Greetings!
Come check out Outlet's weekly Monday Night Group from 6:15-7:45pm @ CHAC. We love to see new faces, share personal stories, and enjoy a safe environment where everyone is welcomed!
We have Movie Night this Thursday Feb. 5 from 6-8pm @ CHAC and YOU get to choose the movie! Bring a friend or come alone and make a new connection!
Make sure to check out all the Scholarships available for LGBTQ students and allies too!
Important Dates/Deadlines:
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
Friday March 13th: Deadline for PFLAG's National Scholarship
Saturday March 28th: Deadline for San Jose/Peninsula PFLAG Chapter Scholarship
Tuesday March 31st: Deadline for Gamma Mu Foundation Scholarship.
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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It's always great to see new faces at our Monday Night Group so make sure to check it out!
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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Movie Night: Thursday Feb 5th 6-8pm
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 You give feedback and we listen! So, this week instead of picking the movies ourselves, YOU get to pick it! Outlet has a bunch of movies to pick from so make sure to get here on time and vote on which movie to watch or you can bring your own!
Enjoy a free flick with people just like you and as always: snacks, popcorn and drinks provided for FREE!!
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National PFLAG Scholarship
Deadline- March 13th
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On behalf of PFLAG National, I am pleased to announce the sixth annual Scholarships Program. What better ways to show our commitment to students than to provide support for role models and pioneers around the country that are making schools safer for all students? We also have a chance to honor students in places that are not always supportive and who are taking the first steps to their own future in the LGBT community. This year there will be up to three $5000, three $2500, and ten $1000 scholarships awarded. Please remember the National PFLAG scholarship is not in competition with local scholarships. Candidates are eligible to win both and we all should encourage students to apply for both your local and the national scholarshipThe application process and eligibility requirements are stated on the application form and on the PFLAG website or click on the Application link. |
San Jose/Peninsula PFLAG Chapter Scholarship Deadline- March 28th
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PFLAG- Peninsula/San Jose Chapter would like to inform you of our scholarship program. Each year our chapter offers scholarships to high school seniors whose educational history, personal plans and activities demonstrate support for justice and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons. This year we will award four $2,000 scholarships. Please encourage all the graduating seniors (LGBTQ and allies) to apply. You may visit the San Jose/Peninsula Chapter website at to print an application and to read more PFLAG. We highly encourage students to apply to BOTH the San Jose/Peninsula Chapter and the National PFLAG scholarships. |
Gamma Mu Foundation Scholarship for Gay Male Students Deadline- March 31st
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Yup. If you are a gay male who is at least a high school graduate and are currently attending, or will attend a college, university, training or professional program, the Gamma Mu Foundation has a Scholarship Program that can give you $1,000 - $2,500. You can find applications here at the Gamma Mu site and look for the link marked "Scholarships". All the info you need is there, including the application. Download it, answer the simple questions, and mail it to us by March 31, 2009 to compete for one of the awards. |
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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"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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KABC-TV Refuses to Air Ad About Gay Families
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" In a pique of moral conservatism, a Los Angeles television station, KABC-TV, refused to air an ad from the pro-marriage equality group, GetToKnowMeFirst.org, claiming the material in the ad was not suitable for "family viewing."
GetToKnowMeFirst.org
was created to promote marriage equality in California in the wake of
Prop 8's passage. The group has created a series of ads that push the
message that "Marriage promotes family, so support marriage equality".
GetToKnowMeFirst ran these ads in 48 of California's 50 counties where
Prop 8 received more than 50% of the vote on election day, in an effort
to change California voters' minds about what is really at stake in the
fight for marriage equality.
The one and only television station in all of California that
refused to run this ad during the Inaugural festivities?
KABC-TV.
KABC has claimed that the ad - which calls for no
political/electoral action whatsoever - was not aired because it was
"controversial" for "family viewing". The ad features two African
American gay men living in Los Angeles and raising five kids.
This is not the first time that ABC-TV has refused to air ads from that carry social/political content. Back
in October, Al Gore's group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, tried
and failed to get an ad run on ABC-TV following a Presidential Debate.
In that ad, the Alliance referred to "Big Oil". However, ABC-TV had no
problem running an ad - during that same time slot - by a major member
of Big Oil: Chevron.
I live out in Chicago, so I am not "blessed" enough to get to see
the wonderful programming offered by KABC-TV out in L.A. But it seems
to this observer that KABC-TV has an agenda here; social liberalism is
out: conservative corporatism is in.
You tell me: do the families in the video seem to be a threat to
KABC-TV's viewing audience? If so, then just who the hell is KABC-TV's
viewing audience?" -- Joe MoagCheck out the TV Ad and The Press Release where KABC TV changes their mind and decides to Air the TV Ad by "Get To Know Us First".
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