Archive - 2006

Equality Fairfax Has a New Host

In order to keep our website current and bring more capabilities to the web, we've changed hosting providers. The initial result of this change should be transparent except that some of the intermittant problems the site has been experiencing should be eliminated.  read more »

Register for Lobby Day - January 17

Become a Lobbyist for a Day!

On January 17th, join hundreds of other concerned Virginians for Equality Virginia's annual Lobby Day.

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Mysteriously Duplicating Menus

For some reason, some of the menus on the site, particularly in the navigation menu have taken to spontaneously duplicating themselves. We're aware of the problem and are looking into the cause. In the meantime, if you see some extra menu items from time to time, please excuse the duplication. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

Upcoming Social Events - January 2007

Sunday
January 14, 2006
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Help us kick off 2007 right!

Please join Equality Fairfax at our 4th Annual Potluck at Greenbriar. Bring your friends and family and your favorite dish to share with others. Sit back and relax in front of the fire with your favorite beverage and talk with old friends and meet some new ones.
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Openly Gay Candidate in PW County Verbally Attacked Because of Orientation

Yesterday in Prince William County, Supervisor candidate Jeff Dion and his family were attacked on an anti-gay right-wing blog because of his sexual orientation, his family situation, and oddly enough, the size of his home.

Here is the original outrageous post that was made on the Black Velvet Bruce Li blog

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Web Links Should be Working Again

Unbeknownst to us, but perhaps knownst to you, the weblinks on the site had been broken since our site upgrade. Though the title and description were displaying properly, the site was not showing the URL to the site. This made them, well, less than useful.  read more »

Event Listing Format has Changed

Up until now, if you selected the events link from the Categories menu you would get a list of events in the order the events had been entered rather than the order they were happening. This has nwo been changed so that events are listed in descending order by the event start date. Once in the event listing, you can filter the page by the type of event.  read more »

Location of EF Annual Meeting-Thursday 12-7

The EF Annual Meeting on Thursday December 7th will be held at:

Metropoliatin Community Church of Northern VA (MCC NOVA)
10383 Democracy Lane Fairfax, VA, 22030
Link to Google Maps

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Please attend EF Annual Meeting - Dec 7th

Please attend the Equality Fairfax Annual Meeting on Thursday December 7th

We want to hear from you about how Equality Fairfax can serve the GLBT community in 2007!

A social half-hour of gathering followed by some administrative matters -- election of the Board of Directors for 2007 and a report on the results of 2006.

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Intermittent Site Failures

We've been experiencing some intermittent problems with our database server over the last few days. It's possible that you may experience some much longer than normal page load times or even a message about not being able to contact the database server.  read more »