JANUARY 18
TOY takes ta local airwave
A new series of radio ads dramatically por
trayed the plight of gay youth have been run
ning on two Charlotte stations.
From lanuary 6- i 9, 60-second ads were run
on WNKS-Kiss 95.1FM and i 5-second ads on
WFAE-NPR 90.7FM.
The funds for this project came from The
Skylark Foundation with additional donations
from Collins, Haynes & Lully, Inc, lohn R.
Causby, president of The Groundcrew and
Robin Konieczny, president of Clear Blue.
Carolina Business Guilds hold joint retreat
Leaders from Columbia, Charlotte,
Greensboro and the Triad gay and lesbian busi
ness and professional guilds met for a weekend
retreat-at Camp Kanuga, North Carolina from
December 6-8.
Participants discussed ideas for programs,
'membership and civic projects and made plans
for future inter-group activities.
Those interested in forming a gay business
or professional guild in their area please contact
Zachary Scott, Service/Outreach for The South
Carolina Gay and Lesbian Business Guild, at
803-544-0461 or by email at info@scglbg.org
(attn. Zachary Scott).
HRC Carolinas Dinner planned for NC
The 8th Annual Human Rights Campaign
Carolinas Dinner will be held on February 15,
at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, NC.
Keynote speaker will be Ann Richards, former
governor of Texas. AFFA of Charleston will
receive an award at the event.
Tickets for the dinner are $ 165 thru lanuary
25, then $185 until the dinner. Tickets are on
sale now and available through Box Office
Tickets at 1-800-494-8497.
The resort, which includes both spa and golf
facilities, is offering special reduced rates for HRC
guests. Make it an evening or weekend getaway.
Contact the Grandover Resort at I -800-472-6301.
For more information, contact co-chairs Sue
Mormann or Scott Harmon at 336-918-4002 or
9i 9-419-0702, email smormann@aoI.com or
scottharmon@nc.rr.com. .
Two SC book clubs forming
The Lowcountry Cay and Lesbian Alliance
of Charleston and the Gay and Lesbian
Community Center of Columbia are beginning
monthly book discussion groups in January.
The Pride Center Book Club in Columbia,
reconvenes in January. A potiuck dinner and
planning.meeting will be held at 6 pm on
January 19 at the Center.
The LCLA book group will begin with a kick
off discussion of The Hours in January. Both
groups meet monthly.
For more information about the LGLA book
group, email steveneclem@aol.com. For more
information about the Community Center book
club, email maddenel963@aol.com.
Lambda Legal: "Seeking your staries..."
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear
Lambda Legal's challenge to Texas’s “Homosexual
Conduct” law, which criminalizes oral and anal
sex by consenting gay couples and is used widely
to justify discrimination against LGBT people.
This is a tremendous opportunity — a chance
to convince the nation’s highest court to address
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the widespread harms caused by Texas’s law and
others like it. Sodomy laws arc used as an excuse
for generally denying basic rights and equal treat
ment to LGBT people. LBCTs are branded as crim
inals and treated as second-class citizens. These
laws are also widely used to justify discrimination
in everyday life — denial of employment, blocks on
custody or visitation with children and even intim
idation out of exercising First Amendment rights.
Now is the time to strike the final blow in a
decades-long struggle against these laws and
for justice and equality. Lambda Legal needs
help in collecting stories about how sodomy
laws have affected people. Speak up. Speak out.
Make historyl
Lambda Legal is a national organization
committed to achieving the full, recognition of
the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals,
transgenders and people with HIV and AIDS.
Email stories to: ShareYourStory@lambda
lcgal.org or visit www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/
iowa/about/address_ or for more information
visit www.lambdalegal.org.
Join tbe WOW's email Lists
Excitement is building about the' upcoming
Witness Our Welcome 2003 conference this
August. The ecumenical flavor of this event is what
is most exciting because it truly demonstrates the
spirit of what it means to be welcoming by cross
ing denominational and theological barriers.
Two online groups were formed to further
connections between conference goers:
WOWFRIENDS (national) — an ecumenical
connections group for attendees of the 2002
conference and WOWCHARLOTTE (regional)
— formed to connect the welcoming Churches
pnd organizations and individuals in the central
Carolina area.
Interested parties are invited to join these
two lists. P articipants are encouraged to work
with other welcoming Church leaders in their
area to create new regional and city WOW lists.
WOW would like to become the standard
name for the ecumenical welcoming Christian
Church movement, and in that sense, help to
promote participation in this conference, it
would give a recognizable name for folks as
they move or travel around the country to seek
out resources and welcoming congregations.
For more information visit groups.yahoo.
com/group/wowfriends; groups.yahoo.com/
group/wowcharlotte and www.wow2k.org.
Charlotte Pride offering Amsterdam Trip!
charlotte Pride, in conjunction with Mann
Travels and Cruises is offering a trip to Amsterdam
for Gay Pride Weekend from July 30 - August 4.
Mann Travel will donate a portion of the proceeds
from each booked trip to Charlotte Pride.
The trip includes roundtrip airfare on US
Airways, four nights accommodations at the 4-
star rated Jolly Hotel Carlton, round trip air
port/hotel transfers, daily hot buffet breakfast
at hotel and more.
Cost per person is $1329. For each trip
booked, Mann Travels will donate $50 to.
Charlotte Pride.
For more information on the trip visit
wyy'w.travelcruises.com/Amsterdam/, call Mann
Travels 800-849-2130 or email groups@man-
ntravels.com. For information on Amsterdam
Pride Celebration, visit www.amsterdam
prido.nl/engels/indexeng.htm. To download a
reservation form, visit www.charlottepride.
com/calendar/tripresvform.pdf.
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