The Greater Boston PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) is sponsoring a fundraising walk of the Freedom Trail on October 28, 2007.
The walk will begin between 10:00am and 1:00pm with check-in at the Visitor’s Center on Boston Common. We will wind our way through all 16 sites that make up the Freedom Trail. Our walk will double back and finish up at the USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard where walkers will be provided sandwiches, snacks and drink while being entertained by the Freedom Trail band.
Walkers can then tour the USS Constitution and/or the destroyer USS Cassin Young and the USS Constitution museum, all for no charge. Following the tours, walkers can take a scenic boat ride back across Boston Harbor to the Aquarium.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Dana Hoy, who will be going on the walk, and she will advise you further.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
A Special Event at the First Parish UU in Canton
A Celebration of Love in Song:
Jason and DeMarco Live!
Sunday, November 18 at 7pm
At First Parish Unitarian Universalist
1508 Washington Street, Canton, MA
Tickets $20
All Proceeds go to the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry
Tickets available online here, or mail checks, payable to RCFM,
(with your name, address, & phone) to:
Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry
11 Beacon Street, Suite 1125
Boston, MA 02108
Pick up Your Tickets at the Door
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
A Recent Feature Story in the Globe Magazine
A number of our congregation have read the following story, featured in a recent edition of the Globe Sunday Magazine entitled “A Family Doctor's Journey From Man to Woman”
This is a very well written and balanced story, showing us the trials that this very brave person took on her road to wholeness. The story includes a two part video, something you wouldn’t get in the print edition.
This is a very well written and balanced story, showing us the trials that this very brave person took on her road to wholeness. The story includes a two part video, something you wouldn’t get in the print edition.
Two Movie Reviews
I wanted to pass along two movies that my wife Bobbi and I have watched that deal with transgender issues, and are very poignant and moving.
The first movie you probably haven’t seen. It is called “Normal”. Based on Jane Anderson's play "Looking For Normal," this deeply moving drama tells the story of Roy (Tom Wilkinson), a small town Illinois man who makes a wild declaration after blacking out on his 25th wedding anniversary.
Stunning his wife Irma (Jessica Lange), his kids, and the entire community, Roy announces that he's convinced he's a woman trapped in a man's body, and plans on going through with a sex change. What follows is a poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, story of Roy's attempt to live a normal life in a society that is unable to come to terms with his revelation. Writer/director Jane Anderson's extraordinary film features unforgettable performances by Wilkinson and Lang.
It was especially touching for me because it was set deep in the Midwestern farm country, which is where I grew up. It’s especially tough for folks who come out where the rest of the community is so traditional and resistant to change.
The second movie, that many of you may already have seen, is “Transamerica”. Felicity Huffman plays Bree, a highly educated, conservative transsexual woman who passes as a G.G., living in a poor section of Los Angeles and working two jobs to save money for her final sexual reassignment surgery.
Her life takes an unexpected journey when she learns that when she was a he, she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. When she receives a phone call from Toby, who's looking for his father, she realizes she must confront her past. She flies to New York to bail Toby out of jail and offers him a ride cross-country, secretly plotting to abandon him with the stepfather he ran away from.
I hope these movie recommendations are helpful, because they are two movies I really enjoyed.
The first movie you probably haven’t seen. It is called “Normal”. Based on Jane Anderson's play "Looking For Normal," this deeply moving drama tells the story of Roy (Tom Wilkinson), a small town Illinois man who makes a wild declaration after blacking out on his 25th wedding anniversary.
Stunning his wife Irma (Jessica Lange), his kids, and the entire community, Roy announces that he's convinced he's a woman trapped in a man's body, and plans on going through with a sex change. What follows is a poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, story of Roy's attempt to live a normal life in a society that is unable to come to terms with his revelation. Writer/director Jane Anderson's extraordinary film features unforgettable performances by Wilkinson and Lang.
It was especially touching for me because it was set deep in the Midwestern farm country, which is where I grew up. It’s especially tough for folks who come out where the rest of the community is so traditional and resistant to change.
The second movie, that many of you may already have seen, is “Transamerica”. Felicity Huffman plays Bree, a highly educated, conservative transsexual woman who passes as a G.G., living in a poor section of Los Angeles and working two jobs to save money for her final sexual reassignment surgery.
Her life takes an unexpected journey when she learns that when she was a he, she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. When she receives a phone call from Toby, who's looking for his father, she realizes she must confront her past. She flies to New York to bail Toby out of jail and offers him a ride cross-country, secretly plotting to abandon him with the stepfather he ran away from.
I hope these movie recommendations are helpful, because they are two movies I really enjoyed.
Companies rated on policies towards gays
Thanks to Jake Jacobsen for passing this link along:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070918/1522287.html?.v=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070918/1522287.html?.v=1
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Our First Interweave Event
Our first official event was to coordinate a piece of the 10th Annual RideFar HIV/AIDS benefit bicycle ride for AIDS resources. Thirty five riders and staff pedaled 100 miles a day for five days to raise money for AIDS organizations.
On Friday, September 7th the riders ended their third day at FUSF with a pot luck dinner and benefit concert sponsored by the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse. One hundred percent of the proceeds from that concert will go to AIDS related organizations.
A big thank you goes out to all of you who donated their time, food for the potluck supper and breakfast for the riders the morning after the concert, transportation, and housing for the riders. We couldn't have done it without you!
On Friday, September 7th the riders ended their third day at FUSF with a pot luck dinner and benefit concert sponsored by the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse. One hundred percent of the proceeds from that concert will go to AIDS related organizations.
A big thank you goes out to all of you who donated their time, food for the potluck supper and breakfast for the riders the morning after the concert, transportation, and housing for the riders. We couldn't have done it without you!
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