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| Outlet Announcements Youth News
January 26, 2009
Quote of the week:
"Without hope, not only gays, but those who are Blacks,
the Asians, the disabled, the seniors -- the 'us's' -- without hope the 'us's'
give up. I know that you can't live on hope alone, but without it, life is not
worth living. And you, and you, and you have got to give them hope."
- Harvey Milk, "Hope" Speech,
1978
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Greetings!
This was a very exciting week! Many of us got to witness a very historical event: the inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th U.S. President! So make sure to check out Obama's "Gay Agenda" on our featured article this week!
As for Outlet, we have our Monday Night Group from 6:15-7:45pm @ CHAC so make sure to stop by and let us know how things are going, what you think of Obama's "Gay Agenda" and what events you would like Outlet to host in the future!
Important Dates/Deadlines:
Thursday Jan 29th:
CLEVE JONES founder of the AIDS
Memorial Quilt and long-time friend of Harvey Milk, will speak at UC Berkeley at 4:30.
Saturday Feb 7th @ 2pm : "BE STILL AND KNOW", A play that explores the Bible's view on homosexuality and the struggle adolescents
have with their sexual identity and their identity as Christians @ Sacred Heart High School. This show is FREE, are you interested in going? Email me and we can coordinate a large group of folks to go!
Feb 9th: Deadline for Point Foundation LGBT Scholarship
Feb 13-15th: Western Regional LGBTIA Conference, UCSB
Saturday Feb. 14th: 24th Annual EWOCC: Revolutionary Love, from ME to WE: Redifining Intimacy and Activism, UCB
Saturday Feb. 21st: Deadline for eQuality Scholarship Collaborative for LGBT Youth
Peace and Love,
Dulce
p.s. Don't forget to invite Outlet to your next GSA meeting, just send us an email and we'll be there!
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Monday Night Group 6:16-7:45 @ CHAC
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Did you know that our youth group has been going strong since 1997?
At Outlet we admire your strength, your uniqueness and simply how fabulous YOU are! So come join us for some great discussions and to help us build a strong community!
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Cleve Jones, founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and long-time friend of Harvey Milk
@ UC Berkeley Jan 29th @ 4:30
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"Cleve Jones - recently portrayed by actor Emile Hirsch in the critically acclaimed film, MILK - will discuss how young people can take the lessons of Harvey Milk's life and apply them today. The event is free and open to students of all ages.
"Harvey dedicated his life to exposing and fighting homophobia. Now it's up to young people to continue his work," shared Jones. "I hope my talk inspires the kind of passion and creativity in today's young activists that Harvey inspired in me."
The event is co-sponsored by, Pacific Center , Gender Equity Resource
Center&Gay-Straight Alliance Network. Students of all ages will have the chance to hear first hand what it was like to work alongside Harvey Milk.
Cleve Jones's career as an activist began in San Francisco during the turbulent 1970s when pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk befriended him. He worked as a student intern in Milk's office while studying political science at San Francisco State University.
In 1983, when AIDS was still a new and poorly understood threat, Jones
co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Jones conceived the idea
of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a candlelight memorial for Harvey Milk in 1985 and in 1987 created the first quilt panel in honor of his friend Marvin Feldman. The AIDS Memorial Quilt has grown to become the world's largest community arts project".
This free event will take place on January 29, 2009, 4:30 PM at UC
Berkeley's Multicultural Center, Heller Lounge, MLK Building (corner
of Telegraph and Bancroft in Berkeley.)
This event is wheelchair accessible. For disability accommodation
requests and information please contact Danny Kodmur at (510) 643-6456
or (510) 642-6376 (TTY) for communication services or Peter O'Connell
at (510) 642-2795 for mobility services. Their website address is
http://access.berkeley.edu. Please try to make your service request
with as much advance notice as possible.
For more information, contact: Billy Curtis
510.643.0788
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Western Regional LGBTIA Conference:
Cultivating Our Roots, From the Ground Up: How Deep is Your Love?
Feb 13-15th @ UC Santa Barbara $25
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"The mission of the 2009 Western Regional LGBTQIA College Conference is
to educate and empower queer youth, students, families, professionals,
community members, and allies by providing an all inclusive space to dialogue
about critical issues, to network with other leaders, and to mobilize
our community from the ground up. We strive to examine our communities
and organizing through a social justice lens. We are committed to creating
a conference that addresses issues of homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia,
biphobia, gender oppression, racism, sexism, ableism, classism, religious
oppression, and all other forms of oppression.
Goals
and Objectives:
On Valentine's Day Weekend 2009, we hope to hold a conference where
we can come together as a community under the themes of unity, love, and
empowerment. With the goal of preparing ourselves to create change on
a local, state, and nation wide level, we aim to create long lasting relationships
with queer and ally organizers, activists, and community members from
the western region. Additionally, we aim:
- To
provide a place for people of all identities to feel safe welcome and
comfortable
- To
create greater visibility and awareness about issues in the queer community
- To
create relationships and build bridges between and within different
communities
- To
educate, empower, and heal ourselves, each other, our communities, and
our campuses" - LGBTIA
For more Information Please Visit the Western Regional LGBTIA Conference Website
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24th Annual EWOCC:
Empowering Women of Color Conference
Revolutionary Love, from ME to We: Redefining Intimacy and Activism
Saturday, Feb 14th @ UC Berkeley $10
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 UC Berkeley hosts its 24th annual, Empowering Women of Color Conference, focusing on "Revolutionary Love" at the MLK Student Union.
"BERKELEY, CALIF. - In its 24th year of providing powerful and dynamic
experiences, the Empowering Women of Color Conference returns to
embrace voice, knowledge, music, dance and art dedicated to
revolutionary love. This year's theme explores the foundations of
self-love, from which we connect mind, body and spirit, and discover
ourselves. From a place of self-love, we are able to extend ourselves
to progressively more inclusive spheres beginning with friends,
parents, romantic partners, children, and broadening to community, and
the nation. The conference focuses on love as a healing process that
inspires personal growth and resistance to oppression, exposing and
exploring the ways in which institutions shape our perception of love.
We challenge resistance and activism to begin inwardly, evolving our
own reality and then progressing outward as we confront the
intersections of poverty, sexism, lesbianism, homophobia, transphobia,
militarism and imperialism. We consider the ways in which women of
color can be politically active in their everyday choices while
embracing their familial roles and working towards egalitarian
relationships.
The keynote speaker will be Cherrie Moraga, an Oakland, CA based playwright, poet, and essayist who is the
co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of
Color, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1986. In 1997, she published a memoir on motherhood entitled Waiting in the Wings (Firebrand Books). Her classic, Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios (1983) updated in 2003 includes new prose in which loving is an extended prayer.
EWOCC was one of the first conferences to present women of
color with an opportunity to address the racial, class, and gender
issues facing American Indian, African American, Asian American, and
Chicana/Latina women". -EWOCC
Online registration is up!
Visit EWOCC online registration and save $$$
All are welcome and encouraged to register/attend!
This event is
wheelchair accessible. Contact Danny Kodmur at (510) 292-7670 (voice)
or (510) 642-6376 (TTY) for communication services or Jamie Wilson at
(510) 292-7671 for mobility services (http://access.berkeley.edu).
Access http://fasdi.berkeley.edu/ADAview/accesspatial.cfm
to find the nearest handicap parking spaces.
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Barack Obama's
Gay Agenda
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"Talk about efficiency. WhiteHouse.gov,
the official site of the President, was updated to reflect the
changeover from President George Bush to President Barack Obama within
a few minutes of Obama's inauguration. Has anyone visited the site yet,
and if so, have you seen The Agenda page?
I have to say that I am impressed-it lays out Obama's civil rights
agenda, which includes broad support for the LGBT community.
Among Obama's positions: He supports the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act and believes anti-discrimination employment laws
should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity;
and he supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal
rights and privileges equal to those of married couples. Additionally,
Obama thinks we should repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, and he
opposes a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. He also wants
to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy; ensure
adoption rights for all couples and individuals regardless of their
sexual orientation; and develop a comprehensive national AIDS/HIV
strategy. This is all in writing! On the President's Web site! What do you think of it, and do you believe he will accomplish all of his LGBT rights goals within his first term?"
Posted by Carter Todd on January 20, 2009
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"Be Still and Know"
FREE show @ Sacred Heart Preparatory
Feb. 7th @ 2pm
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Sacred Heart Prep Drama Department is presenting a world premiere production of
"BE STILL AND KNOW" based on the novel "THE GOD BOX" by Alex Sanchez. It was adapted
by drama director John Loschmann.
The play explores the Bible's view on
homosexuality and the struggle adolescents have with their sexual identity and
their identity as Christians.
Outlet is coordinating a group of youth/adults to go and support Sacred Heart. If you are interested in going please email Dulce. It's a good social activity for your GSA!
Sacred Heart Preparatory
150 Valparaiso Ave, Atherton 94027
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