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NEWS LINK
Project of Community Link, Inc.
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER
COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATION
August 19, 2011
Issue XII, Volume XVI, Number 192
FREE monthly GLBT publication * Since 1995 * www.CommunityLinkFresno.com
New Pride Center
Formed in Stockton
A diverse coalition of San Joaquin
County LGBT leaders announces the
formation of San Joaquin Pride Center,
a non-profit organization. The mission
of the San Joaquin Pride Center is to
serve the diverse LGBTQQIA community in San Joaquin County and the surrounding areas by creating a safe and
welcoming space, by providing
resources that enrich body, mind and
spirit, and by educating the public on
tolerance and respect for all people
within the LGBTQQIA community.
San Joaquin County is the only urban
hub in Northern California without a
pride center to serve its community.
With reports of local discrimination,
violence and harassment within the
County, it is imperative there be a safe
space for members of the LGBTQQIA
community to find council and support.
The Center will offer information on
anti-bullying programs, as well as support groups, medical and psychological
referrals, and peer counseling, in addition to serving the spiritual and religious
needs of the community.
The Board of Directors is certain
they can open the San Joaquin Pride
Center within three to six months. To
kick start their efforts, the Center has
announced a grassroots capital campaign called The Fabulous Five
Hundred. This campaign will utilize
crowdsourcing via online social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter
to raise $5000 through $10 donations.
Each $10 donor will get his/her name
displayed on a poster that will be
framed and displayed at the Center in
perpetuity.
Those interested in supporting the
Fabulous Five Hundred Campaign
should visit our website.
Currently, our Officers include: Chair
- Martina Virrey (previously with
Central Valley Stonewall Democratic
Club and the San Joaquin County chapter of Marriage Equality USA); Vice
Chair - Christine Osbourne (previously
PRIDE Alliance at University of
Pacific); Treasurer - Elena Kelly
(Stockton
Transgender Alliance,
Marriage Equality San Joaquin, Chair
of the Peace and Justice Network);
Secretary - Al Madeiros (Gay-LesbianStraight Education Network, and previously Rainbow Alliance at CSU
Stanislaus).
Our Board Directors are: Lynn
Green; Uneke Chanel (Imperial San
Joaquin Delta Empire); Matthew Craig;
Carlos Davalos.
And the Pride Team consists of:
Executive Director - Nicholas Hatten
(CV Stonewall, AIDS Walk San
Joaquin); Volunteer Coordinator - Brian
Wick (Delta Pride at San Joaquin Delta
College); Webmaster - Mike Du Pont.
sanjoaquinpridecenter.weebly.com
Wins case against TSA
by Angela R. Brooks
Please come out and support
Community Link's Bowl-a-thon 2011,
Sunday August 21, 2011 at 2:30-4:30 .
At Cedar Lanes, 3131 N.Cedar Ave.
This year the Bowl-a-thon has a 50's
theme and is their big summer time
fundraiser.
Put a team of 3-4 players together,
each team is asked to make a minimum
$25 donation and each bowler must pay
$8 for their two games and shoes.
The big questions are who will the
top strikers, the team that raises the
most money, which bar will take the
Pins and Cocktails trophy, who will get
the best game, who will take the worst
game, which team will have the most
creative team name, best bowling outfits, best in theme costume, and who
will be the King Pins and Queen Pins.
The Bowl-a-thon is in a beautifully
air conditioned building. Food, drinks
and cocktails available from the cafe.
All bowlers and guests are entered
into a Prize Raffle free of charge.
Call Jeff at 486-3463 and reserve a
lane for your team today.
What's Happening with the
Prop. 8 Case
to see what happened during Prop. 8's
public trial. AFER will be back before
Chief Judge James Ware in District
Court on August 29 regarding its
motion to release the video recording.
Over 21,000 people have signed our
open letter calling for the release of the
tapes.
Have
you?
Go
to:
http://act.afer.org/site/PageServer?page
name=Open_Letter&s_src=C01_releas
etapes&s_subsrc=email
Aug. 29: Release the Tapes Hearing
American Foundation For Equal
Rights (AFER) is back in District Court,
this time for a hearing about allowing
the public to see video of the historic
Prop. 8 trial. The Prop. 8 defense is trying to hide what happened. Because this
case affects the civil rights of millions
of Americans, AFER believes everyone
should be able to see the trial for themselves.
September 6: Oral Arguments in
California State Supreme Court
When the federal District Court ruled
that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional, the
California Attorney General, who represents official state interests, decided not
to appeal the decision. The official proponents of Prop. 8, who intervened in
the case, appealed the decision to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit. Before the Ninth Circuit issues
a ruling, the California State Supreme
Court needs to determine if, under state
law, the proponents of Prop. 8 are able
to step into the shoes of the State and
appeal. Oral arguments before the
California Court will be televised.
Help Release the Tapes
Release the Prop.. 8 Tapes
What is the Prop. 8 defense trying to
hide? The American people have a right
“8”
Broadway Premiere of “8”: Sept. 19
Dustin Lance Black uses actual court
testimony in “8,” new play to shed light
on what happened during the Prop. 8
trial. Join AFER and Broadway Impact
for an exclusive reading and fundraiser.
The new play by Academy Awardwinning screenwriter Dustin Lance
Black, “8” chronicles the historic federal trial of Prop. 8 using the official court
record and Black's own interviews and
observations.
For those you who can get to New
York or have travel plans already join
the American Foundation for Equal
Rights along with Broadway Impact for
an exclusive, one-night-only reading on
Broadway to benefit the fight to win
marriage equality in federal court.
Following its premiere, “8” will be
licensed to community theaters and college groups in an effort to inform and
engage people in our fight for equality.
The Transgender Law Center won a
settlement with the TSA in July of
2011. The Transgender Law Center represented Ashley Yang who worked for
the TSA at the Los Angeles
International Airport. Ashley lives her
life as a woman and her California driver's license states she is female. The
TSA forced Ashley to dress like a man,
and even pat down male passengers
before she was fired her in July 2010.
Ashley wore a wig to hide her long
hair and was subjected to sexual harassment by passengers. Ashley Yang
worked for the TSA for almost two
years as a woman. One of her co workers saw her use the female restroom and
complained. Ashley was fired for not
complying with male work standards
not job performance.
Masen Davis the Director of the
Transgender Law Center stated that “No
one should have to choose between their
gender and their job”. The TSA is currently sending their managers to gender
sensitivity training. The Transgender
Law Center is working with the TSA to
update their policies regarding transgender employees.
TLC’s Ninth Anniversary
by Angela R. Brooks
The Transgender Law Center is holding their ninth anniversary party on Sept
16, 2011 at the End Up. The VIP reception is form 6p-7p and the main event is
from7p-9p. Alexandra Byerly and Dr.
Nick Gorton will be receiving the
Vangaurd awards. Ticket prices range
from $50-$150. Call 415 865 0176
X307 for tickets.
“One Nation
Under the Rainbow”
Logo Cntest
The Pride Parade group has chosen
“One Nation Under The Rainbow” has
the theme for 2012 event and is holding
alogo contest.
Logo
submissions
must
be
RECEIVED by October 1st, 2011, so
we suggest using e-mail to get them to
us! The designer of the chosen logo will
receive a $100 prize.
Artwork will not be returned to the
artists and Community Link will retain
the right to use ALL logo submissions
for additional promotional materials as
it sees fit.
Continued on page 7
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Some Answers and Blame
in 2010
Greyhound Bus Crash
By Dan Waterhouse
There are some answers now in the
July 22nd Greyhound bus crash that
killed six people and injured 22.
There's also blame spread around
by investigators and prosecutors.
The primary blame went to the driver of a SUV that overturned, triggering the collision with the bus and two
other vehicles. Sylvia Garay, age 18,
had a blood alcohol level of between
0.11 and 0.14 when she flipped her
car after missing the northbound offramp from Route 99 to McKinley
Avenue. She and her two passengers
were killed when the bus slammed
into their vehicle. The bus driver and
two passengers also died.
A young woman, Michelle Kay
Cole, has been charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor resulting in
injury or death.
A
young
man,
Brandon
McCullough, Jr., has been charged
with a violation of the City of
Fresno's social host ordinance.
And, the Department of Alcohol
Beverage Control has filed an accusation against the liquor store, A-1
Liquor, where Cole admittedly
bought the alcohol.
The sequence of events that ended
in tragedy was triggered shortly
before 8:30 p.m. on July 16th when
Stephanie Gonzales sent a text message to Garay, inviting her to celebrate Gonzales' birthday on July 21st
by going out dancing and getting
drunk. Gonzales turned 20 on July
22nd.
On the evening of July 21st,
according to investigators, Garay
drove to Fresno from her home in
Dinuba, picked up Vanessa Gonzalez,
19, and Stephanie Cordoba, 20, at
their homes. Around 9:15 p.m. Garay,
Gonzalez and Cordoba headed to A-1
Liquor, located at Shields and Maroa
where they met Daniela Flores, 19,
Gonzales, and Cole.
Investigators say the group entered
the liquor store where Garay and
Gonzalez removed four cans of Four
Loco from a cooler and took them to
the checkout counter where
Mohamed Alyafaie was clerking.
Cole bought two bottles of vodka as
well and paid for the cans of Four
Loco.
When questioned later by investigators, Alyafaie denied seeing Garay
and Gonzalez put the cans of Four
Loco on the counter, even though sur-
NewsLink
Mistress Tawnie
Succumbs To Cancer
2
Mistress Tawnie, founder and
“mother” of The Group In Fresno
(TGIF) died of cancer on July 27.
Mistress Tawnie was just looking
for friends who shared her interest in
BDSM when she travelled from
Fresno to Modesto in 1998 to attend
the Modesto Discussion Group
munch. That trip turned out to be the
start of a 13-year journey to build an
organization that has helped hun-
veillance video showed them doing
just that. He also denied seeing Cole
hand the cans to Gonzalez as they left
the store. Investigators, including
Chief Deputy District Attorney Greg
Anderson, then confronted Alyafaie,
saying that because he had changed
his story several times, they did not
believe he was telling the truth.
After leaving A-1 Liquor, the
group drove to McCullough's loft
apartment on the edge of downtown
where they started drinking.
McCullough, who was at the time the
boyfriend of Gonzales' brother, told
investigators he thought the women
had come to his apartment to be more
comfortable “because they wanted to
take shots.”
The group left McCullough's
apartment shortly before 11 p.m. and
met at Gonzales' apartment, a few
blocks from the Starline nightclub in
the Tower. They then walked to the
club to dance.
While at the Starline, cell phone
video was shot, showing Garay's
level of intoxication to be noticeably
higher than in video recorded nearly
two hours earlier. The group left the
Starline around 1:45 a.m. and walked
back to Gonzales' home nearby.
Garay, Gonzalez and Cordoba then
drove away from the rest of their
group at 2 a.m.
Garay crashed her SUV at 2:14
a.m. on Route 99.
Investigators say there was no evidence Garay consumed any alcohol
while at the Starline.
Stephan Mintz, who was the ABC
compliance person for the Starline in
2010, commented on the Fresno Bee
blog this past July 22nd, “that gay
night was trouble from the start. My
job there was to keep underagers
from drinking in the club. I was really good at my job. My job was also to
ensure that any underage person
under the influence of drugs or drink
was not permitted into the club. I was
pretty good at that job. But I was
throwing out an average of 26-28 kids
per night. Every night I'm sure I
missed a couple of kids. Couldn't help
it.
“There were fights,“ Mintz writes.
“There wasn't enough security.”
Mintz said the promoter would only
pay for four security people. His idea
“was to supplement security with
Queer Fresno people, who, while
striving to help, were also there to
dance or drink themselves. We caught
people selling drugs. I got in more
fight situations than ever before.”
“In many ways I'm so glad Queer
Fresno's dance night isn't happening
anymore. THAT is what led to the
problem for Starline. It was just a
matter of time before something horrible happened. It just turned out to be
the Greyhound bus crash, and while
the investigation cleared Starline, it
really was just a matter of time”
Mintz concluded.
dreds find acceptance of their alternative sexuality.
The following month, Mistress
Tawnie brought together eight of her
friends at a Tower District pizza joint
for the first Fresno munch. 13 years
and 156 munches later, the seeds that
Mistress Tawnie planted have grown
into an organization of over 350
members that conducts monthly educational and social events. To date,
TGIF has spawned groups in at least
four other regions.
FRESNO GLBT+ EVENT CALENDAR
AUGUST
19 Friday
5:30p Art workshop & Potluck @ Fresno LGBT Center
1055 N Van Ness #C, (559) 325-4429, gayfresno.com
19 Friday 6p
Men's Mixer @ Café Rousseau
568 E Olive Ave, www.sunapsis.org/lgbt/mixer
19 Friday 6:30p Mariposa Azul - Meeting @ call for location
Gaby (559) 266-5650 (Spanish)
19 Friday 7-11p Golden State Bears - Bear Frenzy 17: Meet & Greet
@ The Phoenix, 4538 E Belmont, goldenstatebears.org
19 Friday 9p
A Bewitching Night - Valley Pagan Pride fundraiser
@ North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa, northtowercircle.com
20 Saturday 12-5p Golden State Bears - Bear Frenzy 17: Pool Party
@ 4710 E Brown, goldenstatebears.org
20 Saturday 7p
Gay Central Valley & United Student Pride - Open Mic
@ Fresno LGBT Center, 1055 N Van Ness #C, (559) 325-4429, gayfresno.com
20 Saturday 8p
Golden State Bears - Bear Frenzy 17: Mr. Golden State
Bear & Cub 2011-12 Contest @ The Phoenix,
4538 E Belmont, goldenstatebears.org
20 Saturday 11p
Ladies of Seduction - Freestyle show
@ North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa Ave, northtowercircle.com
20 Saturday
Crown Royal Party @ Club Legends
3075 N Maroa Ave, www.clublegendsfresno.com
21 Sunday 11a-1p Golden State Bears - Bear Frenzy 17: Brunch @ Yosemite
Falls Cafe, 4278 W Ashlan, goldenstatebears.org
21 Sunday 2:30p Community Link - Bowl-A-Thon 2011
@ Cedar Lanes, 3131 N Cedar, communitylinkfresno.com
21 Sunday
Club Xtatic @ the North Tower Circle
2777 N Maroa Ave, northtowercircle.com
23 Tuesday 6-9p Gay Central Valley & ACLU - Dinner For Membership
@ Irene's Café, 747 E Olive, www.gaycentralvalley.org
24 Wed.
9a
Project: MALE - HIV Think Tank
@ 1584 N Van Ness Ave, (559) 287-7666
25 Thursday 2p
We C.A.R.E. - Grupo Educativo En Espanol @ Specialty
Health Clinic, 290 N Wyate Ln, (559) 459-5101, wecarefresno.org
25 Thursday 7p
The Group In Fresno - Munch
www.tgifresno.org
26 Friday 8p
Essence Family Values Show @ the North Tower Circle
26 Friday 9p
Imperial Dove Court - Last Friday Show
@ the Red Lantern, 4618 E. Belmont, www.idcfresno.org
26 Friday
Malibu's Dream Birthday Party @ the Express
708 N Blackstone Ave, thefresnoexpress.com
27 Saturday
Function @ the Express
28 Sunday 2p
Community Link's Gray Alliance - Potluck
Liz or Lupe (559) 287-2428, communitylinkfresno.com
28 Sunday 6p
Community Book Group @ Fresno LGBT Center
28 Sunday 9p
Mariposa Azul - Divas Night
@ Los Amigos, 1752 W. Shaw Ave, losamigosmex.com
30 Tuesday 7p
The Group In Fresno - sub/slave/bottom Discussion Group
www.tgifresno.org
31 Wed.
7p
Fresno Rainbow Pride 2012 meet @ Fresno Metro
Ministry, 1055 N Van Ness Ave conf. rm,fresnorainbowpride.com
SEPTEMBER
1 Thursday 7:15p Community Link's Rainbow Bowling League
summer season ends @ Cedar Lanes, 3131 N Cedar Ave,
(559) 824-1417, www.communitylinkfresno.com
2 Friday
6p
Men's Mixer @ TBA
www.sunapsis.org/lgbt/mixer
2 Friday
6:30p Mariposa Azul - Meeting @ call for location
Gaby (559) 266-5650 (Spanish)
2 Friday
7p
Trans-e-motion - Social Meeting
(559) 646-5806, trans-e-motion.org
2 Fri - Mon
Red Lantern's 35th Anniversary weekend
Fri 10p Fresno's Finest Show
Sat 4p Afternoon Red Party
Sun 2p Beer Bash, 6pm BBQ, 7:30pm IDC Show, 9:15pm Karaoke
Mon 2p Monday Madness, 5pm Free Dinner
@ the Red Lantern, 4618 E Belmont, redlantern.info
2 Fri - 5 Mon
Labor Day Weekend Malibu White Party @ Club Legends
3 Saturday 5p
Trans-e-motion - Support Meeting
(559) 646-5806, trans-e-motion.org
3 Saturday 8p-12a Golden State Bears - Beer Bust @ The Phoenix
4538 E. Belmont Ave, www.goldenstatebears.org
3 Saturday 11p
Ladies of Seduction - Kampout Kickoff show
@ the North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa Ave, northtowercircle.com
3 Saturday
Club Flesh @ the Express
4 Sunday
9a-2p Weekly Women's Flag Football season starts
10 weeks @ Clinton & Brawley Park,
facebook.com/profile.php?id=1570299583&sk=wall
4 Sunday
1p
Golden State Bears - Meeting
www.goldenstatebears.org
6 Tuesday 6p
We C.A.R.E. - English Support Group @ Community
Regional Medical Center Sequoia Room E or W, 2823 Fresno St.
First-time attendees please call (559) 577-7109, wecarefresno.org
6 Tuesday
Rated “R” Superstars LGBT+ softball team season starts
@ Fresno Regional Sports Complex, 1707 W Jensen Ave
sportsstandings.com/SelectSchedule/aspx?leagueId=1168
continued on page 3
SEPTEMBER
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We C.A.R.E. - Member Meeting @ Community Regional
Med. Center Pacifica Rm, 2823 Fresno St, wecarefresno.org
9 Friday
6:30p Golden State Bears - Game & Movie Night
9 Friday
Fresno LGBTQ Social Group
www.gayfresno.com/social/
9 Fri - 11 Sun
Fresno KampOut 2011 - A Space Odyssey
www.kampoutfresno.com
10 Saturday
11 Sunday 2p
PFLAG - Meeting @ Wesley United Methodist Church
1343 E. Barstow Ave, www.pflag.org, (559) 434-6540
11 Sunday
Imperial Dove Court - 2nd Sunday Show @ the North
Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa Ave., northtowercircle.com
12 Monday 7p
Imperial Dove Court - Meeting @ the IDC Club House
4030 E. Belmont, www.idcfresno.org
13 Tuesday 7p
The Group In Fresno - Orientation
www.tgifresno.org
14 Wed.
9a
Project: MALE - HIV Think Tank
@ 1584 N Van Ness Ave, (559) 287-7666
14 Wed.
6p
Community Link's Gray Alliance - Dinner Night
14 Wed.
6p
Stonewall Democrats - Meeting @ Carrows
4280 N. Blackstone Ave, www.fresnostonewall.com
14 Wed - 18 Sun
Fresno Reel Pride 2011 GLBT Film Festival
@ Tower Theatre, 815 E Olive
@ Starline Lounge, 833 E Fern, reelpride.com
16 Friday
5p
“It's A Queer Thang” Radio Show - KFCF 88.1 FM
www.communitylinkfresno.com and www.kfcf.org
16 Friday
6p
Men's Mixer @ TBA
www.sunapsis.org/lgbt/mixer
16 Friday
6:30p Mariposa Azul - Meeting @ call for location
Gaby (559) 266-5650 (Spanish)
17 Saturday 9a-6:30p Valley Pagan Pride @ Woodward Park
Sunset View Shelter off of Audobon, valleypagan.com
17 Saturday 9p
Club Papi Grand Opening @ the Express
17 Saturday 11p
Ladies of Seduction - Harajuku Girls show
@ North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa Ave, northtowercircle.com
17 Saturday
Jeff's Birthday Extravaganza @ Club Legends
18 Sunday 10a
Community Link - Board Meeting
www.communitylinkfresno.com
18 Sunday
Club Xtatic @ the North Tower Circle
19 Monday 6p
Strings and Things knit & crochet @ Fresno LGBT Center
19 Monday 6:30p Yosemite Knights - Meeting & Dinner @ Carrows
4280 N Blackstone Ave, www.kofmfresno.com
20 Tuesday 6p
We C.A.R.E. - English Support Group @ Community
Regional Medical Center Sequoia Room E or W, 2823 Fresno St.
First-time attendees please call (559) 577-7109, wecarefresno.org
21 Wed.
6:30p Golden State Bears - Dinner Night
22 Thursday 2p
We C.A.R.E. - Grupo Educativo En Espanol @ Specialty
Health Clinic, 290 N Wyate Ln, (559) 459-5101, wecarefresno.org
24 Saturday
NOTown Roller Derby Party @ the North Tower Circle
24 Saturday
25 Sunday
11a Golden State Bears - Brunch
25 Sunday 2p
Community Link's Gray Alliance - Potluck
25 Sunday 9p
Mariposa Azul - Divas Night
@ Los Amigos, 1752 W. Shaw Ave, losamigosmex.com
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Gay Central Valley &
ACLU August Fundraising
Chris Jarvis - GayFresno.com
Gay Central Valley is launching a
fundraising effort during the month of
August. We will be working within
the community, online and at local
businesses to sign up new members
for the ACLU. If we achieve our goal
for the ACLU, they will in turn provide a grant for Gay Central Valley, an
official 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
The ACLU (American Civil
Liberties Union) fights for your rights
every day, in a never ending variety of
ways, including LGBT Rights, HIV /
AIDS , Free Speech, Reproductive
Freedom, Women's Rights, Racial
Justice, Voting Rights, Immigrant's
Rights, National Security, Prisoner's
Rights and the Freedoms of Religion
& Belief.
An individual, annual membership
to the ACLU is $20. For only $20 you
can be proud to lend your support to
this vital organization and as a result,
financially support your local LGBT
Community Center and the efforts of
Gay Central Valley . If we are able to
meet the requirement of 100 new
ACLU members by September 1st,
the ACLU will make a substantial
financial grant to Gay Central Valley
and the Fresno LGBT Community
Center.
There are several ways for you to
participate…
Gay Fresno will be hosting an
event on August 23rd at Irene's Cafe
at 747 E Olive Avenue in the Tower
District, from 6pm-9pm. A representative of Gay Central Valley will be
seated just outside the front door of
Irene's where you can complete the
ACLU form with each $20 individual
payment and then go inside Irene's
and enjoy your complimentary meal
courtesy of Gay Fresno! (Gay Fresno
will cover a maximum of $15 per person, alcohol & gratuity not included)
If you cannot attend these events
and would still like to participate you
can pick up and complete the ACLU
forms at the Fresno LGBT
Community Center located at 1055 N
Van Ness Avenue Suite C, Fresno, CA
93728 559-325-4429. The Center is
open to the public Wednesday through
Saturday from Noon - 5PM.
You can also pick up a form and
sign up at the North Tower Circle,
located at 2777 N Maroa Avenue, in
Fresno. See the manager, James,
behind the bar, on Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or
Saturday, any time after 7PM and a
form will be provided to you to sign
up for membership with the ACLU.
Or you may Sign Up ONLINE
http://action.aclu.org/site/TR/Member
s h i p D r i v e / A ff i l i a t e - M y A C L U California?px=4747133&pg=personal&fr_id=1010 with the ACLU.
Simply process the form, choose a
minimum of a $20 annual, individual
membership, indicate on the form that
your group is GAY CENTRAL VALLEY, and the ACLU will credit us
with the membership.
This is an exciting opportunity to
support both the ACLU and Gay
Central Valley, as well as the Fresno
LGBT Community Center. Thank you
for your help.
Don’t Miss the Covergirls
at a Pride Festival
If you don't get enough of the
Cover Girls on Sundays in Fresno,
check them out in Eureka.
The Cover Girls Show is excited to
return to Humboldt Pride for the second year on 9/10/11 in Eureka. The
Cover Girls are the freshest female
impersonation show in the Central
Valley, doing a weekly show only at
Club Legends in Fresno California.
The show will be celebrating its ONE
YEAR GLAM-A-VERSARY on
September 18th.
www.humboldtpride.com
Women’s Flag Football
Hey ladies anyone interested in
playing flag football?
Our team practices Tuesday and
Thursday at 7-830 at Clinton and
Brawley park our games start Sept 4th
and go for 10 weeks. It is all women’s
flag football. All games will be on
Sundays from 9am-2pm. Games last
one hour. Cost is 40 bucks includes
jersey and registration for the league
Contact me if interested :
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php
?id=1570299583&sk=wall
Superstars' Season Starting
Rated-R Superstars, one of the
local GLBT+ softball teams (the other
being Fresno Skittles), are announc-
ing the start of the fall season. They
will compete in a Tuesday Co-Ed Rec
league. They will start playing on
September 6th, every Tuesday
evening for 10 weeks. Come out and
cheer them at the Fresno Regional
Sports Complex, 1707 W. Jensen Ave.
Times and fields vary, so please check
the schedule at http://www.sportsstandings.com/SelectSchedule.aspx?l
eagueId=1168
Fresno Fresbians
Hey Fresbians, we typically do a
weekly coffee meet up at Revue Cafe,
620 E Olive Ave in the Tower on
Sundays at 7:30pm.
Find more out about the Fresbians
at: facebook.com/fresbians
A Bewitching Night
A Special Party & Fundraiser for
Central Valley Pagan Pride. Spooky,
bewitched Nightclub. Tarot Card
Readers. Exclusive Performances.
Hosted by DivaLicious. NTC GoGo
Dancers. Drink Specials (Eye of
Newt, Witches’ Brew & more). Raffle
& Prizes. 21 & Over Only.
$3 Donation at the door.
Friday, August 19th, 9pm at the
North Tower Circle, 2777 N Maroa
Ave. www.northtowercircle.com
This party is to raise funds for
Pagan Pride Day, September 17th in
Woodward Park, which celebrates
unity and diversity in the community.
Kampout Fresno is an annual event
in the Central Valley Gay and Lesbian
community. It's always the weekend
after Labor Day. In 2011, it will be
September 9 - 11.
The event takes place at Texas Flat
Campground. It is a little rough to get
to, but well worth the 90 minute journey northeast from Fresno. The road
is manageable, and large RV's often
make the trek. At an elevation of
5,400 feet, the air is clean and crisp.
We reserve the entire area alongside
McGilvery Creek, so you can enjoy
camping underneath a canopy of tall
trees with 100 or more of your closest
friends! The area is very large, so you
can find privacy and solitude if you
like.
The Kampout has a different theme
each year. In 2011, it's "Kampout
2011: A Space Odyssey"! This means
you can decorate your kampsite as
anything relating to sci-fi (aliens,
spaceships, etc.)
We are now running Kampout by a
committee, consisting of one
appointee from each of the veteran
groups involved with Kampout:
Golden State Bears, Yosemite Knights
K of M Fresno, Imperial Dove Court,
2 representatives of High Lesbian
Kamp and 7 Independent parties.
All twelve people on the
Committee are dedicated to making
Kampout a huge success, with no single individual or group in charge.
Activities are scheduled through-
Open Mic Night
Saturday, August 20th, 7 - 9pm at
Fresno LGBT Community Center,
1055 N. Van Ness Ave. Suite C.
Join Gay Central Valley and United
Students Pride at the Kick Off the Fall
Open Mic Night. Come hear selections from the upcoming anthology
Our Stories Ourselves: A Collection
of Stories, Poems, and Essays about
the LGBT Experience as well as other
voices from our community. $3 suggested donation at the door.
For more information about the
Anthology please visit http://unitedstudentpride.yolasite.com/
www.gaycentralvalley.org
15th Sierra AIDS Walk
Join us to raise needed funds for
Local HIV and Hepatitis programs.
Sierra HOPE, sponsor of the Sierra
AIDS Walk, serves Amador,
Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties.
Choose your trail. The trails at Big
Trees have something to offer walkers
of all skill levels. The North Grove
trail is a gentle, well-marked loop
about 1.5 miles long that is barrier
free. The 5-mile trail in the South
Grove passes the park's two largest
trees. The 600 ft. long Three Senses
Trail is one of the earliest accessible
design trails in the State Park system,
and allows visitors to experience the
feel, smell and sounds of this magnificent forest.
Choose your time. Registration is
open from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 am,
to give all walkers time to enjoy the
beauty of Calaveras Big Trees State
Park. A picnic lunch will be provided.
All walkers will receive a gift.
Individuals who raise $100 or more
in pledges will receive a free Sierra
AIDS Walk T-Shirt.
Thanks to our 2011 Sierra AIDS
Walk Sponsors: Beetle Barbour, Liz
Bass, Dan and Debby Brooks, Wayne
and Sandy Fuller, Dr. Bob Hartmann
and Mel Welsh, Kriletich Family
Farms, Mark Twain St. Joseph's
Hospital, Sonora Regional Medical
Center, Umpqua Bank of Angels
Camp, CA.
Complete and submit the form on
the website below to register and
receive your official Sierra AIDS
Walk pledge form and info packet.
Saturday, September 24th, 9 11am at Calaveras Big Trees State
Park. www.sierrahope.org
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone will appear at
Tower Theatre, 815 East Olive Ave.,
Fresno on January 27th, 2012 at 8pm.
All Ages. $30.00 Advance. $33.00
Day Of Show.
Tickets available from Tower
Theatre
Box
Office
starting
September 9th! Call (559) 485-9050.
Appearing on stage with a stool, a
microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi,
PAULA POUNDSTONE is famous
for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity. The Boston Globe said,
“Poundstone improvises with a crowd
like a Jazz musician…swinging in
unexpected directions without a plan,
without a net.” Paula is so quick and
unassuming that audience members at
her live shows often leave complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter and debating whether the random
people she talked to were “plants”.
In 2009 Paula released her first
comedy CD: I HEART JOKES: Paula
Tells Them In Maine, 60 minutes of
the smartest comedy recorded live at
the sensational Stone Mountain Arts
Center - because as Paula says, “It's
very hard to do it any other way.” The
new CD is available at www.amazon.com , iTunes, and at www.paulapoundstone.com.
KampOut Fresno 2011:
A Space Odyssey
out the weekend, and everyone is welcome to join in, although you are not
obligated to participate. We do suggest observing, though, just for the
sheer hilarity of it! All prizes are
awarded at the Saturday Night
Kampstravaganza.
The entire weekend costs just $25
for EVERY person, regardless of age,
title or position. This is a flat fee,
whether you stay 1 day or the entire
weekend! This simply reimburses
those that organize the weekend for
you.
This entitles you to: a Kampsite, 2
Beer Busts, 1 Dinner, 2 Breakfasts,
Palace Punch, Progressive Kocktail
Party, ALL activities, the show & contests!
Pre-sale tickets available at: The
Red Lantern, 4618 E Belmont Ave,
Fresno; The Phoenix, 4538 E Belmont
Ave, Fresno; The North Tower Circle,
2777 N Maroa Ave, Fresno.
For more details, what to bring,
what's not allowed at KampOut, etc.,
visit www.kampoutfresno.com
35th ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION
LABOR DAY WEEK-END
SEPT. 2,3,4 & 5
Friday, Sept 2
"FRESNO'S FINEST SHOW"
Featuring Entertainers From All Of
Fresno's Clubs
10:00 pm
No Cover Charge
Hosted by Joanna
Saturday, Sept. 3
"AFTERNOON RED PARTY"
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Free Hors D'ouevres
Raffle Prizes For
Those Dressed In RED
Sunday, Sept 4
"PARTY ALL DAY AND NIGHT"
Beer Bash From Opening To Closing
Free Bar-B-Q at 6:00 pm
Imperial Dove Court Anniversary Show
at 7:30 pm
Karaoke at 9:15 pm
Monday, Sept. 5
"MONDAY MADNESS"
Shot of Cuervo Cold and a Corona
only $6.00 Opening To Closing
Free Mexican Dinner at 5:00 pm
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It is organized by Central Valley
Pagan Pride, an eclectic array of nontraditional religions. Our focus is on
bringing together the community for
the purposes of community building,
education (within and outside the
community), networking with local
business, equal representation, and
advocacy of social and environmental
awareness.
Details about Pagan Pride Day:
www.valleypagan.com
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Gay man to lead national
disability group
By Kathi Wolfe on July 7, 2011
Mark Perriello is president and
CEO of the American Association of
People with Disabilities.
For many, coming out as LGBT
after growing up Catholic would be
challenging enough. Yet for former
Obama administration aide Mark
Perriello, 36, who grew up in
Chelmsford, Mass., outside Boston,
that was only one of the challenges
that he had to face. Visually impaired
since he was a child, he had to come
out not only as gay but as a person
with a disability.
Today, Perriello, known in the
LGBT community as a political strategist, is the new president and CEO of
the American Association of People
with Disabilities, the country's largest
cross-disability membership group.
Perriello's well-regarded grassroots
development and political strategizing
in the LGBT community played a key
role in his appointment to this position, said AAPD board members, who
believe these skills will empower the
bi-partisan, disability advocacy organization. He took the helm of AAPD
on June 6.
In an interview the with Blade in
his K Street office in Washington,
D.C., Perriello discussed the parallels
between the LGBT and disability civil
rights movements and his goals for
AAPD. (This month, in commemoration of the passage of the Americans
with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990,
is Disability Pride Month.)
In his boyhood, he was taught that
being gay was a sin, Perriello said. In
his youth, he became involved with
the ex-gay movement.
“I thought that if I just prayed hard
enough, that I would be able to
change,” Perriello said.
Perriello didn't come out until he
was a student at Rhodes College in
Memphis, Tenn., where he graduated
with a bachelor's degree in religious
studies. “I had a lot of positive role
models,” he said, “they helped me to
be comfortable with the fact that I'm
gay.”
Yet, as difficult as coming to terms
with his sexual orientation was for
him, Perriello also had to become
comfortable within himself about having and disclosing his disability. His
vision impairment is a result of an
infection called toxoplasmosis. He is
blind in his right eye and, with corrective lenses, has 20/20 vision in his left
eye.
“In many ways it was more challenging to come out as a person with a
disability than it was to come out as
LGBT,” Perriello said, “There is a lot
of stigma that unfortunately in our
society goes along with disability.”
From grade school through college, he was teased about his vision
impairment, Perriello said. Other students would have him close his left
(sighted) eye to find out what they
could do in front of him that he couldn't see, he said. “Some of it would be
more subtle,” Perriello said, “from
preconceived notions of whether I
could perform in an athletic environment … all the way to people thinking
it was a great trick at fraternity parties,
which was less subtle.”
But the bullying, though painful,
made him stronger, Perriello said,
“because you know when the teasing
needs to stop.”
He's always identified as a person
with a disability and viewed disability
as a civil rights issue, Perriello said.
But, “I didn't become engaged in the
disability community until I began
working at the White House,” he
added.
Before joining the Obama administration, Perriello's civil rights advocacy took place in the LGBT community. He served in leadership roles fundraising, organizing and developing communication strategies at the
Human Rights Campaign and the Gay
& Lesbian Victory Fund and
Leadership Institute. Perriello also
was vice president of BNA
Communications and a senior associate at Scott + Yandura.
In the Obama administration,
Perriello served as the White House
liaison at the U.S. Department of the
Interior and the White House Priority
Placement director. In this position, he
became actively involved with the disability community, Perriello said.
“Working to help qualified candidates from under-represented groups
find employment in the Obama
administration, I witnessed the challenges that people with disabilities
often face in the hiring process,” he
said.
Disabled people, looking for work,
sometimes encounter accessibility
issues such as lack of wheelchair
access, Perriello said. “Some employ-
ers fear that there's too much cost in
providing assistive technology or
other types of accommodation,” he
said. “Other employers feel that people with disabilities lack the intellectual capacity to work,” Perriello said.
“This is not the case.”
As Priority Placement Office head,
Perriello worked with AAPD's board.
“I came to believe that this civil rights
fight is one that has a lot of work
ahead,” he said.
He looks forward to helping AAPD
work to overcome the stigma and
injustice encountered by many with
disabilities, Perriello said.
“It's going to take a long time, but
you know it and I know it. Americans
with disabilities are just like everyone
else,” he said. “They show up and do
good work.”
LGBT culture is “very image conscious” and there is some stigma
against people with disabilities that
goes along with that, Perriello said.
“But it's the same stigma whether
you're gay or straight,” he said. “The
challenges are the same. Whether it's
lacking access to a bar or some other
social environment.”
We're hit daily with stereotypical
images of people with disabilities
through social media, TV and movies,
Perriello said. “This is true in gay and
straight culture. At AAPD we're hoping to change that.”
As an example of this effort,
Perriello cited AAPD's 2011 Gala,
where the group bestowed its Image
Award on the cast and creative team of
“Glee,” for the show's diversity,
including its disability storylines, and
characters and actors with disabilities.
There are parallels between the
disability and the LGBT civil rights
movements, Perriello said.
Gay or straight, guys
reluctant to say I do
By DAVID K. LI
Men have to be dragged kicking
and screaming to the altar - whether
they're straight or gay.
Same-sex couples can begin
applying for New York marriage
licenses today, but don't expect to see
many gay grooms at City Hall on July
25, when they can actually start tying
the knot.
That's because in the states that
have sanctioned same-sex nuptials to
date, lesbians have been marrying in
much greater numbers than gay men.
breaking civil right before New York
approved it. The Bay State has sanctioned same-sex marriage since 2004
and women have dominated the rolls
there too, by a margin of 8,404-to4,911, according to the latest data.
- New Hampshire wrote gay marriage into granite in 2010 and ever
since there have been 1,113 loving
lesbian couples married there, compared with just 411 all-male unions.
- In the most recent data from
Iowa, 1,376 lesbian have recorded
marriages there and 772 couples of
men have done the same.
- In Vermont, where gay marriage
was been sweet as syrup since 2009,
there have been 1,157 couples of lesbians to say “I do,” compared to just
597 male couples.
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In your design, you must use the
phrase "One Nation Under The
Rainbow". You may also use "Fresno
2012" or "Fresno Rainbow Pride
2012".
Submit
your
designs
to:
CLinkinc@aol.com or mail to:
“Community Link, 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'squality
needs to be good enough to scan
clearly!
Max. 6 colors + shades of grey and
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.
For more info (559) 486-3464 or
e-mail CLinkinc@aol.com
In Connecticut, for example, 3,252
lesbian couples have wed since 2008,
when same-sex marriage was legalized, compared with just 2,053 gay
guys.
"This is the way men and women
have been socialized from the time
we're born," said Stephanie Coontz,
who teaches family studies at
Evergreen State College in Olympia,
Wash. "'Go out, don't commit too
early' . . . It's the message all men
receive."
Even famously out actor Neil
Patrick Harris is saying not so fast to
a walk down the aisle.
Days after Gov. Cuomo signed
same-sex marriage into law, Harris
made it clear that while he and partner
David Burtka are engaged, they're not
racing to the altar.
"Dear media: Just because David
and I will soon be able to marry in
NY, doesn't mean we are actively
planning a wedding. Cart before
horse," Harris Tweeted.
As gay marriage becomes more
accessible, homosexual men will start
experiencing the same pressure as
heterosexual men to exchange vows,
experts said.
"Gay men and lesbians who don't
marry or don't want kids are beginning to feel the same kind of social
scrutiny that straight people do," said
NYU sociologist Judith Stacey,
author of "Unhitched: Love, Marriage
and Family Values from West
Hollywood to Western China."
"The right to marry quickly turns
into a subtle obligation to marry and
greater stigma for the unmarried."
Marital data obtained by The Post
show a stark, 3-to-2 ratio of lesbian
marriages, compared toall- male
unions.
- Massachusetts had been the
biggest state to embrace this ground-
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President and CEO of American
Association
of
People
with
Disabilities, Mark Perriello,
Just as there are people in the
LGBT community who aren't active
politically, he said, “there are a lot of
Americans with disabilities out there
that aren't engaged in the [disability]
civil rights fight.”
Perriello, working with the AAPD
team, is determined to strive to make
the disability community more
engaged on the political level. There
are strategies and tactics that he used
as an LGBT political strategist, that
can be used to engage the disability
community, Perriello said. “Anything
from making it easier for folks to
understand the positions of their elected officials, to seeing how we can
work to influence elections and show
… that we're a powerful constituency.”
Helping to connect folks with the
best employers and the best companies to work for is something that the
LGBT community does well,
Perriello said. “It's something that we
[in the disability community] could
do as well if not better.”
To be engaged, you have to have a
“sense of self-worth,” Perriello said.
You have to show the next generation,
“that you can do whatever you want.
That is a parallel to the LGBT community. It happens because folks are
out there, they're leading businessesthey're elected officials.”
The challenges Perriello faces are
formidable. Seventy percent of
Americans with disabilities are unemployed or under employed, according
to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Twenty-five percent of people
with disabilities surveyed by a 2010
Harris Poll were unfamiliar with the
ADA, a civil rights law prohibiting
disability-based discrimination in
employment and public accommodations.
Perriello is well-suited to meet
these challenges, said Cheryl
Sensenbrenner, a former AAPD board
chair, in a telephone interview. “His
grassroots and organizing skills honed
in the LGBT community are transferable,” she said, “He's well-suited to
take AAPD to the next level.”
Winnie Stachelberg, senior vice
president of external affairs of the
Center for American Progress,
describes herself as a “huge fan” of
AAPD and of Perriello.
“I met Mark over a decade ago
when I hired him to work for HRC,”
said Stachelberg. “Mark intuits how
to help diverse people work well
together to focus on a common goal.
He won't be the loudest voice, but
he'll be the one driving change.”
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Speaking
your
mind!
Label Evolution,
Label Revolution
Kaylia Metcalfe - GayFresno.com
Labels: necessary, but sometimes
annoying.
What's the point of a label? Isn't it
to provide some sort of description,
some sort of understanding or explanation? As in, “How can I explain
why all these things on the table
should go together… I can classify
them as all being products from the
garden, all with seeds in the middle,
thus: fruit!”
Of course, labels get more complicated when it comes to people. We
want to label ourselves in ways that
we appreciate or support. We shy
away from other people labeling us,
especially if we doubt their motives
or don't agree with their classifications.
When I was young there was Gay.
There was Lesbian. Then, there was
Bi. Bi was relatively new, at least in
my experience. It wasn't really mainstream, and there were a lot of
notions of what it meant. Namely that
it was a label for fence sitters who
were afraid to go all the way to Gaydom “Bi now, Gay later” etc. It also
had the reputation of being shifty,
slutty, and untrustworthy.
One of the things labels do is
attach or confirm stigma or stenotypes, which is why we are so careful
when allowing ourselves to be
labeled. I resisted the label of “bi” for
years because I didn't see myself as a
fence sitter, a slut, or a shifty spy. I
saw myself as able to fall in love (and
sometimes lust) with a person despite
their gender, not because of it. I was,
and still am, attracted to people based
on their personalities, their senses of
humor, their ability to converse intelligently, etc. What does or doesn't
dangle between their legs is beside
the point. When pressed, I usually
would say that I was into people, not
gender.
I became more comfortable being
bi partly from exposure to more
understanding and less judgmental
people, and partly from a desire to
change the stereotype.
And then I was introduced to the
concept of Pansexual. “What does
that mean?” I asked innocently
enough.
“It means that I am attracted to
people based on their personalities
and not limited by genitals. I'm gender blind.”
“In my day, we called that bisexual.”
“No, bisexuality is limited. You
only love two genders. I have the
capacity to love them all.”
Let me stop right here and add that
due to the fact that I am typing this,
you might not be getting the smugness and slight condescending tone of
this particular pansexual person.
This definition, and the way it was
delivered, bothered me. A lot. While
it is true that the strict dictionary definition of bisexuality does indeed
refer to two, I would argue that most
bi people would use almost the exact
definition. Why, then didn't we chose
the term pansexual?
Because language is fluid.
Because it wasn't an option back
then. Because the choice had been
Straight, Gay (subset Lesbian) and
the Bi community needed a third
option.
Not because we are all drones who
only think in binary terms.
Upon more polite conversations
with members of the pansexual community, I have been given a more
specific definition: Pansexuality is
sexual attraction to people of all genders and non genders. It grew up out
of a lack of language revolving
around the trans community.
For example, Bob is in process of
becoming Betty. Bob/Betty is not
currently portraying him/herself as
either gender. And you fall in love
with him/her during that transition.
Or, a young person named Pri has
decided to be genderless and wants
us to use the gender neutral pronoun
Ze. And you fall in love with Zir. Are
you bi, or is it more complicated than
that? Enter the phrasing of pansexual.
This, I can understand and to a
small extent support.
While I think it is nice to see a
group of people determine that no
current label works for them and thus
introduce a new label into our community and society at large, I do think
that in a community that prides itself
on looking beyond the base level, we
might have tried to expand the definition of bisexuality to move beyond
the literal and into this realm. (But
they didn't ask me, and it seems that
pansexuality as a label, as the new
version of bi, as Bi-Plus if you will,
has already been voted on, ratified
and put into place.)
I don't think this is the last time
that our community will need to relabel itself or create language that
will better serve our needs. I do think
that when we do that, we need to be
cognoscente of the real and implied
definitions of the words we are
updating and replacing. We need to
consider the motivations, the limitation, and the context of the original
definitions.
We also need to be cautious. In a
community that is already disenfranchised, already set apart and looked
down upon, already fringe… we need
to chose our moments of dissention
so as not to further fracture ourselves.
By creating categories and sub categories of labels within our own
group, we run the risk of not being
able to provide a united front to the
outside world which is ready and
willing to use any perceived crack in
our facade as a breaking point.
And let's not forget, labels are
political not just personal. They matter. They are what is going to be used
by our enemies as well as our friends.
Now, I am not saying that we need to
let the outside world determine our
inner processes, but I am saying that
we must be careful where we draw
the lines and how.
Again, labels are useful. They help
us categorize, define, and understand
who we are. But because language
and social norms are continually
evolving, labels can also be fraught
with misunderstanding, unfair judgments, and confusion.
A coalition of LGBT groups is
demanding changes to the proposed
boundaries for San Francisco's two
Assembly districts, warning the lines
as currently drawn will dilute the
community's voice in Sacramento.
Gay Marriage: Who's
Doing It and How it
(Might) Lead to Fewer
Homosexuals
Kaylia Metcalfe - GayFresno.com
Remember 7th grade science? Do
you remember Newton's third law?
“For every action, there is an equal or
opposite reaction.” This is true, but
more pertinent to our daily lives is
that rather “regular life” sort of law
that tells us that sometimes the
effects of our actions have unintended consequences, unforeseen things
that we could never have planned for.
This occurred to me over the
weekend as I read two articles that
talked about some of the interesting
and possible unforeseen consequences of gay marriage becoming
more accepted both socially and
legally: gender disparity in who is
doing it and the eventual decline in
the homosexual population because
people are doing it.
The first idea was discussed in an
article that came to me via my good
friend Chuck (Hi Chuck!) who sent
me David K Li's New York Post article in which the disparity between the
number of female same sex marriages and male same sex marriages
is painted in stark relief.
Connecticut (2008): 3,252 female
couples and 2,053 male couples.
Massachusetts (2004): 8,404
female couples and 4,911 male couples.
New Hampshire (2010): 1,113
female couples and 411 male couples.
Iowa (2009): 1,376 female couples
and 772 male couples.
Vermont (2009): 1,157 female
couples and 597 male couples.
Now, some will argue that wanting
to get married is more of a “female
thing” and that men, whether straight,
gay, or other, are more hesitant to
commit.
I don't think we have quite enough
data to call it one way or the other,
but one thing is for sure. Once the
right to marry is established, same
sex couples have to deal with the
question of “should” as well as “can.”
Just because you can do something,
doesn't always mean you want to.
Of course, same sex marriage
activists are quick to point out, and
justly so, that the point of the right to
marry is the choice, not a mandate to
action. I hope that all couples, same
sex or not, take the time to evaluate if
they are getting married due more to
social pressure or actual emotional
drive.
And, as same sex marriage
becomes more and more common, so
will same sex divorces. While it is
way too early to compare divorce
rates between the rainbow contingency and their hetero counterparts,
I'm sure that data will e just as interesting.
Again, to all those same sex couples out there, welcome to the turmoil should/shouldn't faced by many,
many different sex couples.
The other article came to me from
the online Scientific American blog
would leave the vast majority of the
city's LGBT community unrepresented by a lawmaker it voted for in the
Legislature's upper house for two
years.
"Please help make sure we keep
San Francisco odd," said gay Treasure
Island resident Owen Stephens at the
Monday, June 27 hearing the redistricting commissioners held in San
Francisco.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has
also requested that the commission
number the San Francisco Senate seat
with an odd number. In a letter to the
panel, Herrera also cites the importance of ensuring the LGBT community has representation in the statehouse.
The LGBT groups and Herrera
submitted their letters during the
meeting Monday night. It was the
commission's second-to-last hearing
to gather public comment ahead of its
issuing a second round of draft lines
for political districts on July 14.
A number of LGBT leaders
addressed the panel to voice their concerns about how it has proposed splitting San Francisco into two Assembly
districts. Under the commission's first
draft maps, neighborhoods with large
numbers of LGBT households have
been moved out of the 13th Assembly
District, which has elected three out
lawmakers over the last two decades,
into the 12th Assembly District,
which has been represented by Asian
lawmakers in recent years.
The LGBT groups are asking the
commission to move Diamond
Heights, Glen Park, Twin Peaks, Cole
Valley, Haight-Ashbury, and Laurel
Heights into the 13th District, which
is represented by openly gay
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San
Francisco). Just elected to a second
term in the fall, Ammiano is already
raising money for his 2012 campaign.
The city's eastern district "is one of
the most critical districts in California
for the LGBT community," wrote the
LGBT groups. "The current tentative
map greatly dilutes and divides the
LGBT community of interest in San
Francisco by removing several heavily LGBT neighborhoods ... by doing
so, the tentative map undermines the
ability of the LGBT community to be
fully represented."
To make up for the lost population,
the groups suggest adding more of the
Outer Mission and Excelsior into the
12th District.
The letter was co-drafted by the
statewide LGBT advocacy group
Equality California; the National
Center for Lesbian Rights; the San
Francisco LGBT Community Center;
the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic
Club; and Log Cabin Republicans of
San Francisco, the gay Republican
group.
"We did take the unusual step of
partnering with Alice, which is something that doesn't happen often,
because this is something that affects
the community as a whole," Dan
Brown, the Log Cabin chapter president, told the commissioners.
Chris Bowman, a gay Republican
who submitted proposed maps
through the California Conservative
Action Group, asked the panel members to "keep the LGBT community in
San Francisco intact."
Openly gay San Francisco
Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose
District 8 would be further split
between the two proposed Assembly
districts, also spoke in support of the
letter sent in by the community
groups. He also pressed for the Senate
seat to be an odd numbered one.
by Matthew S. Bajko
The bipartisan group of LGBT
agencies and political clubs is also
asking
the
state's
Citizens
Redistricting Commission to give the
city's sole Senate District it will have
come 2012 an odd number so that
openly gay state Senator Mark Leno
(D-San Francisco) can seek a second
term. Not only would he be barred
from doing so until 2014 if the Senate
District is given an even number, it
and my handy google alerts. In his
most recent article Jesse Bering
argues that the prevalence of gay
marriage could ultimately lead to a
decline in the homosexual population.
He builds his case with a series of
claims and assumptions, some of
which I am wary of. First off, he cites
numerous studies that pinpoint or
attempt to pinpoint the “gay gene” as
it were. Homosexuality is a genetic
component, at least according to his
work cited page. To actually quote
him: “there are indeed clear, contributing genetic factors underlying
homosexual orientation”
He cites a few popular twin studies
but I would caution you, my gentle
readers, to remember that biological
variants are not the same as genetic
creations and that so far the studies
looking for the “gay gene” have not
been as widely reproduced as we
might wish. In fact there are several
studies that link homosexuality to
hormonal levels in the womb and
others that link birth order to the likelihood, and still others that point to
other factors or some combination of
any of these… My point is that there
are no definitive answers. Yet.
But okay, if we accept the claim
that there is some sort of genetic reason for all the gay, the next step in his
logic is pretty easy to follow. He basically says that due to social pressure
and lack of options, gay people have
been mating with straight people for
eons and thus passing on these genes,
somewhat recessive genes apparently
but no matter, in to the general population.
Ok, moving on… if gay marriage
becomes the norm, the number of
same sex couples that procreate biologically and thus pass on the genes,
will dwindle due to the cost of insemination and surrogacy, the only real
biological option for same sex reproduction. Also we must take into
account the lack of unplanned pregnancies, a trend that leads to a lot of
hetro couples procreating, which
wouldn't be an issue for same sex
couples.
His argument is basically that
unless there are significant advances
in reproductive capabilities, the gay
genes might become further and further recessive due to the lack of gene
mixing leading eventually to a dwindling population of homosexuals.
That is rather a big leap, but it does
make a certain amount of logical
sense.
I am not a scientist, just a skeptic
and an avid reader, and so even if I
am wary of his final hypothesis, I do
see merit in continued research into
the biological and genetic components of homosexuality.
It is a frightening thought though,
is it not, that the very act of global
acceptance might lead to the global
diminishment of our community?
Only time will tell, of course, and
there are advances in terms of reproduction just waiting in the wings. In
the meantime, let's brush up on our
7th grade science and continue to
watch for unexpected consequences.
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In a 'quiet moment,' gay
judge makes history
By Dana Milbank,
The remarkable thing about what
happened on the Senate floor Monday
night was that it was utterly unremarkable.
The matter under consideration the nomination of the first openly gay
man to serve on the federal bench would at one time have been a flashpoint in the culture wars. But Paul
Oetken was confirmed without a word
of objection on the Senate floor and
with hardly a mention in the commentariat.
Even some of the chamber's most
ardent social conservatives - Tom
Coburn, John Cornyn, Jeff Sessions,
Jon Kyl - cast votes for Oetken. When
the lopsided vote tally of 80-13 was
read out, there was no cheer or reaction of any kind. Senators continued
their conversations as if nothing
unusual had happened.
It would be premature to believe
that Oetken's easy confirmation heralds some new post-sexual era in
American politics; the fight over gay
marriage continues undiminished. But
it was a signal moment nonetheless.
The nominee's sexual orientation was
deemed unimportant -- or at least less
important than his moderate politics
and his pro-business record (he's a
corporate lawyer, with Cablevision).
“As the first openly gay man to be
confirmed as a federal judge,” Sen.
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told a nearly empty chamber before the vote, “he
will be a symbol of how much we
have achieved as a country in just the
last few decades. And importantly, he
will give hope to many talented young
lawyers who until now thought their
paths might be limited because of their
sexual orientation. When Paul
becomes Judge Oetken, he will be living proof to all those young lawyers
that it really does get better.”
But Schumer observed, correctly,
that this bit of history was an “otherwise quiet moment” for the Senate.
The ranking Republican on the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley
(Iowa) gave a brief speech in support
of Oetkin, mentioning the nominee's
Iowa roots but nothing about his
homosexuality.
The proceedings were so routine
that Judiciary Committee Chairman
Patrick Leahy made only a spare mention of this “important milestone”
before using his floor time to deliver
an unrelated speech about the FBI
director. Because there were no more
speakers, most of the 30 minutes allotted for debate were passed in a quorum call.
Closeted gay men have probably
served as judges since the beginning
of the Republic. And a lesbian,
Deborah Batts, has been a federal
judge since 1994. But when Batts
went before the Judiciary Committee,
her homosexuality was left unmentioned in the confirmation hearings.
Oetkin, by contrast, downplayed
nothing about his sexual orientation:
his work with Lambda Legal and the
ACLU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Project, or his co-authorship of a Supreme Court amicus brief
opposing an anti-gay law. At his confirmation hearing, he introduced
Grassley to his partner.
Opposition was relegated to where
it belongs: in the dark recesses of the
Internet. “A vote to confirm this nominee is in effect a vote to subject New
York by force of judicial fiat to the
homosexual agenda, lock, stock, and
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barrel,” wrote one commentator on
World Net Daily. The posting warned
of “Oetken's homosexuality on the
sleeve approach” and said “he is likely as well to harbor animosity toward
the proponents of traditional sexual
morality.”
Tellingly, it was signed by “Frank
J. Bleckwenn” - a pseudonym.
Grassley and his colleagues had no
use for such poison. “Mr. Oetkin grew
up in my state of Iowa,” Grassley said,
calling the candidate a “consensus
nominee.” He recited Oetkin's credentials, including his Yale Law degree
and Supreme Court clerkship. “I support this nomination and congratulate
him on his professional accomplishments,” Grassley said.
To his credit, that is all Grassley
thought relevant.
Gays concerned about
Re-districting
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"Otherwise two-thirds of my district will not be represented for two
years," said Wiener. "For the last 20
years we have been able to win
because the LGBT community of
interest has been united."
Supervisor Malia Cohen, whose
District 10 seat covers the city's southeastern neighborhoods and is also split
between different legislative districts,
echoed Wiener's comments to the
panel.
"I am concerned this community
will be marginalized and disenfranchised," said Cohen. "I can't imagine
having no representation for two
years."
In his letter, Herrera claimed having the city's Senate district not be
given an odd number would be "a
potentially devastating setback" for
the entire state's LGBT community
which has "historically looked to San
Francisco's elected legislators for
leadership on issues of concern to
their community."
"Should a quirk in the numbering
of state Senate districts eliminate San
Francisco's representation during this
critical time, the detrimental effects
would reach far beyond my own city's
borders. It would be gravely unfair to
Californians who have been too long
marginalized, and too often denied
rights to which they are entitled,"
wrote Herrera.
Commissioner Angelo Ancheta,
who is from San Francisco, requested
that the LGBT groups submit the
recently released U.S. Census data on
same-sex households for San
Francisco so it had more information
to guide its discussions.
He said having the data could
prove helpful, as "there might be some
tough cuts we have to make."
He also asked EQCA to resubmit
its maps of the LGBT neighborhoods
in various cities around the state with
different color schemes so they are
easier to read. Andrea Shorter, with
EQCA, promised to do so.
The panels lone out member,
Commissioner Cynthia Dai, who is
also a San Francisco resident, thanked
the more than 100 people who showed
up for the hearing prior to the start of
the testimony. She indicated that the
commissioners are open to redrawing
the maps they initially released.
"We hope to hear from you today
on how we can improve our maps.
There are some tricky population
shifts" the commission has to contend
with, said Dai, who will assume the
panel's rotating chair position on July
1.
The commission is expected to
reveal its numbering of districts in
next month's second release of draft
maps. It is planning to vote on its final
maps in August.
For more information visit
http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov
“Men of the Mean Streets:
Gay Noir”
edited by Greg Herren & J. M.
Redmann; published by Bold Strokes
Books, August 2011, 288 pages.
Noir has always been one of the
most popular-and darkest-sub-genres
of the mystery field. Following in the
footsteps of such masters of the form
as James M. Cain, Raymond
Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett,
some of the top writers of gay mystery
explore this territory of amoral tough
guys with a cynical view of the world
by giving classic noir a gay twist.
Edited by award winning author/editors Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann,
Men of the Mean Streets changes the
face of gay mystery-and the reader
may never look at gay life and culture
in the same way again.
“Women of the Mean Streets:
Lesbian Noir”
edited by J. M. Redmann & Greg
Herren; published by Bold Strokes
Books, August 2011, 288 pages.
Women. Crime. Justice. At least the
search for it. On the mean streets, the
back allies, the dark corners.
These are stories of tough women
in hard places. The nights are long, the
women are fast, and danger is always
a short block or quick minute away.
Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren,
Women of the Mean Streets is an
anthology of some of the top, tough
women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.
“Tango: My Childhood,
Backwards and in High Heels”
by Justin Vivian Bond; published
by The Feminist Press at CUNY;
NONE edition, August 2011, 144
pages.
Recently hailed as "the greatest
cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in
The New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian
Bond makes a brilliant literary debut
with this staggeringly candid and
hilarious novella-length memoir.
With a recent diagnosis of attention
deficit disorder, and news that his first
lover from childhood has been imprisoned for impersonating an undercover
police officer, Bond recalls in vivid
detail coming of age as a trans kid.
“The Queer Art of Failure”
by Judith Halberstam; published by
Duke University Press Books, August
12, 2011, 224 pages.
The Queer Art of Failure is about
finding alternatives-to conventional
understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is
“From Macho to Mariposa: New
Gay Latino Fiction”
edited by Charles Rice-Gonzalez &
Charles Vazquez; published by
Tincture, August 2011, 296 pages.
Prepare yourself to dance in a disco
in Silver Lake, check out papis in
Orchard Beach, cross the border from
Guatemala to Mexico on your way to
the U.S., see a puro macho bathe in a
river in Puerto Rico, make love under
a full moon in the Dominican
Republic, sigh at a tender moment in
an orange grove in Lindsay, visit a
panaderia in Kansas, see a full blown
birthday party in Juarez, and be
seduced by a young artist in the South
Bronx. These are some of the stories
in this collection of thirty gay Latino
writers from around the United States.
There are ''don't mess with me''' divas,
alluring bad boys, and sexy teenagers,
but also empowered youth for whom
being queer is not a question and a
family that grows wings on their
heads. The infectious rhythms of
House music in New York City are
adjacent to cumbia in Mexico, next to
reggaeton in Puerto Rico, alongside
Latin pop in L.A. and merengue in an
east coast city. But the spectrum of
experiences and emotions that inhabit
our days gives these stories dimension
and gay/queer Latinos a common
ground. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this ''era
of lost signals'' in which we live.
“Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir
of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in
Gay San Francisco”
by Jim Stewart; published by Palm
Drive Publishing, July 2011, 230
pages.
Jim Stewart, a survivor of the
Titanic 1970s, has written a wonderful
memoir revealing how South of
Market became hip SoMa in San
Francisco. Leading a lusty life surfing
the first wave of gay liberation up to
HIV, he is an uninhibited writer
spilling personal tales of sex, art, and
friendship during that first decade of
Gay Liberation after Stonewall. As
carpenter, he designed and constructed the sexy interiors of Folsom Street
leather bars as well as of Fey-Way
Studio, the first gay art gallery in San
Francisco, where as photographer he
exhibited his work on the walls he
built.
A pioneer settler in SoMa, he was
fast friends with poet-singer Camille
O'Grady, the leading lady of Folsom
Street leather; with Oscar-Streaker
Robert Opel who was murdered in his
own Fey-Way gallery; with author
Jack Fritscher and photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe; with painter
Chuck Arnett and porn mogul David
Hurles; and with many other talents
creating gay culture in San Francisco's
influential Drummer Salon. As early
as 1977, Drummer magazine published Stewart's leather photography.
Folsom Street Blues continues his gift
for words and images with manic,
funny, and heartfelt profiles of real
people who lived as if 1970s San
Francisco were 1930s Berlin.
Like Christopher Isherwood,
Stewart is a camera. Folsom Street
Blues is a picture-perfect portrait of
the author as a young man among men
experimenting with new identities in
the sexual underground during the
Titanic 1970s before the speeding
first-class party, cruising on, crashed
into the iceberg of HIV.
Veterans of the 1970s party will
applaud Stewart's humorous nostalgia.
Younger readers may enjoy a safe
peek into how 20th-century leatherfolk, dancing on tables and swinging
from the chandeliers, helped found
and form 21st-century diversity.
Keep this book bedside with
Edmund White's My Lives, Felice
Picano's Like People in History, Jack
Fritscher's Some Dance to Remember:
A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco
1970-1982, Justin Spring's Secret
Historian, Patti Smith's Just Kids, and
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.
already known according to approved
methods of knowing; and to cultural
criticism that claims to break new
ground but cleaves to conventional
archives. Judith Halberstam proposes
“low theory” as a mode of thinking
and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is
derived from eccentric archives. It
runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail
and to lose one's way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to
find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between
high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam
looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde
performance, and queer art. She pays
particular attention to animated children's films, revealing narratives filled
with unexpected encounters between
the childish, the transformative, and
the queer. Failure sometimes offers
more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world,
even as it forces us to face the dark
side of life, love, and libido.
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new, interesting GLBT-themed
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by the publishers.
Always haunted by the knowledge of
being "different," Bond was further
confused when the bully next door
wanted to meet secretly. Their trysts
went on for years, and made Bond
acutely aware of sexual power and
vulnerability. With inimitable style,
Bond raises issues about LGBTQ adolescence, homophobia, parenting, and
sexuality, while being utterly entertaining.
Singer, songwriter, and Tony-nominated performance artist Mx. Justin
Vivian Bond is an Obie, Bessie, and
Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner. As
one half of the performance duo Kiki
and Herb, Bond has toured the world,
headlining at Carnegie Hall, the
Sydney Opera House, and London's
Queen Elizabeth Hall, and starring in
a Tony nominated run on Broadway,
Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway.
His film credits include a role in John
Cameron Mitchell's feature Shortbus.
Bond is currently releasing a record,
Dendrophile, and is writing a play
with Sandra Bernhard.
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Governor Signs Landmark
LGBT Education Bill
Legislation sponsored by Equality
California and Gay-Straight Alliance
Network aims to end LGBT history
exclusion in education and to promote
school safety
Governor Jerry Brown has signed a
bill that will fairly and accurately portray the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) civil rights
movement and the historic contributions of the diverse LGBT community
in social science instruction. The Fair,
Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful
(FAIR) Education Act (SB 48), by
including fair and accurate information about the rich and diverse history
of LGBT people in instructional materials, will enrich the learning experiences of all students and promote an
atmosphere of safety and respect in
California schools. SB 48 was
authored by Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco) and co-sponsored by
Equality California and Gay-Straight
Alliance Network.
Studies have shown that inclusion
of LGBT people in instructional materials is linked to greater student safety
and lower rates of bullying. In
schools where the contributions of the
LGBT community are included in
educational instruction, bullying
declined by over half and LGBT students were more likely to feel they
have an opportunity to make positive
contributions at school.
"Today marks a monumental victory for the LGBT civil rights movement as the contributions of diverse
LGBT community will no longer be
erased from history," said Equality
California Executive Director Roland
Palencia. "Thanks to the FAIR
Education Act, California students,
particularly LGBT youth, will find
new hope and inspiration and experience a more welcoming learning environment that will embrace them."
Palencia added, "For decades,
LGBT leaders have worked tirelessly
to improve the quality of life for all
Californians. LGBT leaders were
involved in the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s, the farm
workers' movement, the women's
movement, have built health and
human services institutions that now
serve millions of Californians, and
have contributed to the economic
development of our state. We are truly
grateful for the courageous leadership
of Senator Leno, the LGBT Caucus,
allied lawmakers, our members, and
the entire LGBT community for making history and for promoting safety in
our schools as students learn about our
rich legacy."
The FAIR Education Act will bring
classroom instruction into alignment
with existing non-discrimination laws
in California and would add the LGBT
community to the existing list of
underrepresented cultural and ethnic
groups, which are covered by current
law related to inclusion in textbooks
and other instructional materials in
schools.
"I am awed and humbled to be part
of this historic moment. Today, we've
written the latest chapter in the LGBT
civil rights movement -- one that will
now be presented fairly and accurately in California schools," said Carolyn
Laub, Executive Director of GayStraight Alliance Network. "By signing the FAIR Education Act and ending the exclusion of the LGBT community from instructional materials,
Governor Brown has realized the
hopes of youth who have been fighting for safe and inclusive schools,
where all students learn about our history and gain respect for each other's
differences as a result. This is a part
of the American story that we can be
proud to know all students will learn."
"Today we are making history in
California by ensuring that our textbooks and instructional materials no
longer exclude the contributions of
LGBT Americans," said Senator Leno
"Denying LGBT people their rightful
place in history gives our young people an inaccurate and incomplete view
of the world around them. I am
pleased Governor Brown signed the
FAIR Education Act and I thank him
for recognizing that the LGBT community, its accomplishments and its
ongoing efforts for first-class citizenship are important components of
California's history."
"There is no room for discrimination of any kind in our classrooms, our
communities or our state," said Dean
E. Vogel, president of the California
Teachers Association. "We believe
that curricula should address the com-
mon values of the society, promote
respect for diversity and cooperation,
and prepare students to compete in,
and cope with a complex and rapidly
evolving society. SB 48 does that by
helping to ensure that curricular materials include the contributions of persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender Americans
to the development of California and
United States."
Among the diverse supporters of
the FAIR Education Act include:
Adolescent Health Working Group,
American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees, AntiDefamation League, Arc and United
Cerebral Palsy in California, Asian
Americans for Civil Rights &
Equality, Asian/Pacific Islander Youth
Promoting Advocacy & Leadership,
California
Language
Teachers
Association, California Psychological
Association, California Teachers
Association, California Faith for
Equality, Californians for Disability
Rights, Inc., City of Oakland, City of
West Hollywood, Disability Rights
California, Lieutenant Governor
Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Unified
School District, Public Advocates,
San Francisco Unified School District,
Transgender Law Center, California
Church IMPACT, Our Family
Coalition, National Center for Lesbian
Rights, Fresno County Democratic
Central Committee, San Joaquin
Valley Democratic Club, The Trevor
Project, School for Integrated
Academics & Technologies, and the
Mexican American Legal Defense
Fund.
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Your favorite
subject in school
was probably
not math unless
you had the sizzling hot teacher who taught you how
to properly use your protractor. Most
of us weren't living in that Van Halen
video world so we hated the subject.
I've got breaking news that will have
you loving math and using it to get
you healthy too. It's all simple numbers about the food and drinks you put
into your body every day. Turn on
your Texas Instruments and let's
begin!
The average can of soda, pop, or
coke; depending on where you hail
from, is 150 calories. That's not a lot
of calories until you start building a
pyramid with all your empty cans and
realize those ancient Egyptian architects had nothing on you. A can a day
over a year will earn you just under
55,000 calories. That equates to about
16 pounds of persona non grata.
Switch to diet sodas or just grab some
water instead.
The average serving of potato chips
is usually about 150 calories too. That
should seemingly be OK because you
don't gobble up chips every day. You
reserve this type of fun for those
moments when you get home from
work and sometimes just want a little
snack to tide you over. You plop into
your easy chair and get your daily
DVR dose of the “A List New York”
while inhaling “not one, but two”
servings of those tasty treats. Twice a
week over a year nets you about
31,000 calories and 9 pounds of extra
you. Grab an apple instead for your
viewing of those catty gay housewives. Meow!
By Ron Blake
Monday mornings are special and
require additional ammunition to get
past the gates of grumpiness and sentinels of sadism. A delicious grande
caramel frappuccino from ye olde corner coffee shop gives you the credentials to enter the work force gallantly
each new week. You're awake after
this jolt so you'll now understand that
this comes with a price tag. Fifty-two
weeks of liquid jumper cables at 350
calories per dose amounts to 18,200
calories after I properly carry over my
numbers in my dutiful calculations.
Your weekly introductions can just
start with a good night's sleep on
Sundays to have you ready for
reveille.
Those Jared commercials have you
excited and standing in line at Subway
several times a week during lunch
time. You follow the signs pointing
you toward 6 grams of fat per six inch
sub. Dawn is your sandwich artist par
excellence and knows you love your
cheese and want double slices on your
ham subs. Get ready to interrupt Dawn
when she makes your “usual” next
noon hour. Those four slices of
Wisconsin's finest equal 200 calories
and are culpable of creating 31,000
calories over 12 months when consumed three times per week. That is 9
pounds of laughing cows on your
belly. Skip the Swiss!
Math can be fun when it can help
you! And this really was an easy lesson to understand. A little addition and
multiplication can help you see your
frequent follies. Now get back to using
arithmetic and start some subtraction
from now on; it's time to see math help
you create a whole new you!
This health and fitness article is
brought to you by that guy always
ready to help with your long division.
That guy is Ron Blake and he can tutor
you at rblake5551@hotmail.com.
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2011 Lavender GLBTQ Youth Prom - A Zombie Prom - Saturday, July 30th @ Dianna’s Studio of Dasnce in the Tower District All photos by Juan Bustamante
FRESNO REEL PRIDE
FILM FESTIVAL
CELEBRATES 22 YEARS!
September 14 - 18 at Fresno's historic
Tower Theatre and Starline Lounge.
This year, Fresno Reel Pride Film
Festival celebrates twenty-two years of
film and festivities with its long-standing
tradition of excellence in cutting-edge
selections of LGBT films and signature
events with a dynamic five-day lineup of
internationally award-winning feature
films, documentaries and short films at
the historic Tower Theater and its more
intimate cabaret space the Starline
Lounge. Festival organizers have
searched the world for important and
socially relevant films otherwise unavailable on the big screen to Fresno's filmloving community.
"Fresno Reel Pride's goal is to provide
a broad spectrum of LGBT stories that are
relevant to our community today,” said
new Festival Director James Figueroa.
“These stories have the ability to entertain, educate, and engage our audience in
a dynamic way from the start of opening
night throughout the entire five days.”
“While this is year twenty-two for the
festival, this is year one for me as a festival director. Eight years ago I was an
eager audience member attending Reel
Pride for the first time. During that first
year I was captivated by the films and
warmly welcomed into the festival audience,” Figueroa continued.
“It is my hope to continue and expand
on that welcome I felt. This year we are
renewing efforts to invite our youth audiences as well as our familiar friends whether LGBT, straight or anywhere in
between - to experience what a festival
like Reel Pride provides to our community. We encourage everyone gay or straight
to come out and be a part of our 2011
Festival by attending the screenings and
events.”
An impressive list of films has been
assembled for this year's festival and
highlights include:
OPENING NIGHT: Dirty Girl Wednesday, September 14th at 7:30pm Tower Theatre When the local bad girl
gets paired with a lonely gay boy, sparks
fly, wheels spin, and the good times roll!
Not since Will & Grace have a gay man
and a straight woman teamed up for such
outrageous adventures and side splitting
comedy. The film features an impressive
cast including Juno Temple, Jeremy
Dozier, William H. Macy, Dwight
Yoakam, Tim McGraw, Milla Jovovich,
and Mary Steenburgen - and even our fair
city of Fresno! Pulsing to the beat of a
late-80's rock soundtrack and bursting
with fun-filled energy at every turn,
DIRTY GIRL is a wild ride you won't
ever want to end.
Tomboy - Thursday, September 15th at
5:30pm - Tower Theatre When young
Laure moves with her parents and little
sister to a new home and is mistaken for
a boy, she adopts with her new identity
and assumes the name Mikael. Mikael
plays ball and swims like any boy in the
summertime. But his girlfriend Lisa
wants to play her own games with
Mikael. Winner of the Teddy Jury Award
at the Berlinale and the Czech Republic's
FICC Jury Special Prize, TOMBOY
showcases expert cast chemistry and true
artistry in capturing adolescence.
Finding Identity: Youth Shorts
Program - Thursday, September 15th at
7:30pm - Tower Theatre
The kids are all right in this inspiring
collection of short films showcasing the
everyday issues and triumphs tackled by
LGBT youth around the world.
Romeos - Thursday, September 15th at
9:00pm - Tower Theatre Lukas is a young
transgender man who moves to Cologne
to study and work in the big city. Despite
difficulties, he goes to a wild party and
meets Fabio, a flirtatious gay lothario that
embodies everything Lukas desires: selfconfidence, overt masculinity, and smoldering sensuality. As their attraction to
one another grows, Lukas must decide
how to proceed with this intimate relationship-turning the unconventional
romance into a courageous tale of love,
friendship, and sexual awakening.
Longhorns - Friday, September 16th at
6:00pm - Tower Theatre They say everything is bigger in the state of Texas. This
naughty sex romp gives us the full-frontal
view of fraternity life at the University of
Texas in the early 80s. LONGHORNS
follows Kevin, Steve, Justin, and Daniel
in their high-charged hormonal exploits.
WOMEN'S CENTREPIECE: Hannah
& the Hasbian - Friday, September 16th
at 8:00pm - Tower Theatre Hannah gave
up everything to be with Breigh: her family, her religion, and men. But now
Breigh's decided she wants to go straight
- as in hetero - and Hannah's left wondering: WTF? Breigh quickly learns for herself that dating men is no picnic. As their
household descends into a hilarious rehab
center for bruised egos and mixed emotions, this often-riotous romantic comedy
becomes a quirky story of finding true
love.
Leave it on the Floor - Friday,
September 16th at 10:00pm - Tower
Theatre Get ready to get down with this
modern mix of PARIS IS BURNING and
RENT. When our hero Brad is kicked out
of his house for being gay, he escapes to
L.A. where he discovers the legendary
drag ball scene and is taken in by the
struggling House of Eminence and its
family of outcasts. The LA ballroom
environment provides a colorful backdrop for this gay love story, with alternating glimpses of fashion, flesh and mad
moves and the energetic dance sequences
by Beyonce choreographer Frank Gatson
Jr. will have you out of your seats and
ready to hit the runway.
This is What Love in Action Looks
Like - Saturday, September 17th at
11:00am - Starline Lounge Can you really "pray away the gay"? Closeted 16 yearold teen Zach Stark's worst fears came
true in 2005, when his parents sent him to
a camp run by the ex-gay Christian
reform group 'Love In Action' against his
will. Zach began blogging about his
experiences to his friends and through the
concurrent rise of viral media, the news
of his plight spread. This powerful documentary recounts the events which eventually led to the closure of the controversial program.
CENTREPIECE DOCUMENTARY:
We Were Here: Voices from the AIDS
Years - Saturday, September 17th at
4:30pm - Tower Theatre A powerful film
that the Los Angeles Times called
“Uplifting…clear-eyed, soulful.” In 2011
we mark 30 years since AIDS descended
on the world; WE WERE HERE (an official selection of the 2011 Sundance and
Berlinale Film Festivals) documents what
was called the “Gay Plague” as it hit San
Francisco in the early 1980s. Focusing on
five survivors of the epidemic and their
gripping personal recollections, the history of this tragic time becomes an inspiring tale of empowerment as the community came together to face this threat with
compassion, support, and hope.
Wish Me Away - Saturday, September
17th at 7:00pm - Tower Theatre Awardwinning country music star Chely Wright
had a secret that seemed impossible to
reveal to her family, friends, and fans.
Raised in a religious home and rising to
fame in the homophobic country music
industry, Chely prayed for years that her
homosexuality would just go away. In
2010, she began an arduous and journey
of coming out to the world and every
touching and riveting moment is captured
and crafted into a powerful and moving
documentary.
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Ladies' Pool
BAKERSFIELD
Men's Social
Men OUTSpoken OUTings for
Autumn. For the boys only! We've not
seen much of each other this summer,
so let's get back together to make a
plan for more men's events throughout
the Fall. We want to start seeing more
of you, more often!
Dustin will lead this fun evening of
coffee and conversation. Flame &
Skewers in right next door if you're
hungry.
Please plan to pick up your own tab
for coffee & treats. No cost to just sit
in on the chat, though.
Friday, August 19, 7pm at
Starbucks, 1201 24th St. It's ok to be
late, too. If you leave work after 7,
swing by and relax for a bit with us!
MenOUTSpoken@gmail.com
“A Chorus Line”
A Chorus Line is a musical about
Broadway dancers auditioning for
spots on a chorus line. The book was
authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and
Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by
Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. The play
includes several gay characters: “Greg
Gardner”, “Bobby Mills” and “Paul
San Marco”. Directed by Kevin
Trueblood & Marnie Forzetting;
choreography by Marnie Forzetting
and Cindy Trueblood.
Remaining dates: August 19th &
20th, 7:30pm
at Stars Theatre
Restaurant, 1931 Chester Ave.
www.bmtstars.com
Women's Group OUT for Pool. $9
per table per hour; dutch treat.
Sunday, August 21st, 1pm at
Corner Pocket, 3216 Ming Ave #B.
women@bakersfieldpride.org
Monday Nights Out…
… at Vinny's Bar & Grill are ending! There's only one left, August
22nd. So if you haven't joined us yet,
please do so! Great drinks, great company, great time, and karaoke 8 11:30pm. Vinny's is the one place in
Bakersfield where all are welcome!
But fear not, there'll still be gay
nights at Vinny's. We're moving them
to Tuesdays, starting on August 30th
because of Monday Night Football!
At Vinny's Bar & Grill, 2700 S.
Union Ave.
Pizza Hut FUNdraiser
Come join everyone Bakersfield
LGBTQ at the Auburn Pizza Hut for a
great night, and helping a great community!
You MUST present the flier from
the website for your dine-in or carry
out order and a percent of your purchase will be donated to Bakersfield
LGBTQ!
This flyer is only accepted at Pizza
Hut on Auburn Rd. Coupons, and
alcohol can not be used with this flier.
We thank Pizza Hut for the wonderful support to Bakersfield LGBTQ.
Thursday, August 25, 5 - 9 PM at
Pizza Hut, 3701 Auburn St.
www.meetup.com/BakersfieldLGBTQ/files/
Drag - Is It In You?
“I Wanna Go”
A Britney Spears Event! Doors
open at 9pm, no cover till 10pm, loud
sound! DJ Bronco playing the hottest
hits till the world ends.
August 20th at the Casablanca
Nightclub, 1825 N St.
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id
=100001302980044
If you've got what it takes, join us
for a one night only drag race inspired
competition. The winner will receive
the chance to perform with the city's
leading divas at Bakersfield Pride
2011.
Enjoy a first-round competitor's
choice performance, each followed by
Judges' critiques. Second round to be
the Judges top 2 in a 'Lip Sync For
Your Life'.
Come and enjoy a night of fresh,
new faces, and exciting entertainment.
Judges panel will include some of
Bakersfield's leading queens, and a
respected community member.
Free entry for competitors.
Competition is open to anyone 18 and
over. Deadline to join the competition
is August 19th.
Brought to you and hosted by
Valerie Soleil & Vanessa Elektra.
Open to ages 18 and over. Full no-host
bar for those 21 and over. Admission
$4.
Friday, August 26th, 8pm at Stars
Dinner Theatre, 1931 Chester Ave.
Questions? deliciousdeisme@aol.com
Queer Bowling
We have been having such a great
time bowling that we're going to go
again, and make this a regular thing!
We don't have designated teams, so
we'll just see who shows up and make
sure everyone has a lane! Everyone is
welcome to play!
We show up at 6pm, which gives
everyone thirty minutes to get shoes,
food, drinks, etc, and we start bowling
PROMPTLY at 6:30pm!
You don't have to be an ace bowler;
we usually have more fun with people
who ... don't bowl well or often. This
is for fun!
Families welcome, but we won't
have bumpers on the lanes. Adults
may be consuming alcohol. We also
invite non-bowlers to come and cheer
on your team!
Cost: (Dutch treat)
- if we have ten or more actual
bowlers: $13.00 for two hours of
unlimited games, shoes included, per
person;
- if we do not have at least ten
bowlers: $4.60 shoe rental per person,
$4.45 per game for adults.
Whitney will wear a black polo
with LGBTQ logo on the front so
first-timers can find us.
Saturday, August 27, 6pm at AMF
Bowling, 3610 Wible Rd.
RSVP
required
at
meetup.com/Bakersfield-LGBTQ
PFLAG Meeting
Meet the Salty and Sibilient Sitz
Family of South Silver Lake! They
will be our featured guest speakers at
our next meeting, Thursday,
September 1st, 7pm, at The First
Congregational Church, 5 Real Rd.
This will be a multimedia event
with video, slides, poetry, and discussions featuring: West Hollywood
Halloween; LA's first LGBT Heritage
event; The Poetry of Elliott Sitz;
Wranglings with the school district;
Gifts that come with having an LGBT
child.
facebook.com/PFLAGBakersfield
Rocky Horror
7:00 to 11:30 a.m.
1:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Rocky Horror Picture Show presented by the Velvet Darkness, a
Rocky Horror Picture Show mimic
cast, which performs quarterly.
Door at 11pm, Games at 11:30pm,
Lipsync at Midnight - Tickets $10,
prop bags $3. Prizes provided by Déjà
vu Love Boutique.
September 2nd & 3rd at the Empty
Space, 706 Oak St.www.esonline.org
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet, a play by Steven
Dietz, directed by Brian Brennan, is
part of The Empty Space's 2011-2012
Late Night Season (for mature audiences).
In an unnamed American city in
the early 1980s during the AIDS epidemic, a gay man in his 40s named
Jody owns a map store. A friend of his,
Carl, a gay man in his 30s, is a frequent visitor to the store. Carl starts
putting chairs in the store, and after
Jody argues with Carl about it, he
learns that each of them was owned by
friends of theirs who succumbed to
AIDS. Jody rarely leaves his store,
and Carl places these chairs there in
order to show him what is going on in
the outside world and how important it
is that he participates in it. After some
convincing, Carl gets Jody to go get
himself tested, but there's a twist.
Tickets $5. September 16th, 17th,
23rd, 24th at the Empty Space, 706
Oak St. www.esonline.org
Morro Bay Camp Trip
Ah, yes, nature! Clean air! What
could be better than walks in the trees,
next to the ocean, followed by a singalong around the fire? Let's go!
Bakersfield LGBTQ invites everyone to go camping in Morro Bay!
Dogs are welcome. No extra fee, but
they have to remain on a leash at the
campsite.
Also, obviously, please
clean up after your pooch.
$70 per site for two nights. Each
site may have 2 cars/2 tents /8 people
max.
We will reserve sites now, but your
space can only be held with your paid
reservation to Shelby, LGBTQ Vice
Chair: rainbowgurl1@aol.com. or
661-319-4296. Shelby will send out
info about the camping units when
you reserve your space.
Friday, September 16th - Sunday,
September 18th at Morro Bay State
Park.
meetup.com/Bakersfield-LGBTQ
Student's mother files lawsuit
by Jorge Barrientos, The Bakersfield
Californian
Just days after federal officials
found the Tehachapi Unified School
District failed to investigate or
respond appropriately to the bullying
of a gay, 13-year-old middle school
student who later hanged himself, his
mother filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
In fact, the findings of the investigation released Friday [July 22nd] are
the foundation for Wendy Walsh's suit.
The suit states that ongoing harassment of her son Seth was common
knowledge by school staff, they did
little to stop it, and because of the negligence, Seth hanged himself.
Walsh, in a suit filed Tuesday [July
26th], is seeking compensation for
wrongful-death damages, medical
expenses and punitive damages.
"I want accountability," Walsh said
Tuesday, sitting next to her attorney,
Daniel Rodriguez.
In September, Seth Walsh hanged
himself in his backyard and died a
week later. He left a suicide note
expressing anger at his school "for
bringing you this sorrow."
HANFORD
Movie Night with Hanford
Rainbow Pride
We thought it would be awesome to
have our monthly event held at the
Drive In this month. We will have out
Hanford Rainbow Pride Banner in
plain view so everyone will know
where to park with us and mingle a bit
before the movies start. We do not
know at this time what movies will be
playing. However, we will keep you
all posted as soon as we find out as it
gets closer to the date. We hope to see
everyone out there with us.
Fill free to bring your chairs,
snacks, and soft drinks if you like.
There is also a snack bar located in the
Drive In. The cost to get into the Drive
Inn is $8.00 for a carload of 6 people.
Saturday, August 27th, 7:30pm at
Kings Drive In, 14th Ave & Lacey
Blvd.
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid
=134187293339041
Support Group
Are you a member of the LGBTQ
community and looking for a safe
place to find support? Embrace your
identity. Come and join our LGBTQ
Support Group.
Meetings are on second and fourth
Tuesdays of the month. Reception
(and snacks) 5:30 - 6pm, Meeting 6 7:30pm.
At Kings County Behavioral
Health, 450 Kings County Dr., suite
104. (559) 582-3211 ext. 2333.
MODESTO
“Beginners”
When it comes to relationships,
we're all beginners. From writer/director Mike Mills comes this
comedy/drama about how deeply
funny and transformative life can be,
even at its most serious moments.
Beginners imaginatively explores the
hilarity, confusion and surprises of
love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Golden Globe Award
nominee Ewan McGregor). Oliver
meets the irreverent and unpredictable
Anna (Melanie Laurent of Inglorious
Basterds) only months after his father,
Hal Fields (Academy Award nominee
Christopher Plummer, has passed
away. This new love floods Oliver
with memories of his father who, following the death of his wife of 45
years, came out of the closet at age 75
to live a full, energized and wonderfully tumultuous gay life - which
included a younger boyfriend, Andy
(Goran Visnjic of ER). The upheavals
of Hal's new honesty, by turns moving
and funny, brought father and son
closer than they had ever been.
August 19th, 4pm; August 22nd,
4pm; August 23rd, 7pm at the State
Theatre, 1307 J St.
www.thestate.org
Birthday Parties
There's always a birthday party at
the Brave Bull! Join us on Sundays:
August 21st for Casey's Birthday
Party (with a wet t-shirt contest, drink
specials, food and snacks), and on
August 28th for Tricia's (with a hot
female stripper). Both nights there
will be drag show featuring The Brave
Bull-Ettes, hosted by Miss Anjali!
At the Brave Bull, 701 S. 9th St.
www.facebook.com/TheBraveBull
OESCI's Suspension Lifted
by Empress XI Crystal Rae Lee Love,
International Court Council
On behalf of Nicole the Great,
Queen Mother of the Americas, I
would like to announce that effective
immediately, the Owl Empire of
Stanislaus County, Inc., Modesto, CA,
having satisfied the requirements and
stipulations placed on them earlier in
the year by the Queen Mother, is hereby released from the terms of their
suspension. The Owl Empire of
Stanislaus County, Inc. will remain on
probation for a period of three years
during which time the International
Court Council will review their financial documents on a periodic basis.
The Modesto Court and their members should be recognized at all ICS
functions with full titles, rights and
privileges.
OESCI Events
From the Owl Empire of Stanislaus
County, Inc.'s calendar of events:
8/23 Bingo @ Brave Bull, 701 S
9th St. 6pm. $20.
8/27 USO Show & BBQ @ Brave
Bull. 5:30pm. $5.
The USO Show & BBQ will be
hosted by Ms. Gay Stanislaus 08-09,
Joyce Vaigna. Doors open at 5:30pm,
BBQ starts at 6pm, Show begins at
7pm. $5 donation includes all you can
eat BBQ. Open entertainment. Special
guest emcees: Empress 19 of
Modesto, Sondra St. James and
Emperor 21/31, Jason Parkos of
Alameda. Come in your best military
outfits. Raffles, auction, food and fun.
100% of all proceeds go to the U.S.O.
for our troops!
9/8 Bingo @ Tiki Lounge, 932
McHenry Ave. 7pm. $20.
9/27 Bingo @ Brave Bull. 6pm.
$20.
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“L'Amour Fou”
The public life of Yves Saint
Laurent was as extravagant as it was
decadent. First a design prodigy and
then the grand couturier of a fashion
empire, Saint Laurent influenced 50
years of style, however, few are familiar with the private life of the legend.
In Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou,
Pierre Bergé, the man with whom
YSL shared four decades of his life
and love, reflects on the extravagant
history of their personal relationship.
Framed around the 2009 auction of
the priceless, elaborate art collection
amassed by Yves and Pierre over several decades, this extraordinary documentary provides an unprecedented
look at the life of a mythic personality, whose personal life matched his
public for elegance, extravagance and
passion. An official selection of the
Toronto and TriBeCa Film Festivals.
September 9th, 10th, 12th, 14th at
7pm; September 11th at 1pm at the
State Theatre, 1307 J St.
www.thestate.org
said.
But from Seth's death, several antibullying initiatives have grown. And
they've been boosted by presentations
from Walsh in front of state and federal policy makers.
A state bill called Seth's Law,
which would create an anti-bullying
system at all California schools that
don't have them already, has been
passed by the Assembly and lies with
the state Senate. And the ACLU of
Southern California launched the
"Seth Walsh Students' Rights Project"
aimed at combating bullying and discrimination in California schools.
Walsh said she has been "pleased"
with the ongoing anti-bullying efforts
nationally in her son's memory.
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Modesto Pride 2011
In the beginning there was
"Stonewall", where riots and protest
began a slow but sure showmanship of
what we now know as Pride. Forty
one years later, even small town
America is celebrating. Seven years
ago, Modesto, CA opened the doors to
a facility that reached out to the LGBT
communities in the Central Valley of
CA. The SPC (Stanislaus Pride
Center) was that organization, and
gave us our first Pride Celebration an
indoor event held at the Fat Cat, that
had over 500 guests in attendance, and
has grown since. The event has moved
to a larger venue, Graceada Park, that
allowed about 1000 people to attend.
Last year Modesto Pride Inc. continued the tradition with its greatest
endeavor taking place with just over
3500 people in attendance.
The Modesto Pride Festival will
take place on Saturday, September
17th, from 11am to 7pm at Graceada
Park, Needham St. between Park Ave
& Sycamore Ave.
www.modestopride.org
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Tehachapi Unified's school board
in April rejected a wrongful-death
claim filed by Walsh, as is routine.
The filing and rejection of a claim are
often the precursors to a lawsuit.
The suit names as defendants the
school
district,
Superintendent
Richard Swanson, Jacobsen Middle
School Principal Susan Ortega, Vice
Principal Paul Kaminski, teacher (first
name not clear) Kirby, teacher Laura
Haight, teacher Laura Kabonic and
teacher Marty Feehan.
The findings of the seven-month
investigation by the U.S. Department
of Education and U.S. Department of
Justice is being considered by some
civil-rights groups as "landmark."
As a result of that investigation,
Tehachapi Unified will soon be taking
several steps to stop sexual- and gender-based harassment, prevent its
recurrence and eliminate a hostile
environment. That includes revising
policies; training all students, administrators, teachers and other staff; and
repeatedly surveying the campuses on
sex-based harassment issues.
Tehachapi Unified officials disagreed with and disputed the federal
investigation's findings, but signed off
on making changes -- changes that
Walsh had been hoping for, she said.
So why a lawsuit?
Attorney Rodriguez -- who has 30
years of experience, including on several high-profile wrongful death cases
-- said the district had a chance two
years ago to follow through with
changes and did not, as evidenced by
the new federal findings. In 2009, in a
case Rodriguez represented, the district instituted sexual-harassment policy changes in resolving a different
federal complaint, documents show.
A lawsuit will help make sure the
district follows the rules, Rodriguez
said.
School officials could not be
reached Tuesday, though they typically do not comment on pending litigation. Rodriguez said he anticipates the
case could go to trial.
Rodriguez called the new investigative findings by the federal agencies "powerful" to his case, and gives
a "real perspective." He cites verbatim
passages from federal findings in his
lawsuit.
"This is a separate independent
look at the case," Rodriguez said
Friday of the federal investigation, "an
objective look at the school environment."
Through this all, Walsh said the last
several months have "been the most
difficult time in my life." She has two
other sons -- one is now homeschooled and the other has graduated
from high school.
"I lost my mother, and that pales in
comparison (to losing Seth)," Walsh
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Modesto Pride Riders
Wanted
by Mary Borg, Bike Ride Co-Chair
Modesto Pride 2011 is just around
the corner (Saturday, September
17th).
This year's theme is PASSPORT
TO EQUALITY. So it has been decided that the WOMEN and MEN shall
ride together in Unity with PRIDE.
Women will lead the pack!
Plans are in the works and our goal
is to have the BIGGEST turn-out ever
for our PRIDE Ride. It is very important that you spread the word and
invite your family and friends who
support our community. To have adequate parking for the bikes you must
register by sending me an email to
maryb1117@sbcglobal.net that you
want to participate. Those who
respond will get further instructions
for meeting time and place.
Modesto Pride asks that all riders
dress appropriately for Modesto, not
San Francisco! Let's be PROUD out
Loud. Rainbows of all shapes and
sizes welcome.
PORTERVILLE
Women's Flag Football
Are you interested in playing for
Tulare County's only women's / lesbian flag football team? There is still
time to join up, although the team has
already started practice.
Keep in mind this is an all women's
team but if you are of the opposite
gender and still interested in getting
involved you can! You would be joining the ranks of their coach Karl
Cannon.
Tulare County's first game will be
against Fresno's Fems N Studz TBA.
If you are interested you contact
Beltrandorianmonet@yahoo.com
Welcome To Our Family
by Brooke Burk, GayVisalia.com
I'm sure you have all seen that Gay
Central Valley has expanded. We are
very excited and proud to now be
operating Gay Porterville. Already
there have been articles posted, an up
and running Facebook page and more
things that you just don't know about
yet. You might be asking yourselves….who is this Gay Porterville?
Well, I'd like to take this time to let
you know about the woman behind
the curtain, so to speak. It is my honor
to introduce Melissa McMurrey,
Division Leader of Gay Porterville.
Melissa has only been with us for a
short time but already has great ideas,
great initiative and most importantly,
a great passion for her community.
Melissa was raised as an Army
brat. She and her family lived in various places throughout her childhood;
Georgia, Washington, Germany, and
New York, to name a few. She spent a
lot of her adult life in Santa Barbara.
Being out in the world and coming
from a pretty liberal area as SB, you
can imagine the culture shock she
received moving back to Porterville.
Lucky for you however, because that
is one of her driving forces. Oh yeah,
and to answer the burning question….. Yes, Melissa is gay. She currently lives with her partner of a year.
She also has a dachshund named
Sadie. She's an Aquarius, likes long
walks on the beach and her favorite
color is teal. Did I just take that too
far? :)
To give you a better perspective of
her, we had a little Q&A session and
here's what she had to say:
What was your biggest adjustment
moving back to the valley?
Biggest adjustment would have to
be lack of cultured events and/or not
having the option to do anything after
9pm locally that doesn't include alcohol or strippers…although those
things can be fun too. (Note to self:
Take Melissa out for alcohol and strippers)
What was your motivation in starting up Gay Porterville?
Having been raised in various parts
of the world I've had the opportunity
to see full acceptance and tolerance of
people outside of the traditional norm.
Having Porterville to come back to on
and off throughout my army brat
upbringing made it easy to see how
repressed the central valley is and saw
what kind of advancements it could
make. Porterville being off the beaten
path sometimes contributes to the lack
of resources we have here.
What do you think the hardest
struggle for your area is?
Gosh, where to begin? Lack of
LGBT community resources. Lack of
understanding by the general population of LGBT issues. I feel that many
LGBTQ people in the area think they
are alone but don't realize how many
of us are actually here.
Did you find it difficult coming out
to your friends and family?
I actually made a mountain out of a
mole hill with this one. I had antici-
pated some resistance from my retired
military gone correctional officer
father but he actually was really open
to the fact. My dad's exact words were
“I don't care who you date as long as
they treat you right and make you
happy”…another favorite quotable
from my dad when I first came out to
him was in my asking him if he feared
I wouldn't be giving him grandchildren he said “What? Why? Women
get inseminated all the time!! You better be giving me a grandkid!” With my
mom…I was very fortunate to have
the opportunity in coming out to her
shortly before she passed away. My
mom's response was “I always knew
something was up…especially with
the effeminate men you used to date”.
Friends… Again, I have been really
fortunate in my coming out experience. Most of my friends stated they
weren't surprised and found it exciting. However, I do have one or two
friends from high school that have
struggled with it. They have voiced
their more conservative opinions to
me but I take it as a challenge to try
and educate them rather than turn the
other cheek.
What can the community do to help
you in your efforts?
Voice their opinion. Pass any information or leads they may have to me.
Voice any ideas they have or resources
that I can try and harvest into a community resource or outlet.
What's the one goal that you, Gay
Porterville, have for this year?
I have a couple of ideas still brewing that I still need to figure out a
means and a plan of action for. I
would like to get the LGBT community working on some volunteer projects
and other types of community outreach where we are working side by
side with other everyday people. I also
am looking to get a general LGBT
support group going to allow people
of like mind to get together and chat.
Have you ever been discriminated
against for identifying as an LGBT
community member?
I've had a few comments and
remarks made to me since I've been
back in the area but nothing I really
cared to hear. I imagine as I become
more active in the community more
people will recognize and associate
me with the gay community possibly
making me a target for discrimination.
But I am ready and excited for that
challenge.
Now that you have people's attention, what would you like to say to
them?
That I would like for any member
of the community to feel comfortable
in approaching me at any time for any
reason. I will never judge anyone for
their feelings. I am a safe space. I will
always do my best to help in any way
I can...If I personally can't help I will
find the appropriate resources.
I'm excited to have her with us and
I'm really glad that the Porterville area
has someone who can help continue
the growth that has been started.
Many of you have already done such
great things there, together, you guys
will be amazing. I encourage everyone to take advantage of this opportunity. Connect, share, engage and
empower. Melissa is full of ambition
and truly wants to bring everyone
together for a stronger and better community.
Melissa: On behalf of myself and
Gay Central Valley, welcome and
thank you for coming aboard. The
journey you are embarking upon is
not an easy one at times, but I can't
think of a better person for the job.
Get involved Porterville, let her
know what you need and how she can
help! Melissa@GayPorterville.com,
559-791-8699.
LGBT presence needed at
Porterville College
by Melissa, gayporterville.com
I'd like to announce that we are creating a Pride Club for Porterville
College. Everything is still in the
works but (...) our presence is desperately needed at the college. If you are
a current student or would like to volunteer your time please contact me,
Melissa@GayPorterville.com.
STOCKTON
Valley Ministries Campout
Valley Ministries MCC will be
holding our special yearly campout,
this year at Sugar Pine Campground
in South Lake Tahoe. The camp site is
limited to 40 people. The first 10 vehicles (trailers count as a second vehicle) do not have to pay to park. Visit
our website for more info.
Friday, August 26th - Sunday,
August 28th.
www.valleyministries.com
Bowling Social &
Fundraiser A Success
Our Bear Bowling Fund Raiser,
organized by Rob Caselli and Bears of
Central California, went really well
for our first attempt! 40 really cool
people, ranging from 2 grandkids,
Rob's 2 daughters, their significant
others, bears from Modesto, CA,
Reno, NV, Fresno CA, and El
Sobrante CA, a sprinkling of lesbians,
and several straight friends. Cool raffle prizes and a wonderful bowling
center (West Lane Bowl) and its great
food. Those that missed the bowling
missed out on the private invitationonly Pool Party... Snooze, you lose!
www.bearsofcentralcalifornia.org
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Think Pink
Believe Out Loud workshops will
help you to speak to people in your
church or diocese about why it's
important to welcome and include
LGBT people in the life of your
church communities. After a long
time of specific exclusion from
Christian communities, gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender people
are looking for a specific welcome to
come back to the church. With the
tools you will gain from this workshop, you can work with your fellow
Christians to build your churches as
inclusive communities that welcome
EVERYONE into the body of Christ.
Everyone is invited to attend.
People who are not current dues-paid
members of Integrity are asked to pay
$25 to defray the expense of materials
and trainers. $10 for students, seniors
and low-income persons. Payment in
advance is preferred, but may be done
at the door. If you choose to do this,
choose "pay by mail" as you check
out, and bring it with you. If you're
coming from out of town, we may
have a group rate at a nearby hotel.
Saturday, September 10th, 10am 3pm at St. Episcopal Church in
Stockton.
www.integrityusa.org/workshops
San Joaquin Pride Center presents
Think Pink: Awareness & Fun(d)raiser Reception with guests of honor:
Hon. Susan Eggman and Riley
Johndonnell.
Susan Eggman is the Central
Valley's first out LGBT elected official. Elected for a second term on the
Stockton City Council in 2010, Susan
decided to run for office after the 2004
election cycle, believing change was
necessary. Susan strongly believes
that social, economic and environmental justice is possible through the
political process. As a founding member of the Central Valley Stonewall
Democratic Club, Susan has been an
active catalyst for LGBT activism
within San Joaquin County.
Riley Johndonnell is an acclaimed
artist, entrepreneur and activist. Riley
explores the power of style and inspiration through the fusion of art and
commerce. Founder of Surface
Magazine, design expert for HGTV &
Ovation TV, creative director / think
tank consultant for such brands as
Levis, Lexus, Esprit, Bombay
Sapphire, Disney and more. During
the early '90s he was the founding
president of the Gay Alliance of the
Pacific (UOP), and has been a trailblazer for our local LGBT community
(winning a state senatorial award for
his activism in San Joaquin County).
He recently attended the first LGBT
Pride Month reception at the White
House, hosted by President Obama.
Tickets: $50. Join us for hors d'oeuvres and cocktails!
RSVP: sjpridecenter@gmail.com
Sunday, September 18th, 6pm at
Ave on the Mile, 2333 Pacific Ave.
sanjoaquinpridecenter.weebly.com
The AIDS Walk San Joaquin and
the San Joaquin AIDS Foundation are
hosting the 3rd Annual San Jaoquin
AIDS Poker Run on Saturday,
September 17th. The last two years
we had the Run in October but the
weather was not the best. Hopefully,
by moving it up a month, we will get
nice and sunny weather. The entry fee
is $25 per person or $40 per couple.
This gets you a commemorative pin
and t-shirt, lunch, one free raffle ticket and the buy-in for the poker hand.
Registration is from 8 to 10 am at the
Alano Club, 1812 Monte Diablo
Avenue, Stockton, CA 95203. A preRun breakfast is offered for $5 a person. Applications are available at the
AIDS Foundation office, 4330 N
Pershing Ave, Ste B-3 or via email at
webmaster@awsj.org.
For those that don't know what a
Poker Run is, along the route of the
Run there are 5 stops total. At each
stop, you draw a card from a deck. At
the end, whoever has the best high and
best low poker hands split the pot of
money which is based the number of
participants. The route will be the
same as last year: from the Alano
Club to Valley Springs, through
Mokelumne Hill, West Point, San
Andreas and ending at Knights Ferry.
www.awsj.org
VISALIA
Pants & Pumps Showdown
To quote the Beastie Boys, Hey,
Hey, Hey Ladies! This year at Family
Fest, being held on Saturday
September 24th, we will be holding
the first annual Pants & Pumps
Showdown. Teams will compete for
cash and prizes but most importantly..... BRAGGING RIGHTS! Each
team will need to consist of 2 Pants &
2 Pumps. There will be a series of
challenges leading up to the final
showdown of the top 2 teams. Do you
think you've got what it takes to earn
the title? Get your team together now
and visit www.gayvisalia.com!
YOSEMITE
LGBTQ Family Camp
Camp Tawonga is located on the
middle fork of the Tuloumne River,
just outside Yosemite National Park.
Keshet LGBTQ at Camp Tawonga
provides a strong community for
Jewish LGBTQ parents and their chil-
dren to learn, explore and play in the
beauty of the Sierra Mountains.
Adults spend the morning hiking,
creating arts and crafts, and partaking
in workshops. Meanwhile, our skilled
counselors plan age-appropriate activities for kids, ranging from boating on
the lake for young children to facilitated dialogue about growing up with
gay parents for teens. Families spend
the afternoon together, participating in
camp activities and exploring Camp
Tawonga, including the beautiful
Tuolumne River. And of course, no
Keshet Weekend is complete without
a Shabbat service, talent show, and
crazy dance party! Also, see the
schedule on the website for a special
program just for Keshet teens.
Thursday, August 25th - Sunday,
August 28th.
Register: www.tawonga.org/weekend-programs/keshet.php
COS Pride Club Meetings
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The Pride Club is an all-inclusive
club focused on educating College of
the Sequoia as well as the community
about LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgendered) history, rights, and
lack of, and to openly express and talk
about such in a safe environment. The
Pride Club is interested in community
outreach, helping to promote equality
for all people, and a fun environment
for all!
Our first meeting for Fall semester
is on Thursday, August 25th at 12pm
at Kern Building 729, College of
Sequoias, 915 S. Mooney Blvd.
Our COS Pride Campus Library
hours are: Monday/Wednesday 8am10:30am, Tuesday/Thursday 8am9am, Monday-Thursday noon-2pm.
www.facebook.com/cosprideclub
PFLAG hosts GSA
Network
Come join us on Sunday, August
21st at 3 PM! Our speakers will be
Victoria Benavides, Central Valley
Program Coordinator, Gay-Straight
Alliance Network and Kira, one of our
youth from Turlock who attended
GAYLA, (Queer Advocacy Day), in
Sacramento this past school year.
PFLAG Tulare and Kings Counties
meets every 3rd Sunday at Family
HealthCare Network, 305 E Center St.
www.pflag-tulare-kings.org
Skittles Tryouts
by Brooke, gayvisalia.com
The Skittles are gearing up for their
fourth season of softball! We will be
holding open tryouts for anyone interested in joining the team. If you aren't
familiar with us, we are the only local
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by Daniel Corona
LGBT co-ed softball team, graciously
sponsored in part by Gay Visalia. We
play on Friday nights at Plaza Park.
The season lasts 10 weeks and our
first game is on September 23. There
is a small fee (under $25) which will
be determined later. No equipment is
needed other than your own glove.
We took second place in our division last season. Do you have what it
takes to help us achieve first? If so,
come out and show us what you got! I
forgot to mention that we have a huge
following and the bleachers are
always filled with our amazing fans. I
can't wait to see you guys, too!
Tryouts/Practice will be held on
Saturday, August 20th and Sunday,
August 28th at 11am at Whitendale
Par, W Evans Ave & S West St.
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FilmOut
8/20 - 28 in San Diego
The 13th Annual LGBT Film
Festival has several movies with lesbian themes.
“Leading Ladies” (2010, USA):
This spectacularly entertaining film is
a zany comedy about two sisters, their
gay best friend, and their overzealous
stage mom. When one sister gets pregnant and the other plans to waltz out of
the closet, the family must hustle to
maintain their status quo in the harsh
arena of competitive dance. Find out
what happens to each as they re-examine their roles in modern life and on
the dance floor and learn to "Let Love
Lead." ™ Visually impressive - along
with excellent choreographed dance
sequences that need to be seen on the
big screen! (Saturday 8/20, 4pm, copresented by La Jolla Playhouse).
“The Sleeping Beauty of East
Finchley” (2010, UK): Joan (Josie
Walker) is a 40-ish woman in North
London, a devout Catholic who looks
after her mum with the help of a nurse,
Pat (Ruth James). As Joan and Pat
become friends, Pat discovers Joan's
love of singing and invited her to join
her choir, “The Friends of Dusty.” But
it takes Joan awhile to realize that this
is a lesbian choir, and as a performance at the Various Voices festival
on the Southbank approaches, Joan
gets cold feet in more ways than one.
(Saturday 8/20, 1pm, co-presented by
Cygnet & San Diego Women's
Chorus).
“Bloomington” (2010, USA): Exchild actor Jackie (Sarah Stouffer)
leaves the entertainment world behind
and heads to college at a Midwestern
university, where she meets engaging
professor Catherine (Allison McAtee),
who has a reputation for breaking the
hearts of other women. Jackie ignores
her friends' advice and begins a fervid
romantic relationship with Catherine,
which is eventually threatened when
Jackie has an opportunity to return to
acting. (Sunday 8/21, 4:15pm, co-presented by FlawLes).
“A Marine Story” (2010, USA): A
decorated officer from a military family, Alex (Dreya Weber) is unexpectedly discharged from duty. When she
returns to her conservative hometown,
the Marine struggles to readjust to
civilian life, but agrees to mentor
Saffron (Paris P. Pickard), a troubled
teen who's enlisting. Alex is the nononsense role model and authority figure Saffron needs, but as Saffron finally hits her stride, Alex must find the
courage to face her own demons.
(Friday 8/26, 6pm, co-presented by
FlawLes).
“Circumstance” (2011, France /
Iran): A suspenseful tale of love and
family upended by obsession and suspicion, this extremely provocative
coming-of-age story cracks open the
hidden, underground world of Iranian
youth culture, where a young woman's
most electrifying passions can become
the most dangerous of secrets. The
Audience Award winner at this year's
Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Maryam Keshavarz's debut feature
boldly takes filmgoers inside a modern
Iran rarely witnessed by outsiders: an
exhilarating, invisible realm of illicit
nightclubs where young hipsters risk
arrest, and their futures, as they experiment with sex, drugs and defiance, all
while trying to evade the authorities.
Starring Nikohl Boosheri & Sarah
Kazemy. (Saturday 8/27, 4pm, co-presented by Pink Egg Media).
“Eloise's Lover” (2011, Spain):
Young, beautiful Àsia lies in a coma,
as we see in flashback what led up to
her accident, her life studying architecture at university, the somewhat
overbearing relationship she has with
her mother and her passionless relationship with her boyfriend, Nathaniel.
When she meets the mysterious and
exotic Eloïse, an art student who asks
Àsia to model for her, her world
changes. Eloïse is openly gay and
unapologetically different from anyone else she knows, and despite her
anxiety about falling in love with
another woman, Àsia can't help but
respond to Eloïse. A sensuous and
beautifully made film that reminds us
love can conquer all. (Sunday 8/28,
4:30pm, co-sponsored by Pink Egg
Media).
Also shown will be several short
films (see schedule on the website for
dates and times), including:
“Fresh Air Therapy” (2010,
Germany): German counselor Petra
and Kerstin are spending another
unpleasant session with their counselor when a power failure and natural
body functions bring them closer
together.
“Charlotte” (2010, Australia): She
just wants to be loved.
“Olivia” (2010, USA): Two girls,
four strings and a bathroom is all it
takes for a seduction.
“Rockin' the Rainbow” (2010,
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sexual experience with a woman and
confides in her older, outspokenly lesbian sister Emma, expecting some
kind of sound advice.
“5 Dysfunctional People in a Car”
(2010, Canada): A 43-year old woman,
her 21-year old boyfriend, her unhappy married sister, an aging mother and
a burgeoning lesbian niece take a ride
into discontent one winter's afternoon.
“Nothing Happened” (2010, USA):
Sex, drugs, diet tips. Girlfriends tell
each other everything. But is there one
topic that should stay off-limits?
“Tracks” (2010, USA): Julie is an
18 year old runaway who reluctantly
meets Tasha, a headstrong 15 year old
and in the span of a week develop a
friendship. This quickly turns into
their first romantic relationship, which
then threatens to tear the very fabric of
both their worlds.
At Birch Park North Theatre, 2891
University Ave.
www.filmoutsandiego.com
Women's Stage at Pride
8/20 in San Jose
San Jose's 36th annual Pride
Festival takes place during the weekend of August 20th and 21st. Saturday
is family day and features the
Women's Stage, with Free Admission.
There will be children's activities in
conjunction with the Children's
Discovery Museum as well as a rock
wall and bounce house.
This year's tentative entertainment
line-up for Saturday: 11am - Doors
open/National Anthem; 11:15 Karaoke winners; 12:15pm - Xolie
Morra (formerly Tiana Noyes); 1pm Holly Heaven; 1:45 - Tamra Engle;
2:30 - Letters Make Words; 3:15 Scranton; 4pm - Blair Hanson Band;
4:45 - The Hormones; 5:30 - Tehya;
6:15 - 7pm - Beaver Fever
At Discovery Meadow, corner of
Woz Way and San Carlos.
www.sanjosepride.com
Sunkiss Pool Party
8/20 in Los Angeles
Ladies Touch Entertainment presents Sunkiss Pool Party - Miami
Meets LA White Party! Early arrival
suggested! $10 all day, hosted by
Dawn Richard of Diddy's Dirty
Money! DJs Asha of KYSS/JUICY
and Irma Covarrubias of 107.1FM will
be spinning your favorite Hip-Hop,
R&B/Soul, Reggae, Classics, House,
and Latin tunes to keep you on your
dancing feet! Dresscode: fresh or
white attire. Special birthday celebrations for Nicole Chocolate Barbie and
her twins! AJ's birthday and going
away party! Py Monsood's birthday
party! A bachelorette party! Sera
Phifer birthday party! Special birthday
& bachelorette female revue! BBQ
food menu available. Cabanas available for groups. Free entry for 10 people and no wait on line with table
reservation $300 minimum.
Limited number of room specials
for the night at $99! Call 310-6450400 ask for "Sunkiss Saturday”.
1pm - 7pm at Deck 33 at The
Custom Hotel, 8639 Lincoln Blvd.
www.ladiestouchent.com
GRRRL Benefit
8/21 in San Francisco
Join us for a Beer Bust to benefit
Girls
Reclaiming
Recreational
Learning (GRRRL)! $10 unlimited
beer 3pm-7pm! $2 jello shots or 3 for
$5! $3 raffle tickets or 5 for $10!
Throw like a girl. Think like a girl.
Lead like a girl. Girls Reclaiming
Revolutionary Recreational Learning
(GRRRL) empowers girls ages 6-12,
of all socioeconomic and cultural
backgrounds through sports, as well as
health, leadership, and social justice
education. GRRRL's campers will
learn to play a variety of sports, and
will participate in educational and
skill-building workshops. Workshop
topics include physical and mental
health, social justice education, leadership skills, exploring what it means to
be a girl, and how all parts of girls'
identities intersect. @ 3pm at Stray
Bar, 309 Cortland Ave.
www.facebook.com/grrrlcamp
Book Group
8/21 in Glendale
The Women On A Roll book group
will meet to discuss Gail Caldwell's
Let's Take the Long Way Home. It's a
beautiful story of the best things about
best friends: shared rituals and private
jokes, long walk with their dearly
loved dogs, and longer talks, confessions and discoveries.
RSVP to diane_woar@hotmail.com
for address and directions.
WOAR
Members
FREE,
Nonmembers $5
www.womenonaroll.com
Open Relationships
8/21 in Oakland
NIA Collective presents a workshop on Open Relationships:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know,
but Were Afraid to Ask, presented by
Sonya Brewer.
The
Summer
Empowerment
Workshop Series is open to Lesbians
of African descent, their friends, family and allies. We invite you to attend
these events and to spread the word in
the community. The workshops are
offered free of charge, donations are
welcome and graciously accepted.
Join us for a casual Social get
together! For those of you who know
angmonster from b-f.com, hy'll be in
town!
Who: Butch/Femme folks singles
and couples, kids welcome
What: casual get together, parking
is plentiful, food served, look for us on
the patio if you don't find us inside
(weather permitting), casual dress
If you will be at Butch Voices 2011
conference, this is around the corner
from the host hotel.
5 - 8pm at Pacific Coast Brewing,
906 Washington St.
www.butchfemmesocials.com/
LAWN:court
8/23 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Women's Network
(LAWN) is a diverse organization of
women whose purpose is to create a
community that supports the work of
the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, while
enhancing the lives of its members
personally and professionally by providing opportunities for inspiration,
education and networking.
LAWN:court, our monthly happening, is a culturally engaging social networking opportunity for LAWN members and guests. Join us for a revolving door of the city's best food, drink
and music.
Featuring music, mixing and a live
performance by That's What She Said.
Bling Bling Dumpling and Fry Smith
food trucks parked on site. Rock Sake
featured at the Tasting Bar.
7:30pm at The Village at Ed Gould
Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Pl.
RSVP: www.lagaycenter.org
A Genderstranged Duet
Harvey Rabbit & Ev Briere is "HE:
a Genderstranged Duet", and our first
original
show,
called
"ShameNoShame!", is a clown play
(directed by Dan Griffiths) like you've
never seen before!
What is right? What is wrong?
What molds do we, as women,
endeavor to fit ourselves into in order
to be sexy, desired, loved? What if the
natural states of our appetites are
somehow “unacceptable?" - are there
Suzanne Westenhoefer
8/26 in Sacramento
Suzanne Westenhoefer's groundbreaking career as the first openly gay
comedian ever to appear on television,
includes appearances on Letterman,
HBO, Bravo, Logo and GSN as well
as performances across the US in popular theaters, clubs, and fundraisers.
“I'm calling the new show SemiSweet because there's a lot of sweet
stuff to talk about…. and a lot of stuff
that, well, isn't.” says Westenhoefer.
“The show is cry-laugh funny, and a
little bit thought-provoking at the
same time. It's all about the changes
that have occurred in my life over the
past year. Some have been good…
and some not-so-much. I thought the
name Semi-Sweet captured that perfectly.”
Tickets $20 advance, $25 door.
8pm at Center for Spiritual
Awareness Event Center, 1275
Starboard Dr.
www.suzannew.com
Ready For Our Close-Up
8/26 - 28 in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Women's Theatre
Project presents a weekend of plays
and benefits.
Among the offerings are:
“The Butterball Effect”, written by
Carol Mullen, directed by Caitlin
Hart.
Nina Childress knows that her
mother, Cecelia, is a drama queen.
Literally. And while Cecelia may only
tread the boards in local community
productions, she is a Broadway-sized
diva. So when Nina makes her annual obligatory Thanksgiving trip home
with new lover Alex in tow, she's not
completely surprised to discover that
Cecelia has once again managed to
upstage everyone and everything.
What does shock Nina, however, is
the particular way that her mother has
stolen the spotlight-not only is Cecelia
planning to divorce her husband of 34
years, but she is doing so because she
has fallen in love with someone else: a
much younger woman. Who just happens to be Alex's ex-girlfriend.
Now, with her parents on the brink
of splitting up, her younger sister on
the cusp of hyperventilating, and her
lover on the edge of reconsidering
their relationship, Nina must find a
way to put her family back together
before this becomes the last
Thanksgiving they ever share.
Saturday 8/27, reception at 6pm, show
starts at 7pm.
Kicking off Sunday with a musical
performance, is bisexual actress /
singer, Thea Gill, best known for her
portrayal of Lindsay Peterson on the
landmark Showtime series Queer As
Folk (ACTRA Award nomination,
Outstanding Performance by a
Female) and the short film “Slip
Away”
(slipawaythemovie.com).
Sunday 8/28, event begins at 1pm,
VIP Reception at 5pm.
Ticket prices vary.
At Stella Adler Theatre, 6773
Hollywood Blvd., 2nd floor.
www.lawomenstheatreproject.org
Sistahs Steppin' In Pride
8/27 in Oakland
We are here to celebrate & honor
our 10 year history and showcase the
pride, beauty, and talent of our SSIP
queer women's community through a
fun-loving, family-reunion festival of
activities. We come together in connection to create a safe space where
we inspire each other to dream, manifest and love. This is the final march!
The March starts at the pillars of
Lake Merritt (El Embarcadero &
Grand Ave) and ends at a festival at
Snow Park (19th St & Harrison St),
transformed into our very own Sistah
Village. With your friends and family,
you'll enjoy an exciting stage of entertainers, great food, special spaces for
elders & kids, community resource
information, vendors galore, games,
dancing…the list is endless! But the
most important part of the celebration
is YOU, so JOIN US!
Pre-march Gathering is at 11am at
Astro Park by Lake Merritt, the March
starts at 12pm and lasts 75 minutes,
the festival is 1pm - 6pm, and AfterParty is 9pm - 2am at House of Music,
420 14th St.
www.sistahssteppin.org
Summer Soiree
8/27 in Los Angeles
Join Lambda Legal in the
Hollywood Hills for our annual
Women's Summer Soiree. Enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres with the
women who support Lambda Legal
and hear the latest on our critical work
making the case for equality.
More info / RSVP: Kimberlee
Jones at 213-382-7600, ext. 226.
5pm at a private residence.
www.lambdalegal.org
Mystic Mermaid Pool Party
8/28 in Las Vegas
Butch/Femme Social
8/21 in Oakland
emotional and social consequences to
the expression of our pleasure?
ShameNoShame! is an unapologetic and ridiculous glimpse at sexuality and how we try to define and use it
in our society.
HE opened the show on June 12, at
The Garage, as part of the National
Queer Arts Festival. It was a great
success: very unique, shocking, and
hilarious!
Now HE is having too much fun to
stop there, so we've decided to take
the
plunge
and
bring
"ShameNoShame! to Berlin, Prague,
and beyond!!
Your generous donations will help
us get to Europe, and travel between
cities where we'll be performing. It'll
also help us gather the props and costumes we need for setting up the show
abroad, as well as pay for rehearsal
space for the three months we'll be
spending there.
We are also organizing a big
fundraiser-performance-lounge party.
It'll be your last chance to see
ShameNoShame! before we cross the
Atlantic. Tickets are $10 - $20.
8pm at the Garage, 975 Howard St.
gofundme.com/HE-goes-to-Europe
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Join us for a fun filled afternoon of
playing in the pool, eating yummy fish
tacos, and our first-ever Betty Pinball
& Ms. Packman Tournament! Our fabulous hostesses will be providing
grilled fish tacos, mermaid muffins,
and Golden Goddess Sangria. We'll be
having a Pinball and Ms. Pacman
tournament so bring your quarters and
show us who's the pinball wizard and
queen Ms. Pacman!
RSVP to Gena & Marla at genasegno@gmail.com to get directions. The
party is limited to the first 30 women!
Don't forget to bring your quarters for
the tournament, a dish to share, whatever you want to drink, your swimsuit,
a towel, a chair and flip flops!
2 - 7pm at a private residence.
www.bettysout.com
Hard Candy
8/28 in Oakland
Girls Day Party! Hard Candy is one
for the Girls (21+ only)! The Femmes,
the Bois, the Grrls, the lesbians, the
curious, the queers, ALL women and
anyone who can appreciate their feminine side (all are welcome, but please
respect our ladies!)
Join resident DJs: Starr (Club
Drama), Candy (Code SF, Get
Lucky!) and guest DJ Nico (DIRT
SF). Club Visuals by Cherie Allen.
Enjoy a wide variety of the hottest
& funnest Indie, Electro & Remixes
new and old all day on the dancefloor
for only $5! Dancing all day Sunday,
hot Go Go girls and FREE candy! If
you enjoy Premium Draft Beers, it's
only $15 for all you can drink from 17pm!
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NIA Collective was created by and
for Lesbians of African descent and a
large part of our purpose is to create
safe, healthy, supportive, loving,
informed and inspired communities.
2:30pm at Womens Cancer
Resource Center, 5741 Telegraph Ave.
www.niacollective.org
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9/17 at 8pm at Russ and Julie's
House Concerts (by invitation only),
Oak Park.
9/18 at 3pm at American River
Music Festival, Coloma.
9/24 at 8pm at Mission City Coffee
Company, 2221 The Alameda, Santa
Clara.
www.blamesally.com
What is a "T-Dance?" Well, simply
put, the term "T-Dance" came from
people who wanted more than just
your "night life" dance parties... taken
from "Afternoon Tea," the term "TDance" was born and parties across
the world have begun a revolution of
no boundaries parties. Why restrict
getting your dance on to JUST your
average Friday and Saturday night?
Come end your weekend with us
HARD and SWEET!
1 - 7pm at The White Horse, 6551
Telegraph Ave.
facebook.com/hardcandyparty
Blame Sally on tour
various dates
BLAME SALLY is a San Francisco
folk-rock quartet with an attitude,
combining acoustic textures with
Americana harmonies and an independent spirit. They've shared stages with
like-minded artists like Los Lobos,
Ani DiFranco, Richard Thompson,
Roseanne Cash, Joan Beaz and Greg
Brown. It's a mixed straight / lesbian
band, who just released their fourth
album earlier this year.
8/28 at 9:30am at 2nd Annual Bay
Area Title 9k - Women on the Run!,
Sunnyvale Baylands Park, Sunnyvale.
9/16 at 7:30pm at AMSDconcerts,
4650 Mansfield St., San Diego.
Cindy Buck Presents
9/4 in Hayward
We are a private home and are not
for profit it's by RSVP only. All donations are to cover the band's expenses
only. Our second and last yard concert
of 2011 will feature: Saucy Monky,
Sistas in the Pit, Groovy Judy. BBQ at
12pm, music starts at 1pm. Suggested
donation $20 (or pay what you can
pay). Reservations required.
www.cindybuckpresents.com
FiveTen: After Pride Fest
9/4 in Oakland
We love Oakland and Oakland
Pride! We love it so much that we
never want it to end. So we got together to throw a big shindig after Oakland
Pride.
3 Levels, 3 Stages, 8 DJs, 4
Dancefloors, 12 Performers, 15
Vendors, 6 Food Vendors, Art Exhibit,
Body Painting, Live Art, All Ages
floor, 21+ floors.
Featured Performer: MC Lyte Lyricist, pioneer, icon, veteran and
entrepreneur; one of the most prolific
and well-respected female Hip Hop
artists to ever bless the mic.
Performers: Aima the Dreamer,
Cherry Galette, Heaven Mousalem,
Jessica Holter of the Punany Poets,
Maya Songbird, Milani Pelly,
SambaFunk!, Terry Taplin, Tonilyn
Sideco, Raw G, The Lady Ms. Vagina
Jenkins, Valerie Troutt, Y.S.D.
Community Link’s
Gray Alliance
We’re a group that knows it may get a little
harder as we go, but We Get Better With Age!
The Gray Alliance doesn’t just live life,
WE CELEBRATE IT!
Gray Alliance welcomes all women & men
within the “graying” Lesbian and Gay Community.
We are a friendly group of graying folks who enjoy
each other’s company and their unique personalities.
We are social, like doing activities and eating out.
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We have a monthly night out, usually at Denny’s at
Shields & Blackstone on SECOND WEDNESDAYS.
We also have a monthly pot luck dinner at either a
members’ home or at the Big Red Church, 2131 N.
Van Ness Blvd on LAST SUNDAYS.
For more information call Liz Brown at 559-287-2428
or email: xmas1225@att.net
Jerry Hendrix 559-261-9080 between 5pm-8pm
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Check out the Gray Alliance section at:
DJs: DJ Ai-Lo, DJ Astro, DJ
Backside, DJ Emancipation, DJ Lady
Ryan, DJ Razberry, DJ Val G.
Vendors: Backstage Boutique, Blac
Gurlz Ink, Bliss Weekend, Esoteric
Images, Feelmore 510, The Perfect
Sidekick, QueerSay, RodeoH.
Food Vendors: Hil's Cooking, The
Lumpia Lady, San Francisco Pizza,
Tina Tamale
Sponsors: Movement Productions,
BoiBlue Events, FullCircle Events,
SocialLife
Productions,
The
BrownBoi Project, The House of
Music, The Perfect Sidekick,
QueerSay, StarrPR.
Tickets: $5 - $20. 6pm at House of
Music, 420 14th St.
www.510oaklandpride.com
Cowgirl Palooza
Come one, come all, come out and
play at the 8th Annual COWGIRL
PALOOZA festival at San Francisco's
El Rio on Labor Day.
Incredible
femme-powered
American/country/rock/and
allaround-good-time bands dominate the
day, on the beautiful outdoor courtyard stage. Free BBQ is available for
all (so long as it lasts!) so come early
and enjoy the free food while listening
to incredible music all day long!
On the patio for your viewing pleasure: Patsy Chords, The Judea Eden
Band, Kit and the Branded Men, The
Legend of Kitty Rose, 77 El Deora.
77 El Deora: at the core are the
sparring male and female vocals of
Jenn Courtney and songwriter
Maurice Tani, framed with Steve
Kallai's sweet fiddle, Tani's guitar
work, Mike Anderson's slappin',
clankin', doghouse, bull-fiddle,
acoustic bass, and the virtuous, ethical, thoroughly "drummy" drumming
of drummer Christopher Fisher. The
sound is sometimes breathy acoustic,
sometimes searing electric, sometimes
both.
The Legend Of Kitty Rose: Kitty
Rose was a well-known country western singer in the mid-1970's in the
waning days of Nashville, when glittered suits and cheesy arrangements
ruled the day. It was uncool to be in
country music back then, a genre
reserved for red-necks, hicks and sodbusters. At a young age, Kitty
appeared on the stage of the Ryman
Auditorium, the "church of country
music" along with her mentor and
dearest friend, Sandy Saunders, then
an up-and-coming star herself. They
recorded a live album on April 1, 1972
before the Ryman closed its doors,
some said then, for good. The following summer, Sandy died in a horrific
car accident in the southwest desert.
Kitty Rose refused to return to the
stage without Sandy and her legend
survived only in small circles of diehard fans and classic country affectionados. Fast-forward to the present
day and after the re-discovery of
"Kitty Roses' Greatest Hits!" and
"Live at The Ryman", Kitty Rose was
found wandering the streets of a small
Northern California town called
Hopland, now a ghost of her former
self, tending her horse ranch in the
nearby hills. Legend has it that she
actually is a ghost - dead and returned
from hell - cursed forever for killing
Sandy's road manager who was drunk
at the wheel that fateful night Sandy
lost her head. Coaxed out of retirement, "The Legend of Kitty Rose" is
the first recording of this some-time
Nashville star since the early 1970's.
The voice is rough and the subject of
her songs melancholy, some say after
loosing her soul to the devil, but you'll
agree there still remain hints of her
glorious past amongst the legends of
country music. - The Kitty Rose Fan
Club.
Kit and the Branded Men is a four
piece band out of the San Francisco
Bay Area. With influences such as
Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline & Rose
Maddox. You might stumble upon a
waltz, 2-step, bopper or old timey tear
jerker.
The Judea Eden Band is fresh out
of the studio and ready to roll out the
red country for this special Cowgirl
show at El Rio. The Judea Eden Band
will play their versions of classic
favorites as well as their own wellcrafted countryesque style of good old
fashioned down home songwriting,
pickin' and a playin. You'll be out of
your seat and on your feet in no time,
dancing and 2-steppin' it all the way to
cowgirl heaven!! www.judeaedenband.com
The Patsychords are not just a Patsy
Cline tribute band. We run the gamut
from her greatest hits and obscure
gems to other classic country songs.
Margaret Belton's love of Patsy began
at a young age. She only receently
decided to take her corn-fed hometown flavor to the stage. She handpicked her players from notable local
San Francisco bands. The Patsychords
emulate the lonesome, velvet tones of
Ms. Patsy while adding their own personal touch of sass and grit.The
Patsychords are vocalist Margaret
Belton. She would make Patsy proud
with her vocal stylings. Guitarist
Sunny Haire, plays a distinctly rhythmic, yet melodic guitar. Chock full of
reverby goodness. Sunny has been in
many bands, most notably, The
Bedlam Rovers, Waycross, Knife and
Fork and Enorchestra. Roxane
Chicoine is an upright bassist who
brings a vintage rockabilly flavor.
“Doing it for the Chicks,” Kate's
highly anticipated third studio album
will be released in September. Kate
Reid is one of Canada's funniest,
sharpest new talents-a whipsmart
wordsmith with a dynamic stage presence who leaves her audiences by
turns laughing, crying and pumping
their fists in delighted, sing-along solidarity.
"Anyone who'd write a song called
"The Only Dyke at the Open Mic"
deserves a medal. And when she follows it up with "I'd Go Straight for
Ridley Bent" and "Co-op Girlz"
(about trying to pick up chicks a
health food store), she should be eligible for the Order of Canada. A woman
who breaks the stereotypes and makes
us all think as welll as laugh. I am, not
so secretly, in love with this woman!"
- Richard Flohil.
With Lisa Pawlak and Dan
Thompson.
Tickets $10; under 21 years of age
allowed with a parent.
7:30pm
at
Don
Quixote's
International Music Hall, 6275
Highway 9.
www.katereid.net
“Dysnomia”
through 9/10 in Hollywood
Award-winning
screenwriter
Marja-Lewis Ryan gives us a fastpaced, real-life family comedy with
her latest work. At the tender age of
40, a suburban housewife figures it's
time to come out of the closet to her
juvenile delinquent son, precocious
daughter and buttoned-up husbandand don't forget the wino neighbor
who we can be sure will have something to say about the matter!
Tickets $20. Shows are on Fridays
& Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.
At The Lounge Theatre, 6201 Santa
Monica Blvd.
www.plays411.com/dysnomia
A Torch and Swing
Spectacular
9/10 in Santa Cruz
A special concert of Tracy Parker
and the “9-10-11 Twelve” Orchestra:
Mary Gauthier & Tania
Elizabeth on tour
various dates
Mary Gauthier's second album,
Drag Queens in Limousines (1999,
with her signature “I Drink”) drew a
four-star rating in Rolling Stone and
broke Mary's career wide open, as she
became a presence at folk festivals
across the U.S. and Europe. The title
tune
won
Best
Folk/SingerSongwriter Song at the first annual
Independent Music Awards and Mary
was named Best Country Music Artist
at the GLAMA's (Gay and Lesbian
American Music Awards). She has
now recorded 6 albums.
Tania Elizabeth isn't your typical
country music star. She's a vegan,
environmentalist, raw foods aficionado, yoga enthusiast, animal rights
activist - and an out lesbian. The fiddle player and vocalist is part of
Canadian quintet The Duhks, which
was nominated a few years ago for a
Grammy
for
Best
Country
Performance by a Duo or Group With
Vocal for their song “Heaven's My
Home”.
9/13 at 7pm at Don Quixote's, 6275
Highway 9, Felton.
9/15 at 7:30pm (with Lori
McKenna) at Center for Spiritual
Awareness Event Center, 1275
Starboard Dr., Sacramento.
9/16 at 8pm (with Lori McKenna)
at Great American Music Hall, 859
O'Farrell St., San Francisco.
9/17 at 8pm (with Lori McKenna)
at McCabe's Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico
Blvd., Santa Monica.
9/18 at 7:30pm at AMSDconcerts,
4650 Mansfield St., San Diego.
www.marygauthier.com
www.taniaelizabeth.com
Shedonism Vegas
9/15 - 19 in Las Vegas
S(he) don-ism -Derived from the
root word of he-don-ism. The feminine art of being sinful. Excess, indulgence and debauchery. Devotion to
pleasure as a way of life. Pleasure and
happiness serve as the ultimate goal.
Un-lady like behavior encouraged.
A weekend long celebration of SIN,
with the cast of The Real L Word, the
hottest girl DJs, live performances,
dance parties, pool parties, go-gos,
pride parade, festival, celebrity antics,
charity poker tournament, Las Vegas
Dyke March and the first ever ALL
GIRL Las Vegas Resort TAKE
OVER!
And yes, we are the OFFICIAL
Women's Events of Las Vegas Pride that's HOT!
Thursday - Lust Kick-Off Dance
Party
Get ready for one serious night of
sexy! We are kicking off the weekend
on the Las Vegas strip at the hottest
lounge in the country. Check out the
eye candy as they hit Sin City. Once
you arrive there's no turning back,
you're in for a wild ride all weekend.
VIP Bottle service will be available
for this event. DJ C LA & DJ Lisa
Pittman. $8 in advance / $12 at the
door. At TBA.
Friday - EDEN Pool Party
Get 'wet' at the first pool party of
the weekend. Indulge in the scenery.
Relax, swim, eat, drink, and dance as
special guest DJ's make waves on the
turntables: DJ CLA & DJ Lezlee. $8
in advance / $10 at the door. 11am 5pm at Rumor Resort, 455 East
Harmon Avenue.
Friday - DYKE MARCH, presented by SO CRUSH
Following Gay Pride Parade (79pm), strut that GIRL POWER at Las
Vegas Pride's first ever DYKE
MARCH. Shirts and cool prizes for
every 'girl / chic / dykelesbian / fashionista / betty / boi & woman' who
walk the walk. 9pm to 10pm starting
at W. Charleston Blvd. and 4th Street
Friday - SIN Party
Just steps from the Las Vegas Pride
parade head over to our Official
Women's Pride After Party. Get your
game on with thousands of games or
Same location
for your vitamin
& food supplement needs
since 1955
237-8479
get your groove on, with the cast of
THE REAL L WORD, GO-GOs
galore on the dance floor and devilish
sounds from DJs C LA & Tatiana on
the turntables. Shuttle service to and
from host hotel. $10/advance $12/door. 9pm to 4am at Insert Coin,
512 Fremont Street.
Saturday - Celesbian Texas
Hold'em Tournament
We are taking over a poker room
for an exclusive poker tournament
featuring your favorite celesbian stars
from near and far. Win awesome
prizes including vacations, spa packages, hotel packages and more. $100
buy in. 6pm to 9pm at a location disclosed with ticket purchase.
Saturday - ENVY Party
The weekend's hottest ticket celebrates the seven deadly sins in style.
We take over this sophisticated venue
for a night of SIN. Hosted by The Real
L Word cast and their LA posse. Your
favorite GO-GOs from Houston, L.A.,
Miami and Las Vegas will be on the
boxes all night, while our hottest girl
DJs move you on the dance floor.
Special live performance at 1am. VIP
Bottle service will be available for this
event. Shuttle service to and from host
hotel. $10/Advance - $15/Door. 10pm
- 4am at Booty Bar, 7700 Las Vegas
Blvd S.
Sunday - GLUTTONY Brunch
Relax and indulge in a delicious
brunch, sip cocktails and enjoy live
jazz at Addiction, The Rumor Resorts
ultra-hip restaurant, just steps from
the pool party fun. $30/advance $35 at
the door. 10am - 1pm at Rumor
Resort, 455 East Harmon Avenue.
Sunday - VICE Pool Party
Frolic and splash at our sundrenched pool party. Sip tropical
cocktails and listen to the sexy sounds
as our girl DJ, take a ride on our
slides, shop with our vendors poolside. Games and giveaways all day.
Hosted by The Cast Real L Word. VIP
Bottle service will be available for this
event. $10/advance $15/door. Noon 5pm at Rumor Resort, 455 East
Harmon Avenue.
Sunday - SALVATION Closing
Party
Featuring DJ Lezlee and DJ
Tatiana. Save yourself at one of the
most beautiful lounges on the Las
Vegas Strip. We are taking over the
Patio of Chateau Gardens and closing
with a bang. Pumping beats, live
shows, sexy girls every where. All
overlooking the Strip.VIP Bottle service will be available for this event.
$8/advance $12/door. 10pm - 4am at
Chateau Gardens @ Paris Las Vegas,
3655 Las Vegas Blvd So.
www.shedonismvegas.com
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Kate Reid Concert
9/7 in Felton
“Dreams, Dates and Drama”.
Tracy Parker is a talented singer
and musician whose incredible vocal
style will thrill you from the very first
note to the very last. From rich and
strong baritones to a beautiful falsetto
high, Tracy delivers each song with
absolutely no holds barred.
“Join me as we experience the emotional thrills and spills that those special songs about dates, dreams and
drama always seem to bring us. Come
to the Digital Media Factory on
9/10/11 for a "torch and swing" spectacular.
Yep - S P E C T A C U L A R!
A 12-piece orchestra ("The 9-1011-Twelve" - do you love it?) and
musical director Steve Wilson will
create that big band sound to accompany me as I perform many of my
very favorite songs from the torch and
swing era of the 1930's and 1940's.
Never heard much of this music
before? Come to the show - and feel
the thrill that the exciting sound of a
full orchestra can bring as we perform
some of the world's best-loved music those timeless classics you're sure to
recognize.“
7:30pm at Digital Media Factory,
2809 Mission St.
www.tracyparker.4t.com
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1130 N. Fulton at Olive
In the Tower District
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She slapped the doghouse bass in
Mighty Slim Pickens and The Rev
Tones. Jai Bird Carrell is an alt-country drummer hailing from Austin. She
holds down the country and rock
rhythms.
Tickets $10. Doors 3pm, BBQ &
show 4pm.
At El Rio, 3158 Mission St.
www.elriosf.com
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doctorate in clinical psychology, the
tongue-in-cheek advice given is for
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all emails…whether you deserve it or
not. Send your questions to Uncle
Barbie at: askunclebarbie@aol.com
There is nothing quite like a good
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I have been a therapist for many
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questions clients ask is how they can
meet that special someone. It seems to
me that they are asking the wrong
question. Most people have no problem actually meeting someone.
Rather, they have a problem keeping
someone. Long-term relationships are
not easy. You cannot just stumble
upon your soul-mate and live happily
ever after without a thought or any
effort. You need to work at it. That
means deciding what you want and
making a plan on how to get it.
Here is what I suggest: make a list
of the characteristics you want in a
mate. Include more than just the physical traits. What kind of personality do
you want him to have? What values,
morals, and standards are you looking
for in a man? What common interests
would you like to have with him? This
is one of those times when it is OK, in
fact necessary, to talk about politics
and religion. You need to have some
kind of common ground regarding
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bumpy ride.
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It was at that hazy time in my life
that I realized that those inebriated
guys I had been dating were not diamonds in the rough; they were more
like turds in the sandbox. (And,
nobody wants to play with someone
who poops in the sandbox.) I needed
to become a more honorable person in
order to attract a respectable man.
And, it worked. I found him when I
was finishing my doctorate degree. I
became a more upstanding person,
and therefore, became a good match
for another well-mannered man. Get
the point? Work on that list.
True Blue, Barbie
Your Intellectual Whore
“An effervescently gay
advice columnist”
Dear Uncle Barbie,
I will keep this short and sweet
because I cannot stand long letters. I
just want to know how I can meet Mr.
Right. Where is he hiding?
Signed, Bill H.
sonal contract with yourself. It is not
just asking yourself how you are going
to meet this person. It is really a matter of attracting your Mr. Right. (Ya
see, here is the thing--you need to
become the type of person you are
looking for.) Put another way, if you
are wanting a soul-mate that is honest
and true, then for heaven sake, you
need to be an honest and true person.
If you have integrity, you will automatically attract other decent people
of good character.
When I have talked to couples who
have been in committed, romantic
relationships for 20 to 50 years or
more, they typically tell me that they
met that special someone in a social
situation like a church, recreational
club, college campus, dances, or by
being introduced through a common
friend.
On the contrary, when I hear about
relationship horror stories, it is usually about people who are dishonest,
conniving, and just wanting to use
each other. It is no surprise that these
pathetic stories almost always involve
the use (and abuse) of drugs and alcohol. I am not saying that you cannot
have a glass of wine or a cocktail
when you are out on a date. However,
I am saying that people who are in
destructive relationships tend to abuse
chemicals. (I think you know the difference.)
I no longer drink alcohol.
However, when I was a student in college and would go out to the bars, I
inevitably
became
buy-sexual.
(Interpretation: if someone at the bar
was buying, I became buy-sexual.)
Those were the days I would rather
forget. And, since alcohol kills brain
cells, my wish is slowly coming true.
... so it does work!
Gina Keller PsyD, LMFT
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
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TURDS IN THE SANDBOX OF LIFE
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HOROSCOPES by Eric Biglione
Aries
(Mar 21 - Apr 19)
Mars is challenging this month in
your social circle.
This is a little unnerving since you feel
they don't have all the facts. You may
want to get away from it all and maybe
you should through new endeavors.
Taurus
(Apr 20 - May 20)
Think before you
speak as communication gets confused.
Some confusion around the home also
so put off projects if possible. Good
time to get a physical and set up some
healthy habits.
Gemini
(Sep 23 - Oct 22)
Challenging
aspects make you a
little edgy here. Relationships aren't as
smooth previously. Best to stick to a
hobby for now for calm new in your
life. You are likely to make some
changes in your life in Sept.
Scorpio
(Oct 23 - Nov 21)
Coworkers are getting on your nerves.
Bite your tongue for now. Friends are
not making sense to you. Look at the
funny side here. You tend to be more
social so be social and enjoy.
Sagittarius
(Nov 22 - Dec 21)
(May 21 - June 20)
Watch you spending especially big purchases. Mix-ups tend to be humorous
to you now and don't get involved in
others problems. It will bring you
down. Sep tends to be more even
keeled.
Cancer
(June 21 - July 22)
You have a lot of
energy but go slowly
for now or accidents
can happen. Wait until September for
decisions to take any action in your
life. You are in a growth period now.
Leo
Not a smooth period. Lots of demands
made on you. Be careful when committing, as you really don't care. Good
time to enjoy the comforts of home.
Virgo
Mars in working
against you here. Frustrating time.
Serious nature about you. Concentrate
on improving your personal self health
looks, etc. This will keep you focused.
Aquarius
(Jan 20 - Feb 18)
Spring fever for
you the summer kick
back and smell the roses. Others may
try to lead you astray so keep a level
head. Watch spending habits in Sept.
Pisces
(Feb 19 - Mar 20)
Simple things are
your pleasure now.
Try not to get wrapped up in other
problems. This is not your calling now.
Many of you are changing recent plans
in your life. Relax and enjoy yourself
for now.
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WEEKLY GLBT & FRIENDLY EVENTS IN FRESNO
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Since we had so much fun last
summer, our North Bay Tea Dance is
back by popular demand. Join
National Center for Lesbian Rights
(with NCLR Board Co-Chair
Dorothy Fernandez, Esq.) and
Spectrum LGBT Center family and
friends for an afternoon of fun, great
music by DJ Dana Jae, dancing, and
fabulous views.
Admission - $20, includes hors
d'oeuvres. No-host bar.
4 - 7pm at Jason's Restaurant, 300
Drakes Landing, Greenbrae (near
San Rafael).
www.nclrights.org
(Dec 22 - Jan 19)
(Aug 23 - Sep 22)
Can't think straight
friends come to the
rescue with crazy advice. Don't take
yourself too serious for now. In Sept
do a small makeover whether its for the
home or yourself.
Tea Dance
9/18 in Greenbrae
Capricorn
(July 23 - Aug 22)
Mix-ups for you in
Aug tend to be funny
and amusing. Venus is making you
attractive but wait September will
bring them flocking to you. So kick
back until Sept and enjoy.
Pink & White Delight
Libra
* Mondays 10pm: Unzipped, 18+ GLBT night @ Aldo's, 617 W. Belmont Ave,
facebook.com/purefresno, (559) 473-9362
* Tuesdays 6:30pm - Clogging Classes @ The Dance Studio of Fresno, 7491
N. Palm Bluff Ave., cagroundpounders.com, Barry (559) 259-9904
* Tuesdays starting Sept. 6th, various times - Rated R Superstars GLBT+ softball team @ the Fresno Regional Sports Complex, 1707 W. Jensen Ave.
www.sportsstandings.com/SelectSchedule.aspx?leagueId=1168
* Wednesdays 11am: United Student Pride @ CSUFresno, meets at Women's
Resource Center, see www.csufresno.edu/StudentOrgs/LGBSA/
* Wednesdays 10pm: Xcape Wednesdays @ Laughing Buddha, 737 E. Olive
Ave. (21+)
* Wednesdays & Thursdays 8:30am-11am, 1pm-3:30pm: Confidential HIV
testing; Wednesdays 8:30am-11am: Anonymous HIV testing @ Fresno Co. Dept.
of Community Health, 1221 Fulton Mall,1st floor specialty clinic,559-445-3434
* Thursdays 6pm Community Link's Queer Volley Ball @ Quigley Park
(Dakota & Teilman), (559) 486-3464, communitylinkfresno.com
* Thursdays until Sept. 1st, 7:15pm Community Link’s Rainbow Bowling
League @Cedar Lanes, 3131 N Cedar., (559) 824-1417 communitylinkfresno.com
* Fridays 2p: Diversity - Fresno City College GLBT group @ SO-208
* Fridays 7p - 8:30p: LGBTQI Youth Alliance @ Big Red Church, 2131 N. Van
Ness Ave, www.communitylinkfresno.com
* Sundays starting Sept. 4th, 9am-2pm - Women’s Flag Football @ Clinton &
Brawley Park, www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1570299583
* Sundays 7:30pm - Fresbians coffee meet up at Revue Cafe, 620 E Olive Ave,
facebook.com/fresbians
* GayCentralValley office / Fresno LGBT Community Center open Wed - Sat
12-5pm @1055 N. Van Ness Ave, suite C, (559) 325-4429, gaycentralvalley.org
MEN'S CENTREPIECE: Going
Down In La La Land - Saturday,
Theatre An attractive young gay man
moves to L.A. seeking his big break
in showbiz, while living with his best
friend, a straight woman who spends
her time shopping and chasing men.
Throw in two superbly hot leading
actors (Matthew Ludwinski, Michael
Medico), a foray into the world of
gay porn stardom, and a blossoming
relationship yearning for survival
amidst the hysterics of Hollywood,
and now you've got a must see updated gay twist on the “rom-com” genre.
With special appearances by Alec
Mapa, Bruce Villanch, Judy Tenuta
and Jesse Archer.
The Wise Kids - Sunday,
Theatre The summer between high
school and college proves to be a life
changing experience for three friends
in a Charleston, South Carolina
Baptist community. Tim is recently
open about being gay and looking
forward to more freedom at film
school in New York; Brea is the pastor's daughter going through a crisis
of faith; Laura is a devout believer, at
times unsure how to relate to the others. This vivid ensemble cast must
decide if they should hang onto what
they have, or find something new on
their own.
Judas Kiss - Sunday, September
18th at 2:00pm - Starline Lounge A
quirk in time and space gives a failed
filmmaker the chance to reshape his
destiny in this dramatic sci-fi film.
Zack (played by Dante's Cove hunk
Charlie David), returns to his alma
mater as a judge for an annual film
competition. At his old school a
strange, time-twisting opportunity
arises to revisit the past and correct
his mistakes. Can he convince his
younger self to see the error of his
future ways, or will he give in to his
youthful desires for sex and fame all
over again? This feature also marks
the acting debut of adult film star
Brent Corrigan.
Circumstance
Sunday,
September 18th at 2:30:pm - Tower
Theatre Atafeh and Shireen are best
friends and rebellious teenage girls
An Evening with Shine Louise
Houston featuring a Special Clip
Show Screening and Director Q&A,
part of Good Vibrations' Indie Erotic
Film Festival (IXFF).
“There is power in creating
images, and for… a woman of color
and a queer to take that power… I
don't find it exploitative; I think it's
necessary.”
Good Vibrations is thrilled to present an evening with Shine Louise
Houston, founder of Pink & White
Productions. Join the filmmaker as
she journeys through some of her
favorite selections and speaks about
creating a sustainable adult entertainment company that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire.
Tickets $10. 8pm at the San
Francisco LGBT Center, 1800
Market St.
After-party and champagne toast
following at the Lexington Club,
3464 19th St.
www.gv-ixff.org
exploring Tehran's underground art
and music scene and their own burgeoning sexuality-including their
feelings for one another. When
Atafeh's brother, turns to religious
fundamentalism he begins to spy on
his own family, turning their once liberal home into the scene of suspicion,
surveillance, and betrayal.
August - Sunday, September 18th
at 5:00pm - Tower Theatre
Heartbreaker Troy returns to L.A.
unexpectedly after living in
Barcelona for several years, and calls
up is his ex Jonathan, who has a new
partner, Raul. Sparks fly when Troy
and Jonathan reconnect, but lingering
questions remain. Is Troy finally
ready to commit? Torn between his
two loves, Jonathan faces tough decisions about his men and himself.
Gorgeously shot, with moving performances from a very sexy cast,
AUGUST is a taut and touching journey between the lines of lust and
love.
Gun Hill Road - Sunday,
Theatre Enrique returns home from
prison to find his son, Michael, has
now become Vanessa. In a breakout
debut, Harmony Santana portrays a
transgender teen desperately saving
money for back-alley hormone injections. Enrique struggles to connect
with his family and his new life on
parole. Despite its volatile edge, this
favorite of the 2011 Sundance Film
Festival is ultimately a family story
of acceptance. The fact that Santana
was in the throes of her own gender
transition during the filming process
lends a poignant honesty to Vanessa's
struggle to establish her identity in
the tough, unforgiving world of the
Bronx. Pitch-perfect performances
from Esai Morales (Caprica, NYPD
Blue) and Judy Reyes (Scrubs, OZ)
round out the stellar cast in this
thought-provoking drama.
The 22nd annual Fresno REEL
Pride Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is
made possible by the generous support of numerous national and local
individual sponsors and businesses
including presenting sponsors AAA
Travel, Club Legends, Engelmann
Cellars, Fresno Women's Medical
Group, PG&E, and Starbucks.
Complete schedule, ticketing and
film information on this year's Fresno
Reel Pride Film Festival is available
at www.reelpride.com. For more
information, call Reel Pride's hotline
at (559) 999-7971 or go online to
www.reelpride.com.
Family Pride Coalition
PO Box 65327
Washington, DC 20035-5327
202-331-5015
familypride.org
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Freedom To Marry Coalition
116 West 23rd St, Suite 500
New York, NY 10011
212-851-8418
freedomtomarry.org
Gender Public
Advocacy Coalition
1743 Connecticut Ave NW, 4th Fl.
202-462-6610
gpac.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
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
Servicemembers Legal
Defense Network
PO Box 65301
Washington DC 20035-5301
202-328-3244
sldn.org
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
The Network / La Red (Boston)
Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual
women's and TG communities
617-742-4911; TTY 617-227-4911
National Gay & Lesbian
Task Force
8704 Santa Monica Blvd #200
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-855-7380
thetaskforce.org
National Domestic Violence
Hotline (not GLBT-specific)
800-799-7233; TTY 800-787-3224
National Stonewall Democrats
1325 Massachusetts Av NW # 700
202-625-1382
stonewalldemocrats.org
Gay, Lesbian Bisexual & Transgender Resource - National, Sate, & Local
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Rape, Abuse, Incest, National
Network 1-800-656-HOPE
Trevor Helpline (GLBT youth sui
cide prevention) 1-800-850-8078
Fresno Area Resources
ARTEMIS
Recovery Club
CALIFORNIA RUAL
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Proyecto Poderoso
1-800-242-2752
artemisrecoveryclub.com
2115 Kern St., Suite 370,
Fresno, CA 93721
GayCentralValley
Fresno LGBT
Community Center
1055 N Van Ness Ave.
Suite C,
Fresno, CA 93728
559-325-4GAY
Wed. - Sat. 12pm - 5pm
www.GayCentralValley.org
Community Link
Where we just don’t
tolerate diversity...
We celebrate it!
P.O. Box 4959, Fresno, CA 93744
(559) 266-LINK
CLinkInc@aol.com
Imperial Dove
Court
Diversity Club
at F.C.C.
Meetings:
Fridays 2-4pm
SO-208
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Camping
Women
For women who
love the outdoors…
call 891-7725
http://www.campingwomen.org
Fresno
Reel
Pride
Central Valley
Alliance of Atheists
and Skeptics
WE DON’T BURN HERETICS
WE WELCOME THEM!
www.cvaas.org
The Central Valley
Annual GLBT Film Festival
559-268-2780
www.ReelPride.com
diversity_club2006@yahoo.com
“You’ll just never know
what they’ll say next!”
You’ll have to tune in to find out!
KIDS LIKE US
IT'S A QUEER THANG
P.O. Box 5561
Fresno CA 93755
Fraternal order raising funds
for groups who need help
NOW
Paris: 559-355-6163
P.O. Box 4642,
Fresno, Ca. 93744
905-6674
www.idcfresno.org
P.O. Box 27382, Fresno, CA
93729-7382
(559) 434-6540
You are Welcome!
2:00 P.M. 2nd Sun
Wesley United
Methodist Church,
1343 E. Barstow, Fresno
STRAIGHT ADVOCATES
FOR EQUALITY
Outreach Education
Support
www.safefresno.com
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meetings:
first Fridays 7pm
first Saturdays 5pm
Gay parenting group
KFCF 88.1FM
3rd Friday of the month
at 5-6pm
Robin (559) 287-9670
Your Gay Hosts:
Jeff & Kirk
kidslikeus@yahoo.com
Professional
Men’s Mixer
1st & 3rd Fridays
at 6pm
professionalmensmixer@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/gro
up.php?gid=107149747915
PROJECT: MALE
FIGHTING AIDS IN
FRESNO COUNTY
1584 N. Van Ness Ave.
Fresno,CA 93728
(559) 287-7666
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/project-male
Date
TBA
Join the Listserv at
www.trans-e-motion.org
@ Women’s Resource Center
Community Link’s
RAINBOW BOWLING
Thursdays 7:15pm ‘til 9/1
@ Cedar Lanes
3131 N Cedar
communitylinkfresno.com
Every Friday
@ 7:00 - 8:30pm
@ 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd
@ The Big red Church
486-3464
w w w.StrideWithPrideForKids.com
(559) 285-2333
www.wecarefresno.org
Frinedly Outdoor fun
Games are open to all
Meet new people!
No formalities!
Weekly Thurs. Games.
Season: March-Oct.
Info at 486-3464
19 years of Outrageous Fun
United Student
Pride
@ C S U Fresno
Meetings: Wednesdays 12-2pm
Queer Volleyball
The Fresno
GLBTQ
Youth Alliance
csufresno.edu/StudentOrgs/LGBSA/
(559) 646-5806
QVB
611 E. Belmont
Fresno, CA 93701
559-237-3420
NewsLink
Social group
for bears, cubs & fans
GoldenStateBears.org
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