WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Here you can find out what's going on through the next couple of months. Check back regularly; this page will be updated frequently.
FEBRUARY 2003
NEWLY ANNOUNCED EVENTS ARE IN YELLOW.
EQUAL JUSTICE COALITION: BE A HATE FIGHTER! MULTIPLE WAYS TO GET INVOLVED NOW!
NEWLY ANNOUNCED!! COCKTAILS AND CANDIDATES FUNDRAISER. Tell your parents, teachers, and other adults you know and get over there yourself! Eat, drink and be merry with your fellow Topekans and rub elbows with fair-minded 2003 City Council Candidates. Mingle with politically savvy citizens while noshing on tasty morsels provided by Topeka's very own Field of Greens. Whet your whistle with a variety of non-alcoholic beverages or mosey on over to the cocktail bar provided by Club Cosmos and purchase a beverage with a little more kick. When: February 22, 2003, 6:30 -9:00 pm. Where: Bradbury Thompson Center, Washburn University. Ticket Price: $15 per person. Buy Your Very Own Candidate: Dinner with Councilwoman Lisa Hecht will be sold to the highest bidder!!
MON, FEB. 3rd, 7-9 pm - Join us at Washburn University in Henderson Room 207 for a general meeting to find out what we can do to ensure equality and justice for all in Topeka. We'll discuss the committees that have formed within the organization, and how you can do your part as a volunteer.
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE (NGLTF) Representatives are coming to T-town! They want to interview people interested in ensuring equal justice in Topeka. They'll be interviewing people during the first couple of weeks in February in order to do a community assessment of where our strengths and needs are. If you would like to be interviewed, let me know (email) or call 232-3100.
BE ALL YOU CAN BE! VOLUNTEER TODAY FOR YOUR OWN RIGHTS! I'm in charge of getting tons of volunteers around in the next couple of weeks and I need your help! Topeka City Council elections are coming up in the next couple of months (primary in February, general in April) and we've got a lot of opposition running against the people who do care about everyone's rights. You can help by volunteering to go around the different neighborhoods encouraging people to register to vote, to vote for our candidates, and to get people to put up yard signs. It's a lot fun and even more so if you can get some friends to do it with you. Contact me today if you are interested.
YOUTH COALITION: Youth Activism Right Here in Topeka
The leaders of the local gay/straight alliances (GSAs) have recently come together to form a new coalition for youth. It's your way to become more involved in the community and ensure that the voices of our generation are better heard. Meetings are the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month, 4 pm, at the TAP offices. Let me know if you are interested in attending before you go please.
STEY Meetings
We have a couple of exciting meetings lined up in the next couple of weeks.
Community Night: Join us for movies at the Fox White Lakes Movie Theaters, on Croix between Topeka Blvd. and Kansas Ave. Meet me there around 6:45 and the first 11 people get in free.
Discussion: Our intern will lead the meeting focusing on National Condom Week. Bring your condom skills with you!
Guest Speaker: Jalisa will share a little about her life and surely enlighten us with her charismatic spirit.
LIVING COLOURS: YOUR CHANCE TO MEET OTHER MEN
SAT, FEB 15, 3 PM. Men, if you are looking for a great place to meet other men and talk about important issues, this is the meeting for you. You have to be at least 18 to attend. We meet at the Topeka AIDS Project, 708 SW 6th Ave.
PROJECT EQUAL - WASHBURN UNIVERSITY'S GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
GENERAL MEETINGS: This month we're focusing on planning the Day of Silence Project, set to happen on April 9, 2003
TUES, FEB. 11, 6 pm. Washburn University, Henderson 210. Representatives from Unity Coalition at Washburn and Hot Pink GARBAGE (Girls And Rad Boys Acting for Gender Evolution) will join us to plan for the Day of Silence.
NEW! THUR, FEB. 27, 8 pm. Movie Night, cosponsored by Project Equal, Unity Coalition at Washburn, and Hot Pink GARBAGE (Girls And Rad Boys Acting for Gender Evolution). Movie TBA.
ANTI-SODOMY LAW PROTEST
SAT, FEB. 15, 1-3 pm. SOUTH STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING. Kansas is one of three states that still has sodomy laws that prevent same gender partners from engaging in consensual sex. That's not good! We should have the right to make love to whoever we want, especially if the other person feels the same way, right? Join us if you care.
JUDY SHEPARD TO SPEAK AT EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY!
TUES, FEB. 18, 8 pm. Come on down to Emporia to hear Matthew Shepard's mom talk about losing her son to one of the worst anti-gay hate crimes in our country's history. This is a free event. She will be in the Memorial Union, Webb Lecture Hall. Let me know if you are interested in going: we have people willing to carpool.
VAGINA MONOLOGUES AT WASHBURN UNIVERSITY
FRI, FEB. 21 AND SAT, FEB. 22, 7:30 pm. One of the most talked-about pieces in recent theater history, The Vagina Monologues will challenge your views on women's issues. The $6 ticket price goes fully to support local women's organizations. Plays in the Washburn University Andrew J. & Georgia Neese Gray Theater (17th and Boswell).
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