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JULY 14TH ~ JULY 20TH

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July 13th ~ Texas Restaurant Worker Gets Gay-Supportive Fist Bump From Obama
 
July 6th ~ MI Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows businesses to refuse service to LGBT people 
 
July 6th ~ 'Be Masculine,' Erik Carter Project, Explores What Gay Male Masculinity Means Today
 
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Wednesday Student Lunch this week!
Drop by the Cantu this week between 11:30am and 1:30pm. We'll have healthy snacks to supplement your own lunch. Play gaymes, chat with other students on campus this summer! Info: [email protected]
 
Queer RPG! Fan of adventure? Like games? Enjoy snacks? Kinda queer? Look no further! Our new Queer RPG group is here for you! If you're interested, please fill out the following doodle to let us know what the best time for you is. Doodle here.
 
Gay Men's Beach Volleyball 
Wednesdays, 5:30 pm, Main beach by Coconut Grove
All levels of play are welcome. No commitment necessary...stop by once or every week. Weekly all summer! 
 
HICK: A Love Story: The Romance of Lorena Hickock and Eleanor Roosevelt.
7/10-7/27, Eureka Theatre, SF.
One-woman play starring Terry Baum. Terry Baum, Pioneer Lesbian Playwright uses ER's letters and Hick's own writing to recreate Hick's life.  This is a powerful part of our lesbian heritage. Tickets here. 
                            Upcoming Events 

Women & Trans Bicycle Workshop  
EVERY FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH    
The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, SC  
(Enter around the corner on Spruce Street)                    
This workshop provides a safer space for women and transfem identified people to work on their bikes and learn new skills.
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What Has The Cant�
Done For You?
  

"Some folks, they just don't understand. And they need to get to know us as human beings. Others are just going to be opposed to us forever. But I do believe in the humanity of people and in peoples' capacity to love and to change."

-Laverne Cox    

MONDAYS 

7-8:30pm

Closet Free Radio 

KZSC 88.1FM
DJ's Kai and Richard

SATURDAYS
7-8pm
Out in Santa Cruz 
KSCO 1080 AM
DJs Shaun Ordinario and
Steph Taylor 
The Cantu is OPEN Mondays through Fridays this summer. We are enjoying having summer session students drop by. We're also meeting-and-greeting queer students who will be starting up in Fall quarter! If you live downtown and have rooms available in your household, please contact Director Deb. We are getting requests for available rooms! 

DJ and Deb are hard a work finalizing resource guides for Fall quarter. It makes us aware of all of the campus resources available to queer students . . . as well as those missing.
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Two Boys Kissing
by David Leviathan
 
David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record-all of which is narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS
GAPA 
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Foundation Scholarship 
(Deadline: July 15th)
This awards up to three scholarships of $1000 each to students who have demonstrated outstanding activism and leadership within the API LGBTQ community. Apply here! 


August 13-14th ~ Gender Odyssey, Seattle, WA 

 

More upcoming queer conferences here

      
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Keep the Cant� Strong!