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MPM - Theater and Survlval
Mountain Pride Media thanks every-

one at Lost Nation Theater in
Montpelier for the great benefit per-
formance of The Children's Hour
held on May 18 to benefit MPM. We
would especially like to thank
Amanda, Kim, and Kathleen and
everyone who joined us for the ben-
efit. Our next event is part of 30
Days of Pride _and you are invited to
join us for our Second Annual Eat
Out Event at The Waiting Room in
Burlington on Tuesday. June 10.

. See our ad in this month's issue for

more details — and we hope to see
you there.
June is Pride Month and

 

all of us at Mountain Pride Media
have a lotto celebrate and be
proud of. We celebrated the 1-year
anniversaries of our great new staff
(Euan Bear, Editor; Pete Gershon,
Art Director; Tania Kupczak,
Operations Manager) as well as the
beginning of our seventeenth year
ofpublishing Out In The Mountains.
We have also seen amazing
progress made on our OITM online
archive project as well as the suc-
cessful launch and inaugural year of
our grant-funded Non-Profit Media
Access Program.

There is however a seri-
ous cloud on the horizon. Mountain
Pride Media ended 2002 with a loss

compass

of over $11,000. This loss was due
mainly to a significant decline in
advertising revenue, both national
and local, as well as a decrease in
donations, grants, and subscrip-
tions. We also saw two postal rate
increases. As of April 2003 we are
currently showing a loss of close to
$6,000.

Faced with these figures
the Board of Directors is struggling
with some difficult cost-cutting
measures in order to keep Out In
The Mountains in print. At the May
2003 meeting the Board of
Directors decided to switch to a
smaller paper format by the August
2003 issue, thus saving some

money on printing and postage
costs. We are also reevaluating our
distribution (currently at about 6,000
copies each month) to see if we can
find some cost savings there as
well. Our goal during these difficult
times remains the same - to create
a financial self-sustaining newspa-
per and web site for the Vermont
GLBTQ community.

We cannot achieve this
goal without our community's help.
We need your input, ideas, and
energy. We need new Board and
committee members, advertising
sales reps, and volunteers. We
need your ongoing support through
subscriptions, advertising, and

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donations. You are the key to the
future of Mountain Pride Media and
OITM. We simply cannot do it with-
out you!

Stonewall-Juneheenlh and
LawrenceRuIing Gathering
Highlight R.U.1.2? Plans 0
On Saturday, June 21, Vermont will
host its first Juneteenth/Stonewall
Commemoration in Burlington.
Stonewall! Now queer

folks are used to celebrating Pride
in June, but we can't forget that this
celebration is based on another his-
tory of liberation struggle.

On June 27, 1969 the >>
police of New York City