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Happy New Year from Straight for Equality!At this time of year everyone is celebrating all things new: new year, new beginnings, etc. So, in the spirit of the season, let’s take a look at all the brand-spankin’-new things that Straight for Equality has to offer:
Straight for Equality message boards! Here you can connect with other allies and discuss anything your heart desires, from current events to personal stories. Start a conversation today!
Training programs: they’re not all new, but they’re all improved! Interested in moving equality forward at work? Check out Straight for Equality in the Workplace! For a straight ally 101, take a look at our How to be an Ally training. Are you an experienced advocate for equality looking to reach out to and engage more allies? Give The Care and Feeding of Straight Allies a try.
Updated Resources! On our new Resources page, you’ll find an updated recommended reading list, a selection of films for allies, a great glossary of helpful terms, and even an “Ask an Ally†column.
And coming soon in 2009…
The First Annual Straight for Equality Awards Gala:
On Thursday night, February 5, 2009, in New York City’s Times Square, PFLAG and Straight for Equality will make history by hosting the first annual Straight for Equality Awards Gala. At this event, we take time to honor and celebrate a few straight allies that embody the values of PFLAG and Straight for Equality.
This year, we are proud to recognize Dr. Maya Angelou, Sigourney Weaver, Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole and IBM. We’ve also got CNN’s Soledad O’Brien as emcee, Gala Chair J.T. (Ted) Childs, Jr., and Judy Reyes from ABC’s Scrubs as our auctioneer.
Click here to purchase tickets and learn more about this fabulous event!
Also coming in 2009: Straight for Equality in Healthcare! Are you a straight ally in the healthcare field? We’re in the process of developing Straight for Equality in Healthcare, a set of resources for anyone who works in healthcare, from doctors to nurses to psychologists to receptionists working in doctors’ offices, and anyone in between. Look for Straight for Equality in Healthcare on www.straightforequality.org in early 2009!
Happy New Year everyone, and have fun exploring Straight for Equality!
- Julie Handy
PFLAG Dayton mom Kim Peters sent along these additional snapshots of Ryan Kelly (aka 'Bobby) at the chapter's Sunday screening of the film.
While it is well known that plantation owners in the South before the civil war considered their slaves as property and were wont to use female slaves sexually, here is a novel that brings alternative sexual relationships into the mix.Jonathan Thomas, the son of one such Southern Gentleman returns home in 1850 from an Ivy League school in the North. His father is dying, and Jonathon is expected to marry and continue the prosperity his highly respected father so diligently acquired. Through discussion with his classmates at University, Jonathan has begun to question slavery and the concept that these are not people, but animals. Meanwhile, his mother has selected a bride for him, who she invites to their home. The young lady is impressed with Jonathan’s looks as well as his inheritance.
Jonathan, however, has no interest in her. While up North, he began to recognize his sexual interest â€" in other men. On his return to Rainbow Plantation, he sees Kumi - his young black playmate from his early years, â€" all grown up. He is immediately attracted to him. Jonathan is doubly frightened. Sodomy in the South is punishable by death, and sodomy with a black slave would be a scandal that his family could never overcome.
This book shows the reader many of the atrocities foisted on black human beings by the South’s “peculiar institution.†It also brings together distant family members, while covering much of the gender variant spectrum, with gay, lesbian, and transgender characters. While some of the dialogue seemed a bit off, the story as a whole is well done.
I liked it, and I recommend it to students of history as well as the GLBT community.
For more information about this release, visit the author's website, at http://www.robertlsheeley.com/.
A friend and colleague of mine, Waymon Hudson, who writes for The Bilerico Project, has a story posted that made me scratch my head, then go hmmmm. As I read the story, I found myself a bit perplexed. It didn’t really shock me, but yet, it made me realize how the perceptions of [...]
GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Agaist Defimation), announced earlier today that their president, Neil Giuliano, has turned in his resignation to pursue personal interests. Giuliano served as the organizations president since 2005, and will continue to serve as president until his date of official resignation which will be announced sometime later thater this year. [...]
Don’t they ever stop with their hate, intolerance and bigotry…all in the name of Christianity? Now the American Family Association, Donald Wildmon’s anti-gay, anti-anything that’s not white, Christian and scared of them group has begun harassing the folks at PepsiCo. This time because of an ad that has aired in the UK which they [...]
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