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Community Compass is a service of OITM.
state are invited to provide 200—word descriptions of recent
or upcoming activities and events. Send your submissions to us by email at
15th of the month.

editor@vtpride.org by the

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Bi-Net Vermont has been
gaining membership and
momentum with a flurry of
activies and increased commu-
nication. In October Bi-Net
members met in Richmond,
Vermont for a social gathering
at the Daily Bread and Hike of
Camel’s Hump and in Central
Vermont for a showing of
“Better Than Chocolate” at the
Savoy Theatre. In Burlington
discussions are underway to
plan a regular Sunday
Breakfast/Brunch group. On
the Internet members of Bi-
Net are beginning to get to
know each other through the a
new discussion list. (To sub-
scribe email to: majordomo@
Queemet.org and type: sub-
scribe binetvermont). On
November 17 at 6pm Bi-Net
will host a sledding or skating
party in Montpelier, VT fol-
lowed by hot coco at
Uncommon Grounds. For
more information about this
event contact Kim at 802-229-
0112

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Champlain Valley Unitarian
Universalist Society (CVUUS)
in Middlebury is making a
conscious effort on a daily
basis to live up to our status as
a Welcoming Congregation, in
our sermons, social activities,
language, religious education,
printed matter, and advertis-
ing. We are working to live our
values, including affirmation
of the inherent worth and dig-
nity of every person. Activities
coming up: On Saturday,
November 20, we are launch-
ing a monthly movie night,
beginning with. “Torch Song
Trilogy” (see calendar listing).
Munchies provided. Also,
along with Vermont Freedom
to Marry Task Force, we will
host a same-gender marriage
Decision Day Openhouse
beginning at 7 pm on whatever
Friday the Vermont Supreme
Court decision is announced.
Whether it’s a night for cele-
bration or commiseration, we
are on.” Bring some
munchies and/or music if you
are so inspired, or just come.
All are warmly invited to our
events. Look for the pink trian-

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gle chalice on our sign at 6
Cross Street, Middlebury. For
more information about
CVUUS, please call 388-8080.

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DignityNT is a group for
LBGT Catholics and others.
We are ecumenical and inclu-
sive and providea safe and
supportive environment in
which people may worship and
socialize. We meet on the first
Sunday of each month from 4
to 6 pm in the chapel at the
Bishop Booth Conference
Center at Rock Point in
Burlington (off Institute Road
near North Beach).

Although the format may
vary from time to time, gather-
ings usually begin with a
Celebration of the Eucharist
and conclude with a short
meeting and social time for
which those in attendance are
invited to bring refreshments
to share. 8

For more information,
please call Thom at 655-6706
or Charles at 658-4436.Th'e

mailing address for
DignityNT is P.O. Box 61,
Winooski, VT 05404.

Come experience the joy of
being gay . . . and Christian!

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Mountain Pride Media
board members and staff were
in Mclndoe Falls as part of our
Green Mountain Tour, on
October 2, 1999. We want to
thank our hosts, Rob Larabee
& Yves Morrissette, and the
Green Mountain Band for pro-
viding musical entertainment.
The day included a writing
workshop conducted by OIT M
editor Barbara Dozetos and an
evening reception.

New and renewed sub-
scribers over the past several
weeks were entered into a
drawing to win tickets to
Gilberto Gil, An Evening with
Ellen DeGeneres and most
recently the Moscow City
Ballet’s performance of
Cinderella. Congratulations to
the winners

Mountain Pride Media is
also hard at work at improving
our web site: www.vtpride.org.
Mack Roark, our new web edi-
tor & designer, has been busy
updating the look of the online
version of Out In The
Mountains. The first stage of

 

the redesign will be up in early
November. Major support for
our web improvement project
came from The Gill
Foundation, Haymarket
People’s Fund, and Physicians
Computer Company as well as
individual donations. There
are many more enhancements
on the way, so be sure to check
us out on the web. ’
Mountain Pride Media is
always looking for volunteers
to help with monthly distribu-
tion of Out In The Mountains.
If you would like to distribute
papers in your area to desig-
nated drop off sites or can help
with preparing the mailing in
Richmond send an email to
oitrn@together.net.

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The Pride Committee has
been very busy in recent weeks
with planning for next year’s
Pride festivities as well as
fundraising events to help pay
for it.

Tom Crowley has gracious-
ly given the Pride Vermont
Committee a home by opening
up his‘ business as meeting
space. More than 20 people
came to the re-organizational
meeting last month. The group
is energized and eager to wel-
come anyone else who would
like to participate in making
Pride 2000 as fabulous as pos-
sible.

In order to make the plan-
ning process more accessible
to everyone in the state, we
have established an email dis-
cussion group, PrideVermont.
To subscribe and participate in
ongoing plans, send an email
to majordomo@queernet.org
with the message: subscribe
PrideVermont in the body of
the email.

Emerald City Ball last month
raised nearly $500 for Pride.
Thank you to all of you who
helped and came to give sup-
port. Special thanks to the orga-
nizations who sponsored the

event: Outright Vermont,
Vermont Gay Social
Alternatives, Cooperative

Campus Ministries, Burlington
R.U.l.2? Community Center,
Mens Health Project of
Vermont CARES, Free To Be
GLBTA at UVM, NCOW
Committee 1999, and the City
of Burlington Community and
Economic Development Office.

Our next meeting is
Wednesday, November 10 at
6:30 at Vermont Floral on Pine
Street in Burlington. We will
be electing chairpersons for
the committee.

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On Saturday December
11th, The Samadhi Singers, A
Sacred Music Chorale for
Friends & Members of the
GLBT Community will per-
form its fall concert at 8 pm in
the University of Vermont’s Ira
Allen Chapel in Burlington
(comer of University and
Pearl). Now in their 3rd year of
performing, The Samadhi
Singers will sing a variety of
pieces highlighting the theme
“Embracing the Darkness -
Looking Forward to the Light.”
Co—sponsored by UVM’s office
of LGBTQA Services and the
Cooperative Christian Ministry
@ UVM, ticket donations of
$8-12 will help to benefit the
Respite House in Williston,
VT. FMI call Annette Browne
860-9594.

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Samara Foundation board
members, Eileen Blackwood
and Linda Markin, along with
Executive Director Bill
Lippert, joined representatives
from fifteen GLBT community
foundations at their recent
national meeting in
Minneapolis. GLBT communi-
ty foundations from around the
country exchanged ideas and
developed a national GLBT
community foundations net-
work.

Mickey Maclntyre, strate-
gist and trainer from the Gill
Foundation, offered a day-long
training and encouraged the
development of GLBT com-
munity foundations in each of
the 50 states. Maclntyre out-
lined what he called “5 in 50
by ’05” a plan to build at least
five local GLBT organizations
in each state by 2005. Along
with establishing in each state
a GLBT community founda-
tion, Maclntyre also views
developing a community cen-
ter, a non-profit law firm, an
anti-violence project and a
GLBT statewide political
organization, as the necessary
infrastructure for a truly suc-
cessful GLBT social change

GLBT organizations from around the

movement.

Maclntyre challenged par-
ticipants to raise the necessary
financial resources to develop
this essential infrastructure.
Maclntyre acknowledges that
the GLBT community will
have to take itself more seri-
ously, and be willing to com-
mit more charitable and politi-
cal giving than ever before.

Samara Foundation is pub-
lishing its first Samara
Community Report, a periodic
newsletter of interest to the
GLBT communities. If you
want to be sure to receive a
copy, contact Bill Lippert,
Executive Director at 860-
6236 or info@samarafounda-
tion.org.

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In October we took our new
tabletop displays, funded by
Samara Foundation, to numer-
ous community events around
the state, including the two-
day South Hero Applefest,
where LOTS of signatures
were collected in support of
the freedom to marry. There is

\a lot of support out there — we

just have to ask people!
Another October highlight was
the sea of hot pink ‘‘I Support
the Freedom to Marry” stick-
ers at Ellen’s Coming Out
week kickoff lecture in
Burlington. What a wonderful
sight!

Now that it’s November,
community events are becom-
ing sparser, and we are lining
up more engagements directly.
On November 12 there will be
a Clergy Panel in Bellows
Falls (see the Community
Calendar). Later in November
or perhaps early December we
plan to ‘ have a panel in
Middlebury and a forum in
Rutland —— watch the online
OITM calendar or our web
page, www.vtfreetomarry.org,
for more information. If you
would like to receive email
notification from us on
Decision Day, please send
your name and email address
to coord@vtfreetomarry.org .
lfyou’d like to receive our fall
newsletter, please send your
snail mail address to the email
above or call the Task Force at
388-2633. V