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 De Abmiente this Friday Feb. 13th and we are doing our HIV/STD Workshop from 6:15-8:00pm @ CHAC. So before you go out and kick-off your Valentine's Day weekend, stop by and give your fellow Latinos/as some Love!
Make sure to check out all the Scholarships available for LGBTQ students and allies too!
Important Dates/Deadlines:
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 6:15-8:00pm
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It has been so exciting to meet so many new people these past few weeks!
The Monday Night Group is definitely rockin' out!
Make sure to check out the group and bring a friend!
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De Ambiente- Friday Feb. 13th 6:15-8:00 @ CHAC
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 This Friday, at De Ambiente, our bilingual youth group for Latinos/as is having their HIV/STD workshop.
Everyone is getting ready for Valentine's Day, so we want to show you how much Outlet loves you by teaching you how to protect yourself!
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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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"The Yin & Yang of Becoming"
3rd Annual Transgender Speakers Series
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" Please join The Metropolitan Community Church of San Jose this February for our third annual Transgender Speaker Series. This year's series is "The Yin and Yang of Becoming" and we have an incredible set of speakers who will take us farther than we've ever gone
before!
We'll also have talk-back sessions after our services on February 15, and a community potluck after our service on February 22.
All are welcome!
This year's speakers will be:
Feb. 15th @ 10:30am
Nori Herras-Tejero
Feb. 22nd @ 10:30am
The Honorable Rev. Victoria Kolakowski
All speakers will give the message at our Sunday services at 65 South Seventh Street in downtown San Jose."
For more information, please visit our website
Sincerely,
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