Hello Everyone,
Monday March 28th 2016 - Meeting Cancelled! Happy Easter!
Monday April 4th 2016 - Meeting Cancelled - Sorry Everyone
Monday April 11th 2016 - Meeting Cancelled - Sorry Everyone
Monday April 18th 2016 - Meeting Back on! See you there!
Gen Out Meeting time: Monday
6PM-8PM Please feel free to call me (604-708-2632) to leave a
Voice-mail and I would be more than happy to contact you and give you
more information (details and location)!
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
The laramie Project: Renegade Studios and Douglas College
There are two opportunities to see The Laramie
Project. One in Vancouver through Renegade Studios and the second at full cost
through Douglas College in New Westminster.
The Laramie Project (2000) is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of
the Tectonic Theater Project
(specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti,
Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude
Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins)
about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay
student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.[1]
The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to
the lack of hate crime laws in various states, including Wyoming.[2] The
play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with
inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries, and published
news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than
sixty characters in a series of short scenes.[3]
First opportunity: Renegade Studios in Vancouver:
The Laramie Project in Vancouver, from March
30th to April 3rd - Are seeking youth who are involved in Anti-bullying, Human
Rights, LGBTQ campaigns to open up the opportunity for youth to see the story
of the murder of Matthew Shepard and to add to their understanding of how far
we've come as a society and how far we still have to go. They have 60
tickets left, and we are hoping for them to be utilized March 30 or 31.
Here is a link to a recent news article about
our production.
Info on our show can be found on our web site.
Here
Second opportunity: Douglas College in New
Westminster.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
GENOUT- Tri Cities
Meeting is on for today - See everyone tonight! Don't forget about the time change!
Gen Out Meeting time: Monday 6PM-8PM Please feel free to call me (604-708-2632) to leave a Voice-mail and I would be more than happy to contact you and give you more information (details and location)!
Gen Out Meeting time: Monday 6PM-8PM Please feel free to call me (604-708-2632) to leave a Voice-mail and I would be more than happy to contact you and give you more information (details and location)!
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
"NYC bathrooms are now safer places for transgender people."
On Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an
executive order mandating that transgender people be allowed to use
whichever bathroom they would prefer to use in all city-owned buildings.
The new policy also includes locker rooms, and will be
enforced in public hospitals and public housing buildings, which have
agreed to participate even though they are not technically owned by the
city, according to the Observer.
On Facebook, the mayor announced, "NYC bathrooms are now
safer places for transgender people." He wrote, "In New York City ... we
do not tolerate discrimination."
"I think New York City has an obligation to lead. I
think we have an obligation show that everyone should be embraced and
everyone should be accepted," de Blasio said at a press conference on
Monday, the Observer reported. "Change comes from the grassroots.
Change comes from the ground, and if people who believe in human rights
don't stand up for them, it lets those negative voices dominate."
According to CBS New York,
the order does not affect NYC public schools, which already require
students be allowed to use the bathroom matching their gender identity.
The network also reported that a bill, which would require private
businesses to label all single-occupancy bathrooms available for use by
the general public as gender neutral, is waiting for review by the City
Council.
Discrimination against transgender people has long been under fire across the city's five boroughs.
In December, the New York City Commission on Human
Rights cited a 2002 law in its provision that employers must refer to
transgender people by their pronouns of choice
The commission also advised that transgender people must "be permitted
to use single-sex facilities, such as bathrooms or locker rooms, and
participate in single-sex programs, consistent with their gender,
regardless of their sex assigned at birth, anatomy, medical history,
appearance, or the sex indicated on their identification."
Monday, March 7, 2016
GENOUT Tri-Cites
Meeting is on for today - See everyone tonight!
Gen Out Meeting time: Monday 6PM-8PM Please feel free to call me (604-708-2632) to leave a Voice-mail and I would be more than happy to contact you and give you more information (details and location)!
Gen Out Meeting time: Monday 6PM-8PM Please feel free to call me (604-708-2632) to leave a Voice-mail and I would be more than happy to contact you and give you more information (details and location)!
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
CAMPOUT
Welcome to CampOUT! An amazing summer camping experience for BC’s queer, trans and allied youth aged 14-21. An opportunity to become leaders for social change and make friends, access resources, engage in imaginative, critical, and innovative workshops as well as traditional camp activities like canoeing, campfires, and arts and crafts.
CampOUT dates this year will be JULY 7-10, 2016!!!! and CampOUT Leadership Training camp will be the May Long Weekend ( May 20-23, 2016)! Online application forms will be available February. We are SO excited about our SEVENTH year of CampOUT! We are receiving lots of support from UBC and the wider Vancouver community to create this opportunity for youth from all parts of B.C. and the Yukon to come together and CampOUT! All youth between ages 14-21 are welcome to apply.
http://campout.ubc.ca/
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