PRIDE GUIDE
Tallahassee’s Monthly LGBT Newspaper VOL. XVI, Issue 4 • April 2012
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EVENT LANYARD
PRIDEFEST 2012
TUESDAY April 17
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FAITH Radical Inclusion
Colors of Faith
An Interfaith Celebration of Pride April 17, 2012 ďƒś 7:00pm Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee 2810 N. Meridian Rd Reception to Follow
WEDNESDAY April 18
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A Night of Liter ature & Ar t April 18, 2012 ďƒś 6:00pm Amen Ra 812 S. Macomb Street Tallahassee, FL
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April 19
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Tickets:
$15 - General Admission $13 - Friends of the Tree $10 - Students Available online at www.tallahasseepride.com
A Special Benefit Performance For Tallahassee PRIDEFEST April 19, 2012 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00pm)
Mickee Faust Clubhouse 623 McDonnell Drive (Railroad Square)
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FRIDAY April 20
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A Celebration of Women Ar tists April 20, 2012 ďƒś 7:00pm The Hop Yard 453 All Saints St. FREE for All Alcohol Band (21+) - $10 (includes 2 drinks)
SATURDAY April 21
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PRIDE Pride in the Plaza
12:00pm - 6:00pm Kids Zone, Live Entertainment, Food Trucks, Anti-Hate Tiles, Pride Merchandise and Vendors, and more!
Pride After Dark
6:30pm - 10:30pm The Finale Round of the Mr./Miss Tallahassee PRIDEFEST Drag Competition
Kleman Plaza ďƒś Downtown Tallahassee Parking available in garage
PLAZA AFTER DA R K KLEMAN PLAZA
Map not drawn to scale, some roads not represented
Live Entertainment during Pride in the Plaza/Pride After Dark includes: • Brandy Vance • The Wailin’ Wolves Band • All Night Yahtzee • Arabian Flair • Wiley Gaby • ABJames DJ (Pride in the Plaza) • DJ Joshua Bula (Pride After Dark) • Vodka CinciNatty See www.tallahasseepride.com for entertainer info and show schedule
The History of Tallahassee PRIDEFEST Tallahassee PRIDEFEST is an annual celebration of the rich diversity of the greater Tallahassee area. PRIDEFEST is more than a festival; it provides the LGBT and allied community with a chance to come together, united, to promote peace and understanding, and to educate the rest of the community about the importance of diversity, acceptance, and equality. Pride celebrations largely started as a result of the Stonewall riots of 1969, as annual commemorations, and increased after the assassination of Harvey Milk in 1978. These commemorations came to be known as “Gay Freedom Day” or “Gay Liberation Day” events, started growing and becoming far more than a march or rally. The events gave a face and a voice to LGBT issues and rights. Eventually these celebrations became known as “Gay Pride” or more commonly today, just Pride events. Today’s Pride celebrations combine festive, flamboyant theatrics like floats, dancers, music, drag queens, and drag kings with religious and political elements such as politicians, open and affirming religious groups, LGBT political organizations, and supportive businesses. Since the early-90’s, Tallahassee has had Pride festivals or parties in some form or fashion every year. In 2008, Tallahassee PRIDEFEST changed dramatically, coming “out of the closet,” moving from an afternoon festival in Tom Brown Park, to a week (plus) long celebration with events throughout Tallahassee. Each successive year, PRIDEFEST continues to evolve, bringing ever more creative and impressive events to Tallahassee, providing our community with an outlet where they can be themselves, accepted and loved, without fear of reproach. Tallahassee PRIDEFEST is organized by the Pride Planning Committee of The Family Tree Community Center. The mission of The Family Tree is to provide services which promote the well-being of LGBT individuals, to work to eliminate the conditions in society which allow homophobia to exist and to be a place where everyone is welcome. The Family Tree is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and a board of directors representing the needs of the local LGBT community.
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Quill + Brushed: Readers & Artists Readers
Dawn Betts-Green
Originally from Sylacauga, Alabama, Dawn Betts-Green lives in Tallahassee with her partner of nearly 15 years, Anna, and a very spoiled fancy rat named Basil. She graduated last April from FSU with degrees in Religion, Women’s Studies, and Creative Writing. Her essay “Doing Things in Threes” will appear in the Spring 2013 Seal Press anthology It’s All in Her Head: Women Making Peace with Troubled Minds edited by Laura Andre.
Amber Green
Being a bespectacled were-grammarian as well as a professional paper-pusher, Amber Green submerges herself in fiction in an attempt to find high adventure (as opposed to anything involving actual expenditure of sweat), lots of nookie, or sometimes just a reality that makes sense. Her website is www.shapeshiftersinlust.com and she occasionally blogs at http://somewriteithot2.blogspot. com/.
Cathryn E. Lokey
Cathryn E. Lokey MS/Ed.S, NCC has been living and working in Tallahassee for over 12 years. She developed, and currently runs, the school counseling/guidance program at The School of Arts and Sciences, named one of the top eight charter schools in the country by the U.S. Department of Education. She also works as a personal life coach specializing in selfdiscovery and the development of personal identity. Her publications include Discovering Self, a guided self-inquiry journal designed to help the reader/writer develop the skills of self-inquiry and self-discovery, and The Perfect Daughter (available summer of 2012), an account of her own process of self discovery and her dramatic transition from her life as a member of the Mormon church to her life as a lesbian. Cathryn holds a master’s degree in counseling and human systems and a specialist degree in education. She is a National Board Certified Counselor and member of the American School Counselor’s Association and the Florida School Counselor’s Association. She is the proud mother of one adopted son. For more information on her current work go to self-discoverycoaching.com.
Vickie Spray
Vickie’s is a writer, writing coach and non-religious Spiritual Counselor who help seekers expand their understanding of themselves by learning how to identify and fully live their spiritual possibility. By knowing who we are as Spirit Beings, we discover our unique function and purpose for this life time. By knowing who we are, we are able to live peaceful, service-full and powerful lives. We have all come here for a reason. Writing is a powerful way to discover what may be keeping you down and what passions will get you through to your true identity. As a minister, Vickie uses her knowledge of ancient and modern mystics and teachers to help her clients arrive at their own inner wisdom. She works with many people whose religious upbringing failed to fulfill the spiritual hunger that is in all of us as well as with those who have had little or no traditionally identified spiritual life. Drawing upon her own spiritual journey she serves her clients in their spiritual reclamation which inevitably heals human wounds. Vickie conducts workshops, retreats and provides private consultations. She can be contacted at: vickiespray@yourlifeeexpressions.com 850-322-6944
Also Reading: Joan Denman Amanda James
Artists:
Stephanie Barber Tim Frizzell Amanda James
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