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PFLAG  Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays Mid-Missouri Chapter
KIOSK! not pretty, put funtional. Quick and dirty news from local PFLAG branches and friends!
"The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed,
even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations"

––Julie Cameron
This is your quick and dirty link to all the latest news from PFLAG  Mid-Missouri Chapter and friends.  Be sure to scroll all the way down.
Prism
Prism, central Missouri's only gay-straight community based youth alliance, sponsors creative activities, educational events, discussions, outreach, social space, and other forms of support for area gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning and ally youth (GLBTQQA). 

We are seeking interested individuals to fill several vacancies on our adult advisory board.  Please visit our website at http://columbiaprism.missouri.org/volunteer.html for more information about Prism's activities and needs.  You will also find applications and related documents.

Thanks for your interest!
Hilary Aid
Adult Board Member

For an application and more information on working with this amazing group, contact us at columbiaprism@yahoo.com or visit our website http://columbiapris m.missouri.org/. 

Prism
Mid-Missouri's queer, trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning and ally youth organization
Join us every Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel Building
(1107 University Avenue, Columbia MO)!

The Center Project – A mid-Missouri community space

NEW!! GLBTQ Parent Support Group

TCP is starting a NEW social and support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adoptive, foster & birth parents, and parents in planning. Join us for our first meeting on Thursday, November 8th from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Child care will be provided. For more information and/or directions, visit our website:
http://www.thecenterproject.org/parentgroup.htm

A listserve, groups.yahoo.com/group/thecenterproject, was set up in 2003 so anyone in the community can receive updates on the progress of The Center Project.

YOU ARE INVITED TO...

The Center Project's Annual Meeting & Ice Cream Social

NEXT Tuesday, June 24th at 7:00 p.m. at the UU Church,
2615 Shepard Blvd in Columbia
(see www.thecenterproject.org for directions).

Enjoy FREE Sparky's ice cream, door prizes, a slide show of ADP III photos and past TCP events, and more!
We will review highlights from the past year, and elect our 2008-2009 board. Join in the fun and get the "scoop" about our plans for next year!

At the Annual Mtg & Ice Cream Social, you can…

* Become a DONOR! Now is the time to commit yourself to help us open the center doors!

* Become a Board Member 
Become a CHARTER MEMBER of TCP at the ANNUAL MTG!
FREE Gift with each new Membership! Members receive a membership card which entitles them to discounts from participating mid-Missouri businesses.
The Mid-MIsouri LGBT Coalition has a great new website,
check it out!  

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
 ––Anaïs Nin
Great new resource SPRING GROVE COUNSELING
LGBT-friendly practices in Jefferson City

Scott O'Kelley, M.A., Ed.S., Licensed Professional Counselor, and Erika Patterson, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, offer LGBT-friendly practices in Jefferson City and asked about the history and programs of PFLAG in order to see how they might be of greater help. 

Scott and Erika participate in the Spring Grove Counseling and Wellness Center. Here’s a link to their website. You can click on Meet Us to learn more details about their practices.  http://www.springgrovecounseling.com/

PFLAG Columbia/Mid-Missouri

The July 3d Columbia PFLAG meeting has been canceled due to the long July 4th holiday weekend.
Please join us at our next meeting Thursday, August 7th , 7:00 p.m. or on
 
Saturday, June 28th, 2008   in the Friends Room at the Columbia Public Library: 
Two workshops with Dr. Robert Minor.



“How to be an Effective Human Rights Advocate,”
(from 10:00 a.m. to noon)

“New Strategies for Combating Homophobia During Difficult Times”
(from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.)

Lunch will be provided  by the Columbia Chapter of PFLAG.

PFLAG Columbia sent a box of winter scarves for homeless LBGT youth at the Chicago LGBT Community Center “The Center on Halsted”

Subject: Oh My!

Linda,

I am totally overwhelmed by the contents of the box! I just can't believe how beautiful everything is and the sweet note you added to the packages. It's just so amazing and thoughtful. They are going to love these things.

Really, it's incredible. We want to send pictures of youth wearing the items if we can. In most cases we can't take an identifiable picture but I think we can be creative and take pictures that will still protect individual privacy.

Thank you so much for coordinating the Columbia PFLAG group and please let them know that we received the box and that we are TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY.

Warmest Regards,Serena Worthington

Director, SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders)

Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60613

For more information contact Linda (573) 864-1431
Program Schedule Here


Here is a blog that may interest you:

Bloggin.OUT is the official blog of Triangle Foundation's Generation.OUT program and Greg Varnum, Triangle Foundation's Director of Youth Initiatives and Information Technology.

above blog references this article:

The Struggles of Homeless Trans Youth
by Charlsie Dewey
2007-10-31

"If you're doing something a certain way because it's always
been done that way, then you're probably doing it wrong."
––Colin Baden, VP Design, Oakley Inc.


Your heaven, my hell 
 Gays decry ‘reorientation’ threatening condemnation.
Free at last! Living an authentic and integrated life. Nick King, photo Columbia Daily Tribune
Nick King photo
 
  By ANNIE NELSON of the Tribune’s staff Published Saturday, November 17, 2007
Constitution doesn’t care about sexual orientation

Published Monday, March 31, 2008

Open Column by Carla Snellen

Editor, the Tribune: I am an American. I am proud of this country and have an American flag flying at my home. I pay taxes and obey the laws. I pray for our nation and for its leaders and exercise my right to vote. I believe in God and endeavor to live by Matthew 22:37-40. Yet I am being referred to as "the biggest threat to America," greater even than terrorism. Because I am gay. . .

read the entire column here
Jeff City PFLAG 

Progress report:

1. The Central Chapter of the Missouri Association for Social Welfare has started work on a public event featuring the importance of anti-bullying efforts in schools. A similar event was sponsored by the city of Columbia last year; I plan to be in touch with the person who organized it.

2. I’m scheduled to talk with a couple Columbia people about ways to increase business support for the LGBT community. We’ll take up the idea of honoring businesses that practice non-discrimination.

Don Love

JEFFERSON CITY PFLAG
Meets at 7:00 p.m. on the third Monday of each month
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1021 Northeast Drive, Jefferson City: halfway between Missouri Blvd and Stadium Blvd on Southwest Blvd, turn east on Woodclift Dr (between United Way and Merrell University); go one block then turn left on Northeast.

For more information leave a message on the UU answering machine: 573 636 0684.
Or call President Don Love, 573 875 7918.

Program Schedule Here


"Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty."  
––Vernon Howard





Million Penny Drive

 
The Center Project has just started a new fundraising campaign…
the Million Penny Drive, which will go from February until May 1.

Here's the concept---Most people have loose change (e.g. pennies) that they hold in their car or home & they would be willing to donate. One million pennies is $10,000.  This will help the Project reach their 2007-08 fundraising goal of $72,000.

The Project will collect pennies at all TCP events held during this period including Earth Day. They have asked PFLAG to help in this effort to collect pennies.  Therefore, we’d like to encourage everybody to consider donating all their loose pennies… bring them to the meetings on March 6th and again on April 3rd.  There will be a penny collection can at the meeting.   Thanks, let’s all dig in and help TCP with this most worthy project!!


"True Courage is not the absence of Fear, rather it is the taking of action in spite of
the fear"

Join our JC PFLAG group at Yahoo.com!
some great resources:

COLAGE resources for Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere

Straight Spouse Network support for heterosexual spouses/partners in Mixed Orientation Marriages (MOMs)

Married Gay.org support for those in mixed orientation marriages, excellent, extensive site. Klein sexual orientation grid/questionnaire




PFLAG Mid-Missouri/Columbia
Regular meeting day:  First Thursday of the month  
new location:  Missouri United Methodist Church 
204 S. 9th St
Room 302
7:00 PM
Program Schedule Here		PFLAG Mid-Missouri/Jefferson City
Regular meeting day:  Third Monday of the month
Unitarian Universalist Church
1021 Northeast Blvd
Jefferson City, Missouri
7:00 PM
Program Schedule Here
For information about our Columbia chapter
please contact
 Linda Hayes 573-864-1431		For information about our Jefferson City chapter
please contact
Don Love573-875-7918
from Linda Hayes:

The Mid-MO LGBT Coalition's Faith Based Outreach committee in conjunction with the Open Doors Ministry of the Missouri United Methodist Church in Columbia Missouri embarked on a cooperative endeavor to convince the Rag Tag Theater to show the award winning film, For The Bible Tells Me So

IT WORKED!!

Rag Tag showed the documentary on November 29/30. 

For The Bible Tells Me So.

Through the experiences of five very normal, [what is "normal" anyway?? -webmaster]  American families of faith-- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech,

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.

FTBTMS WINS 9TH FESTIVAL AWARD!

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO was recently awarded Best Documentary Jury Prize by the 2007 Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. This latest award is the ninth festival award the film has won since its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in January. Other awards include The Katherine Bryan Edwards Prize for Human Rights at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and Best Documentary Audience Awards at Seattle, Provincetown, and Festivals. FTBTMS has also won Best Documentary Audience Awards at Outfest: the LA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Fresno Reel Pride Festival, and ImageOut: the Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

Please view this powerful & moving documentary trailer.
Link to trailer:
In the News:

FTB reviewed on KPCC/NPR
"Airtalk with Larry Mantle"

Click here to listen to the review! (need link)

CNN'S "Situation Room" -- Click here to watch the clip (need link)

this clip is an interview of Missouri's own Richard Gephardt & his
lesbian daughter Chrissy.
FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org
PFLAG Jefferson City  Update 2/18/08

* Anti-Bullying: MASW Central Chapter has agreed to cosponsor a public meeting on the importance of anti-bullying programs in area schools. I would like to recruit support from Missouri NEA (which has an anti-bullying program), JC Multicultural Forum, area PTAs, JC Human Relations Commission, Lincoln U, etc.

* Non-discrimination: still moving toward an ad campaign that thanks businesses for having non-discrimination policies.

* Allied Organizations in Mid-Missouri. The JC Multicultural Forum has always publicly supported LGBT efforts by allowing the Coalition to have a booth at its Festival. Leadership has indicated an interest in being more intentional in building acceptance. The Missouri Association for Social Welfare (MASW) has been open minded but not particularly active on LGBT issues. As chair of the Central Missouri Chapter, I can make sure our concerns are given a higher priority.  For anyone in the LGBT community who is concerned about attracting unwanted attention but wants to be active in changing society, these are good groups to get involved in.

Center Project
NEW!! GLBTQ Parent Support Group

TCP is starting a NEW social and support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adoptive, foster & birth parents, and parents in planning. Join us for our first meeting on Thursday, November 8th from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Child care will be provided. For more information and/or directions, visit our website:
http://www.thecenterproject.org/parentgroup.htm

A listserve, groups.yahoo.com/group/thecenterproject, was set up in 2003 so anyone in the community can receive updates on the progress of The Center Project.
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