Minutes

10/23/07

• The icebreaker tonight was: your name and what you are dressing up as for Halloween?

• If you are interested in writing for The Progressive - a publication of student writings about current social and political issues facing the Queer community.  Email Sean Lawlor at seandems@yahoo.com for more info.

• Party @ Loyola this Saturday from 9:30pm – 1am.  The theme is "Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are" Isn't that great!? It is at Loyola's Andrew White Student Center.  You can find it by going to the website ( www.loyola.edu) and looking up the campus map. There will be a tarot card reader, a DJ, refreshments, and a dance floor!! There is a costume contest but costumes are not required. It will be tons-o-fun!!

• A representative from the GLCCB ( www.glccb.org) will be at the next meeting to talk about the service they offer, the groups they have, internships and much more!

• Walk Like A Man will be next Saturday @ the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre at 7pm. Tickets are $25, so if you save $2 and some odd cents a day you can go! Check out the website for more info www.walklikeaman.net

• QSU Benefit Coffee House will be two weeks from today on Tuesday, November 6 at 9:30pm in Chesapeake room II and III.   There will be coffee (duh) snackies and great entertainment!  Talk to Danielle or Briana if you want to help out or perform! Danielle's email is dwhite5@towson.edu and Briana's is bedwar3@towson.edu.  You can read poetry, sing, play music, display artwork, show a short film, anything!

• Justin Chin, a slam poet will be at Towson on November 7th @ 7pm. (http://www.suspectthoughts.com/chin.html)

• The Rainbow Lounge sign is in the making. We were thinking of fusing the Diversity Retreat poster with the National Coming Out Day poster. Once we have a rough draft we will bring it for everyone to see! We also want to create a small mural for the wall, create a draft or bring some ideas for us to talk about next week. We do encourage you to stop by the Rainbow Lounge and let us know what YOU would like to see in there! You could either e-mail us or just write it on the dry erase board in there.

• Kinsey Sicks on November 9th @7:30 pm in PAWS. Check them out at www.kinseysicks.com

• We have a fabulous group of people who will be representing us at the flip cup tournament on Friday on Burdick field at 1-3:30pm.

• We talked about the Westboro Baptist Church and their protests.  They will be in Baltimore this weekend and if you are interested in participating in any counter-protests there will be many in response.  For more information on the Westboro Baptist Church you can visit their website at www.godhatesfags.com

Here are some additions to the minutes.
 

• Walk Like a Man on November 3rd is going to offer a student price of $15 - SO EXCITING!
   

• Courtney is going to ZooBoo this Sunday and would love for people to go with her and help VOLUNTEER. 

  • ZooBoo is at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and its most popular annual Halloween celebration!  ZooBOOO! features free trick-or-treating and candy for kids. There'll also be a costume contest, a Creepy Crawly Haunted Barn, a Magical Hay Maze, a Haunted Hay Ride, and a Candyland game and craft area. Kids can get a scary hairdo, have their faces painted, or get a spooktacular tattoo.

  • EMAIL HER IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN GOING - cmcdou1@towson.edu
    
     

• The College Democrats are holding an Iraq War Week of Action and here are a few things they have planned:

  • Tomorrow they are having an Anti-War Demonstration and March on Campus!!!! They are meeting at the Speakers' Circle at 2pm and they will have Ryan Harvey, a folk musician and an Anti-War activist.  He will be playing some music and they will be discussion the war.
  • Then they are marching at 3:30pm through the campus first they will go by the library, Media Center and through Stephens. Then they will walk by York Rd. so cars can see them, then they are going back through campus by Linthicum and the Lecture Hall. We want to see a lot of people out there and everyone should whereblack.  They are going to form a human peace at the end on the Smith Hill.
  • Email them for more info - tucollegedems@gmail.com

• Goucher is having their FUSION week of diversity and here are some of their Queer focused events:
  • Fri, 26 Oct. in Merrick Lecture Hall, 8p   -   Morality in Politics:  A Conversation with Barney Frank
• Today the Congress voted on ENDA ...  check out HRC for more information.
  ( http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/enda_oct?rk=Mpezc1M1YIZAW )
  In most states, you can be fired for being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, regardless of your performance or qualifications. HRC has been fighting since 2004 to pass a federal law to end this injustice.

  Congressional leaders have decided to push a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that includes sexual orientation, but not gender identity. Tell Congress to support the Baldwin Amendment to ENDA, which would place gender identity back into the bill - and ensure all GLBT people have full employment equality.

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