Community Compass
Community Compass is a service of OITM. GLBT organizations from around the state are invited to provide brief — 200 words or less — descriptions of recent or upcoming activities and events. Send your submissions to us by email by the 15th of the month.
Survivors
Unite, Take Back the Night!
April is Sexual Violence Awareness Month.
In recognition and support of survivors of sexual violence, SafeSpace,
the Women's Rape Crisis Center, Women Helping Battered Women, and the
UVM Women’s Center invite the community to join us for Sexual Violence
Awareness Month (SVAM). All people, regardless of sexual orientation,
gender identity, race, religion, ability, income, nationality or age,
are affected by sexual violence. The trans community is particularly targeted
for hate crimes including rape and sexual assault, and statistics show
that one in four women and one in six men will be assaulted in their lifetime.
Sexual assault and rape is most often perpetrated by someone the victim
knows and can occur within relationships.
The SVAM Planning Committee
will be holding a variety of events throughout April in order to raise
awareness and allow survivors to raise their voice against violence. Please
check out the calendar for more information or call 802-863-0003 for more
information.
Join us on April 4th for the Take
Back the Night March and Speakout. We will meet at 5:30 at the Fountain
in the UVM Green and march down to the Unitarian Univeralist Society at
152 Pearl St. where survivors and allies can speak out against the violence
that they have experienced. If you have a story to share, and want to
tell it yourself, we welcome you to come to Take Back the Night and SPEAK
OUT.
If you have a story to share, but
don't want to identify yourself or speak publicly, you may send us your
story and we will read it anonymously at the Speak Out. We will not read
any identifying information. This means that we won't read your name or
anyone else’s.
The march and speakout enable the
community to come together to call for an end to sexual violence in all
its forms-including sexual harassment, child sexual abuse, sexual assault
and rape-and testify to
the strength of survivors. We will accept stories until Monday, April
3. If you wish to send your story via email, please send it to hannah@safespacevt.org
or call SafeSpace at 802-863-0003 or the Women's Rape Crisis Center at
(802) 864-0555 or mail stories to: SafeSpace, Attn: Speakout, P.O. Box
158, Burlington, VT 05402. All submissions will be kept anonymous.
The SVAM Planning Committee will be
holding a variety of events throughout April in order to raise awareness
and allow survivors to raise their voice against violence.
Please check out the calendar for
more information or call 802-863-0003, 802-864-0555, or 802-656-7892 for
details.
Run Against Rape
Join SafeSpace supporters for a fun
5K run/walk through Burlington in the spring-time!
Saturday, April 29th, 10am registration,
11am start at Oakledge Park, Burlington VT. Participants collect $15 minimum
(or $25 with a snazzy RAR T-shirt) in pledges for their run to ensure
that SafeSpace can continue to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
queer and questioning survivors of partner abuse, sexual violence, and
hate crimes. Contact Connie Beal at 863-0003.
The Men's Program in Brattleboro
Saturday, April 1 – Men's Program bowls at Bowl for Kids' Sake
Saturday, April 1 – Gender Role Free Contra Dance, Montague, MA
Wednesday, April 12 – Core Grou at the Menspace
Friday, April 14 – Social Lunch at the Backside Café
Wednesday, April 19 – Connections at the Menspace
Thursday, April 20 – Men's Book Club
Tuesday, April 25 – Newsletter mailing night at APSV Office.
(Please see Calendar listings for more information).
Join PRIDE in Vermont!
Want to make Pride '06 the biggest,
baddest, best one yet? Well, get yourself to R.U.1.2? on the first and
third Tuesday of each month at 7 pm and join the hardworking yet fabulous
committee! We need help all over the board - from writing grants to planning
fundraisers to tracking down vendors to finding volunteers - your skills
are needed! Questions? E-mail Chelsea@pridevermont.org
We can't wait to meet you!
Saturdays
at R.U.1.2?
Are you interested in joining us for
cooking classes, woodworking
or crafts instruction, or a book club? R.U.1.2? will be open Saturdays
from 10 to 6, and these are some of the classes planned, beginning April
8. Call the center at 860-7812 or 860- 0705 for more information.
"In the Life" on Vermont Public Television
April's program airs Sunday,
April 2, at 11:30 p.m. on Vermont Public Television. There's good news
for viewers in southern Vermont: DirecTV now carries Vermont channels,
including VPT, in Windham and Bennington counties.
April's show, "The Power
of Literacy," includes several segments
exploring LGBT themes in fiction and a visit to the Black Gay and Lesbian
Archives at the Schomburg Center in Harlem.
A visit to the Texas textbook publishing
industry portrays how this southern state largely determines which textbooks
will be used in schools across the country. All this and more, including
interviews with several writers.
Fire Truck Pull
Outright Vermont wants you to form
a team for our first-ever & Burlington's 3rd Annual Fire Truck Pull!
Teams of 12 are needed to raise money to support Outright Vermont's work
and to compete in a contest to see who can pull a Fire Truck up Church
St. the fastest! (really!) Put a team together today and help make sure
queer youth in Vermont are supported through Outright's work in schools
and our peer social and support groups. Be sure to catch the fun on Saturday,
April 29th at noon on the Church St. Marketplace! Details and team sign
up information
are on our website at: www.outrightvt.org
Youth
Pride Day
Don't miss the 7th Annual YOUTH PRIDE
celebration in Burlington on Saturday, May 6th. Gathering over a hundred
Vermont queer youth and their supporters, Youth Pride features a speakout,
rally, workshops, film festival, and our fabulous queer youth prom. Planning
takes place throughout April and everyone is invited---especially GSAs
(high school & college) from around the state. Mark it on your calendar
and check out our website for further details:
www.outrightvt.org
Jim Bailey is Judy Garland
Mark your calendars! On Saturday,
April 29, Jim Bailey will appear as Judy Garland at the Colonial Theater
on Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire. Jim Bailey (www.jimbaileyweb.com)
performed with Judy
Garland in 1969 and received her approval; after her death he performed
as Judy with Liza Minelli. For tickets, contact the box office at 603-352-2033
or go to www.TheColonial.org.
Proceeds from the show will benefit AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region.
LGBT Family Conference
Family Pride, a national organization
devoted to equality for LGBT parents and their children, will sponsor
a family conference in Dallas on October 27-29. Families may register
by going to
www.familypride.org/conference