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Bryan Hlavinka (Houston, TX) wroteon June 8, 2009 at 4:50pm
9:00 pm
General discussion
9:06 pm
Music
9:10 pm
Fiona Dawson, female Grand Marshal will joins tonight. She is a professional event planner, marketer, fundraiser and leader of volunteers in the Houston community. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The University of Essex, Colchester, England. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Fiona volunteered and worked in Bangladesh and Portugal before making Houston home in 2000. Fiona's entry into the LGBT community was the following year when she worked for Casa de Esperanza de los Nios as a caseworker for abused, neglected and HIV-positive children in foster care and adoptive homes. From 2002, while working for the Houston Area Women's Center, Fiona volunteered in Omega House helping provide compassionate care to people with ends stages of HIV/AIDS. It was when Fiona came on staff at Bering Omega in 2003 and soon started volunteering for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) her LGBT activism took off. Fiona has formerly chaired the Houston HRC Gala and the Houston HRC Volunteer Committee. She currently holds five volunteer leadership roles in HRC, three at the National level (National Board of Governors (BOG), BOG Executive Committee and BOG Performance Management Co-Chair) and two locally; Federal Club Co-Chair and 2009 Gala Table Captain Co-Chair. As Co-Chair of the Houston Federal Club, Fiona shares the responsibility of annually raising and maintaining over $350,000, which directly facilitates lobbying on the Hill and the election of fair-minded candidates at the national, state and local level. Further, Fiona's HRC volunteer work supports research, educational efforts and outreach, to encourage lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to live their lives openly and seek to change the hearts and minds of Americans to the side of equality. Fiona has been honored with Outsmart's Gayest and Greatest Awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008 when she was awarded Female Volunteer, Female Fundraiser and runner-up Female Community Hero. In addition to her primary volunteer commitment to HRC, Fiona is known for giving her time and financial support to many local LGBT community events whenever possible. In January 2008, in order to gain the right to vote, Fiona became an American citizen and celebrated with a voter registration party, raising funds for local organizations. Alongside her support of the LGBT community, Fiona has been on the board of the Houston Association of Volunteer Administrators (HAVA) since 2002.
9:30 pm
NewsWrap: New Hampshire becomes the 6th U.S. state to open civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples, while Nevada lawmakers override their governor's veto of a domestic partnership bill, but a civil unions bill dies in the Illinois state legislature, as a lesbian couple legally marries on the Coquille Indian reservation in Oregon; the Board of Directors of the new LGBT advocacy group behind the federal lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 8 is announced, while Spain's Supreme Court rules that judges and town hall officials cannot refuse to marry same-gender couples; Australia's social benefits agency Centrelink will begin treating de facto same-gender couples the same as heterosexual married couples beginning July 1st, while Hong Kong's government adds lesbigay couples to its Domestic Violence Ordinance; the Scottish Parliament adds actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to the country's hate crime laws, and the Church of Scotland upholds the appointment of partnered gay minister Rev. Scott Rennie to a parish in Aberdeen, but also orders a 2-year moratorium on such further appointments, while the Church of Sweden elects Eva Brunne as the world's first openly lesbian bishop; and India's only LGBT publication, "Bombay Dost," returns after a 7-year absence (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and TANYA KANE-PARRY)
9:40 pm [BH + JV]
Katy Caldwell, executive director of Legacy Community Health Services will join us tonight. Legacy has been voted Organizational Grand Marshal and is a full-service, Federal Qualified Health Center that provides comprehensive, primary healthcare services to all Houstonians in a cultural sensitive, Judgment-fre and confidential environment. Legacy has a 30-years history of providing Healthcare services to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender community and contines to focus may of its services on this community, specializing in HIV/AIDS testing and treatment. We accept Medicaid, Medicare, and most health insurance plans and offer slidig fee scales at three locations in Houston. Generous financial support from individual, business and charitable foundations allows Legacy to provide no-cost or low-cost healthcare service to over 20,000 men, women and children each year.
9:55 pm
Music
10:00 pm
Brad Odem, President of Pride Houston will be our guest. For over 30 years, Pride Houston has worked at the heart of the local GLBT community to increase awareness and equality in our city. Our initial goals of strengthening equality, building a stronger community and increasing public awareness of our causes still reside at the core of our mission. As we've made progress to these ends, that mission has expanded to include a variety of new initiatives. Ranging from annual charity events to aiding support and counseling networks, our activities continue to promote social awareness and enrich the diversity that helps our community thrive. The Pride organization consists of a number of groups and individuals who work together to produce, manage, and promote the many events hosted by Pride. more
10:17 pm
Music
10:22 pm
Dance the Night Away at the HATCH Prom on Friday, June 12. The 17th Annual HATCH Prom, "Flashback to the 80s," will be held 7 p.m. - midnight on Friday, June 12, in the Community Room of the GLBT Cultural Center, on the 1st floor of MCC. The prom is free for GLBT and questioning youth, and their allies, ages 13-20. Many don't attend their own high school dances because they fear teasing and physical abuse. A special invitation is extended to GLBT adults who may not have had the chance to attend their own high school prom dressed as they wished or with a same-sex date. Anyone 21 or older may attend for a $25 donation.
10:40 pm
When she starts feeling engulfed by the mainstream, "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON returns to an author who defied assimilation: the late African-American lesbian-feminist "warrior poet"
"Sexual orientation will not be a bar to servic e unless manifested by homosexual conduct. The military will discharge members who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender." It's hard to believe that 16 years have passed since Bill Clinton capitulated to right-wing attacks on his proposal to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, or that little has changed since. Screening in the U.S. on the PBS-TV Series "Independent Lens" on June 16th, the documentary "ASK NOT" from San Francisco filmmaker JOHNNY SYMONS provides a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of the movement to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Our STEVE PRIDE has preview clips and chats with Symons about his film and the policy [with outro music from "The Marine's Lament (or, the Pink Peril)" by FRED SMALL]
General discussion
9:06 pm
Music
9:10 pm
Fiona Dawson, female Grand Marshal will joins tonight. She is a professional event planner, marketer, fundraiser and leader of volunteers in the Houston community. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The University of Essex, Colchester, England. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Fiona volunteered and worked in Bangladesh and Portugal before making Houston home in 2000. Fiona's entry into the LGBT community was the following year when she worked for Casa de Esperanza de los Nios as a caseworker for abused, neglected and HIV-positive children in foster care and adoptive homes. From 2002, while working for the Houston Area Women's Center, Fiona volunteered in Omega House helping provide compassionate care to people with ends stages of HIV/AIDS. It was when Fiona came on staff at Bering Omega in 2003 and soon started volunteering for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) her LGBT activism took off. Fiona has formerly chaired the Houston HRC Gala and the Houston HRC Volunteer Committee. She currently holds five volunteer leadership roles in HRC, three at the National level (National Board of Governors (BOG), BOG Executive Committee and BOG Performance Management Co-Chair) and two locally; Federal Club Co-Chair and 2009 Gala Table Captain Co-Chair. As Co-Chair of the Houston Federal Club, Fiona shares the responsibility of annually raising and maintaining over $350,000, which directly facilitates lobbying on the Hill and the election of fair-minded candidates at the national, state and local level. Further, Fiona's HRC volunteer work supports research, educational efforts and outreach, to encourage lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to live their lives openly and seek to change the hearts and minds of Americans to the side of equality. Fiona has been honored with Outsmart's Gayest and Greatest Awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008 when she was awarded Female Volunteer, Female Fundraiser and runner-up Female Community Hero. In addition to her primary volunteer commitment to HRC, Fiona is known for giving her time and financial support to many local LGBT community events whenever possible. In January 2008, in order to gain the right to vote, Fiona became an American citizen and celebrated with a voter registration party, raising funds for local organizations. Alongside her support of the LGBT community, Fiona has been on the board of the Houston Association of Volunteer Administrators (HAVA) since 2002.
9:30 pm
NewsWrap: New Hampshire becomes the 6th U.S. state to open civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples, while Nevada lawmakers override their governor's veto of a domestic partnership bill, but a civil unions bill dies in the Illinois state legislature, as a lesbian couple legally marries on the Coquille Indian reservation in Oregon; the Board of Directors of the new LGBT advocacy group behind the federal lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 8 is announced, while Spain's Supreme Court rules that judges and town hall officials cannot refuse to marry same-gender couples; Australia's social benefits agency Centrelink will begin treating de facto same-gender couples the same as heterosexual married couples beginning July 1st, while Hong Kong's government adds lesbigay couples to its Domestic Violence Ordinance; the Scottish Parliament adds actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to the country's hate crime laws, and the Church of Scotland upholds the appointment of partnered gay minister Rev. Scott Rennie to a parish in Aberdeen, but also orders a 2-year moratorium on such further appointments, while the Church of Sweden elects Eva Brunne as the world's first openly lesbian bishop; and India's only LGBT publication, "Bombay Dost," returns after a 7-year absence (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and TANYA KANE-PARRY)
9:40 pm [BH + JV]
Katy Caldwell, executive director of Legacy Community Health Services will join us tonight. Legacy has been voted Organizational Grand Marshal and is a full-service, Federal Qualified Health Center that provides comprehensive, primary healthcare services to all Houstonians in a cultural sensitive, Judgment-fre and confidential environment. Legacy has a 30-years history of providing Healthcare services to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender community and contines to focus may of its services on this community, specializing in HIV/AIDS testing and treatment. We accept Medicaid, Medicare, and most health insurance plans and offer slidig fee scales at three locations in Houston. Generous financial support from individual, business and charitable foundations allows Legacy to provide no-cost or low-cost healthcare service to over 20,000 men, women and children each year.
9:55 pm
Music
10:00 pm
Brad Odem, President of Pride Houston will be our guest. For over 30 years, Pride Houston has worked at the heart of the local GLBT community to increase awareness and equality in our city. Our initial goals of strengthening equality, building a stronger community and increasing public awareness of our causes still reside at the core of our mission. As we've made progress to these ends, that mission has expanded to include a variety of new initiatives. Ranging from annual charity events to aiding support and counseling networks, our activities continue to promote social awareness and enrich the diversity that helps our community thrive. The Pride organization consists of a number of groups and individuals who work together to produce, manage, and promote the many events hosted by Pride. more
10:17 pm
Music
10:22 pm
Dance the Night Away at the HATCH Prom on Friday, June 12. The 17th Annual HATCH Prom, "Flashback to the 80s," will be held 7 p.m. - midnight on Friday, June 12, in the Community Room of the GLBT Cultural Center, on the 1st floor of MCC. The prom is free for GLBT and questioning youth, and their allies, ages 13-20. Many don't attend their own high school dances because they fear teasing and physical abuse. A special invitation is extended to GLBT adults who may not have had the chance to attend their own high school prom dressed as they wished or with a same-sex date. Anyone 21 or older may attend for a $25 donation.
10:40 pm
When she starts feeling engulfed by the mainstream, "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON returns to an author who defied assimilation: the late African-American lesbian-feminist "warrior poet"
"Sexual orientation will not be a bar to servic e unless manifested by homosexual conduct. The military will discharge members who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender." It's hard to believe that 16 years have passed since Bill Clinton capitulated to right-wing attacks on his proposal to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, or that little has changed since. Screening in the U.S. on the PBS-TV Series "Independent Lens" on June 16th, the documentary "ASK NOT" from San Francisco filmmaker JOHNNY SYMONS provides a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of the movement to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Our STEVE PRIDE has preview clips and chats with Symons about his film and the policy [with outro music from "The Marine's Lament (or, the Pink Peril)" by FRED SMALL]
