Please join us this February for our third annual Transgender Speaker Series. This year¹s series is ³The Yin and Yang of Becoming² and we have an incredible set of speakers who will take us farther than we¹ve ever gone before! We¹ll also have talk-back sessions after our services on February 8 and February 15, and a community potluck after our service on February 22. All are welcome!
This year’s speakers will be:
Pastor Bran Scott ­ 10:30am on February 1, 2009
Lance Moore ­ 10:30am on February 8, 2009
Nori Herras-Tejero ­ 10:30am on February 15, 2009
The Honorable Rev. Victoria Kolakowski ­ 10:30am on February 22, 2009
All speakers will give the message at our Sunday services at 65 South Seventh Street in downtown San Jose.
For more information, please visit our website at http://mccsj.org
Sincerely,
Michael Patrick Ellard

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It’s not too early to start making good on some of those New Year’s Resolutions at Center Women Present’s NEWCOMERS AND NEIGHBORS OF THE BAY AREA

Thursday, January 29th - 7pm-9pm
The San Francisco LGBT Center - 1800 Market Street (at Octavia)
www.sfcenter.org
415.865.5555
+Meet new people in a fun, social, engaging atmosphere! This is your chance to start the year off right and get to know some new fabulous self-identified queer women who live in the Bay Area. We are inviting all our “neighbors” especially newcomers - those who have been in the area for two years or less.
+Become a more intimate part of YOUR queer community! We will be having a short program where we discuss what our ideal women’s community looks like, in addition to social time (with refreshments and drinks) where we can connect with one another.
+Start volunteering! (if you so desire)
Center Women Present is comprised entirely of volunteers, so also come along if you would like to get more information about volunteering at our events or being a part of our steering committee. No commitments necessary!
What a way to start 2009!
We look forward to seeing you there!
We kindly ask for a $5-15 donation for our events, but no one is turned away for lack of funds!

Dear friends,
With the new year upon us I will hold an open forum at our next Soul Support meeting, Monday Jan. 26th, 7-9pm. I am interested in your feedback, needs, and suggestions for future programming. I will offer a brief overview of Soul Support’s first year, sharing the highlights, challenges, and some emerging new directions. Please join me in shaping Billy DeFrank’s Soul Support program for 2009. The Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center is located at 938 The Alameda, San Jose. For further inquiries, or to RSVP, please contact Jnana at jolynnotto@yahoo.com
Soul Support is a grass roots spirituality program, made up of spiritual fruits, not religious nuts. jnana

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LGBT Job Fair @ the Center

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

The Bay Area’s premier LGBT workforce recruitment event will attract some of the Bay Area’s top employers seeking qualified candidates in customer service, administrative, sales, technology, entry, management, executive, retail, mail order, and call center seeking fulltime, part-time, and contract work.

Employers who have already confirmed include Bank of America, California Medical Center (CPMC), Federal Reserve, Bank SF, Jewish Vocational Services, Kaiser Permanente, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Macy’s West, McKesson Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric, SFPD, UCSF Campus, UCSF Medical, Walgreens, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo Bank.

Contact David Bach, Workforce Development Specialist at DavidB@sfcenter. org or call 415-865-5534, or visit www.sfcenter.org/job_fair.php for more information and to register.

It’s fun, it’s cheap and you’re invited! The class begins on Tuesday Jan. 20th. We dance from 7 to 9 pm at the First Congregational Church, 1229 Court Street in Martinez.
Gay and lesbian square dancing is not the American folk-dancing you might have learned and remember from grade school. It is more upbeat, energetic and a lot of fun to learn. We offer square dancing opportunities for everyone, from the absolute beginner to those more advanced. All you really need is a sense of fun and a desire to meet and interact with new people! Traditional square dance attire is not required, if it’s street legal, you can dance in it and you are likely to dance to a wide variety of music. Also, you don’t have to bring a partner - there are always people you can find to dance with. And we just don’t stop with square dancing - we also plan other social events such as potlucks, pool parties and movie nights.
The new beginner class will be a commitment of about 30 weeks to reach the Plus level of square dancing. Cost for the entire class is $140, which includes instruction, space rental and class materials. Students can also pay three installments of $50 each. No prior dance experience or special talent is required - it’s relatively easy and lots of fun.
In addition to classes, we offer club nights and most clubs host square dances. Club nights are informal dances open to all members of the club and visitors for an evening of dancing. More structured square dances are events where other clubs and visitors are encouraged to attend, making for a regional dance experience. A typical square dance brings in a guest square dance caller (the person that “calls” or announces the square dance steps) and some 50 to 100 dancers (6 to 12 “squares”) for an evening of dancing at a variety of dance levels. Our dances give you a chance to show off dancing skills you learned during class, and also provide an opportunity to socialize with square dancers from other clubs.
Check out our website for more information, it’s www.diablo-dancers.org and respond to this ad if you have questions.

Can you remember your elementary school class marching down to the auditorium to watch John Glenn blast off for the first orbit around the Earth? Maybe it was the King speech at the `63 March on Washington or possibly JFK’s funeral when your family gathered around their tiny TV. But if you are of a certain age, you remember that the entire Nation paused for these historic events. There is something about being in community with other like minded people as you witness a life altering, once in a lifetime historical event that heightens the moment.
Join your community at Marin AIDS Project as we witness and celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009 at 8:30 AM. We will serve breakfast at our location at 910 Irwin Street in San Rafael and project the inauguration upon our wall. It will be a moment in time remembered forever. RSVP to Andy at 415-457-2487×102.

Date:

Thursday January 15, 2009
Time:

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:

GLBT Historical Society 657 Mission Street. #300 San Francisco, CA 94105
Notes:

January 15 - Exhibit opening 5:30pm talk by historian Susan Stryker. 7:00pm Opening reception.
The face of San Francisco is changing, and so are its stories. This is seen most dramatically in the Polk Gulch district. The exhibit focuses on the history of the Polk, from the 1980s to the present, by presenting stories from people in the middle of current changes in the area. We ask: what does it mean to the identity of San Francisco (or the identity of the LGBT movement?) that the Polk is changing so dramatically?
Since the late 1970s, the low-income Polk Gulch district has been a national destination and home for some of the most underrepresented segments of the LGBT community. These include runaway and homeless youth, often fleeing abusive or unwelcome homes; immigrants, primarily from Asia and Latin America; working class and poor transgendered women; the homeless; and seniors.
In the past five years, citywide building boom, escalating land values, and skyrocketing rents in the central city have pushed and pulled middle-income small businesses, clubs, and residents to the area. At the same time, the scores of gay bars that formed the backbone of the Polk community have all but closed. Tension, bitterness, and misunderstandings have emerged as a result of this transition, with new neighborhood and business associations, the homeless, the few remaining gay and transgender bars, and social service organizations competing for prized territory in the urban landscape.

If you haven’t seen this wonderful production - this is the time to see it!! It’s FREE!!

Make No Assumptions is presented by the Mother Tongue Feminist Readers Theater. The performers speak-out honestly about their lives as women with disabilities with humor, resourcefulness and edginess that makes the disability experience come alive. You will laugh AND cry - true theater!!
The event is Free - January 12th.
All are welcome at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, 515 Cortland Ave, San Francisco. There will be light refreshments. Time is 6:30 - 7:45.
Mother Tongue is a Bay Area feminist readers theater. Several hundred women over the past thirty years have contributed to writing and performing in over thirty scripts made up of personal stories, poems and skits portraying a wide variety of life experiences.
The Mother Tongue event is sponsored by the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center -Senior Services and openhouse (San Francisco’s Advocate for LGBT Seniors). This is part of a series of meetings - The All Age LGBT Community Meetings at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. Thank you to the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services, Kaiser Northern California, Van Loeben Sells, and the California Endowment for their support.
Roxie Kellam Education and Outreach Coordinator openhouse 870 Market Street, Suite 458 San Francisco, CA 94102
roxie@openhouse- sf.org 415.296.8995, X7 415.296.8008 FAX www.openhouse- sf.org
Roxie Kellam Education and Outreach Coordinator openhouse 870 Market Street, Suite 458 San Francisco, CA 94102
roxie@openhouse-sf.org 415.296.8995, X7 415.296.8008 FAX www.openhouse-sf.org

Soul Support Meditation Class Date: January 12th Time: 7pm Fee: Free will offering
The DeFrank Center has re-opened after being closed for the holidays. The Soul Support program will resume its mediation class on the 2nd Monday of every month. Soul Support’s meditation class is a volunteer-driven program provided to the community by the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center & the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment.
To RSVP, please contact Jnana at jolynnotto@yahoo.com
In community spirit, Jnana Otto Soul Support Coordinator Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center