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Call for Pride Day
Volunteers

Greetings from Pride Vermont,
the dedicated group of
volunteers that produces the
Gay Pride Parade and Festival
each summer.

We're currently hard at
work wrapping up preparations
for this summer's celebration,
coming to Burlington on
Saturday, July 8.

The events of Pride weekend
require the work of many
people. There are several ways
to help out!

Be a parade marshal!
Guarantee yourself a front
row spot at the parade! You'll
need to stand in a designated
area, and be responsible for
directing the flow of foot traffic
(essentially, keeping people out
of the way of the parade as it
makes its way down the street).
This is a super easy job, and the
best part is the bright orange
vest we give youito wear!

Help us clean up Battery
Park! All those tables,
chairs, and flagpoles need
to go somewhere when the
celebration is over, and we could
use your help packing it all up!
And stick around for some free
food after!

Sign up for one of both
of these jobs by e-mailing
tracerann@yahoo.co,m

Thank you for doing your
part in making the 24th annual
pride celebration a success!

3rd Vermont
Drag Idol

The 3rd Vermont Drag Idol
wants YOU to compete! Be part
of this Pride night competition
where Vermonters get to decide
who is the top drag performer in
all of Vermont.

This year there are two
categories: 17 and under and
18 and above. These two age

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of the larger Pride Beach Ball
Party at Higher Ground. Sign up
to compete by calling the office
to register: 802-865-9677. All
other details can be found on
our website at: www.outrightvt.
org. Tickets are on sale now at
the venue & online at: www.
highergroundmusic.com. The
-event starts at 7 pm & is an all
ages event.

Outright Has
Moved!

Come visit us at our new space
at 214 North Winooski Ave. in
the Multigenerational Center
(right next to Dairy Queen).

All of our programming

- for the summer will be at this

new location, so check out our
website wvvw.outrightvt.org for
a cool map to help you find us in
Burlington's Old North End. We
will also have a grand opening
extravaganza event sometime
this summer, so check our
website for details.

"Walking Spiritual
Lives in LGBTO.
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Discussion Series

What comes up when LGBTQ
folks talk about spirituality

in their lives? Religion? Gay
marriage? Reincarnation? Or,
could more far-reaching topics
be raised such as: sex, death,
evil, and fate? How about
explorations of the unique
connections and divisions
spiritually among the sexes?
What about our special »
obstacles and pathways to
spirituality, given our present
mainstream society and its
attitudes to LGBTO people?

V Bennington Pride Coalition
will be sponsoring this discussion

series, facilitated by Elvis

Lacoste, starting July 22nd,

6pm in downtown Bennington.
The first session will feature

guest speaker, Robert Patton, a
practicing Shaman, spiritual leader
associated with Spirit Hollow

of Shaftsbury, Vermont. Patton

poses the queries: "If anything,

it would seem that gays need to
think about developing their own
model for religion, starting with
"Who is God and how do we
relate to the Divine?" and then
secondly, "How does my faith
ask me to act toward my fellow
human beings?"

The goal of these discussions
held here in Bennington is for
LGBTQ individuals to share their
unique views and experiences
with the divine. There is no
affiliation with any particular
spiritual group or denomination.
Diversity is especially welcomed
and respectful discourse is highly
valued to create a safe and rich
environment for sharing.

For location, directions
and other information contact
bennpride@gmail.com or call
(802) 733-8592.

"U.S. of ANT"

Series on Logo

Find out what LGBT culture

is like in America's heartland
starting with the June premiere
of "U.S. of ANT" on Logo,

the nation's leading source of
entertainment for the lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) audience.

The weekly half-hour series
hosted by the irreverent writer/
comedian ANT kicks off with a
visit to Montana where he finds
tolerance in the most unlikely
places. ANT first checks out
the working class town of Butte
and finds a group of young men
and women who are exploring
what LGBT life is like in a small
town. In Bozeman he befriends a
lesbian couple who have opened

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ANT moseys on to the Lazy
E—L Ranch where he meets an
inspiring gay family.

Tune-in each week as ANT
travels across the United States
seeking the pulse of LGBT
culture. Without a "gay phone
book" in hand, ANT will go
to extreme depths to find out
where the small town LGBT
community thrives.

Freedom to
Marry Fights for
Gender Equality

It is difficult to celebrate
Pride without thinking of the
Stonewall Riots, the1969
Greenwich Village riots that
arguably triggered the gay- .
rights movement for fair and
equal treatment. Those who
experienced the constant
police raids on gay bars, speak
of officers beating effeminate
men and butch women with
their nightsticks as if it were
sport. Sometimes police would
record the names of individuals
at the bar to publish them in
the newspaper the next day.

It was clearly a time of great
oppression for GLBT people.

As our community is still
reeling from Gov. Douglas’ veto
of H.865, the gender identity
and expression bill, it is as if we
are symbolically, ifnot literally,
coming full circle. _

There are many accounts
of how the riots began. Most
prominent is that Sylvia Rivera,

a transgender woman, threw

a bottle at a police officer.
Another account is that a butch _
lesbian, whom officers were
dragging to a parole car, incited
onlookers to rebel. Either way,
it's astonishing to think that 37
years later, these two individuals,
whose bravery helped launch the
powerful movement we boast of
today, would not be protected
in Vermont from discrimination
based on their gender identity
and expression.

We still have work to do. As a
member of TransAction, Vermont
Freedom to Marry Task Force will
continue to work for full equality
of ALL GLBT Vermonters. We
urge you to do the same. Go to
www.\rtfreetomarry.org to find
out more about how you can
support equality.

Kentucky GLBT
Archives Featured
in Newspaper

An article about the Williams— -
Nichols Archive and Library

for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Studies at the
University of Louisville appeared
in the Features section of the
Louisville Courier-Journal on
Friday, June 18. For those who
don't get the Courier, the article
will also be published on its
web site, www.courier-journal. ‘
com, along with photographs of
various items from the collection.

We believe that our

collection is among the ten
largest such collections in

the nation, surpassed only by
collections in Los Angeles,
Chicago, New York, Ft.

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Lauderdale, and a couple of
other university collections.
Our collection has books and
publications from across the
nation and worldwide. Our

resource files contain information I

on a local, statewide and three-
state basis.

The library and archives is
not a lending institution. It is
intended for study and research
only. You may visit the collection
during normal business hours,
M-F at the Ekstrom Library,
lower level. For more info,
contact David Williams at
502/636-0935 or Delinda Buie

V at 502/852-6762. You may‘also _

email me at KyArchives@ao|.
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Tax-deductible donations
of GLBT books, magazines,
and other materials are always
gladly welcomed, as are cash
donations. Donations may be
dropped off or mailed to David
Williams, Williams-Nichols
Institute, lnc., 1464 S. Second
St., Louisville, KY 40208.

Rainbow Run at
the 2006 Gay

Games

On the clay of the opening
ceremonies, there will be a

special free Chicago "torch”

run. The International Rainbow
Memorial Run is a series of
events bringing the Rainbow
Flag as a symbolic "torch” from
San Francisco, the "Athens" of
the Gay Games, to Gay Games —
VII in Chicago.

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historically |ink_ed to the Gay
Games, and receptions and
rallies focused on remembrance,
AIDS and breast cancer
prevention, and promotion
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opening ceremony? is scheduled
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