Equality Fairfax

July 19, 2009
12:00 pm	to	4:00 pm

Another year, another picnic.  Spend an afternoon with Equality Fairfax at our 7th Annual Summer Picnic at Nottoway Park in Vienna.

Got kids? bring em! Got a dog? Bring em! Got a partner/husband/wife/friend bring them too – everyone is welcome. Meet some new friends; touch base with some old ones that you may not have seen in a year.

When was the last time you played picnic games?  Watch the kids (or adults) try to run in the three legged race,  see who gets the wettest during the water balloon toss.

EF provides the buns, ketchup, chips, cookies,  potato salad and sodas/waters.  You bring your burger, chicken or veggie pattie.  And if you have a killer cole slaw, please feel free to bring along too.

The picnic area is very well shaded, so even if it really hot,  there’s a cool spot.  Park rules prohibit alcohol.

We’re in the covered pavilion,  just off the first right from the entrance road.  Look for the balloons!

Hope to see you at the picnic this summer!

9601 Courthouse Rd
Vienna, VA 22181-5411

Nottoway Park
Vienna, VA

March 1, 2009
4:00 pm	to	6:00 pm

Please come meet Equality Virginia’s new CEO, Jon Blair and hear how you can support EV’s non-discrimination campaign. Learn more about EV’s plans and priorities for 2009.

Enjoy a late afternoon gathering among friends old and new, partaking in a few hors d’oeuvres and your favorite beverages. 

Event Location:
Home of Sarah Gustafson
502 Kibler Circle
Vienna, VA 22180

OK folks, so here’s what we need you to do over the next few weeks.

 

During the next month we’ll be coordinating efforts to contact all of our county and town elected officials. Shortly after we get started, we’ll also expand to contacting our state delegates and senators about co-sponsoring a statewide non-discrimination bill. Equality Virginia will be working with legislators to introduce a bill in the Virgnia General Assembly in the next session that would make it illegal to discriminate against any public employee based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Local support is crucial to that bill’s success.

 

When we talk to our elected officials, we have three major goals for these contacts and meetings:

 

1. Ask each local elected official to sign a pledge that within their offices and staffs they will not discriminate in their own hiring or employment and promotion practices.
2. Ask each local elected official’s representative body to pass a resolution in support of Equality Virginia’s non-discrimination bill in the legislative package they send down to Richmond. This applies to town and city councils, and to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. The constitutional officers for the county and cities should be asked to express support to their respective council or board.
3. Additionally, for Fairfax County officials, to ask them to support the measure to allow the County to add sexual orientation and gender identity to its non-discrimination policies.

Attached to this post is a document with some talking points for you, a few FAQs, a sample resolution to present to your elected officials on town and city councils, as well as to members of the Board of Supervisors. Also in that attached document is a pledge form for every local official to complete and return to Equality Fairfax, as well as a sample letter to the editor in support of a non-discrimination bill.

 

Below are the people that we need to contact. Please take some time in the next few weeks to contact all of those on this list who represent you. Your voice and your concerns matter to your elected officials, and our community and our allies need your chorus of voices to make it clear to our elected officials that they time for action has come.

 

If you are interested in making an appointment with an official, and would like to join others in your visit, please email us at info@equalityfairfax.org, and let us know when and who you’d like to visit, and we will make sure to pair you up with a fellow advocate.

 

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA

DIRECTORY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, JULY 2008

 

FAIRFAX COUNTY OFFICIALS

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gov/bos/

 

Find Your District Supervisor. Residents have two supervisors — the chairman and a district supervisor. To find the district in which you live, use My Neighborhood to enter your address, click search and then click “My Neighborhood Report.”

 

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gisapps/myneighborhood/

 

CHAIRMAN

Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly (D)

12000 Government Center Parkway

Suite 530

Fairfax, VA 22035-0079

(703) 324-2321

Fax: (703) 324-3955

TTY: (703) 324-2319

E-mail: chairman@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

BRADDOCK DISTRICT

Sharon Bulova (D)

Kings Park Library

9002 Burke Lake Road

Burke, VA 22015

(703) 425-9300

Fax: (703) 503-9583

TTY 711

E-mail: braddock@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

DRANESVILLE DISTRICT

John W. Foust (D)

McLean Governmental Center

1437 Balls Hill Road

McLean, Va. 22101

Phone: 703-356-0551

Fax: (703) 703-821-4275

TTY: 711

Herndon Office

730 Elden Street

Herndon, VA 20170

(703) 471-5076

Fax: (703) 437-3210

E-mail: dranesville@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

HUNTER MILL DISTRICT

Catherine M. Hudgins (D)

North County Governmental Center

12000 Bowman Towne Drive

Reston, VA 20190-3307

(703) 478-0283

Fax: (703) 471-6847

TTY: 703-736-4460

E-mail: hntrmill@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

LEE DISTRICT

Jeff McKay (D)

Franconia Governmental Center

6121 Franconia Road

Alexandria, VA 22310-2508

(703) 971-6262

Fax: (703) 971-3032

TTY: 711

E-mail: leedist@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

MASON DISTRICT

Penelope A. Gross (D)

Mason District Governmental Center

6507 Columbia Pike

Annandale, VA 22003-2099

(703) 256-7717

Fax: (703) 354-8419

E-mail: mason@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

MOUNT VERNON DISTRICT

Gerald W. Hyland (D)

Mt. Vernon Governmental Center

2511 Parkers Lane, Suite 2

Alexandria, VA 22306-3294

(703) 780-7518

TTY: 711

Fax: (703) 780-1491

E-mail: mtvernon@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT

Pat S. Herrity (R)

W. Springfield Governmental Center

6140 Rolling Road

Springfield, VA 22152-1579

(703) 451-8873

Fax: (703) 451-3047

Government Center Office

12000 Government Center Pkwy

Suite 233

Fairfax, VA 22035

(703) 324-2500

Fax: (703) 324-3149

E-mail: springfield@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

PROVIDENCE DISTRICT

Linda Q. Smyth (D)

8739 Lee Highway, Suite A

Fairfax, VA 22031-2198

(703) 560-6946

TDD: 703-207-9407

Fax: (703) 207-3541

TTY: 711

E-mail: provdist@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

SULLY DISTRICT

Michael R. Frey (R)

Sully Governmental Center

4900 Stonecroft Boulevard

Chantilly, VA 20151-3808

(703) 814-7100

Fax: (703) 814-7110

TTY: 703-814-7109

E-mail: sully@fairfaxcounty.gov

 

CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES

 

CLERK OF COURT

John T. Frey (R)

4110 Chain Bridge Road

Fairfax, VA 22030-4048

(703) 246-4111

Fax: (703) 352-8934

 

COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY

Raymond F. Morrogh (D)

4110 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 123

Fairfax, VA 22030-4047

(703) 246-2776

 

SHERIFF

S. G. Barry (D)

4110 Chain Bridge Road

Fairfax, VA 22030-4041

(703) 246-3227

Fax: (703) 359-4192

 

TOWN ELECTED OFFICIALS

 

TOWN OF CLIFTON

Clifton Town Hall

12641 Chapel Road

Clifton, VA 20124

(703) 802-0847

 

Mayor:

Thomas C. Peterson

 

Town Council:

Michael F. Anton

Wayne H. Nickum

Deborah L. Dillard

C.M. “Chuck” Rusnak, Jr.

Patrick J. Layden

 

Leave a Message(703) 923-3500
Select
#1 Tom Peterson, Mayor
#2 Michael Anton, Vice Mayor
#3 Deborah Dillard
#4 Pat Layden
#6 Chuck Rusnak
#7 Town Clerk

 

 

 

TOWN OF HERNDON

http://www.town.herndon.va.us

Herndon Town Hall

730 Elden Street

Herndon, VA 20170

(703) 435-6804

 

Mayor:

 

Stephen C. DeBenedittis (703) 435-6804

E-mail: Mayor.Steve@Herndon-va.gov

 

Town Council:

 

Richard F. Downer (703) 870-7257

E-mail: Richard.Downer@Herndon-va.gov

 

Dennis D. Husch (703) 709-5404

E-mail: Dennis.Husch@Herndon-va.gov

 

Connie Haines Hutchinson (703) 437-6366

E-mail: Connie.Hutchinson@Herndon-va.gov

 

David A. “Dave” Kirby (703) 481-6198

E-mail: kirbyforherndon@aol.com

 

William B. Tirrell, Sr (703) 709-7586

E-mail: bill.tirrell@verizon.net

 

Charlie D. Waddell (703) 435-2520

E-mail: charliewaddell@verizon.net

 

TOWN OF VIENNA

http://www.viennava.gov/

Vienna Town Hall

127 Center St. South

Vienna, VA 22180

(703) 255-6300

 

Mayor:

 

M. Jane Seeman (703) 255-6311

E-mail: mayor@viennava.gov

 

Town Council:

 

Laurie G. Cole (703) 281-6956

E-mail: lgcole@viennava.gov

 

Edythe F. Kelleher (703) 242-7651

E-mail: ekelleher@viennava.gov

 

George E. Lovelace (703) 938-8729

E-mail: glovelace@viennava.gov

 

Michael J. Polychrones (571) 221-8764

E-mail: mpolychrones@viennava.gov

 

Maud F. Robinson (703) 938-7375

E-mail: mrobinson@viennava.gov

 

Daniel M. Dellinger (703) 255-2918

E-mail: ddellinger@viennava.gov

 

INDEPENDENT CITY ELECTED OFFICIALS

 

FAIRFAX CITY

http://www.fairfaxva.gov/

City Hall
10455 Armstrong St.
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

(703) 385-7855

 

Mayor:

 

Robert F. Lederer 703-591-8217

E-mail: rlederer@fairfaxva.gov

 

Council Members:

 

Joan W. Cross 703-273-2930

E-mail: jcross@fairfaxva.gov

 

Daniel F. Drummond 703-268-0541

E-mail: ddrummond@fairfaxva.gov

 

Jeffrey C. Greenfield 703-591-2714

E-mail: jgreenfield@fairfaxva.gov

 

David L. Meyer 703-691-8852

E-mail: dmeyer@fairfaxva.gov

 

Gary J. Rasmussen 703-385-2991

E-mail: grasmussen@fairfaxva.gov

 

Steven C. Stombres 703-279-5187

E-mail: sstombres@fairfaxva.gov

 

Commissioner of the Revenue

 

William Page Johnson II 703-273-6130

E-mail: pjohnson@fairfaxva.gov

 

Treasurer

 

Stephen L. Moloney 703-273-6747

E-mail: smoloney@fairfaxva.gov

 

 

FALLS CHURCH CITY

http://www.fallschurchva.gov/

City Hall
300 Park Avenue
Falls Church, VA 22046
TEL: 703-248-5001
TTY: 711
E-mail: city-manager@fallschurchva.gov

 

Mayor

 

Robin S. Gardner (h) 703-534-8644

E-mail: rgardner@fallschurchva.gov

 

Council Members

 

Harold (Hal) Lippman, Ph. D.

Vice Mayor (h) 703-237-9089
E-mail: hlippman@fallschurchva.gov

Nader Baroukh (h) 703-992-9433
E-mail: nbaroukh@fallschurchva.gov

 

Daniel K. Maller (h) 703-731-8433
E-mail: dmaller@fallschurchva.gov

 

David F. Snyder (h) 703-241-0419
E-mail: dsnyder@fallschurchva.gov

 

Daniel X. Sze (h) 703-538-5986
E-mail: dansze@fallschurchva.gov

 

Lawrence Webb (h) 703-532-1043
E-mail: lwebb@fallschurchva.gov

 

Commissioner of the Revenue

Tom Clinton 703-248-5019
E-mail: commissioner@fallschurchva.gov

 

Treasurer

 

Cathy Kaye 703-248-5046
E-mail: treasurer@fallschurchva.gov

 

Sheriff

 

S. Stephen Bittle 703-248-5111
E-mail: sheriff-info@fallschurchva.gov

 

Download Virginia Non-Discrimination Info

Currently, in Virginia, we can be fired for being gay or transgender. We can be fired simply for being perceived as gay or transgender. This puts all of us at risk simply for being who we are and can create an atmosphere of fear. No Virginian should live in fear of losing a job simply because of identity or orientation.

In 2009, Equality Virginia’s major legislative goal is to pass a law prohibiting workplace discrimination in state employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. In order to build support for passing this bill in the next General Assembly session, we need to start now.

During the next month we’ll be coordinating efforts to contact all of our county and town elected officials. We have three major goals in these meetings:

• To ask them to sign a pledge that within their offices they will not discriminate in their own hiring
• To ask them to add this bill to the legislative package they send down to Richmond
• Additionally, for Fairfax County officials, to ask them to support the measure to allow the County to add sexual orientation and gender identity to it’s non-discrimination policies.

We also want to meet with all the state delegates and senators that represent us in Richmond and ask them to:

• Sign the non-discrimination pledge for hiring in their own offices (if they haven’t already done so)
• Co-sponsor this bill

We’ll be trying to set up face-to-face meetings with each official, but for those that can’t participate in these meetings, we’ll be writing letters, making phone calls to their offices and sending emails to aid this effort. We want to build as much support within Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Herndon, Vienna and Clifton as we can prior to the General Assembly session.

Finally, we’ll be attending EV’s Lobby Day on January 27th to lobby the entire General Assembly. Don’t worry if you’ve never done this type of grassroots activity before. We’ll be there to assist if needed. 

The details of the campaign will be posted shortly. Let’s make Virginia a safe place for all of us to work!

July 31, 2008

7:00 pm

Join EF board members Linda Thomas and Doug Reimel to see Mama Mia! at the Tysons Corner 16 Movie Theater in Tysons Corner Mall. The movie starts at 7:15pm, so let’s meet near the ticket window  at 7:00pm.  Please RSVP to info@equalityfairfax.org so we’ll know to expect you.

July 20, 2008
12:00 pm	to	4:00 pm

Don’t forget to mark you calendar and save the date. Join us at Equality Fairfax’s 7th Annual Summer Picnic.

Come and make some memories. Got kids? bring em! Got a dog? Bring em! Got a partner/husband/wife/friend? Bring them too – everyone is welcome!

Meet some new friends; touch base with some old ones that you may not have seen in a year. When was the last time you played picnic games? Watch the kids try to run in the three legged race, see who gets the wettest during the water balloon toss (one of the kids favorites).

Plenty of parking. Plenty of shade or sun. Good cover in the event of less than perfect weather. Lots of room to eat and mingle. Do you have friends in town for the weekend? Bring them to this is very nice community event you’ll be glad you did.

Bring your meat/veggies to BBQ and a lawn/beach chair if you’d like to lounge (we have picnic tables). We will supply drinks, charcoal, buns, side dishes, paper products and condiments.

We are currently looking for people to be on the Picnic Committee – do you have planning skills, enthusiasm, imagination and heart? Then you are just who we need. Contact Linda at Lindak@equalityfairfax.org if you would like to be on the picnic committee. 

Nottoway Park
Vienna, VA

November 17, 2007
6:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

Enjoy tasting wine? Want to learn more about the wine? Join Equality Fairfax for an evening of wine tasting on Saturday, November 17th.

The featured wines of the evening will be red Zinfandel and Chardonnay from California’s Napa and Sonoma regions. We are asking everyone to bring one bottle of either a red Zinfandel or a Chardonnay from the selected region – either a favorite, or one you’d like to try. We’ll taste all the wines, comparing and contrasting.

There will also be light snacks and cheese served as part of the tasting. This is a great opportunity to try a variety of wines and learn a little about the wine making region.

Please RSVP to info@equalityfairfax.org to let us know you are coming.

502 Kibler Circle SW
Vienna, VA 22180

August 9, 2007
8:30 pm	to	10:30 pm

The Presidential debates come to GAY TV! LOGO, a GLBT oriented cable TV channel, along with HRC is sponsoring the Democratic Presidential Debate – a discussion of our issues on the national stage.

Come and meet other Equality Fairfax members and friends to watch the debate on August 9th, 2007. We will gather about 8:30 PM and watch the debate which starts at 9 PM on LOGO (Cox variety tier and Channel 214).

Candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel and Bill Richardson have agreed to participate in the forum, with questions to be posed by a panel that includes singer Melissa Etheridge and Joe Solmonese, president of the HRC.

Events will be hosted at the homes of Board Members Doug Reimel and Sarah Gustafson. Doug Reimel will also be hosting members of the DC chapter of Immigration Equality.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP — for the Mount Vernon event to dougreimel@cox.net and for the Vienna viewing at sarah@equalityfairfax.org

LOCATION 1
Sarah’s House
502 Kibler Circle SW
Vienna, VA 22180

LOCATION 2
Doug Reimel’s house in Mount Vernon
4701 Manor Drive
Alexandria, VA 22309

August 1, 2007
6:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

Hot, hazy and humid. Time to cool off with a cool drink. Enjoy good company and conversation at Clyde’s of Tysons Corner. We will be at the smaller bar off to the left side.

Look for Equality Fairfax hosts, we will be the ones wearing EF stickers. Come out for an evening of community and meeting new friends.

Ample parking on site. Email info@equalityfairfax with questions.

Clyde’s of Tyson’s Corner
8332 Leesburg Pike
Vienna, VA, 22182

July 15, 2007
12:00 pm	to	4:00 pm

When was the last time you went to an old fashioned Picnic? You know the one with burgers and hot dogs grilling, potato salad chilling, and people sitting around chatting, waiting for the picnic games to begin.

Are you the one who enjoys picnic games? Does your competitive streak come alive during the three legged race or water ballon toss. How about some bocce ball or you just tossing around a Frisbee with some fellow picnic goers. Or a more sedate game of scrabble.

Catch up with old friends and meet some new ones – mingling is encouraged.

Parking is available, there is ample shade as well as a covered area if the weather is less than perfect. Bring your own meat or veggie burger to grill. We will supply the charcoal, buns, condiments, side dishes, cups, plates and plastic ware.

Toss in a lawn chair and your favorite picnic items and join us.

Children are allowed
Dogs are allowed (must be leashed)
No Alcohol Beverages (park rules)

We will have raffle tickets available for purchase for a limited time at the beginning of the picnic. Prices are $2 each, 3 for $5 or 15 for $20. Raffle items included Mystic tickets, picnic pack and other small items. If you would like to donate an item for our raffle please contact us at lindak@equalityfairfax.org

Please let us know if you are coming. RSVP’s appreciated to socials@EqualityFairfax.org or call 703-255-1552.

Nottoway Park
Vienna, VA