Palm Springs Pride
Join with us at Palm Springs Pride.
Saturday, Nov 7, 10 AM.
Wrapping Up 2009
WHATS NEXT
Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 12 noon - 4 PMLove Your Body Day-- with special celebrity host Lisa Ann Walter
West Hollywood Park Auditorium
647 N. San Vicente, West Hollywood, CA 90069
The celebration will include: entertainment, health & wellness information, shopping, giveaways, fitness demos & classes, free goodie bags to the first 100 attendees
Meet the Whooza Kooza Crew promoting Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA at Love Your Body!!
President Zoe Nicholson and Vice President Becky Dolhinow will be at a table with I <3 Consensual sex tees and buttons.
Wednesday, November 4, 7 pm – 10 pm.
Equality Network Rally “Where were you when EQUALITY died?”
Santa Monica & Vermont
Sunday, December 13, 5 pm – 8 pm
Holiday Gift Swap and Pot Luck Dinner
Bring a wrapped gift (under $5) and dish and a friend!
What a fantastic year –
Our chapter is growing and having a blast.
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National Equality March
Thanks to Pacific Shore NOW and the NOW Sisterhood Coalition of Southern CA for organizing the NOW contingent for the National Equality March.
March for Equality News
If you are a member on facebook, you have seen the NOW March logo everywhere. It is also featured on the main march site as one of the march posters. Your chapter, Pacific Shore is one of four that is organizing the march, along with Hollywood NOW, Long Beach, South Bay NOW & Palm Springs NOW.
MARCHERS
Melissa Darnell
Beth Payne
Shannon Payne
Dan Choi
Zoe Nicholson
(is there anyone else??)
DONORS:
Our angels who have donated are Lauren, Sally, Julie and we all but emptied our treasury. There is still plenty of time to donate for hotel & airfare. I know of two more people who would like to go but for the money.
There is much you can do, whether you are going or not. You can post on twitter & facebook in support of the march. You can write the OC Register & Daily Pilot about your chapter and the march. You can have a rainbow picnic on Sunday October 11 and know that in spirit you are in D.C.
NOW endorses the National Equality March
Statement of NOW President Terry O'Neill
September 21, 2009
The National Organization for Women is proud to endorse the grassroots National Equality March taking place in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2009. In the 21st century, it is simply outrageous not to have full equality under the law for all people, including women, lesbians and women of color -- and we have a moral obligation to change that.
Throughout history, the struggle for civil rights and social justice has changed the face of private and public institutions. Yet, discrimination remains rampant, particularly against lesbians. NOW recognizes that no woman will have full equality under the law until all women have full equality under the law.
Eliminating second-class rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people requires more than repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, currently casting shadows of inequality over the military and the institution of marriage. It requires more than passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Our call for change must be bold and uncompromising -- political negotiation only assures that women get less than they deserve. Grassroots NOW activists from around the country will join the National Equality March to demand full equality for all women and all people.
Pacific Shore NOW Endorses The National March for Equality
The NOW Sisterhood Coalition of
We recognize that the time has come:
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To recognize Marriage and all its privileges for pairs
of adults, regardless of sex.
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To end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Defense of
Marriage Act.
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To end the social stigma of LGBT, calling to eliminate
the antiquated idea of separate but equal.
This Sisterhood Coalition is proud to state and stand by the principles that
families are diverse. We demand that
LGBT families qualify for family insurance policies; are able to visit family
members in hospitals; and inherit their mutually-created property. We want LGBT
families to be able to adopt and rear children without harassment. We want LGBT people to be the recognized and
legally-enabled caretakers for one another in old age.
This Sisterhood Coalition is proud
to state and stand by the principles that LGBT people have the right to openly
serve in the military. They want to
serve and protect the safety of their families, our families, and the nation;
they always have and always will.
This
Sisterhood Coalition believes in equality under the law with all the rights and
responsibilities that come with it. That is why we are marching in our Capital on
October 11th, 2009. Those of us who can travel, walk, and ride will
be there, but we will also be there for the thousands who are hiding, lost, and
homeless - for youth, for seniors, for the isolated and the lonely who only
wish they were in love, being loved, and planning to marry. On October 11th,
each of us will march for more than ourselves.
Celebrate Women's Equality Day with Terry O'Neill, NOW President.
Pacific Shore is proud to be a Co-Sponsor, along with Hollywood NOW and the City of West Hollywood of a special event for Women's Equality Day.
The Women's Advisory Board (WAB) of the City of West Hollywood will host a Town Hall discussion of the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act, featuring NOW President, Terry O'Neill. (pictured on the right)
7 PM, Wednesday, August 26
Hollywood Park Auditorium
Televised on WeHo Channel 10
Pacific Shore NOW ~ a sponsor of OC Pride
When is a picnic more than a picnic? When it is activism. When it is community. When it is PRIDE. If you look closely at this map, buried among the orange flags (indicating who donated in support of Prop8) you will find William R. Mason Park; site of OC PRIDE. That is in Irvine, Orange County, California, USA, Earth. Bring lemonade, sandwiches, the kids, the dog and make a Saturday afternoon something special. At noon on August 15, you are invited to celebrate Equality.
If you saw the movie Milk or the Times of Harvey Milk or are as old as me, you know that Orange County was the home of John Briggs and one of the famous debates on Prop 6. We named our airport after John Wayne, built a library for Richard Nixon, voted McCain/Palin, and are 1/3 Catholic, though mega-churches staking their claim, a la Rick Warren. However, make no mistake, there are thousands of non-straights living and working here in the OC.
OC Pride began in 1988, when anti-gay slurs were not just on protestors’ signs but flown above; attached to a plane. Over the years, peaking at 9,000 attendees, OC Pride eventually lost steam and simply evaporated. But the defeat of prop 8 spawned coalition building, protests and a whole new generation of activists. Led by the Orange County Equality Coalition (OCEC), Orange County is OUT & PROUD.
Starting small, with an eye on competing with Long Beach, WeHo and San Diego in the future, OC is partying all day, Saturday, August 15 and everyone is invited. Picnic at Mason Park in Irvine, After Party at Steelhead Brewery and know that you are a part of history.
Pride Sponsors:
Men Alive - Orange County Gay Men's Chorus.
Laguna Woods Democratic Club
Pacific Shore NOW
Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties,
Steelhead Brewing Company, Irvine
United Congregational Church
Speakers:
Comic Ryan Hill
Former Irvine Mayor & Congressional Candidate Beth Krom
Activist Zoe Nicholson
Jenny Pizer or Lambda Legal
Rev. Paul Tellstrom of IUCC
Orange County LGBT Pride!
Sat. August 15, 2009, noon-4:00pm
William R. Mason Regional Park, Shelter 6
18712 University Drive, Irvine
(no alcohol please)
Pride After Party 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Steelhead Brewery, 4175 Campus Drive, Irvine
