRC administers the
Healthcare Equality Index, an annual
survey of healthcare policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender patients and their
families. For more information about
the HEI, as well as resources for hospitals and LGBT patients, go to
www.hrc.org/hei.
Gay intern credited with
saving Giffords' life
Gay,
Lesbian,
Bisexual
and
Transgender Issues. “She's been a
great ally to the LGBT community,”
Hernandez said of Giffords during the
brief interview across a bad connection.
According to the Arizona Republic,
Hernandez was standing about 30 feet
from Giffords during the “Congress
on Your Corner” event outside a
Safeway store near Tucson. When the
gunshots began, Hernandez ran
toward them and began checking the
pulses of people who'd been hit. When
Hernandez got to Giffords, he used his
hand to apply pressure to the entry
wound on her forehead. He pulled her
into his lap and held her upright so she
wouldn't choke on her blood.
Daniel Hernandez is shown with
Giffords in this image from his
Facebook page.Hernandez used his
hand to apply pressure to the wound
until someone brought clean smocks
from the meat department of the grocery store. He stayed with Giffords
until paramedics arrived, then climbed
into an ambulance with her. On the
way to the hospital, he squeezed her
hand and she squeezed back. From the
Republic:
When they arrived at the hospital,
Hernandez was soaked in blood. His
family brought him clean clothes
because the FBI took his for evidence.
He waited at the hospital while she
went into surgery. He needed to tell
police what had happened. He overheard people walking by talking about
how Giffords had died. He also heard
this on NPR. Later, he learned she had
lived.
“I was ecstatic,” he said. “She was
one of the people I've looked up to.
Knowing she was alive and still fighting was good news. She's definitely a
fighter, whether for her own life, or
standing up for people in southern
Arizona.”
The fact that Hernandez was nearby
and able to react quickly probably
saved Giffords' life, said state Rep.
Matt Heinz, D-Tucson, and a hospital
physician. He talked to Hernandez at
the hospital after the shooting.
Eight hours after the shooting,
Hernandez stood with Giffords'
friends and staff and told them what
had happened. The tall, strong 20year-old said, “Of course you're
afraid, you just kind of have to do
what you can.”
They hugged and thanked him.
Later, he sat with his mom and sisters
and told them about his friends and
the staffers who had died that day.
“You just have to be calm and collected,” he said. “You do no good to
anyone if you have a breakdown. … It
was probably not the best idea to run
toward the gunshots, but people needed help.”
by John Wright
Daniel Hernandez Jr. is shown
accompanying his boss, Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords, to an ambulance
after she was shot on Saturday.
(Associated Press)Daniel Hernandez
Jr., a 20-year-old University of
Arizona student who'd been working
as an intern for Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords for only five days,
is being credited with saving her life
after she was shot on Saturday.
Hernandez, who confirmed that he
is gay in an interview with Instant Tea
on Sunday morning, is a member of
the City of Tucson Commission on
Gay-friendly jurist leaving
CA's highest court
Justice Carlos Moreno tells governor he's stepping down at end of
February
California Supreme Court Justice
Carlos R. Moreno - the lone dissenter
in a 6-1 decision upholding
Proposition 8 - has announced he is
retiring from the bench.
Moreno, regarded by many legal
experts as the high court's most liberal
member, was appointed by Gov. Gray
Davis in 2001. Moreno, 62, said in a
brief resignation letter to the governor
that he would be stepping down
“effective with the close of business
on February 28, 2011.”
On May 26, 2009, the California
Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8,
the state constitutional initiative prohibiting same-sex marriages. But in
his lone dissent, Moreno wrote, “In
my view, the aim of Proposition 8 and
all similar initiative measures that
seek to alter the California
Constitution to deny a fundamental
right to a group that has historically
been subject to discrimination on the
basis of a suspect classification, violates the essence of the equal protection clause of the California
Constitution and fundamentally alters
its scope and meaning. Such a change
cannot be accomplished through the
initiative process by a simple amendment to our Constitution enacted by a
bare majority of the voters; it must be
accomplished, if at all, by a constitutional revision to modify the equal
protection clause to protect some,
rather than all, similarly situated persons. I would therefore hold that
Proposition 8 is not a lawful amendment of the California Constitution.”
Moreno wrote two majority opinions for the court in 2005 that bolstered 'homosexual rights' in
California. In one case, Moreno wrote,
"We perceive no reason why both parents of a child cannot be women." In
the other case, Moreno concluded that
state laws barring discrimination by
businesses included registered domestic partners, ruling that such partners
could not legally be treated differently
from married couples.
The San Jose Mercury News
reported that, with Moreno's resignation, “Gov. Jerry Brown has a quick
opportunity to dust off his once controversial judge-picking skills and
name a justice to one of the most
influential state Supreme Courts in the
country.”
Almost as if they had seen
Moreno's resignation coming, the
national homosexual rights group
Lambda Legal sent a letter to Brown
on Dec. 30 - less than a week before
Moreno's Jan. 5 resignation letter -urging Brown “to appoint only judges
who will rule fairly and impartially,
particularly in cases involving LGBT
and
HIV-positive
individuals,”
according to a statement issued by
Lambda Legal.
“It explains why judges must not
only abide by landmark legal precedents recognizing the rights of LGBT
individuals, but must also follow the
principles of equal protection and fairness underlying those decisions,” said
the Lambda Legal statement. “These
precedents include the constitutional
requirement that anti-gay laws be tested against the most rigorous level of
judicial scrutiny, the right to privacy
that applies to both same-sex and different-sex relationships, and the right
to be treated equally across a wide
variety of settings regardless of sexual
orientation, gender identity or HIV
status.”
R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, took
issue with Hammill's remarks, saying,
''Having it not been calendared or
advanced … it's kind of hard to do a
'coulda, woulda, shoulda.' But … I
didn't get any negative response to
ENDA.''
''It's a cop-out to say there weren't
votes. There were,'' he said. ''There are
members out there who are more comfortable with ENDA than with 'Don't
Ask, Don't Tell.'''
Asked what those supportive of
ENDA should do in the 112th
Congress, Frank concurred, in a sense,
with Hammill's comments, saying,
''It's dead until the Democrats retake
the House.''
Carey responded similarly: ''It
looks like we don't have votes to move
forward on any LGBT-specific legislation in the coming year, which
makes it particularly disappointing
that Congress didn't take care of
LGBT people's business in the past
year.''
Cooper, unsurprisingly, was more
optimistic, noting that LCR - for the
first time - had been invited to participate in a meeting on Dec. 15 of
Republican organization heads with
the House Republican Study
Committee, headed by Rep. Jim
Jordan (R-Ohio).
''There is opportunity there. To say
there is no support or will, I would
say, is not accurate,'' Cooper said. ''We
have 17 folks we endorsed, 12 of them
are going to be in Congress in January,
and they all support ENDA.''
Jordan, however, is not one of
them.
Despite Obama's ''continue[d] support'' of the legislation, White House
spokesman Shin Inouye did not sound
hopeful about passage of the bill in the
near future, telling Metro Weekly of
the president's view, ''As the public
continues to learn about the need for
this legislation, he hopes that
Congress will take on this issue to
help bring fairness and equality to our
nation's laws.''
As to that education, Frank had a
message for LGBT advocates, saying,
''In the interim what the community
needs to do is educate on the transgender issue.''
The point was echoed by the
Democratic leadership aide, who said
''there has not been the work done by
the community in the Senate'' to
ensure the passage of an inclusive
ENDA.
As Frank said, ''I would point out
to you that they still have not been
able to get transgender protections in
liberal places. If you can't do it in
Massachusetts, New York and
Maryland, it doesn't get easier when
you add in South Dakota, Oklahoma
and Utah.''
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As Hammill put it, ''Obviously, it's
a disappointment, but you have
Republicans blocking over 420 bills
that the House has passed.''
Hammill went down the list of
Democratic
complaints
about
Republican intransigence in the
Senate, concluding, ''They extend the
time that every piece of legislation
takes to pass. And, they're not interested in equality.''
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SAGE www.sageusa.org
Services & Advocacy for GLBT
Elders (SAGE) is the country's largest
and oldest organization dedicated to
improving the lives of LGBT older
adults. SAGE has pioneered programs
and services for the aging LGBT community, provided technical assistance
and training to expand opportunities
for LGBT older people across the
country, and provided a national voice
on LGBT aging issues. In 2005,
SAGE became the first official LGBT
delegate at the White House
Conference on Aging. In 2010, SAGE
was awarded a three-year $900,000
grant from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and the
Administration on Aging to create the
nation's only national resource center
on LGBT aging.
Why LGBT Older People Turn
to SAGE for Help
Despite advances in LGBT civil
rights, many older adult care providers
never stop to consider that their older
clients may be lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) - and even
those who do may not know how to
provide services in culturally-sensitive ways. As a result, LGBT older
adults often avoid seeking needed services out of fear of discrimination.
The tendency for LGBT older adults
to go "back in the closet" is particular-
ly pronounced in situations where they
are most vulnerable - such as when
accessing home health care or residing
in assisted living or residential care
facilities. One study indicated that
LGBT older adults may be as much as
five times less likely to access needed
health and social services because of
their fear of discrimination from the
very people who should be helping
them.
This type of social isolation has an
enormous impact in the health and
well-being of LGBT older adults.
With LGBT older adults twice as likely to live alone than heterosexual older
adults, more than four times as likely
to have no children, the informal caregiving support we assume is in place
for older adults may not be there for
LGBT elders.
Resources on Aging
SAGE has a wonderful online
resource guide to services available
for LGBT older people and those
interested in LGBT aging issues.
In February 2010, SAGE, in partnership with 10 leading organizations
from around the country, received a
landmark, three-year grant from the
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services to establish a
National Resource Center on LGBT
Aging.
SAGE's Ad Campaign
SAGE's launched an ad campaign
which took New York City by storm
with the message that there's no expiration date on a full and active life.
SAGE ads appeared in print media
and in the public transportation system
all over NYC. These ads depict SAGE
clients, social workers, donors and
volunteers in a vibrant light.
SAGE's Ad Campaign Takes New
York City by Storm!
And the press has taken notice,
including the Daily News, NY1 and
1010 WINS among others
Photographer Janette Beckman,
world-famous photographer who has
shot rock stars and hip-hop artists for
Rolling Stone magazine for the past
two decades, has turned her lens on
SAGE members, donors, staff and
volunteers. After a month-long casting process and more than 20 interviews, Janette and Double Platinum,
the award-winning gay and lesbian
focused marketing agency owned by
Arthur Korant and Stephanie
Blackwood, have put a positive and
hopeful face on LGBT aging.
History and Background
Programs like SAGE become an
important "safety net" for LGBT
elders. Incorporated by lesbian and
gay activists and aging service professionals in 1978 as Senior Action in a
Gay Environment, SAGE (now
Services & Advocacy for GLBT
Elders) is the world's oldest and
largest non-profit agency addressing
the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender elders. SAGE works with
LGBT elders to address and overcome
the challenges of discrimination in
older adult service settings, while also
being an essential component in the
creation of informal caregiving support, and development of new "family" networks. SAGE's programs
include:
The nation's first Friendly Visiting
program for frail and homebound
LGBT older adults
The country's first support group
for LGBT older adults with HIV
The nation's first program dedicated to caregiving services for LGBT
older adults.
The nation's first LGBT Senior
Drop-In Center,
The creation of the first national
conferences devoted to LGBT aging
concerns
The only Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation "Faith in Action" grantee
(of more than 2,000 nationwide)
specifically targeting LGBT older
people for supportive services,
The recipient of a three-year,
$900,000 grant from the Department
of Health and Human Services and the
Administration on Aging to create the
nation's only national resource center
on LGBT aging.
Today, there are a growing number
of retirement communities, senior
housing and other high-end housing
options targeting LGBT older adults.
But for hundreds of thousands of
LGBT older adults who will be aging
in place in their own communities,
SAGE programs and services provide
the link they need to a safe and welcoming community.
SAGE Affliates Network
In order to end the invisibility of
aging and older adults in the LGBT
community, SAGE supports local
LGBT leadership and older adult
advocates as powerful engines for
positive change within communities.
SAGE affiliates strengthen local
work, increase visibility, and provide a
national network of programs and services for LGBT older adults around
the country.
The closest SAGE Affiliate to the
Central Valley is:
The Golden Rainbow Center - SAGE
700 E Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite F
Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 416-7790
www.goldenrainbowseniorcenter.org
Community Link’s
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A group that knows it may get a little harder,
but that It is always Gets Better With Age.
The Gray Alliance doesn’t just live life
WE CELEBRATE IT!
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within the graying
Lesbian and Gay Community.
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who enjoy each other’s company and
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Golden Globes
Shameless Gay Teen
the Anti-Kurt
by Advocate.com Editors
Chris Colfer Attached To
His Golden Globe…In Bed
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We couldn't be more prouder to
report that last night, Chris Colfer
won for Best Supporting Actor in a
TV series. As such an amazing young
man in the industry today, we can't
help but feel like the award went to
the most deserving actor.
After receiving his accolade, Chris
was bombarded by the press, asked
hundreds of questions about how he
was feeling and what the award meant
to him. But one of our favorite questions is always where do the celebs
intend on putting the award now that
it's all theirs. Chris had the perfect
answer to that:
“I think I am going to sleep with it.
It is not going to leave my bedside.
Usually when I get this is usually
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Glee was a winner at the 2010 Golden Globes. It won Best Television Series
- Comedy or Musical. Creator and Executive Producer Ryan Murphy accepted
the Golden Globe for Glee. Ryan Murphy says, "this is for anybody and everybody who got a wedgie in high school."
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The Fresno Youth Alliance
A Group for
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,Transgender & Questioning
Teens & Young adults
A Safe and Sane Substance Free Place to BELONG!
Young
Adults/Teens
Meet every
Friday Night
from 7 pm
to 8:30 pm
at
The Big Red
Church,
2131 N. Van
Ness Blvd
For more information call
Jeff: 486-3464
Or if you just need someone to
talk to right now, are having a
hard time, or are in crisis call
LYRIC Youth Talkline
1-800-246-PRIDE
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As gay teen Ian Gallagher on the
new Showtime series Shameless, 17year-old Cameron Monaghan says his
character is the anti-Kurt Hummel.
His character smokes pot, is obsessed
with porn, and occasionally screws
his married, Muslim boss.
“He's the anti-stereotype,”
Gallagher says. “He never does anything that's stereotypically perceived
as 'gay.' He's tough, he's street smart,
and he's pretty much unlike any gay
teenager on television right now.”
The show, about a lower-income
family including William H. Macy as
the alcoholic father and Emmy
Rossum as the smart, slutty sister, is
raising eyebrows before premiering
for its provocative content. But
Monaghan says as an actor - even one
who's not yet legal - he had no qualms
about taking on such an in-your-face
role.
“I'm always happy to support the
gay community. Ian's a really fantastic part. A non-stereotypical part. And
I think a lot of teens - and a lot of gay
teens, especially - will really relate to
the role.”
Shameless premieres January 9 on
Showtime.
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A stunned Chris could hardly
believe his ears when his name was
called out as winner in the aforementioned category.
From the images shown on the big
screens, his “Glee” co-stars were just
as surprised, but also incredibly happy
for him, barely able to contain their
tears as he went up on stage.
The star thanked everyone involved
in the making of the hit show, from
creator Ryan Murphy to his castmates
whom, he said, deserved to be up
there with him just as much as he
deserved to be there.
He then turned his attention to a
topic that's been getting a lot of media
since early 2010, the issue of bullying
among teens, specifically on grounds
like orientation.
Colfer dedicated his award to all
the teen boys and girls who are always
told they would never fit in and who
are constantly picked on because
they're different.
“Most importantly, to all the amazing kids that watch our show and the
kids that our show celebrates that are
constantly told no by bullies in their
school and they can't be who they
are,” Colfer said.
“Well, screw that, kids,” the visibly
nervous actor added, holding up his
award, before bowing out.
Colfer had some serious competition for the Golden Globe award that
he proudly took home last night. The
other nominees included Chris Noth
for “The Good Wife,” Scott Caan for
“Hawaii- 5-0,” David Strathairn for
“Temple
Grandin”
and
Eric
Stonestreet for “Modern Family,” for
his role as Cameron Tucker.
when I wake up. So I am going to
keep it very close."
Aw! So charming! So genuine!
But go ahead and pinch yourself,
baby, because this is all real. You're a
big time actor with the big time award
to prove it. Enjoy the moment!
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.....................the color of our community, the color of our events!
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The New Closet Ball Queen
Unique Baptist Essence
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BAKERSFIELD
No H8 Pictures from
Bakersfield Pride
If you had pics taken at Bako Pride
for the No H8 Campaign, they are
now
available
online:
http://www.noh8campaign.com then
click PHOTOS. Most of Bako is in
the file called CREATIVE GROUPS
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well, so check several files to find
yours!
Small Town Pride
by the NoH8 Campaign
The movement for LGBT rights
took a huge step forward last week
when both the US House and Senate
took steps to end the discriminatory
policy that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. While we celebrate the huge
advances toward equal rights for all,
it's equally important to recognize
large steps on a much smaller scale.
There are many battles to be fought in
the fight for equality, and sometimes
it's easy to overlook smaller pockets of
hope.
Bakersfield, California is a small,
conservative town. Compared to giant
city-wide events like Los Angeles
Pride, Bakersfield Pride [2010] was
far more intimate. The festival was
held at a small park grounds with a
stage and some picnic tables. The lines
weren't blocks long; the celebration
was laid back and casual, with some
informal emceeing and performances
by some local LGBT groups.
Bakersfield Pride was a true opportunity for people in the area to show
their solidarity for one another and
enjoy their community together for
just one day; to exist together in one
place. There's no West Hollywood in
Bakersfield, and in such a conservative area, it can sometimes be hard to
feel like you can be unapologetically
yourself. Being different in any small
town can be hard.
We felt so fortunate to have a
chance to spend so much time meeting
and talking with many of our
Bakersfield participants. It was a welcome change of pace from our normally hectic shoots, and hearing the
stories we did reminded us just how
important visibility is in small towns
like Bakersfield. Those people in
Bakersfield will now sport their
NOH8 photos with Pride, and their
photo will bring the issue of equality
to the forefront of those they know;
and we couldn't ask for more.
Soon, everyone in Bakersfield will
know what NOH8 stands for; and we
were just glad to be a small part of it.
Thank you to everyone at Bakersfield
Pride for making us feel welcome!
Bakersfield AIDS Project's
Ongoing Needs…
Bakersfield AIDS Project has some
ongoing needs. There are items that
are used up fairly quickly, and they
could use a good supply.
Here are the items:
Chap stick
Baby Wipes
Lotion
Washable changing pads lovingly
sewn;)
Hospital gowns (colorful prints,
lovingly sewn)
Shirts for Men/Women that are button up, comfortable, easy to remove
Small, Med, Large Drawstring or
elastic waist pants
Sheets/Pillow cases
Body Pillows
Body Wash
Small Face Towels
If you have any of these things,
please contact BAP to drop off - call
Audrey 661-742-3611. The address is
910 Grace St.
PO Box 78056
Bakersfield, CA 93383
To make a gift by PayPal: go to
www.paypal.com and send your donation to [email protected]
We appreciate all the support we
receive from the community throughout the year, especially in these tough
times. Thank you for attending our
events and making your donations.
We're changing the world one day at a
time!
Bakersfield LGBTQ Appeal
MERCED
Bakersfield LGBTQ is dedicated to
making a difference in the Kern
County LGBTQ community. The farreaching impact of donations to our
organization is remarkable. We are
truly inspired by the range of activities, services, and advocacy initiatives
made possible by our generous
donors. Please join our community of
supporters by making a tax-deductible
year-end gift to Bakersfield LGBTQ.
Your gift will help ensure the continued success of the organization and
help us take one more step toward our
vision of a Center in Bakersfield dedicated to serving LGBTQ individuals
and their families. To make a gift by
mail:
Bakersfield LGBTQ
“Out In The Silence”
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
Truth and lies, love and contempt,
life and death - the American classic
by Tennessee Williams. Admission by
donation. Suggested donation $15 for
adults, $10 for students and seniors.
February 18 - March 5 at 8 PM
At the Empty Space, 706 Oak St.
(661) 327-7529
www.esonline.org
UC Merced's 5th Annual Human
Rights Film Series presents “Out in
the Silence”. The film dramatically
illustrates the challenges of negotiating the morally charged issue of sexual orientation and the potential for
building bridges when people with
differing opinions approach each other
with openness and respect.
Directors: Joe Wilson and Dean
Hamer.
Friday, February 11th at 7 p.m. Free
and open to the public. Event Contact:
209-228-4032.
At UC Merced, 5200 North Lake
Rd, COB 105.
events.ucmerced.edu/?event_ID=5
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Y O U R C L U B O R ORGANIZATION CAN A D V E R T I S E H E R E TOO!
Texas police officer and church organist Steven
Russell (Jim Carrey) is happily married to Debbie
(Leslie Mann), and spends his off hours searching
for the biological mother who gave him up as a
child. When a car accident forces a dramatic
reassessment of his life, and after he finds his mother, who handily rejects him, he leaves his life and
family behind and decides to live life instead in
Miami as his true, flamboyantly gay self. After finding a boyfriend (Rodrigo Santoro) and living the
high life, Steven becomes a conman to fund his life
of luxury. When his con work finally catches up
with him, he's sent to prison where he meets and
falls in love with Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).
His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to
attempt and often succeed at one impossible con
after another. Written and directed by John Requa
and Glen Ficara of Bad Santa fame, I Love You
Phillip Morris is all over the place, but it's also outrageously funny. Best not to make too much sense
out of the series of escapes, disguises and reunions
that defy belief. Stop fighting it. I Love You Phillip
Morris is based on fact. Career criminal Stephen is
currently serving a 144-year sentence. It's one crazy
love story, but Carrey and McGregor make it work
by making us buy the romance as the real thing.
There's something about these Marys that pulls you
in. Rated R. 1 Hr. 38 Min.
Tickets are $10 or $8 for matinees.
January 29th - February 3rd, Sat & Mon - Thurs
7pm, Sun 1pm.
At the State Theatre, 1307 J St.
www.thestate.org/calendar/event/282/view
New OESCI Board
We would like to take this time to thank the 36th
reign Board Of Directors of The Owl Empire of
Stanislaus County, Inc. of Modesto on a job well
done. You have succeeded to make Modesto shine
this past year.
At this time we would like to introduce to you
all, Modesto's new Board Of Directors for the 37th
reign.
President...Jack Balmer aka Shanda; Vice
President ...Marti Cantrell aka Momma Cantrell;
Treasurer ... Matt Cantrell; Secretary ...Corey
Morris aka Missy Bradford; Emperor 37...Anthony
Rosales-Fleming; Empress 37...Shaun McDaniel
aka Kiki Peru Braxton St. James; Member at
Large...Ryan Hernandez Lewis-St. James; Member
at Large...James Hastins aka April Powers; Member
Why isn’t your
business card here?
It could be for just $10.00/month!
Call 559-486-3464
Tuesday - Friday:
MoFest!7 Brainstorming Meeting
Make MoFest!7 LGBT Film Festival a reality,
and help PFLAG Modesto make it happen!
Committed people, lots of ideas, a brainstorming
session!
Saturday, February 5, 7:00pm - 8:30pm at
Starbucks, 820 Kansas Ave
www.pflagmodesto.org
Sync & Drag Informational Meeting
Interested in performing a lip-sync number during this year's Sync&Drag at College Avenue
Congregational Church on March 18?
Come to our mandatory informational meeting
on Sunday, February 20 at 5:30pm in the Youth
Room! This year's theme is “Love, Love, Love!”
Any and all ages are welcome to participate!
Contact Rob at [email protected] for more information!
1341 College Ave.
www.cacc-ucc.org
STOCKTON
2nd Annual Superbowl Party
Imperial San Joaquin Delta Empire, the Court of
Vulgarity, Fun & Laughter presents Superbowl
2011! We had so much fun last year that the owner
of Club Paradise, Chris Davis, asked if we could do
it again...so we are! We are offering our $8 pulled
pork sandwiches that are to DIE for complete with
all the fixins, a chili bar, trivia games for the "commercial lovers", raffle, prizes for best in theme and
much more.
Come for the food and fun, stay for the tight ends
and cheerleaders!
Sunday, February 6th at 3pm at Club Paradise,
10100 Lower Sacramento Rd.
More information: Emperor 21 & 31 Brenda
Evans-Harris (209) 430-6297
groups.yahoo.com/group/StocktonImperialCourt
San Joaquin AIDS Foundation Crab
Feed
PORTERVILLE
The San Joaquin AIDS Foundation will hold its
annual Crab and Shrimp Feed on Saturday,
February 19th, at the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds,
413 East Chardonnay Hall. Tickets are $40 each and
they go fast. There are only 650 tickets available.
There is a silent auction and raffle tickets. There
will be a D.J and no-host bar. You can also purchase
tables of 8 so groups can sit together. Tickets are
available at the San Joaquin AIDS Foundation, and
at Serventi's with Flair in Lincoln Center. For more
information, call (209) 476-8533.
www.sanjoaquinaidsfoundation.org
“Bullied”
TRACY
Please join us at 10 am on Sunday, February 19th
for Coffee and Conversation. At 10:30 we will view
the 40 min movie: “Bullied: A Student, a School and
a Case That Made History” followed by discussion
on the movie. Refreshments Provided.
"Bullied" chronicles the powerful story of a student who stood up to his anti-gay tormentors and
filed a federal lawsuit against his school district.
The suit led to a landmark federal court decision
holding that school officials could be held accountable for not stopping the harassment and abuse of
gay students.
At Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship Of
Porterville, 135 E. Harrison
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Psychotherapy
Adult, Adolescent, Couples
Melissa A. Cuneo, L.C.S.W.
#LCS13570
(559) 901-5461
7:00 to 11:30 a.m.
1:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
1416 W Center St
Visalia, CA 93291
“I Love You Phillip Morris”
at Large ...Ron Coonce.
We want to thank the Board Of Directors for taking this time out of their lives to volunteer to help
support the 37th reign of The O.E.S.C.I. of
Modesto. We are looking forward to working with
you all this year!
In service to our community,
Emperor 37 Anthony Rosales-Fleming
Empress 37 Kiki Peru Braxton St. James
www.oesci.org
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Northern California Courts Bingo
by Saybeline, San Francisco Imperials Honorable
Member of Her Majesty's Parliament
Just wanted to follow up with everyone to let you
know how proud I am of everyone of you. Last
night's [December 19th, 2010] Holiday Bingo Event
[held in Tracy] put on by our Northern California
Parliament Members was a success on so many levels... Since we came together in early October we
have set the bar for other regions within the
International Court System. Tonight we proved
beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the Courts of
Northern California can come together for a common cause, united in our efforts and be successful.
Last night, we came together, enjoyed each
other's company, had a wonderful time and we
raised $1,000 after expenses for the Harvey Milk
Foundation. To all the naysayers, we can all stand
tall and be proud that we did something tonight that
many didn't think could happen. I personally have to
say that when the honorable members of
Parliament: Christopher St. James - Alameda
Imperial, David Dulan - Fresno Imperial and myself
talked about bringing our courts together within the
region and working together in May, last night's
event and many more like it, was what we envisioned. My hat is off to all of you for the work you
did to make tonight's event a success.
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Tonight, all 10 courts of the
Northern CA had representation at our
Holiday Bingo event, and I thank all
of you for working to make sure that
happened. To our event steering committee and our event co-chairs, I thank
you all for stepping up and making
last night the success that it was. To
each and every court, I wish to extend
my deepest gratitude for your commitment to our vision of a greater and
even better Northern CA region within the International Court System...
Each and every one of you have
helped to make this event a success...
Thank you!
And here are some reactions from
the event's participants:
“I would like to say a huge congratulations to the Northern California
Parliament Members and Court
Members on a very successful
Holiday Bingo event! For all ten
courts of Northern California to come
together for this and help out, was
amazing! My hat is off to all of you!
(…) The courts that were in attendance were Chico, Sacramento,
Alameda Imperial, Alameda Ducal,
San Francisco Imperial, San Francisco
Ducal, San Jose, Stockton, Modesto,
and Fresno! (…) Miss Saybeline you
did a great job and Grand Duke
Michael Kennedy, great job being the
bingo caller.” - Emperor 36 of
Modesto, Mr. Ryan Hernandez LewisSt. James
“I am truly proud to be a member of
one of the several courts in Northern
Cali and this past Sunday proved that
there is NO "I" in team. From setting
up the facility to sweeping up the very
last pile of dust... EVERYONE did
their part in making this bingo a powerhouse event. It was wonderful being
amongst friends and meeting new
ones and... well... just having FUN. It
was so refreshing just being ourselves
and enjoying EVERYONE'S company... WOW, WHEN'S THE NEXT
ONE???” - H.I.M. Emperor XXI &
XXXI of Stockton, Brenda Harris
“Way to go everyone! My personal
thanks go out to everyone who supported the event on Sunday. A very
special thank you to Saybeline
(Steve), who took the ball and ran, like
the wild drag queen she is, with this
idea of a stronger unification initiative. I am so proud of you Steve. You
did whatever was needed to make it
happen. You had key players involved
and you stayed on top of things. WAY
TO LEAD, MY FRIEND! San
Francisco should be very proud to
have a power player in their midst. As
was stated before, this is the first of
what we hope are many endevours of
this kind and to think of what we
could do with it when we do not have
a time crunch like we did with this one
event. There were roughly 30 days to
plan, advertise, and make it happen.” Christopher
Michael, Alameda
Imperial
VISALIA
Visalia welcomes new
LGBT Lions Club
The Visalia Pride Lions Club has
the great distinction of being Number
2 and they are very proud of that! The
club is the second LGBTQ Lions Club
in California. The Castro Lions Club
in San Francisco has the honor of
being the original club and is celebrating their 25 year anniversary this year.
The club members started Visalia
Pride Lions to assist their LGBT community and the larger Tulare/King
County communities through projects,
scholarships and volunteerism. The
new club is currently 44 members
strong and meets on the first and third
Monday of the month, at Mimi's Cafe
in Visalia, CA. This is the 6th Lions
International club in Visalia.
The Visalia Pride Lions originated
with 24 members who were determined to create an influential LGBT
club. Their official Charter dinner
party was held last April at the Visalia
Convention Center. Among the 150
people who attended the gala event
were the Mayor and Vice-Mayor of
Visalia, several officers of the Lions
Clubs International district staff and
many members of other community
clubs. The Lions International organization has been very welcoming and
supportive of the new club and hopes
that there will be more LGBT Lions
clubs starting in the Central Valley and
across the state. There is already
interest in Bakersfield and Sacramento
to form new clubs.
In their first year of charter, the
Visalia Pride Lions hosted a "Meet
and Greet" for The Trevor Project, an
organization which supports LBGTQ
youth through its crisis intervention
and suicide prevention programs.
Club members staffed booths at the
Tulare County Suicide Prevention
event and the Family Festival in
Visalia, supported the Youth Prom in
Fresno, collected 50 gifts for the
Tulare Co. Foster Care program and
volunteered services to the Visalia
Lions Band Review. The last 2010
club project was funding LGBTQ
libraries for 4 local high school GSA
(gay-straight alliance) clubs and the
COS Pride Club.
Starting out 2011 with a bang, the
club is proud to announce a glamorous
Valentine's Dinner and Dance which
will be held at the Visalia Holiday Inn
(9000 W. Airport Dr.) on Saturday,
February 19th. This event welcomes
the LGBTQ community and its friends
and allies to a evening of dinner, dancing
and
surprises.
Celebrate
Valentine's Day in a comfortable,
accepting venue. Tickets for the dinner and dance are on sale now through
February 1st. You can also purchase
dance only tickets that will include
dessert. Visit the club's website at
visaliapridelionsclub.org or see the ad
in this paper. The hotel is offering a
special low rate to those around the
valley who wish to stay the night after
the event. Use the code "VPL" when
making your reservation for February
19, 2011. The club also has a facebook
page
at
ttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei
d=113156818756092
The Visalia Pride Lions Club is
proud to be Number 2 and looks forward to continuing their service with
the Trevor Project, local LGBTQ
youth clubs, and the many projects we
plan for the community in the coming
years. The club is always welcoming
new members and invites anyone
interested to contact the club at
[email protected].
Tuesday Evening Dining
Group
The upcoming tentative restaurants
for this LGBT+ & straight-friendly
weekly dining-out group are:
January 25th - Asian Delite Café,
409 N Willis St.
February 1st - El Tarasco, 2636 S
Mooney Blvd.
February 8th - The Vintage Press,
216 N. Willis St.
February 15th - Mimi's Café, 4004
S. Mooney Blvd.
February 22nd - Main Street Café,
233 W. Main St.
All dinners start at 6pm. For last
minute changes, visit the website:
www.tedg.info
Do you SHARE?
by Brooke, gayvisalia.com
Do you wish that you could donate
and support Gay Visalia but you just
don't have the cash? Well now you can
at NO COST to you! Gay Central
Valley is part of the S.H.A.R.E.S. program offered through Savemart. All
you have to do is swipe your card each
time you shop at one of their 4 stores
(Savemart, Smartfoods, FoodMaxx &
Lucky). It's just that easy! Our organization will receive 3% of everything
you spend. So, if you spend $100, you
would be earning $3 for us. Every little bit adds up and is completely
appreciated!
If you shop at these stores and
would like to help our organization
and raise funds with little effort and no
out of pocket expense, please contact
us. You can pick one up at our new
office in Fresno or I have a bunch here
to distribute. I will even mail one to
you. Thank you all for your support
and please know, we will always support you right back!
Ethinc Escapades
For our mains, we all got different
entrees so we could share and compare. Bryce ordered Sabzi Challow - a
leg of lamb, cooked with spinach,
herbs and spices, and served with
Basmati rice. The meat was falling off
the bone and the spinach was sauteed
just right. Kevin had Qbidah Kabob,
two charbroiled ground sirloin
kabobs, grilled with onions and sweet
spices, served with grilled tomato and
Basmati rice. Their meat and spice
mixture has a hint of nutty sweetness.
Finally, Kirk enjoyed a plateful of
Mantoo, Afghani ravioli stuffed with
ground beef, onions and seasonings,
topped with a sauce of (again) yogurt,
split peas and more ground beef! Each
bite was “a mouthful of heaven”...
Salang Pass is located at 37462
Fremont Blvd. in Fremont, a block
from the Amtrak station. (510) 7959200. www.salangpassrestaurant.com
On our way back to Fresno, we
stopped at Big E Cafe in San Jose for
some Argentinian baked empanadas.
Empanadas are similar to Indian
somosas or turnovers stuffed with a
variety of fillings; sometimes they're
deep-fried. sometimes baked. The
ones at Big E Cafe are baked and
healthier than ones you might get at
Empanada Place in Los Angeles, for
example.
We tried the entire delectable selection they had available that day ($2.95
each): chicken mushroom; spinach;
mediterranean (spinach, cheeses,
olives); very spicy Thai chicken with
peas, carrots and potatoes; beef - kind
of like Philly cheesesteak. For dessert,
we had Apple & Cranberry (this one
was not baked all the way, they redid
it for us) and Peach & Blueberry
(filled with fruit and jam-like glaze),
neither were overly sweet. They also
offer a full range of coffees and similar beverages, stop there for a snack
and try the empanadas for yourself!
Big E Cafe is at 1683 Branham Ln.
in San Jose. (408) 978-9040.
www.mybige.com
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“The Half Life of Sgt. Jen
Hunter” by Tracy Baim; published
by CreateSpace, December 2010, 164
pages.
The Half Life of Sgt. Jen Hunter,
by lesbian journalist Tracy Baim,
takes paces during the first Gulf War,
in the early 1990s, prior to the compromise DADT law. The military
banned all gays and lesbians from
service, but tens of thousands bravely
served their country.
During the Gulf War, many of
those soldiers were kept in service
under a "stop loss" order, only to be
discharged upon their return home.
Now that DADT has been struck
down, this novel is perfectly timed to
give a closer look at the lives of people impacted by any policies or laws
that ask them to compromise who
they are.
Author Baim, who is publisher and
executive editor of Windy City Times
newspaper, offers a romance and
mystery novel about this era in our
nation's history, when gays and lesbians served proudly, but quietly,
risking their lives for a country that
disrespected and attacked who they
were.
What would happen if an out lesbian journalist met and became
attracted to a closeted military
spokeswoman? Would sparks fly?
Would the sergeant risk her career for
love? Would the journalist compromise her ideals for a chance at happiness? What about the servicemembers on the ground in Iraq? They
faced bullets and dangerous chemicals, and some came back wounded
and faced the loss of their career. See
what happens in this fast-paced tale
of war, pride, sacrifice, and love.
Baim has covered military gay and
lesbian issues since 1984. She is the
author of the non-fiction book Obama
and the Gays: A Political Marriage
and Out and Proud in Chicago: An
Overview of the City's Gay
Movement.
Queer Pollen discusses three
notable black queer twentieth century
artists--painter and writer Richard
Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin,
and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the
unique ways they turned to various
media to work through their experiences living as queer black men.
David A. Gerstner elucidates the
complexities in expressing queer
black desire through traditional art
forms such as painting, poetry, and
literary prose, or in the industrial
medium of cinema. This challenge is
made particularly sharp when the
terms "black" and "homosexuality"
come freighted with white ideological
conceptualizations.
Gerstner adroitly demonstrates
how Nugent, Baldwin, and Riggs
interrogated the seductive power and
saturation of white queer cultures,
grasping the deceit of an entrenched
cultural logic that defined their identity and their desire in terms of whiteness. Their work confounds the
notion of foundational origins that
prescribe the limits of homosexual
and racial desire, perversely refusing
the cordoned-off classifications
assigned to the "homosexual" and the
"raced" body. Queer Pollen articulates a cinematic aesthetic that
unfolds through painting, poetry,
dance, novels, film, and video that
marks the queer black body in relation to matters of race, gender, sexuality, nation, and death.
“Aging with HIV: A Gay Man's
Guide” by James Masten Ph.D.
LCSW; published by Oxford
University Press USA, January 2011;
248 pages.
With improvements in the treatment of HIV disease, gay men in
great numbers are surviving--and
thriving--into middle and older age.
While increased longevity brings new
hope, it also raises unanticipated chal-
“Shakesqueer:
A
Queer
Companion to the Complete Works
of Shakespeare” edited by Madhavi
Menon;
published
by
Duke
University Press Books, January
2011; 512 pages.
Shakesqueer puts the most exciting
queer theorists in conversation with
the complete works of William
Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd,
eccentric, and unexpected in the
Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many
ways that Shakespeare can be
queered but also the many ways that
Shakespeare can enrich queer theory.
This innovative anthology reveals an
early modern playwright insistently
returning to questions of language,
identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory.
Since many of the contributors do not
study early modern literature,
Shakesqueer takes queer theory back
and brings Shakespeare forward,
“Queer Pollen: White Seduction,
Black Male Homosexuality, and the
Cinematic” by David A. Gerstner;
published by University of Illinois
Press, January 2011; 312 pages.
challenging the chronological confinement of queer theory to the last
two hundred years. The book also
challenges conceptual certainties that
have narrowly equated queerness
with homosexuality. Chasing all manner of stray desires through every one
of Shakespeare's plays and poems,
the contributors cross temporal, animal, theoretical, and sexual boundaries with abandon. Claiming adherence to no one school of thought, the
essays consider The Winter's Tale
alongside network TV, Hamlet in
relation to the death drive, King John
as a history of queer theory, and
Much Ado About Nothing in tune
with a Sondheim musical. Together
they expand the reach of queerness
and queer critique across chronologies, methodologies, and bodies.
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“Double Play: The Hidden
Passions Behind the Double
Assassination of George Moscone
and Harvey Milk” by Mike Weiss;
published
by
Vince
Emery
Productions (2nd Edition), December
2010; 496 pages,
San Francisco Supervisor Dan
White assassinated Mayor George
Moscone and fellow Supervisor
Harvey Milk but received only a slapon-the-wrist sentence for manslaughter-a verdict that provoked thousands
of outraged San Franciscans to riot.
What hidden passions drove White
to kill Moscone and Milk? How did
he literally get away with murder? An
exciting true crime thriller, Double
Play provides often-shocking answers
based on years of research and hundreds of interviews. The book earned
the Edgar Award as Best True Crime
Book of the Year.
This expanded and updated edition
reveals for the first time White's life
after his release from prison, the first
detailed accounting of White's suicide
and the reasons for it, his secret plan
to kill two more politicians, how his
defense attorneys feared losing the
trial over an unnoticed piece of evidence, what happened to the major
characters in the 30 years after the
assassinations, and how the killings
catapulted a discouraged politician
named Dianne Feinstein into national
prominence and changed San
Francisco irrevocably. This edition
also provides more information about
and photos of Harvey Milk, much
unavailable anywhere else.
80 photographs and 10 illustrations
are included, most never before published. Edgar Award winner as Best
True Crime Book of the Year!
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Following are some of the many
new, interesting GLBT-themed
books. They are not reviews they’re book descriptions provided
by the publishers.
lenges, particularly for gay men who
never thought they would live this
long: How do I deal with all the physical changes? Who can I rely on as I
get older? Is a relationship still in the
cards for me? What about sex? How
should I prepare for old age?
A one-of-a-kind guide for gay men
aging with HIV, Aging with HIV
offers an upbeat, down-to-earth
approach for adapting to change,
whether driven by age, AIDS, or both.
Psychotherapist James Masten and
physician James Schmidtberger shed
light on the many common assumptions and fears of aging with HIV.
Aging with HIV provides concrete
solutions for facing midlife with a
positive outlook, offering a wealth of
advice for breaking unhealthy habits
and coping mechanisms. The book
describes the nine changes common
to gay men as they age with HIV, discusses the four challenges of aging,
and offers a unique ten-step path to
optimal aging with HIV, helping the
reader to tailor the book's suggestions
to the realities of their lives. Woven
throughout the book are first-person
narratives from men who recount
what worked--and did not work--for
them. In addition, Rapid Research,
Fast Fact, and Self-Reflection boxes
highlight the latest research and challenge readers to take stock of the present--and plan for the future.
An invaluable tool to keep handy
and to refer to often, Aging with HIV
is an inviting, confident companion to
navigating midlife and beyond with
HIV.
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Sebastopol. $15-25 per person, sliding
scale.
www.lindyjames.com
Rivalry: Where Worlds
Collide 1 Year Anniversary
1/21 in San Diego
Sara Felder's Out of Sight
till 2/13 in San Francisco
Solo theater artist and trickster,
Sara Felder, invites you into the story
of a nearly-blind mother and her lesbian daughter who try to “see” each
other as they navigate their different
perspectives on Israel. With her mix of
circus tricks, shadow puppets and a
Jewish queer sensibility, Felder sets
out to balance family loyalty, social
justice and juicy lemons.
Written and Performed by Sara
Felder. 80 minutes, no intermission.
All seating for this performance is
first-come, first-served. This show is
recommended for ages 12+. Please do
not bring infants to the show.
Thursdays at 8pm, Saturdays at
8pm, Sundays at 3pm at the Marsh
Studio Theater, 1074 Valencia St.
www.themarsh.org
The Feminine Face
of Sexuality
1/21 & 2/25 in Sebastopol
The Feminine Face of Sexuality
with Lindy James, Sacred Intimate,
Sex, Love & Intimacy coach. For
women of all ages and sexual preference, all are welcome! Experience
your body as a sacred and erotic gift!
You are warmly invited to come and
explore the feminine aspect of Sex,
Love and Divine with Lindy. Join in a
circle of women as we slow down, listen to each other, hear our own body's
wisdom, and trust what we already
know on deeper levels. In a cozy and
safe environment we are invited to
speak the unspeakable, to talk openly
about such topics as: * Exploring
ways to be more open to intimacy *
Embracing who we are as women *
Inviting the Divine into sexual relationships * Bringing more heart-connection into our sexuality * Relaxing
into our own sensuality and desires *
Finding more freedom and joy as sexual beings.
This group is for women with some
Tantric or sacred sexuality experience.
We meet every 4-6 weeks in
Come celebrate Rivalry's one year
with us! All of you are what helped to
keep this event going. This event will
start at 8pm for some really cheap
drinks to begin your night! This month
we will have our always fun and exciting obstacle course. If you participate
you will have the chance to win some
great prizes for first place.
DJ Kiki will be there to make us
dance! Great drink specials all night
long! Amber will be your hot little
dancer for the evening. Birthday toast
at midnight so contact us if you are a
January birthday so we can set you up
in the VIP room and get the number in
your group to prepare your toast!
$5 cover. $1 well drinks 8pm 9pm.
8pm at the Brass Rail, 3796 5th
Ave.
www.thebrassrailsd.com
Butch / Femme
10th Annual Winter Ball
1/ 22 in Oakland
Butch / Femme folks & their
friends... put your sexy on! Suits,
Tuxes, Slacks, Leather, Cocktail
Dresses, Skirts, etc. But don't let
clothes be the reason that you don't
celebrate with us. Wear whatever
makes you feel comfortable & join us!
Easy street parking. BYOB (there will
be some liquor available as part of
your ticket purchase).
Our charity at this event for donations is Meals for Reals, which feeds
needy people in the Butch/Femme
community. Bring a food gift card of
any denomination from Trader Joe's,
Whole Foods, Berkeley Bowl,
Lucky's, Safeway OR your personal
check (NO cash please).
6pm - 11pm at Humanist Hall, 411
28th St.
Event tickets ($10) available at:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1
41606
www.butchfemmesocials.com
Chamber Music
Soiree Benefit
1/23 in Oakland
You are invited to a very special
benefit event for the Women's
Community Orchestra! Chamber
Music Soiree with Dr. Kathleen
McGuire,
Conductor
&
the
Community Women's Orchestra;
Special guests Yuchi Chou, Adrienne
Krug, and Stephanie Lynne Smith.
Silent & Live Auction with nationally
known auctioneer Kathy Kingston,
CAI, BAS, Kingston Auction
Company. A fun and elegant afternoon
of chamber music, Nine Vines wine,
hors d'oeuvres, complimentary CD
Baby download cards, and more!
Live Auction items:
South African Photo Safari for Two
- 6 days/6 nights, 3 meals per day and
2 game drives per day. Valid for two
years. Airfare not included. Value:
$3,950.
Tuscan Resort - 7 night stay for
four adults in one of the five properties in Manciano, Italy (90 min. north
of Rome). No expiration date. Airfare
not included. Value: $4,950.
Wall of Wine - Supplement or start
your wine cellar! A unique collection
of local and international red and
white wines.
Conductor for a Day - CWO is providing a rare opportunity for the highest bidder (male or female) to conduct
the Community Women's Orchestra in
concert, including a private conducting lesson with Dr. Kathleen McGuire,
a souvenir baton, a photo with the
orchestra, and a video recording of
your performance as a memento.
2:30pm - 5:30pm at The Bellevue
Club, 525 Bellevue Ave.
Tickets: $25 Advance / $30 Door.
Children under 12 admitted free.
www.communitywomensorchestra.org
Marga Gomez's
Funny Mondays
starting 1/24 in Berkeley
Marga's Funny Mondays starts
January 24th! Marga Gomez will host
a hells-a-poppin comedy/variety
showcase every Monday in the
Cabaret at The Marsh. Joining her will
be some of the hottest comedy acts in
the Bay Area; Natasha Muse (aka The
Funniest transexual you will ever
know,) Steven Pearl (wrote for
Rodney Dangerfield,) DJ Real, Dee
Dee Russel (Yes the Princess of Public
Access) Candy Churrilla (last Comic
Standing) and many more in Marga's
ever changing lineup of comics, storytellers, troubadors and sock puppets.
Marga Gomez is a native New
Yorker who makes San Francisco her
home and identifies as a bicoastal
Gemini. As the daughter of a Cuban
comedian and Puerto Rican dancer
Marga made her stage debut in New
York at age 7 and was hooked ever
since. Her long and colorful career
includes achievements in comedy, theater, film and television and was profiled in the 2005 documentary
“Laughing Matters.”
Marga's talents have brought her to
audiences all over the planet. She has
had the fortune to work with some of
her heroes including Rita Moreno,
Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and
Whoopi Goldberg. Robin Williams
was so impressed with Marga's
response to a heckler at a benefit that
he booked her on HBO's Comic Relief
VI on the spot.
90minutes, no intermission. All
seating for this performance is firstcome, first-served. This show is 18+.
8pm at The Marsh Berkeley
Cabaret, 2120 Allston Way. No show
on February 21st.
www.themarsh.org
Smart Women
Business Network
1/27 in Petaluma
For 2011, Smart Women events will
be held for the first time in North Bay
locations. The first of these will be on
Thursday, January 27th, 5:30 PM 7:30 PM, with optional dinner to follow, at the Pelican Art Gallery &
Custom Framing Studio, 143
Petaluma Blvd. North, hosted by
Linda Postenrieder and Donna
Hinshaw. Featured speaker will be
Zoe
Dunning,
Retired
Navy
Commander and co-chair of the
Service Members Legal Defence
Network.
www.bettyslist.com/blpage.php?id
=3887
Eclipse! Women's Only
Play Party
1/28 in San Francisco
ECLIPSE PRESENTS: Ms. Cat's
Spanking Party. It's her birthday and
she's in the mood for a lil' OTK spanking. Come get your spankings from
her or give out your own spankings....I'm sure they'll be takers. We'll
also be serving cake on someone in
celebration. Come and ring in the new
year with Eclipse (8pm - 2am)!
ECLIPSE is the SF Citadel's party
for women and trans perverts! We
have become known for our intense,
sexy atmosphere, great music and
Counseling
Associates
Cynthia Callaghan
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
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3134 Willow, Suite # 103
Clovis, CA 93612
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Cell: 559/930-9327
E-mail: [email protected]
ALL BREED PET SITTING
Quality Pet Care in Your Home
Caring For Your Pets Since 1988
Pet Care
• Feeding
• Exercising
• Medication
Gail Gaston
Bus. 275-5092
Res. 325-0540
Home Care
• Plant Care
• Mail Pick-up
• Light Changes
Bonded
Insured
3204 N. Van Ness Blvd
559-222-ROSE
Fax 559-222-7693
Salacious Magazine
Launch Party
Celebrate the launch of SALACIOUS Magazine with Madison
Young and Reid Mihalko as they go
head to head, revealing their BEST
bedroom moves!
Entertaining, informational, guaranteed-to-be-funny and friendly “competitive” throwdown (indie porn pioneer Madison Young vs. Sexpert Reid
Mihalko)? Queer feminist sex, illustrated and photographed for your reading pleasure (that you get to take home
with you)? All in one evening?!
FeminaPotens.org
and
ReidAboutSex.com proudly present...
Tonight's Iron Slut Sex Educators:
Queer Feminist Porn Star and Sex
Educator... Madison Young vs. Reid
Mihalko, to celebrate... SALACIOUS
Magazine's 1st issue! Launch profits
to support the magazine.
We know - you can barely control
yourselves just reading about it, so get
your ticket to the Launch Party of
SALACIOUS Magazine, succinctly
for persons of all genders. Madison
Young is an “Indie Porn Pioneer” and
has been called the “Picasso of Porn”
by porn legend Annie Sprinkle.
Madison travels the world giving
presentations on sexuality, presenting
rope bondage performance pieces, and
teaching classes on sexual and kinky
techniques at venues that vary from
International bdsm conferences to
Yale University. Madison's work in the
adult industry, as well as the art world,
has been featured on HBO's Real Sex
and she has been featured as a sexpert
in multiple episodes of Spike TV's
“1000 Ways to Die”. Madison Young
has been featured in over 100 adult
dvd titles and web sites for the past 9
years and has directed 26 films.
Ms Young is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit community art gallery, Femina Potens, which
is a sex positive art gallery showcasing
cutting edge women and transgendered artists and performers that are
pushing boundaries with their visual
and performative artistic expressions.
7 - 11pm at Femina Potens, 2199
Market St.
www.Feminapotens.org
Women Inspiring Women
Conference
1/28 - 1/29 in Palm Desert
Consider yourself invited to the
First Annual Women Inspiring Women
Conference with author Tammy L.
Coia.
Be inspired by other empowering
writers and speakers - including
Nickie Nicolas, Fitness Trainer &
Reiki Master.
Panel Discussion includes:
- Alzheimer's: Making it Work.
- Cancer: Survivor's Stories
- Widows: Finding your way Alone
- Hollywood: Past & Present
- FitbyNic Women's Fitness
& more!!
The cost is $100.00 for the weekend
conference (Friday 5:30pm - 9:30pm,
Saturday 8:30am - 5pm). www.womenswritingworkshop.com
Girls' Night Out Play Party
1/29 in San Diego
Club X and Ms San Diego Leather
2010 Presents: Girls' Night Out at
Dungeon Servitus on Saturday,
January 29th, 7pm till midnight. No
tickets sold on the day of the party.
Prices are $10 for Club X Members,
and $15 for non-Club X members.
Limit is 30, so get your tickets before
Your Ad could
be seen here
for $10 a month.
Call 559-486-3464
for details
we're sold out! This event is limited to
women only. Contact tiger at [email protected] for more information. Directions will be given with
ticket confirmation.
Club X, Inc. is San Diego's largest
pansexual leather/ BDSM fetish
group. Our primary goal is that of education with secondary goals of
activism and social activities. We hold
monthly meetings to this end. Among
those are regular workshops that cover
various aspects of safe, sane, consensual, and fun leather BDSM and SM
fetish play. We also hold regular social
gatherings, special events, play parties, fundraisers, special interest group
meetings, and our monthly Board
meetings.
www.clubxsd.org
Lesbo Bingo
1/29 in West Hollywood
and succulently fused with IRON
SLUT Sex Educator Showdown now
before they sell out!
What is SALACIOUS Magazine?
SALACIOUS is a brand new magazine dedicated to erotic art and literature curated with a queer, feminist,
anti-racist lens. A perfect fusion of
pornography with high art, comics
with erotica, titillation with stunning
visuals, SALACIOUS is the radical
queer answer to the proliferation of
such limited stereotypes as “girl-ongirl” and gay “muscle” porn. With a
broad definition of the word queer,
SALACIOUS offers a smorgasbord of
lascivious delights!
Boasting an editorial board comprised of kinksters, authors, performers and activists from across the
United States and helmed by Portland,
Maine activist-artist Katie Diamond,
SALACIOUS features sex art that
ranges from pinup photos of a voluptuous Black “Femme Shark” to pastel
drawings of White transmen in
bondage. Bear orgies share a leaf with
an earnest poem about the sweet sensuality of first love. SALACIOUS
runs the gamut from vanilla to hardcore, each piece selected for its unique
perspective on queer sex as well as for
its artistic excellence.
What is Iron Slut Sex Educator
Showdown? Iron Slut Sex Educator
Showdown is a 90-minute, friendly
and funny (sometimes competitive)
"throwdown" where real sex educators
talk about -then demonstrate- the tips
and tricks and things they like to do in
the bedroom. Think Jon Stewart's The
Daily Show meets Bravo's Inside The
Actors Studio where the audience gets
to take notes, ask questions and watch
explicit, frank, honest sex education
like you've never seen it before!
Show up to this fun-filled, 90minute workshop and learn: what sex
educators do under the covers and
how; their best tips and tricks (and
probably not the kind you read about
in Cosmo); their favorite, black belt
sexy-sexy time moves, and much,
much more...
Because
of
Sex
Educator
Showdown's sometimes explicit and
frank nature and live demonstrations,
no one under 18 admitted. Please try to
arrive on time. And, as with all of
Reid's workshops, you can always
leave early.
Madison
Young
of
MadisonBound.com is an award winning adult performer and director dedicated to creating sex positive and
empowering erotica and pornography
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Join Women On A Roll for a wild
and wacky night of fun, games, exciting prizes and lots of women!
7:00 pm Dinner and best seats, 7:30
pm Doors open for Bingo, 8 pm Bingo
begins.
Dinner: Guests have the option to
arrive at 6:00 pm for dinner. Call the
restaurant at (323) 654-3800 for dinner reservations. Best bingo seating
for dinner guests. (You must mention
Women On A Roll or Lesbo Bingo, or
they will not take your reservation).
Bingo: $20 Suggested Donation
(Includes 10 games of Bingo hosted
by the fabulous Belle Aire -- nine regular games and one grand prize game.
Does not include food and beverage.)
Grand Prize: Dinner party for 10
people at Cantalini's Salerno Beach!
Note: Advance reservations are not
available for this event. Walk-up
admission begins at 7:30 pm. No credit cards, please.
At Hamburger Mary's, 8288 Santa
Monica Blvd.
www.womenonaroll.com
Lesbians & Breast Cancer
1/29 in San Diego
World-renowned breast cancer
expert, author and activist, Dr. Susan
Love is the keynote speaker and will
host “Lesbians & Breast Cancer: A
Town Hall Forum”.
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fresh themes that help inspire your
fantasies! We work toward building
bridges within the community, by
hosting fundraisers, spotlighting
artists, presenting demos and supporting other endeavors of the kinky people in our community. If you're looking for a hot scene, Eclipse is the place
to be!
ABOUT THE SPACE - The SF
Citadel provides a safe space for
Women & Transpeople to play on
state-of-the-art dungeon equipment.
Known as the Bay Area's Premiere
Community Dungeon, with dual levels
and 5,400 square feet of play space,
the SF Citadel is a sex-positive and
volunteer-ran centerpiece of the
BDSM Community. We provide the
sexy music, water, delicious snacks,
and safer sex supplies…you provide
yourselves and whatever toys make
you tingle. Come alone, come partnered, or bring a group of friends
ADMISSION POLICY - You must
be a Citadel member to attend, and
have your membership card with you.
Memberships can be obtained at the
door on the night of the party, (2
guests per 1 member allowed). Annual
membership cost is $10. Sorry, those
who are bio-male AND identify as
such in their daily life will not be
admitted. Must be 18+ to attend with
valid ID required.
www.sfcitadel.org
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Hotties 4 Homo Health
Care Fundraiser
The forum is open to the public and
free to attend, courtesy of a grant by
the BCAUSE FUND housed at the
San
Diego
Human
Dignity
Foundation. The schedule includes a
free breakfast, followed by a presentation and Q&A session with Dr. Love.
In addition, she will be available
for a meet and greet, photo opportunities and to sign copies of her breast
cancer book following the event.
Find out more about Dr. Susan
Love Research Foundation at
www.dslrf.org
Advance registration is strongly
encouraged.
RSVP: dslrf.kintera.org/BCAUSE
9am - 1pm at the San Diego LGBT
Community Center, 3909 Centre St.
www.thecentersd.org
FlawLes Rooftop BBQ
1/29 in San Diego
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Her HRC Music Festival
1/30 in Huntington Beach
Join Human Rights Campaign
(HRC) Orange County Committee for
our “Her HRC” Music Festival, celebrating women, the music they create,
and the music they Love. 21 and over
event. Featuring 6 female-centric
musical acts and a comedienne emcee
to keep the party moving.
Featuring Jennifer Corday and the
Classic Rock Cougars, Shitting
Glitter, Peachy Keene, Michelle
Mangione on the Main Stage, and
eminent.ruth and He Is/She Is in the
Salon Lounge. Comedienne Emcee to
be announced. Drink and food specials all night. Be there and bring your
girlfriends! Full Bar and Latin/Asian
Fusion Gourmet Food Truck available.
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We would like to THANK YOU for
supporting FlawLes over the past 4
years. As a way of showing our appreciation, we would like to invite you to
attend this event on us! ALL Cover
Charges are FREE* when you RSVP!
(*$1 service charge applies online).
$10 at the Door without advanced
RSVP. You MUST RSVP online on
our website,
See what FlawLes has planned for
you in 2011 as we unveil our 2011
Events Calendar, along with some
special discounts and offers from our
sponsors. Also, increased visibility =
increased equality!
Please be our guest and help us kick
off our 2011 Calendar Year with a
rooftop BBQ and community celebration! Save the date for live DJs, beautiful weather and another great year in
Southern California...with the beautiful ladies, bois and swirls of San
Diego! Featuring a premiere screening
of the 2010 Flawles Media & Events
Year in Review Video.
12pm- 8pm at W Hotel, 421 West B
St.
www.flawles.com
Join us for "Hotties 4 Homo Health
Care," a fundraiser for Lyon-Martin
Health Services.
The evening will include fabulous
performances by Kentucky Fried
Woman, Brock Cocker, Drew
Montana and Jake Danger. DJ Booty
Klap from Party Hole! Ships in the
Night and DJs HLAWS & Jxn James
from Transfat will be providing awesome music to get down to!
Raffle prizes include hundreds of
dollars worth of amazing items and
certificates from Good Vibrations,
Vixen
Creations,
CrashPadSeries.com,
HeavenlySpire.com, and Kink.com.
Admission is a suggested $5-20 sliding scale donation.
Lyon-Martin Health Services is a
non-profit community health clinic
with over thirty years experience in
providing competent, non-judgmental
healthcare to women and transgender
people. Lyon-Martin Health Services
is the only free-standing community
clinic in California with a specific
emphasis on lesbian/bisexual women
and transgender health care. Services
are provided regardless of the patient's
ability to pay. For more information
about Lyon-Martin Health Services,
visit www.lyon-martin.org.
7 - 10pm at El Rio's back room,
3158 Mission St.
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General admission: $10 donation.
VIP admission: $50, and includes:
VIP seating and 2 drink tickets.
Includes an annual HRC membership!
4pm at Avec Nightclub, 18582
Beach Blvd.
www.hrc.org
Holly Hughes' The Dog and
Pony Show
2/3 - 2/26 in San Francisco
A new solo show written and performed by 2010 Guggenheim recipient Holly Hughes and directed by Dan
Hurlin. A blend of autobiography, animal behavior and bald faced lies,
"Dog and Pony" is a poetic/comic
meditation on the midlife crisis in the
key of canine by the woman who
drove Jesse Helms nuts. Or nuttier.
After several years as a professional
lesbian, Hughes gives up preaching to
the perverted and takes a real job at a
prestigious university, acquiring a
small pack of dogs in the process. She
discovers that as we age, the thin
membrane between the animal and the
human dissolves entirely. Time doesn't heal or heel, it brings new questions: "What is the sound of one lesbian clapping?"
Written and Performed by Holly
Hughes. Directed by Dan Hurlin. 55
minutes, no intermission. All seating
for this performance is first-come,
first-served. This show is no age limit
though it is not designed for children.
Please do not bring infants to the
show.
Thursdays at 8pm, Saturdays at
8:30pm, Sundays at 7pm at the Marsh
Mainstage Theater, 1062 Valencia St.
www.themarsh.org
Whale and Dolphin Trip
2/6 in Santa Cruz
Hello Whalesters! Mark your calendars for this special trip! Peninsula
Women's Group has reserved the
whole boat again for lesbians and their
women friends (adults only) on the
beautiful boat Velocity. It has a full
service snack bar and is wheel chair
accessible (not motorized). Our trip
may include sightings of Grey
Whales, Humpback, Killer and Blue
Whales as well as Dolphins...How
cool is this! The cost is $45 and will
be on a first come basis for the first 40
women. Please RSVP to Donna [email protected]. She will send
you further instructions as to where to
send your checks.
The trips out of Santa Cruz are
stunningly beautiful. The chances of
sightings are pretty much 100%
whether it be whales, dolphins, or
both!!
After the trip there are a couple of
restaurants nearby where we can all
get together and eat!
Hope to see you all soon!!
Questions? Email me at [email protected]
www.peninsulawomensgroup.org
Valentine Dance
2/12 in Santa Cruz
Women's Dance benefiting the
Diversity Center, jointly produced by
LezCruz and the Diversity Center.
-DJ Rebel spinning
-Santa Cruz Derby Girls back by
popular demand.
-Special guests to be announced
soon.
-Door Prizes and Raffle
-Special Dinner Menu (not included with admission ticket)
Tickets $15 in advance at
Streetlight
Records
and
BrownPaperTickets, $18 at the door.
7pm at Center Street Grill, 1001
Center St.
www.diversitycenter.org
Hot Flash - Speak Easy
Valentine's Celebration
Get ready to do the Charleston! It's
going to be a hot Valentine's Day as
Hot Flash slips into the swanky 20's at
an old-fashioned Speak Easy. So pull
out your favorite flapper dress or zoot
suit, sport that flask, and get your
dancing shoes on to kick up your heels
to DJ Page Hodel.
4 - 9pm at Slide, 430 Mason St.
www.hotflashdances.com/san-francisco.html
Victory Fund
Champagne Brunch
2/13 in San Diego
Join the Victory Fund and special
guest, the honorable Mayor Annise
Parker of Houston, Texas, for our
annual Champagne Brunch in San
Diego. Annise and her life partner,
Kathy Hubbard, have been together
since 1990. They have two children.
Annise was inaugurated to be
Houston's Mayor on January 4th,
2010.
Join Lyon-Martin Health Services
(visit www.lyon-martin.org or read
above under “Hotties 4 Homo Health
Care”) and Queer Food for Love for an
evening of food, music, art and raffle
prizes benefiting Lyon-Martin.
This Lyon-Martin fundraising
reception will be held at a Mission
artist's cooperative and will highlight
the local businesses and organizations
that sustain our communities. The
evening will include delicious appetizers catered by Queer Food for Love, a
volunteer non-profit that creates
organic, vegan meals for the queer
community.
“Mildred's
Bridge
Group,” a queer women quartet, will
provide music for the evening, and art
by the cooperative's artists-in-residence will decorate the space.
Raffle prizes include a $225 tattoo
gift certificate by Micah Riot of Black
and Blue Tattoo, $50 to local leather
artisans Project TransAction, a piece
of original art by local artist Danyol, a
private yoga lesson from Alice
DeYoung and much more!
General Admission tickets are $25,
tickets for low-income attendees are
$15, and VIP tickets are $50 and
include 5 free raffle tickets and a
Lyon-Martin t-shirt. Tickets at:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/14
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6 - 9pm at 2509 Bryant St.
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Lily Tomlin
2/19 in San Luis Obispo
Lily Tomlin, one of America's foremost comediennes, continues to venture across an ever-widening range of
media, starring in television, theater,
motion pictures, animation, and video.
Throughout her extraordinary entertainment career, Tomlin has received
numerous awards, including: six
Emmys; a Tony for her one woman
Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a
second Tony as Best Actress, Drama
Desk Award and Outer Critics' Circle
Award for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner's The Search
Curiously Strong Comedy
2/19 in Long Beach
StandOut Productions brings the
2011 launch of the "Curiously Strong
Comedy" National Tour to Long
Beach!
Featuring rising stars Gloria
Bigelow and Jackie Monahan, and the
legendary Vickie Shaw headlining!
Three hilarious comedians, in mint
condition... performing outside the
box!
Subtle, disarming, and witty-Gloria
Bigelow is a refreshing new comic
who doses out humor in bite sized
chunks-easy for the listener to swallow
but realness nonetheless. Coming to
comedy from a background of acting
she is an excellent observer of life and
a natural improviser. An openly gay
black woman, “she's got a bone to pick
with everybody!” She does so by wittingly tackling issues from Low
Lesbian Esteem to the Iconization of
Snoop Dog, all done with a smile.
With issues of sexuality, race, and gender at the forefront of her work she has
become a favorite and a “one to
watch” on the national comedy scene.
Jackie is taking the NYC comedy
scene by storm. Quickly becoming a
local favorite at Gotham and
Caroline's on Broadway, Jackie took
her show on the road headlining at
Clubs and Colleges all over the country. When she is not on the road with
the LOL tour, she is busy around
Manhattan doing spots on Maxim's
Sirius radio and VH1 shows. With this
trained actress and Uprights Citizen
Brigade improviser it seems that Miss
Monahan is unstoppable.
Vickie Shaw looks like the woman
next door ... All-American with blond
hair, lipstick and polished nails. Once
she opens her mouth, you'll know she
was born and raised in Texas and you'll
never stop laughing. After eighteen
years of marriage and three kids,
something was missing in Vickie's
life... “People were always coming up
to me and saying, 'You should do
stand-up comedy.'” Vickie did become
a stand-up comic and came out as a
lesbian at the same time. “I would've
come out as a stand-up, but it would've
killed my parents.” Now, she performs
in both straight and gay venues opening audience's minds with laughter. “I
don't look the part. I blow away all
their stereotypes. I'm the woman next
door - except I just happen to be gay.”
Tickets: $45 - VIP Preferred Seating
(Orchestra section 3 and first two rows
of sections 2 and 4) & admittance to
after-party with cast; $32.50 Orchestra (sections 1, 2, 4, 5) and
Center Loge (sections 4 and 5); $22.50
- Loge (Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8). Seats
assigned on a first come, first-served
basis.
All sales final.
7 pm Doors open, 8 pm Showtime.
At Long Beach Center Theater, 300
E. Ocean Blvd.
www.womenonaroll.com
Speed Dating for Queer
Women
Hosted by The Queer Love
Connection: bringing you meaningful
connections in a fun, safe space. It's
time we took our dating lives into our
own hands! Let's change the world,
one speed date at a time.
Why Come? Dating's hard, right?
The bar scene is stale. Online dating is
a drag. The laundromats are empty.
And you've met all your friends'
friends. It'll be your cheapest date ever
- 10 dates for 20 bucks. You'll be able
to meet loads of awesome folks during
the speed dating as well as The
Mingles. Prior to and after the event,
we'll have a DJ - and food & drinks are
available. So, you'll have tons of time
to meet others -- on and off the speed
date floor. And we hope for representation from the entire rainbow! There
will also be a fun presentation on the
Neuroscience of Love - with helpful
tips for relationships and speed dating!
(After all, we want to set you up for
success!)
Tickets $20 - all profits go directly
to your local queer safety-makers,
CUAV (Community United Against
Violence).
Registration and Mingling: 8:009:00pm, Speed Dating: 9:00pm10:30pm, DJ + Drinks: 10:30-12am.
If you want to * just* come for The
After-Mingles, feel free to arrive at
10:30pm for only $10!
8pm at Il Pirata, 2007 16th St.
RSVP
to
Sarah
at
[email protected]
or
visit
www.facebook.com/home.php#!/even
t.php?eid=183980451629829
Readings in Lesbian &
Bisexual Women's Fiction
Thursdays
Broadcasts live on Thursday nights,
10:30 pm ET. Hosted by bisexual
author Lara Zielinsky. You can listen
live, chat during the show, or catch the
replay on iTunes, or mp3. There is a
switchboard phone number that's oper-
ational during the show so you can call
in!
"Readings" radio (for short) has
been bringing the voices of your
favorite authors of lesbian and bisexual women's experience (fiction and
non-fiction) since 2009. And we hope
to bring you many more!
www.blogtalkradio.com/lara-zielinsky
Women on Wednesdays
in Long Beach
This new women's group encourages companionship, relationships,
opportunities, laughter, recreation,
news, networking, interesting varying
events and socializing.
Weekly meetings at 6pm on
Wednesdays at a private residence in
Long Beach.
Special events:
Sunday, 2/6 - We are going to have
a super bowl potluck party. The party
starts at 1 pm and the game starts at 3
pm.
Saturday, 2/12 - Touch of Class. Sit
down
Valentine
dinner
$25.
Everything included. Dressy, casual,
to tux and gown. Bring a friend. 5 pm.
Singles wanted along with couples.
Sunday, 2/20 - Potluck party for all
February Birthdays. 1 pm.
For locations and to RSVP, please
visit www.womynzbrunchbunch.org.
Heart: A Loving
Community Fundraiser
for Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe; a CableAce Award for
Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; a Grammy for her
comedy album, This is a Recording as
well as nominations for her subsequent
albums Modern Scream, And That's
the Truth, and On Stage; and two
Peabody Awards--the first for the ABC
television special, Edith Ann's
Christmas: Just Say Noël and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid
Closet.
A GALA (Gay & Lesbian Alliance
of Central Coast) sponsored event.
8pm at Cal Poly Performing Arts
Center, 1 Grand Ave.
Tickets: (805) 756-2787
www.pacslo.org
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Betty's Out Events
in Las Vegas
Coffee Social
Meet George on January 30th at
11:00am, for some freshly brewed coffee, stimulating conversation and the
opportunity to make new friends. At
Borders, 6521 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Karen Jones Concert & Dinner
Join Cindy and Betty's Out on
January 31st for “All That Jazz with
Karen Jones”. There's a $10 door
cover and the show is from 8pm to
11pm. We'll be meeting up at 7pm to
have dinner before the show they have
great burgers and pizza! At E-String,
2031 West Sunset Rd., Henderson.
www.Karenjoneslive.com
www.bettysout.com
San Francisco girl of
Leather Events
January 22nd will bring our very
first SFgoL slumber party! We are
looking forward to lots of pink, pajamas, pillow fights and other oh-sogirly things. If you identify as a girl of
Leather, please come!
Please come to Debauchery at the
White Horse Inn, 6551 Telegraph
Ave., Oakland on Sunday, February
20th for our first club fundraiser! We
are so lucky to have the MC and performance talents of SFgoL member
Ms. Alotta Boutté, as well as many
fabulous raffle prizes!
www.whitehorsebar.com
www.sfgol.org
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In 2010, more openly LGBT candidates won election to public office
than in any year in America's history.
Please join us and help continue to
expand the LGBT community's voice
at all levels of government in 2011.
Reception: 11:00am - 11:45am,
Brunch Program: 11:45am - 2:00pm.
Individual Tickets - $100.
There is a special room rate available at the Catamaran Hotel and the
Lodge Torrey Pines by visiting
www.catamaranresort.com/victoryFun
d/
At Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa,
3999 Mission Blvd.
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be seen here
for $10 a month.
Call 559-486-3464
for details
Your Intellectual Whore
“An effervescently gay
advice columnist”
Disclaimer: Although the author
of this syndicated column holds a
doctorate in clinical psychology, the
tongue-in-cheek advice given is for
entertainment only and is not a substitute for therapy. Barbie responds to
all emails…whether you deserve it or
not. Send your questions to Uncle
Barbie at: [email protected]
ON WITH THE
SHOW-VINIST
Dear Uncle Barbie,
Hey Barbie, a hypnotist came to my
school and did some pretty cool stuff.
They made my friends do some really
crazy stuff. I just wanted to ask you a
one question. Could I use hypnosis to
make a girl make out with me? I am
just wondering if it would work.
Signed, Joe Smooth
Hello Mr. Smoothie,
I do not know if your generation
uses the phrase “male chauvinist,” but
your attitude reflects a very sexist
view of girls and womyn. Let me get
right to the point. No, you cannot
seduce a girl against her will--not even
with hypnosis. Come on, now. I am
sure you can get a girl your own age to
go out with you without having to trick
her by trying to reprogram her unconscious. How pathetic is that? Have a
little self-respect. You seem to have a
great misunderstanding of hypnosis, so
let me clarify a few things for you.
When most people think of the
word hypnosis, images of a stage hypnotist (such as the one who came to
your school) come to mind. With
selected volunteers from the audience,
the stage hypnotist will use peer pressure from the audience to manipulate
the volunteers into performing ridiculous acts on stage for the amusement
of the viewers. What the audience does
not realize is that the people on stage,
who have freely volunteered to be subjects, have also freely chosen to cooperate and follow the hypnotist's suggestions.
Santa has finished his shopping
list and now it's your turn to make
your list. What do you want to do in
the coming year to improve your life?
A pad of paper, a Ticonderoga #2,
and some brainstorming should get
you on the way to those New Year's
resolutions.
Make
it
realistic,
Roger!
Resolutions are goals that you aim to
achieve. It's buckets of fun to imagine
losing 300 pounds over the next six
months and snagging that hot young
guy for a date to your class reunion.
There's never anything wrong with
having an escapist moment and
dreaming in Dolby surround sound!
Just have a back-up plan; one that
includes a realistic goal that will fit
nicely on your shelf of resolutions.
Keep it simple, Simon! It's quite
possible to have twenty resolutions
for the New Year. It's also quite possible to get overwhelmed with that
many goals to focus upon. If you
spread yourself too thin you will
probably not complete anything.
Think it through and choose three to
five main resolutions that will garner
your attention in 2011.
Put it on paper, Paula! It isn't good
enough to announce your resolution
list to the frothy mob from atop the
banquet table at four minutes past
midnight. There isn't a soul that will
remember your blustery bravado and
hold you to those good intentions. If
you want to do it right then print out
They are never under the control of
the hypnotist. The subjects have strong
performance expectations placed on
them by the hypnotist. I have actually
seen it happen where a subject was
abrasively told to get off the stage simply because she did not meet the performance criteria of the stage hypnotist. If the subjects do not perform
well, they end up looking badly in
front of their friends. This type of scenario is just a hypnotic show for entertainment purposes and is not the true
design of hypnosis. Originally, the true
purpose was to find a way to tap into a
person's subconscious in order to
reduce or cure illnesses of neurosis by
releasing repressed thoughts and emotions.
To put it simply, hypnosis, like any
trance, is merely a focused state of
concentration during which time
seems to slow down. The trance state
is very natural. In fact, you go in and
out of various trances every day. It is
as easy as turning your attention from
one thing to another. When you concentrate intensely on something, your
mind tends to interpret the other things
going on around you as distractions
and blocks them out. It is similar to
when you are driving down the freeway while your mind is singing along
to your favorite song on the radio, and,
then without even realizing it, you
have missed your exit because your
mind was somewhere else. That is an
example of a natural trance that is
commonly experienced by most
adults.
So, I hope that you now realize that
clinical hypnosis is most effective
when you use it to control yourself-not someone else. Now, when I snap
my fingers, you will snap out of it and
be more respectful to womyn.
Snap, Uncle Barbie
The latest in psycho-analytic
amusement
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your resolution list and hand them
out to your friends and family at a
sober hour. Your odds of achieving
your goals significantly increase
when paper meets pen!
Create some challenges, Charlie!
There isn't much excitement in attaining something easily! Going to the
gym once a month is better than not
going at all. Going to the gym at least
once a week seems to be a bit more
challenging and might even spur you
to go more frequently than that.
Resolutions should get you out of
your comfort zone. If it was too easy,
you were too comfortable! Try again!
Allow it to continue, Carla!
There's no shame in not achieving
your resolutions from 2010. Keep
'em going again over the next year. If
it was important to you last year, then
I will place good odds that it is
important to you this year too!
Continue moving toward those goals
and make the necessary adjustments.
Rome wasn't built in a day!
Sign up your friends and family,
Frank! There is always strength in
numbers. You are more likely to realize success when working with others
in your quest to achieve your resolutions. Social networking makes it
much easier to find others with similar resolutions. Find a companion or
two and support each other on the
journey.
That famous lanky statesman with
the stove-pipe hat and the full beard
once stated, “Always bear in mind
that your own resolution to succeed is
more important than any other.”
Those are honest words from an honest man and you'd be wise to heed
them! Happy New Year to you all!
This health and fitness article is
brought to you by that knight in shining armor. That noble
Blake and he can be reached at
[email protected].
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"IN THE LIFE Presents:
Gen Silent"
This month's episode has already
aired. Watch it online at www.inthelifetv.org
The LGBT family "of choice" is a
uniquely important lifeline and community support system. It is among
the most profound legacies of LGBT
life, illustrated by the men and
women who came together to care for
people with AIDS at the height of the
epidemic. Today, a new health crisis
is unfolding across America as LGBT
seniors face homophobia, transphobia and insensitivity in the health care
system. With traditional support systems failing to address the needs of
aging LGBT people, a new generation is called to organize care and
community around its elders.
This month, IN THE LIFE presents an excerpt of the film Gen
Silent, a moving documentary about
the very seniors whose generation
organized the LGBT community into
a movement, but now face so much
fear and discrimination that they're
driven back into isolation; featuring
the story of KrysAnne Hembrough, a
transwoman struggling to find acceptance and community in the midst of
battling a terminal illness. And we
speak with the film's director, Stu
Maddux, about the power of change.
HOROSCOPES by Eric Biglione
Aries
(Mar 21 - Apr 19)
Beneficial time
begins now. You are
more upbeat and others are willing to help you. Love and
work are on the up swing.
Opportunities are looming.
Taurus
(Apr 20 - May 20)
Trying time with
others. Be patient
and try to understand
it isn't all about you. Physical activity
will release the stress here. Love
sparks your interest in Feb.
Gemini
(May 21 - June 20)
It’s all about career
and
status
now.
Opportunity is here but make sure you
are up to all the tasks . Friendships are
important now so listen to them.
Scorpio
(Oct 23 - Nov 21)
The is a time where
people either peak
your interest or get on your nerves.
Keep busy or spend time meditating.
The home life can be a little unsettling
now.
Sagittarius
(Nov 22 - Dec 21)
Love interests are
the norm for now as
others listen to you
and find you attractive. This is a good
time to get others on board with your
ideas.
Capricorn
(Dec 22 - Jan 19)
(July 23 - Aug 22)
Others will ask
you for your support
this month which
seems to interfere with your plans. Be
flexible here. This is a period to help
others. Make time for your friends.
Virgo
(Aug 23 - Sep 22)
Stick with idealistic friends for your
sanity. No naysayers please. Look at your health now-eating habits, exercise, etc.. and make
adjustments. Creativity is high
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The craziness of
the past month goes
away and you move
around more with a sense of direction
and ease. You may want to make some
practical purchases now to simply your
life. Try not to expect too much from
your friends at this time.
(June 21 - July 22)
Leo
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(Sep 23 - Oct 22)
Cancer
You are in a transition
period
for
awhile. Out with the old and in with
the new. It;s harder then it sounds.
Have a hobby to keep you grounded.
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Libra
You have a lovely
way about you here
as you increase your friends and find
more love in your life. Go slow here
for long lasting relationships
Aquarius
(Jan 20 - Feb 18)
Mars in your sign
make you not afraid to
take chances and go
for the gold. It is decision time and
you are going to make them.
Pisces
(Feb 19 - Mar 20)
What you want is
not what you get here
and you will be
happy about this. Work with friends to
get a new direction going in your life.
There may be a new love interest coming.
Family Pride Coalition
PO Box 65327
Washington, DC 20035-5327
202-331-5015
familypride.org
Human Rights Campaign
1640 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Washington DC 20036-3278
800-777-4723 TTY: 202-216-1572
hrc.org
Gay Lesbian Straight
Education Network
90 Broad St, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10004
212-727-0135
glsen.org
Immigration Equality
350 West 31st Street, Suite 505
New York, NY 10001
212-714-2904
immigrationequality.org
Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation
5455 Wilshire Blvd, #1500
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-933-2240
glaad.org
Int'l Gay & Lesbian
Human Rights Commission
80 Maiden Lane, Suite 1505
New York, NY 10038
212-268-8040
iglhrc.org
Gay & Lesbian Victory
Fund & Leadership Institute
PO Box 96308
202-VICTORY
victoryfund.org
Lambda Legal
120 Wall Street, Suite 1500
New York, NY 10005-3904
212-809-8585
lambdalegal.org
STRAIGHT ADVOCATES
FOR EQUALITY
Outreach Education
Support
www.safefresno.com
CALIFORNIA RUAL
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Proyecto Poderoso
1-800-242-2752
2115 Kern St., Suite 370,
Fresno, CA 93721
611 E. Belmont
Fresno, CA 93701
559-237-3420
Log Cabin Republicans
1901 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, #902
Washington, DC 20006
202-347-5306
logcabin.org
National Center
For Transgender Equality
1325 Massachusetts Av NW # 700
202-903-0112
nctequality.org
National Coalition
For Lesbian Rights
870 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-392-6257
nclrights.org
National Stonewall Democrats
1325 Massachusetts Av NW # 700
202-625-1382
stonewalldemocrats.org
~ Changing the world,
one closed mind
at a time ~
Trans-e-motion
meetings:
third Saturdays 5pm
Call Rachel (559) 255-4075
(evenings please)
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Community United
Against Violence (San Francisco)
24 Hr. Hotline: (415) 333-HELP
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
STOP Domestic Violence:
1-800-373-2227
National Gay & Lesbian
Task Force
8704 Santa Monica Blvd #200
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-855-7380
thetaskforce.org
www.GayVisalia.com
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PO Box 65301
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202-328-3244
sldn.org
The Network / La Red (Boston)
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617-742-4911; TTY 617-227-4911
National Domestic Violence
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800-799-7233; TTY 800-787-3224
Trevor Helpline (GLBT youth sui
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212-851-8418
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202-462-6610
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