Equality Fairfax

UPDATED INFORMATION – The March route is finalized.  Equality Fairfax along with Arlington GL Alliance, Equality Prince William and other NoVA equality groups are meeting downtown at 15th and K Streets, NW between 11:15 and 11:30 outside of Cosi Restaurant.  This is right near where the March kicks off.  Join in the NoVA group to make the VA presence known!!  Look for EF and AGLA signs outside of Cosi.  Also, we will be metro-pooling at 10:30am from Vienna metro if you want to join us there.  Feel free to leave a comment to let us know you are coming.

A huge march on Washington is happening on October 11th.

Tens (hopefully hundreds) of thousands will take to the streets in DC with one simple demand: equal protection for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.  Now.

The march is organized by National Equality March and is the beginning of efforts to organize and empower people to fight for LGBT equality all across the nation.  Check out the March’s Facebook page.

Join the Equality Fairfax contingent for the march.  The exact route hasn’t been announced yet, but will end up at the Capitol.  There will be some folks meeting at the Vienna metro at 10:30am.  We’ll pick a place to meet on the mall once the route is determined.  If you’d like to march with us, leave a comment on this page.   Also, check out our Facebook page where will have information too — you can RSVP on the wall.

We hope to see you on the 11th!

On Wednesday, April 22nd, SMYAL, or the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, will be hosting an event to welcome its new Executive Director Andrew Barnett.

Join SMYL’s staff and host committee at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th Street NW! The event will last from 6:00-800pm.

For more information, please contact Kelly Simon at kelly.simon@smyal.org.

The Federal Triangles Soccer Club of Washington DC is looking for volunteers for this summer’s GLBT Men’s and Women’s World Soccer Championship.

In order to make this event, which attracts players from around the globe, a success, the Club needs the support of the DC volunteer community.

The need range from providing meals for a player to administration, translators, field monitors, events staff and people willing to house players from out of town during the week of the tournament. The Club receives many requests from players who would like to participate but can’t afford a hotel room in DC, so it’s asking men and women to consider opening their homes.

If you want to find out more about how you can help contact our volunteer coordinator Amanda Pyron volunteersiglfa2009@gmail.com or visit http://www.iglfa2009.org/

DC Tobacco Free Families and the Mautner Project are hosting a one-day training on GLBT Tobacco issues April 20th, 2009. The training takes place from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Mautner Project, 1875 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 710. 

GLBT Tobacco Experts Bob Gordon and Gloria Soliz will present on a variety of topics including interactive activities that are relevant to the GLBT community, how the tobacco industry targets the GLBT community and our response, and a vareity of policy issues for the GLBT community.

Please join us. For more information on the training contact:ssanford@mautnerproject.org. For more information on GLBT efforts around tobacco in the District, visit www.outtoquit.org.

Mautner Project, the National Lesbian Health Organization, is in need of some great interns.  Our organization is dedicated to improving the health of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women who partner with women through outreach, education, research, and direct client services.  Our interns work on a variety of projects including:

Outreach and Events.  Interns help organize and run outreach and fundraising events of all sizes, from galas to health fairs. 

Education. Interns help educate others through promotional materials, training seminars, and other events. 

Research.Internsassist with the details of major research projects including participant recruitment, focus group facilitation, data entry and analysis. 

Direct Services.  Interns help organize volunteers for clients with life-altering illnesses.  These volunteers and interns provide support over the telephone or in person, and assist daily living assistance such as transportation to a doctor’s appointment, child care, pet care, grocery shopping, etc. 

Administrative Support. Interns assist with clerical details, data entry, document and web design, and telephone support.  

Interns will acquire all these resume-building skills and more while working with a fabulous and fun community of colleagues and clients.

Call or Email NOW to find out how YOU can be a 
Mautner Project Intern!
info@mautnerproject.org
www.mautnerproject.org
202.332.5536

1875 Connecticut Ave, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20009
(Accessible via the Metro Red line at Dupont Circle & the 42 MetroBus.)

Posted on behalf on Sonali:

Please join us for this special event of conversations with siblings and parents of South Asian lesbian and bisexual women in recognition of Women’s History Month. We aim to create a safe, supportive discussion and awards dinner to celebrate those that love us and that help us be who we are. 

When: Saturday, April 11th 2009, 6-9 PM
Where: DC JCC, 1529 16th Street NW, Washington DC

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• Dinner
• Panel Discussion with Parents & Siblings of South Asian Queer Women
• Q&A
• Awards Ceremony

We have kept this event FREE so as to encourage greater access for everyone, though
donations to recover costs of putting this event together would be greatly appreciated. 

PLEASE RESERVE A PLACE by emailing RSVP.khushdc@gmail.com
Please provide name and number of people in your party.

Please RSVP by April 7th as we need to make arrangements for food accordingly. 
And if you tell us whether you prefer veg/non-veg, we’ll love you even more. Thanks!

Free Ticket to High School & College Students, Teachers and Parent Supporters!

Register for your FREE tickets ($50 value each) to the special Youth Outreach performance of everything gAy to Z.  It will be held at Lisner Auditorium on the campus of The George Washington University on Friday, March 20, 2009, at 8 pm. Simply go to this website and complete the form. You will receive an email to print and bring with you. The show will be general admission seating, so be sure to arrive early to get the best seats in the house!

Metro DC PFLAG is holding their 12th annual Honors Gala on March 21st, 2009. Their honorees this year are former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and his wife Chandler. They are very “out” and supportive parents of a gay son. Their Faith in Action award is being presented to Temple Rodef Shalom.

For more details and to purchase tickets, go to the Metro DC PFLAG website’s Gala page.

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Ave, NW
Washington, D.C., USA 20001

As NTAC – the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition – embarks on its 10th year, we will once again be making our way to Capitol Hill to push for legislation that benefits the Trans Community.

Two of NTAC’s members were the two trans Obama delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and the hard work has already paid off: We now have a written executive order on all federal hiring from President Barack Obama that for the first time is FULLY and EXPLICITLY inclusive of “gender identity.” Marsha Botzer (who was voted onto NTAC’s board and was briefly a member in 2002) served as one of five Obama LGBT transition team members and was instrumental in ensuring this inclusion was part of the administration’s non-discrimination policy.

The job is not yet done, however. As we’ve endeavored since the 106th Congress, NTAC will be hitting Capitol Hill for this upcoming session: the 111th Congress and what will likely be the most historic one for America’s Trans Community. This is time for the grassroots Trans Community to shake off those years of imposed intimidation and trepidation, to independently stand up and to begin reclaiming its own voice once again!

We have the ability to stand on our own and make things happen as we did independently of most of the LGBT community, selecting Barack Obama as our choice, devoting the time, money and effort and actively helping elect America’s first President of color!

Yes we did!

We also have the ability to declare our own choice, separate from those who would presume themselves as our conservators, to choose the Trans community’s leadership for ourselves, state our community’s choice for rights, and push forward with legislation such as an explicitly trans-inclusive Employment Non Discrimination Act (ENDA), as opposed to sitting back and simply accepting a bill which intently left out Trans people while coercing the world into believing this was representing what the Trans community supported, as did the Human Rights Campaign in 2007.

Yes we do!

We also have the opportunity before us to be a part of this change taking place thanks to the new Obama Administration and we can participate in collectively creating Trans history, regardless of those who will shut us up and shut us out in order to monopolize the community’s voice, visibility, attention and rewards and restrict the effort for rights to themselves.

Yes we can!

And on May 6 – 8, we will have our next opportunity to participate in being a distinct and indelible part of our own Trans Community’s history, standing together against larger, well-organized and better funded foes as we again make our way to Capitol Hill to lobby on our own behalves for legislation that will directly affect us and lead us to a better tomorrow. Although we may have every obstacle placed before us and every odd stacked against us, our fight is the good fight, we finally have the breeze at our back and we are on the right side of history!

Will you be a part of this effort?

If so, Contact:
Vanessa Edwards Foster – ntacmedia@att.net
Ethan St. Pierre – transfriendly@comcast.net