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Greetings!
Thanks to everyone who attended Thurday night's amazing concert by Namoli Brennet as we kicked off Transgender Awareness Week. Please see below for many more TAW events, as well as new community social, activism and arts events - we look forward to seeing you Out in the community!
If you like what Out Boulder is doing and would like to make a donation to support Out Boulder's vital work in the community, please visit our Donate page! Donations will be matched by the Gill Foundation, so your donation of $50 becomes $100!
Yours in Community,
The Out Boulder Team
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Lt. Dan Choi is coming to Boulder! Thursday, December 2 - 7:30pm - Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU
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 FREE entry for students with a BuffOne Card $5.00 tickets for community members will be available at the doors. Doors will open at 6:30PM and the event will start at 7:30PM. Please arrive early, as seating will be available on a first come, first served basis.
Join the Cultural Events Board for an evening with former American infantry officer and renowned LGBT rights activist Lt. Dan Choi for "Courage and Camouflage: One Soldier's Experience with Don't Ask Don't Tell." Lt. Dan Choi is a West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran, Arabic linguist and LGBT activist. On March 19th, 2009 he publicly announced that he was gay on The Rachel Maddow Show. One month later, the Army had begun discharge proceedings against him. Because of those three words - "I am gay" - Lt. Dan Choi's life changed forever.
Lt. Choi was eventually discharged from the military on June 29th, 2010. He served for a decade under Don't Ask Don't Tell: a policy that requires gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender soldiers to conceal their sexual orientation. In his passionate talks, he shares personal stories, his involvement in the LGBT rights movement, and the need to stand up. For more information, visit culturaleventsboard.org.
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An Evening of Transgender-Themed Films and a Potluck - this Friday, November 19th at 6pm in Longmont including a panel discussion and filmmaker, Gus Spheeris! |
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Please join us on Friday, November 19th in the evening at the First Congregational United Church of Christ as Out Boulder, the Light of Christ Ecumenical Catholic Community and the UCC co-sponsor a Potluck and Evenings of Transgender-themed films.
Please arrive promptly at 6pm for the potluck. We will first watch the new version of "Project Visibility" a film by Boulder County Aging Serves that explores aging for the LGBT Community. The new version includes a Trans story. Next, we will watch "Faces and Facets of the Transgender Experience" - a film by PFLAG Boulder County that features 18 Boulder/Denver-area families sharing their stories. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion and audience Q&A.
The evening concludes with a screening of "Red Without Blue" (begins at 7:45pm). RED WITHOUT BLUE is an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, RWB follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female, while the other twin is gay. Captured over a period of three years, the film documents the twins and their parents, examining the struggle to redefine their family. |
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Frida Kahlo - Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray November 13, 2010 to January 2, 2011 at the Longmont Museum
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 The showing at the Longmont Museum is part of a national tour over a two and a half year period containing forty-six photographic prints of bisexual artist, Frida Kahlo, reproduced from the original negatives. The exhibit is free.
Thursday, Dec. 2 Viva Frida!
Join us for a special evening of Frida Kahlo.
6:00 pm "The Art of Frida Kahlo" A presentation on the artwork and life of the renown Mexican artists with Tariana Navas-Nieves, Curator of Hispanic art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
7:00 pm Screening of the movie, Frida - the amazing life story of painter Frida Kahlo is explored in this acclaimed biopic (not to mention the amazing dance scene between Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek!) $8 resident, $10 non-residents. |
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Vintage Blog in Honor of Trans Awareness Week
by Co-Executive Director Cathy Busha
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(and yep - that's Cathy in drag in the picture). |
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Out Boulder and VOICE featured in the current issue of the Chinook Fund's Newsletter
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 Grantees VOICE (Voices of Immigrant Children for Education) and Out Boulder (Formerly Boulder Pride) are paving the way by doing joint organizing, movement building, and solidarity work around LGBTQ and Immigrant Justice in Boulder County!
(thanks to Ray Rodriguez for the photo).
This past fall, VOICE and OUT Boulder have organized a series of powerful events, including: * Co-sponsoring an event bringing legendary labor and Chicana movement activist Dolores Huerta to a packed audience in Lafayette, where she discussed the connections between today's fight for gay rights with her previous work organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez in the 1960's. Huerta told audiences that " If we're going to make our progressive agenda a reality, we need to bring our movements together... we're all in our little silos, with labor over here, and immigrants' rights over here, and environmentalists over there. If we get together, we are the majority." * Screening the movie "Papers" (the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status) in local high schools * Hosting immigrant/queer activists from Arizona to mobize support against SB170, the draconian anti-immigrant and racial profiling law that was passed last Spring Throughout all of these events, VOICE and OUT Boulder activists took the opportunity to share powerful "coming out" stories of being undocumented and queer, while educating community members around supporting the DREAM Act and other policies to advance immigrant and LGBTQ rights. Chinook Fund is a proud supporter of this incredible work! |
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Tonight at CU! A free Screening of "Faces and Facets of Transgender Experience" followed by a reception and "Ask a Trans-person Anything" Panel
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Screening of "Faces and Facets of Transgender Experience" - Tuesday, November 16 at 6:00pm at CU Boulder's Center for Community, Room N320 (3rd Floor)
Please join us for a special, free CU screening of this new film by Boulder County PFLAG that features eighteen people for the Boulder/Denver region and their families as they share touching stories about the journey from despair to loss to the joy of being the gender they were meant to be. From 6:30 to 7pm, there is a free reception. The Center for Community is located near the intersection of Broadway and Regent Drive in Boulder. The address is 2249 Willard Loop Drive, Boulder, CO 80310. Turning east off of Broadway, the Center for Community is the second building on the left. Metered parking is available on the west side of the building at all times. Parking is free across the street after 5pm, in the large parking lot. Please read parking lot signs for details.
Ask a Trans-Person Anything Panel - Tuesday, November 16at 7:00pm at CU Boulder's Center for Community, Room N320 (3rd Floor)
Ask anything to a panel of diverse, trans-identified individuals. Questions may include: What's the difference between how you identify and who you love? Do you miss anything about being your 'former' gender? What's been the most difficult part of your 'new' gender? What's been the best part? If your partner is trans, are you straight, or gay, or what? And ask anything else you've always wanted to ask, but haven't had the chance. Free and open to everyone - members of the LGB and Allied communities are particularly encouraged to attend. See above for directions and parking information. Free!
Co-sponsored by CU's GLBT Resource Center, Center for Multicultural Affairs and Out Boulder.
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Trans Day of Remembrance - November 20th
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Please join and support Transgender people and our allies at Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, Colorado on Saturday, November 20th from 7-9pm for Transgender Day of Remembrance - a national movement to bring awareness to and stop the violence against transgender people. Join us in remembering those who our communities have lost and join us in creating a new, emancipated future for all. More details at The Gender Identity Center of Colorado's website....
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Please Join us for the 3rd Annual Holiday Open House at Out Boulder - Wednesday, December 15 from 5 to 7:30pm at the Out bouder Pride House!
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 We hope you will join us for our Holiday Season celebration!
Last year we had over 50 community members stop by to meet board, staff, and volunteers and get to know our programs just a little better. Everyone welcome!
Community Center Address:
2132 14th Street, Boulder, CO 80302 |
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This Friday Night! Out Boulder's youth program, BOLD, co-sponsors BAM! with BMoCA and BIFF!
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SPECIAL EVENT THIS FRIDAY! 11/19, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Boulder Museum of the Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. The BOULDER AWARENESS MOVEMENT, sponsored by BIFF, BMoCA and the teens at Out Boulder are OUT to celebrate diversity! This FREE event features a film premiere and panel, music, food and silkscreening. See you there! All ages welcome. To view the Facebook event page... |
Trans and Allied Happy Hour - Wednesday, November 17th - 5 to 7pm at Hapa Sushi on Pearl
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Please join Out Boulder at our monthly social gathering at Hapa Sushi (1117 Pearl) for a special Transgender Awareness Week Happy Hour from 5 to 7pm. Everyone - transgender people and their friends, family and allies - is encouraged to attend. Hapa Sushi provides free appetizers and drink specials. Look for us in the back room of Hapa Sushi!
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Transgender Remembrance Display at
CU Boulder - the Norlin Quad
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On Wednesday November 17and Thursday, November 18 from 10:00am to 3:00pm each day, there will be a display of transgender people we have lost to violence. Norlin Quad is located in the middle of campus, in front of Norlin Library. (See map for details - www.colorado.edu/campusmap) Metered parking is located on University Ave, on the east side of Broadway in Boulder.Walk southeast from University to reach Norlin Quad.
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Transgender Awareness Week Concluding Potluck and Celebration! Sunday, November 21 from 5 to 6:30pm at FUMC in Boulder
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at First United Methodist Church in Boulder - 1421 Spruce St - just a few doors down from Out Boulder's Pride House...
Please bring a dish to share as we celebrate and conclude our first Transgender Awareness Week in Boulder County, and begin plans for next year's Trans Awareness Week and the time in between. Everyone - transgender people and their allies, friends, family and significant others - is welcome to attend!
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| A New Group - TYES - Trans Youth Education and Support |
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A new TYES (trans youth education and support) meeting is starting in Lafayette, and trans awareness week is a great time to get started. Our group provides support for families and school age youth and teens. All gender variant (GV) youth are welcome, whether they have transitioned or not. Families seeking a supportive community are welcome with or without their children. We believe that GV kids need to know they are not alone and that there is a wonderful community of people who will support them on their journey. Please RSVP to cbusha@outboulder.org or tyes.group@gmail.com for location. |
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Jean Dubofsky to Speak Tuesday, December 14
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On December 14th, Jean Dubofsky will be featured as part of the Boulder History Museum's Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People. Jean Dubofsky served as lead counsel for the successful constitutional challenge to Amendment 2. She is a Boulder Attorney and first female Colorado Supreme Court Judge.
For more information... |
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Some of the events, views and opinions expressed in the elert are solely those of their authors and/or organizations, and do not necessarily reflect an endorsement by Boulder Pride. We encourage you to contact the event sponsor for more information.
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