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by Matt Schafer
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June 10, 2011 00:00 |
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Georgia Equality hopes that this year’s Evening for Equality will surpass all its previous efforts as the state’s largest gay advocacy organization transforms its signature fundraiser from cocktail hour to seated dinner.
Long the largest fundraiser for Georgia Equality, the event has grown in size and scope for 2011 by offering dinner and honoring a diverse group of activists from across the state, said Jeff Graham, the group’s executive director.
“It was definitely intentional to broaden the scope of the Evening for Equality so that it encompassed people not just in Atlanta, but around the state,” Graham said. “We wanted to start off by making it more regional and next year we’re going to try and make it more of a state-wide organization.”
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by Matt Schafer
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June 10, 2011 00:00 |
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The 21st edition of the Atlanta Pride Run is set to step off June 25 in Piedmont Park to raise money for an organization that improves the lives of HIV-positive children.
T. Jackson Keenan of Front Runners said the organization looks forward to its signature run turning 21.
“I think it’s very impressive that any event can make it so many years,” he said.
The run started as part of the Atlanta Pride celebration and even though Pride has moved to the fall, the race has remained on its traditional weekend. Oorganizers now expect up to 600 runners.
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by Dyana Bagby
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June 10, 2011 00:00 |
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For the second annual Sylvia Rivera Stonewall Community Event, transgender organizers will hold a mini-summit on the issues that face the “T” in the “LGBT” community — issues that often get overlooked, according to James Sheffield, executive director of Atlanta Pride and a trans man.
“I still get emails and calls asking why T is part of LGB. We can’t really create a scenario at the festival in October to really dig into that. What we do in June [with Stonewall Week] lets us dig into that,” he said.
Sylvia Rivera was a transgender woman and a veteran of the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
The event is being held June 25 at 11 a.m. in the Phillip Rush Center. Specifics are still being hammered out, but plans are to create a “mini summit” of panel discussions and workshops. Presented by Juxtaposed Center for Transformation, TILTT and the Atlanta Pride Committee, it will be free, with a $5 suggested donation.
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by Matt Schafer
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June 10, 2011 00:00 |
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Bubba D. Licious and the girls will put on a Stonewall-themed show June 25 to raise funds for the Atlanta Pride Committee. The event is the Official Stonewall Celebration Party.
Jungle Club owner Brad Williams said the show will be, “a little campy, just cutting,” as a fun way to remember the 1969 riots around the Stonewall Inn in New York that are largely seen as the start of the modern gay rights movement.
“We really want to remember what it really is,” Williams said. “Stonewall started in June, it started in a bar… a lot of people don’t know the history and so that’s kind of the point of Bubba’s show is let people know what happened.”
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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June 10, 2011 00:00 |
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The final official event of Stonewall Week looks to a more recent demonstration for LGBT rights. Forty years after patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a New York City gay bar, fought back against police harassment and sparked the modern LGBT civil rights movement, thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., for the National Equality March.
The 2009 march was organized on short notice and featured a more grassroots approach than the last LGBT March on Washington, the Millennium March in 2000. “March On!” is a documentary film telling the stories of a diverse group of 2009 march participants.
The film screens Sunday, June 26, at noon at Atlanta’s Phillip Rush Center.
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