Greetings!
Our Monday Night Group is tonight from 6:15-7:45pm. Youth from the Pescadero Youth Center will be joining us! Come share your experiences and bring a friend!
IMPORTANT DATES & DEADLINES:
- Saturday March 28: Love (Yourself) Fest: Queer Youth Self-Care Event (see below)
- Wednesday April 1: Not In Our School Event, JLS MIddle School Cafetorium, Palo Alto
- Wednesday April 15: Deadline for Traub-Dicker Rainbow Scholarship (For Lesbian-Identified Students)
Sending Good Energy,
Jun-Fung
p.s. Don't forget to invite Outlet to your next GSA meeting, just send us an email and we'll be there! We can even facilitate a presentation or group discussion!
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Monday Night Group 6:15-7:45pm @ CHAC
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Join us for some free pizza,
drinks and Animal Cookies! Come chat with people who
embrace all forms of love! |
[Sat. March 28, San Francisco] Love (Yourself) Fest: Queer Youth Self-Care - FREE EVENT!
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Later this month a collaboration between LIFT Bay Area, New Leaf, Dimensions
Clinic, BAY Poz, T-Lish, and the LGBT Center youth program is hosting a Love
(yourself) Fest, a health and wellness fair, on Saturday March 28th from
2:00-5:00 at the Eureka Valley Rec Center.
This fair is for queer youth
and their allies, ages 12-26 and will focus on self care. This is a free event
with acupuncture, a smoothie bar, a beauty bar, open gym time, games, prizes, a
series of youth-led workshops, self defense and writing workshops, a DJ and a
dance off.
Adele Carpenter, New Leaf Services
adele.new.leaf@gmail.com | phone: (415) 626-7000 ext. 417 |
[Sat. March 28, Santa Cruz County]
Queers Rule & Allies Rock! Youth Conference
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| Join us for a day of workshops, fun, and empowerment at Santa Cruz County's Queers Rule & Allies Rock Youth Conference on March 28, 2009 at Aptos High School in Santa Cruz County. This conference is an opportunity for leadership training, networking between GSAs both inside and outside Santa Cruz County, and coming together to combat homophobia and transphobia in our schools and communities. For more info and registration, visit: http://www.queersrulealliesrock.org |
[Friday-Saturday, April 3-4 @ UC Davis]
Queer People of Color Conference
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 This year the Queer People of Color Conference will be hosted by
University of California, Davis. The conference will take place April
3rd - 4th 2009 and will focus on "Building Communities through Art,
Action, and Resistance."
For more information, click here: qpocc.webs.com
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[Wednesday, April 1, JLS Middle School]
NOT IN OUR SCHOOL
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Join us for the premiere screening of a new film about Palo Alto students, teachers, and school leaders engaging in actions to end bias and harassment.
Wednesday, April 1
JLS Middle School Cafetorium
480 E. Meadow Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94306
6:00pm Light refreshments
6:30pm Film Screening and Community Youth Discussion
For translation and childcare services, please RSVP with Maria Christina Ordenana at (650) 329-3736 or mordenana@pausd.org
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[Sun. March 22, Sat. April 11, Berkeley]
Children's Meditation Courses: Ages 8-15
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 Date: Sunday, March 22nd 2009
Age Limits: Children 8 to 15 years old
Location: Berkeley, CA
(Address is provided after registering for the course)
Date: Saturday, April 11th 2009
Age Limits: Children 8 to 15 years old
Location : Joaquin Miller Middle School, 6151 Rainbow Drive, San Jose, CA 95129
(Pre-registration is required)
Children from all
different communities who have started practicing Anapana have realized
many benefits. Their ability to concentrate becomes enhanced, their
memory gets sharper and they become calmer. In general, they feel that
have a practical tool to use in the face of any type of challenge.
If you know of any children who would be interested in attending a
meditation course designed specifically for them, please visit the
children's course website for more information: click here: http://www.mahavana.dhamma.org/public/courses/children.htm
For more information: childrens-courses@mahavana.dhamma.org
Although it is not necessary that a parent or guardian accompany the
child to the course, it is important that the child chooses to attend
the course willingly.
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[SCHOLARSHIP, Due: Sat. March 28]
San Jose/Peninsula PFLAG Chapter |
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. |
[SCHOLARSHIP, Due: March 31]
Gamma Mu Foundation (for Gay Male Students)
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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. |
[SCHOLARSHIP, Due: April 15] Traub-Dicker Rainbow Scholarship (Lesbian Students)
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The Traub-Dicker Rainbow Scholarship was established to encourage and support LGBT students in their quest for higher education. These scholarships are awarded specifically to Lesbian-identified students who seek to utilize their education to give back to the LGBT community in some fashion.
Applications are judged on criteria such as: academic excellence, outstanding community service, and commitment to impacting LGBT issues. Three $3000 scholarships will be awarded in June 2009 and are non-renewable. Contact Joan Giannola at (212) 736-4440 or jgiannola@adessohome.com for applications.
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[For College Students]
National LGBT Campus Climate Survey
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Call for Participation for
national survey released today for LGBT college students, faculty & staff
with a chance to win $500 cash and a free RSVP Vacation
Cruise
Campus
Pride seeks undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and
administrators who identify as LGBT people to participate in the National LGBT
College Climate Survey. The survey is housed under the Q Research Institute for
Higher Education (QRIHE), the national center for the scholarly study of LGBT
people in higher education. http://www.campuspride.org/research. (Click here) More info online at http://www.campuspride.org | |
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Sacred Rights of the International Two Spirit Gathering
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Gay and Transgender Native Americans Find Acceptance in Tradition
"He checks his plaid skirt, stockings, and deep-cut white blouse. When
another man's eyes fall on his cleavage, Richard squeezes his breasts
together and answers the silent inquiry: 'They're real!'
Beyond the bathroom doors, men and women dance around a drum in more
traditional costume-feathers, fox pelts, moccasins, beads, and bells.
They're all here for the 20th annual International Two Spirit
Gathering, a celebration of and for those who feel they carry both male
and female spirits.
In late August 2008, some 85 Native lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from three dozen tribes in
Canada and the United States traveled to the Audubon Center of the
North Woods, 90 miles north of Minneapolis.
There, communing under the tall pines, they would sit in a sweat
lodge, pray together at the sacred fire, engage in a water ceremony,
and dance at the powwow. They would listen to a mother talk about her
son's struggle with coming out, hear the results of a groundbreaking
health study, and receive a blessing from an elder.
They would also watch Sanchez-in full drag, lip-synching his version of "I Kissed a Girl"-win the event's annual talent contest.
'We
want people who face difficulties in their day-to-day lives to be able
to stop and breathe,' says Richard LaFortune, a Yupik from Minneapolis
and national director of Two Spirit Press Room, sponsor of the 2008
event. 'We want people to walk away with new friendships, good
memories, and something to restore themselves.'"
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JUST PUBLISHED:
Rainbow Plantation Blues
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In 1850, Jonathan Thomas, a young, personable Southern gentleman and plantation owner, grapples with his desire and love for one of his male slaves, Kumi. Robert L. Sheeley, Authorhttp://www.robertlsheeley.com |
The Trevor Project: Queer Youth Hotline
(866) 4-U-TREVOR
(866) 488-7386
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http://www.thetrevorproject.org
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The Trevor Project
operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide
prevention helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. If you or a
friend are feeling lost or alone call The Trevor
Helpline. There is hope, there is help..
The Trevor Project Blogs
Facebook
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GLBT National
Youth Talkline
1 (800) 246-PRIDE
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 CONTACT INFO:
Toll-free 1-800-246-PRIDE (1-800-246-7743)
HOURS:
MON-FRI, 5pm to 9pm, Pacific Time
MON-FRI, 8pm to Midnight, Eastern
Email: youth@GLBTNationalHelpCenter.org
The
GLBT National Youth Talkline provides telephone and email
peer-counseling, as well as factual information and local resources for
cities and towns across the United States. |
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