Thinking Queerly Schedule Saturday October 10th

 Here is the schedule for the Saturday event!



Thinking Queerly:  Community Workshops on LGBT Issues
Community organizers and activists will present a series of workshops on a range of issues affecting the lgbt community including Stonewall and lgbt movement history, homelessness, hate crimes and self defense, lgbt health, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, lgbt legal issues, Gay-Straight Alliances, marriage equality, and more.
Free!  Pre register by emailing Name to workshops@seattleoutprotest.org
Saturday, October 10th
9:30 am to 5 pm
Piggot Auditorium, Seattle University
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Schedule:
9:30 - Registration
10:00 – 11:00am - Session 1
Room 108: We Will Not Be Silent: Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell by Shaun Knittel
Room 107: Coming Out to Parents and Family by Wendy Wartes and Jeaneane Hill
Room 106: The Struggle for Transgender Equality by Amie Fields and Kaz Susat
Room 105: Christianity and Homosexuality by Kimberly Briar
11:10 – 12:10am – Session 2
Room 108: OutSpoken LGBTQ Youth Panel by GLBTQ Youth Speakers Bureau
Room 107: Truth and Lies in Military Recruiting — and What We Can Do About It by Kathy Barker, Ric Power, Jorge Torres, Brendan Eng
Room 106: Winning Full Equality: How the Democrats Have Failed Us and the Way Forward by Calvin Priest
Room 105: A Short Course on Basic Self-Defense by Gregory Lewis and William Broberg
12.10-1.10pm – Lunch
1:10 – 2:10pm – Session 3
Room 108: Activism 101 by George Bakan
Room 107: Working for Equality: Justice in the Workplace by Mike Andrew
Room 106: Making the Streets Safe: Confronting Anti-Queer Violence by Travis Thomas
Room 105: The Art of Organizing: A Creative Exploration of Imagination in Activism (two hour workshop) by Eli Steffen
2:20 – 3:20pm – Session 4
Room 108: The Struggle for Civil Right’s:Why Gay Marriage is worth fighting for! by Chanan Suarez Diaz
Room 107: Encouraging Straight Ally Activism by Wendy Wartes and Jeaneane Hill
Room 106: LGBT Immigration Legal Defense by Manuel Rios
Room 105: The Art of Organizing: A Creative Exploration of Imagination in Activism (two hour workshop) by Eli Steffen
3:30 – 4:30pm – Session 5
Room 108: From Stonewall to Prop 8: The Struggle for LGBT Liberation by Lonnie Lopez
Room 107: The Morality of Homosexuality by Ben Crowther
Room 106: Single-Payer Health Care by Chuck Richards
Room 105: QLaw Foundation: About Us and About Referendum 71 by Jill Mullins
4:30 – 5:00pm – Wrap UP

Seattle Counseling Service 40th Anniversary Dinner - this weekend

Seattle Counseling Service 40th Anniversary Dinner

A Night of Entertainment and Celebration of Forty Fabulous Years of Service to the LGBTQ Community!

Event Information

Tickets

Where: Seattle Sheraton Hotel
When: October 10, 2009
Time: 6PM - Reception | 7PM - Dinner served

Individual: $125.00
Hosted Seat: $100.00
Table Host: $800.00
Table Sponsor: $1,000.00

Wicked Women extends early registration pricing

Wicked Women is extending their early registration pricing until October 15th to encourage all convicts and captors to send their funds and take advantage of the $20 discount.  Tickets are still available at the door but it will cost you!

Warden Brubaker is offering an economic stimulus package to all prospective inmates of the Wicked Womyn Detention Facility! This is sort of like the cash for clunkers program…………but not really!  The WW Team recognizes that for some convicts the economy has really hit you hard but we don’t want hard times to keep you from missing all the fun in Seattle! 

We have decided to extend the advanced registration fee of $125 to October 15th. BUT, you MUST get your registration in the mail and postmarked by October 15th or you are shit outta luck for this great deal. You will still have the option of last minute registration at the door for $145 but there might be serious consequences for waiting till the very end.

Unless you LIKE getting beaten with a bar of soap in a sock by the registration team!  Really, we will be happy to take your money via a strip search at the door if that is how you want it.

We are ready to rumble, are you?

Wicked Womyn Conference/ October 23-25, 2009/Silver Cloud Hotel/Pravda Studio
Theme: Wicked Prison/www.wickedwomyn.com

The following will be available:  Reception and Receiving , Strip Search, Cavity Search, New Bitch on the Block, Take down area, fire, single tails, blood, Cafeteria, Barber Shop for straight razor cuts,. 3 days of conferencing, goods and services auction, over 16 workshops, three hot play parties, energy pull, entertainment show and tastings.

Lesbisode Part 1

A Lesbisode...


I remember some of my dates in the 80's and truly they went like this.  A date with a Real HouseDyke starts with being picked up and taken to one of the only 'gay' food establishments in Belltown followed by a rousing womens' softball game where perspective new 'life' partner can show her athletic prowess.  I watch enthralled from the bleachers while ensuring I don't get beaned in the head with a foul ball (yes, it has happened which I am sure explains multitudes).  The date is only interrupted briefly by the almost ex-lover showing up in a flannel shirt matched only by the hostile look on her face which creates a momentarily uncomfortable situation.  Are we both suppose to be here?  Are you not broken up as you said?  I, of course understand the lesbian dating ritual of finding and spraying the future mate before burying the current one and the date concludes with... 

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Amanda at Just Out posted today that Bravo is searching for the right gay boys for another in the Real House Series.  Hmmm...can you imagine a series for the Real HouseDykes?  I would love to hear what you think a Real HouseDyke series would look like?  [First I have to activate the comments tool...on my To Do list for tonight.]  Did I mention that I have become obsessed with learning how to do this blogging thing?  I am trying to figure out how to post the appropriate links back etc.  What a learning curve!

Onto Bravo now and Amanda...

Move Over Real Housewives…

… Make room for, em, the Real Houseguys? HouseGays?
Television network LOGO has issue a casting call for its new series Kept, a Real Housewives-esque series set to focus on the “A-List gay social life in NYC.”
The net is looking for men in their 20s and 30s who are coupled up with, dating or going after monied men. The show’s producers are especially keen on relationships in which one stays home while the other makes the money.

According to the Craig’s List NYC posting/official call:

“No matter HOW you term your coupling/relationship – we want to hear from you! POWER COUPLES are also welcome! BOTH guys in the relationship must be willing to appear on the show! We are looking for SUPERSIZED PERSONALITIES and SUPER-FAB EXCITING LIFESTYLES. We want Drama, drama, drama!
You must have A LOT going on — hot careers, take fabulous vacations, have second homes, do the Hamptons, Fire Island Pines or Bucks County or Asbury Park and know the IN social scene in NYC.
Maybe you are fresh out of a relationship and you are in search of someone more established or successful.
You are WELL CONNECTED – and there is no doubt that you are part of the “in” gay crowd of NYC. We are looking to infiltrate a circle of friends who fits this criteria.
Open to guys making families or who have children already.
Must live in the greater Manhattan area – or VERY close to the city.”

Photos are required to “audition,” along with professional/job details, the 411 on living arrangements, “including any second homes,” “why are you and your lifestyle so fabulous and what’s the BIGGEST drama in your life,” and last but not least, “It’s also very important to mention any friends to consider featuring in the show as well!“
Email Casting Director Jimmy Floyd at KEPTNYC@gmail.com if all of the above sounds like you. Seriously.
The series will premiere next year. We can’t wait — we think.

October 7th, 2009 at 10:10 am by Amanda Schurr · 

Move Over Real Housewives…

Tret Fure on October 24th preforming her original songs and stories

"Saturday Nights on Phinney Ridge" feature many Folk Artists that you will find individually listed on the Seattle Announcements Calender and on October 24th they are showcasing beloved, Tret Fure.

General Admission: $14
$2 off for SFS & PNA members and seniors, kids half price
Phinney Neighborhood Center (Brick Building), 7:30PM

Tret Fure began her professional work as a musician at the age of 16, singing in coffeehouses and campuses in the Midwest. After moving to UC Berkeley to attend college, she performed weekly on the campus and it was then discovered that music really was her life. At 19, she moved to LA to pursue a songwriting and musical career. Within a year she was performing as guitarist and vocalist for Spencer Davis, touring with him and penning the single for his album "Mousetrap". She went on to record her own album in 1973 on MCA/UNI Records, with the late Lowell George of Little Feat as her producer. With the success of that release, she opened for such bands as Yes, Poco, and the J Geils Band.

While recording her second album, Tret became interested in sound engineering, learning the trade and becoming one of the first women engineers in LA. Over the course of her career she has engineered and produced countless recordings by a variety of artists, including her own work.

In the early 80s, Tret left the mainstream music industry. Armed with a fierce desire to retain full artistic control, she began exploring the independent side of the industry and soon discovered the blossoming genre known as Women's Music. She has been a major player in that field ever since, recording with and producing some of the best of women's music including the legendary "Meg & Cris at Carnegie Hall".

She worked as a duo with Cris Williamson throughout the 90s releasing 3 CDs together during those years. Now after 4 acoustic releases on her own label, Tomboy girl Records, she has re-established herself in the folk world winning the 2004 South Florida Folk Festival Singer/Songwriter Competition in 2 out of 3 categories. 2004 also brought her recognition with the prestigious Jane Schliessman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Women's Music.

Please join Tret at the Phinney Neighborhood Center on October 24 for an evening of her original songs and stories.

Reserve online, or by calling 206/528-8523.  Information compliments of Seattle Folklore Society: Folk Music Concert Schedule.