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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2008
Cleveland Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride, Inc.
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Office Acquisition |
July 18, 2008
Cleveland Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans Pride, Inc. is pleased to announce that we have acquired office & community space for the Cleveland Pride organization. The location of our new home is 11100 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. It will serve as our office, storage and meeting space.
This is a significant step towards establishing a sound foundation for our organization which is representative of our community. After 20 years of significant accomplishments, we have created a business structure to begin building our future. We have an opportunity to take the organization to the next level as both an organization that follows sound/standard business practices and an organization that is built on diversity which in turn will strive to unify our overall community.
Our organization historically has celebrated diversity and cultural acceptance through our annual June Pride Parade and Festival for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities, our friends, families and straight allies. Our founders established in our charter a vision that enables up to do so much more than a single day event.
While the acquired space is just that, space, it provides us with so much more. We now have a place to store and secure our files and records, a place to house all of our supplies and inventory, a place to conduct our meetings and other managing activities and it provides a place to be utilized by the community as we begin to focus on year round involvement as guided by our charter. The control and management of this is in the hands of the organization at a central location rather than scattered across multiple individuals at various locations.
The Cleveland Pride Celebration held on Saturday, June 21, 2008 was certainly memorable. This combined with the significant financial changes that were implemented and enforced during the year has allowed us the opportunity to build a strong future. We need to continue to build the momentum and sense of community in order to really instill change so that we can make a difference in our future as well as that of our children.
Thank you for your involvement and support of Cleveland Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans Pride, Inc.
In Pride,
Todd J. Saporito
President, Cleveland Pride
N. Lee Dybo
Treasurer, Cleveland Pride
Chair, Development and Fundraising
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READ OUR SECOND STORY (7.22.2008):
"That is so f*cking gay. Wow, what a f*cking f*ggot. Without further ado, I wish to present you with vernacular of America's youth and young adults. These homophobic phrases have evolved from the less elaborate 'that's gay' which echoes off the walls of elementary schools around the nation. Such phrases are clear indications of the rampant homophobia found within heterosexist America. Normalized homophobic expressions, along with society's assumption that heterosexuality is the 'normal' sexual orientation, forces LGBT people to live with a fragmented identity..."
READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT: The LGBT Double Consciousness.
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CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS |
The AIDS Taskforce wants to distribute thousands of condoms around Cleveland and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
On July 29th, the AIDS Taskforce is co-sponsoring an event at Chautauqua-in-Chagrin: Mechai Viravaidya, founder of Population and Community Development Association, Thailand (and popularly known as "Mr. Condom" in Thailand as his programs have led to a drastic reduction in new HIV infections: from 143,000 in 1991 to 21,000 in 2003) will be speaking at the Chagrin Foundation for Arts and Culture in Chagrin Falls
In conjunction with his talk, the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland seeks to recruit volunteers to participate in a city-wide "Wrap it Up" condom distribution during the afternoon and evening of Friday July 25th. People will team up in small groups and distribute condoms and safer-sex literature in various locations throughout the city; public places where people tend to congregate, such as the warehouse district, Coventry, cedar-lee, public square, etc.
To do this, we really need your help! Please consider volunteering a couple hours on the evening of Friday July 25th for this worthwhile effort! Here is the schedule:
7:00 p.m. Meet at the Taskforce (3210 Euclid Avenue) for a brief training and pizza
7:30 p.m. Head out to your assigned area to distribute condoms
9:45 p.m. Meet back at the Taskforce to process and reflect on your experience
10:00 p.m. Go home!
We hope you will make some time for this exciting opportunity to help spread the word about safer sex in Cleveland! RSVP with your contact information (name, e-mail, telephone number) to epike@atfgc.org by Wednesday July 23rd to confirm your participation.
Thank you in advance for your help and we hope to see you on Friday July 25th!
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Cleveland Pride's new web series, "The Umbrella," looks to explore the 'queer experience' across all walks of life in the Cleveland community. Each week, a new story will be featured on our website. The best part? It's all user generated. These stories are your stories.
READ OUR FIRST STORY:
"I am a lesbian with a 6 year old boy. We live in Brunswick which, if you know the area, is pretty stuffy. Not like being a lesbian in Ohio isn't bad enough. I personally don't hide who I am but do watch certain things. I just don't advertise the fact but if asked I will answer honestly..." READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT: The Single Lesbian Mother
Here are just some ideas for stories we are looking for. The experience of:
- Being in a committed relationship in Ohio, which does not recognize any kind of civil unions or marriage for members of the queer community
- Being queer & black & living on the down low
- Being out in high school
- Being the queer son/daughter with queer parents
- Being the queer son/daughter with conservative or religious parents
- Being the straight child of queer parents/parent
- Being a queer parent
- Struggling to adopt in Ohio
- Struggling to finding adequate healthcare in Ohio
- Aging and being queer
- Being young & in a committed relationship
- Being transgender in Ohio
- Transitioning from the body you were born with to the body you are supposed to have
- Coming out as transgender
- Being transgender in high school
- Being bisexual in an often un-supportive community
- Being queer & from a culture which traditionally deems sexually deviant behavior as tabboo
- Being a part of the fetish community in Ohio
- Being queer in America/Ohio from a foreigner's point of view
- Coming out after being in a heterosexual marriage
- Being queer today as contrasted with being queer in Ohio 50+ years ago
- Reconciling one's religion with one's queer identity
- Being the heterosexual parent of a queer child
- Being asexual & how one fits with the queer community
- Being intersexual & fitting in with the queer community
- Being a straight ally & advocate for queer rights
Check back for more exciting changes & new content here at clevelandpride.org!
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Thank you to everyone who celebrated Cleveland Pride 2008 with us!
We hope to see you at Cleveland Pride 2009!
We are appreciative of the community's feedback and invite you to take our survey about Cleveland Pride 2008.
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| 08 Sponsors |
The Aids Taskforce of Greater Cleveland
Twist Social Club
The Five Cent Decision
House of LaRose Budweiser
 The LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland
She Loves You Records - Sponsoring Bitch & Ferron
4design: CMS web sites
Sponsoring the Performance Stage
Sponsoring Josh Klipp
Sponsoring Josh Klipp
Pride Performance Stage Rehearsals
Pre-Pride Brunch
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