Giving Women a Voice
J ULY 2013
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Kindred Sisters “Giving Women a Voice” July 2013
Supreme Court Bolsters Gay Marriage Advocates in DOMA, Prop 8 Rulings The Supreme Court handed down two rulings on June 26 bolstering same-sex marriage by ruling part of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and allowing a lower court ruling to stand that struck down California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman. In the first decision, the court ruled that a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples, is unconstitutional. And in a separate opinion, the court dismissed a case that asked the court to overturn a lower-court decision striking down the California marriage law. The decision paves the way for marriages to resume in California. "Thanks to these historic decisions today, we are one step closer to finally realizing those words inscribed on that building behind me 'Equal justice under the law,'" said Chad Griffin, president of the gay rights advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign, outside the Supreme Court. "Today at long last this nation has wiped away the shame of Proposition 8 and the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act once and for all." excerpt from www.abcnews.go.com
Cover: This month’s cover art is provided by Vivian Calderon Bogoslavsly of Harrisburg, PA. She’s a painter, native of Colombia, South America. This piece is part of her “Huellas de la Tierra” or Prints of the Earth collection.
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QuARC (Queer Anti-violence Relationship Conversations) First Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm Join Peaceful Paths advocates for an educational workshop series on intimate partner violence (IPV) in LGBTQ relationships. Workshops will be held at 6:30pm on the first Tuesday of each month beginning April 2. Topics will include communication and conflict resolution (July 2) and community resources (August 6). The workshops are free and open to all members of the community, including LGBTQ folks, friends, family members, allies, educators, and service providers. Additional advocates will be available for confidential counseling, safety planning, or individual conversation should you need to speak to someone in private or if the workshop triggers anything for you.
Statement by the President on the Supreme Court Ruling I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal – and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. This ruling is a victory for couples who have long fought for equal treatment under the law; for children whose parents’ marriages will now be recognized, rightly, as legitimate; for families that, at long last, will get the respect and protection they deserve; and for friends and supporters who have wanted nothing more than to see their loved ones treated fairly and have worked hard to persuade their nation to change for the better. So we welcome today’s decision, and I’ve directed the Attorney General to work with other members of my Cabinet to review all relevant federal statutes to ensure this decision, including its implications for Federal benefits and obligations, is implemented swiftly and smoothly.
Location: Alachua County Library Headquarters, 401 E University Ave, Gainesville
www.peacefulpaths.org
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Hairball 16 Variety Show Starring all your favorite local entertainers! Saturday July 13th Doors Open: 7:30 pm Show Starts: 8:00 pm This year we will feature a “Big Hair Contest” with the winner selected by audience participation. at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 4225 NW 34th Blvd in Gainesville Tickets: $12/advance; $15/door (includes snacks during intermission and free cover charge that same night at The University Club). Tickets available at: Pride Community Center, 3131 NW 13th St THIS EVENT HAS LIMITED SEATING AND USUALLY SELLS OUT TO STANDING ROOM ONLY. For more information contact Pride Community Center at 352-377-8915 or pridectr@bellsouth.net
Grey Poupon Celebrates Gay Pride Grey Poupon has jumped on the Pride bandwagon. The mustard brand, owned by Kraft, recently released this image on their Facebook page: The caption reads: "June is National Pride month. Though the festivities technically only last a month, we recommend celebrating all year – because Pride and good taste never go out of season." At the time of this writing there were almost 8,000 likes on the image and over 450 comments discussing the picture on Facebook. A simple, but bold image for a brand that has been mostly under the radar since their popular commercials from the '80s.
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Pride Community Center Update Pride 2013 TT-Shirts Now On Sale! Only $15.00 Get yours today! These white t-shirts are made of 100% Cotton & are available in various sizes ranging from Small to XXXXL.
Want a Booth at Pride Fest? The 2013 Gainesville Pride Festival takes place on October 26th at Bo Diddley Community Plaza in downtown Gainesville and features live musical entertainment, kid’s activities, and a raffle to encourage attendees to visit vendor booths. Each year there is an increase in festival attendance with around 5000 visitors in 2012. In fact, last year we had to start the festival an hour earlier to accommodate the continued growth. With over 100 different vendors in 2012, late vendors were turned away so don’t wait. Request your application today! Just call 352-377-8915 or go to www.gainesvillepride.org.
Large Screen TV Needed Once again PCCNCF wants to let you know how generous COLORTYME has been to us. We’ve been without a TV of our own this year and COLORTYME has responded to our requests for help every time we’ve asked them. They’ve cheerfully installed the largest TV they had available for our Movie Nights. We appreciate their generosity and encourage you to consider them if you ever need their services. As helpful as COLORTYME has been, though, we do need to replace our TV. It’s not just the Movie Nights we need it for but other programs, too. Please consider contributing to the TV fund or if you have a large screen TV you might donate contact us at pridectr@bellsouth.net or 352-377-8915.
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Bert and Ernie Mark DOMA Decision on New Yorker Cover In a nod to the landmark Supreme Court decisions regarding same-sex marriage, the striking new cover of The New Yorker features famous “are they or aren’t they” couple Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" snuggled up on the couch watching the news on television. The two long-time bachelors are wearing their usual rainbow-striped shirts, with Ernie leaning on Bert’s shoulder with Bert’s arm around him as they gaze at a television showing the justices in their robes. The striking image, titled “Moment of Joy,” was submitted unsolicited to a Tumblr by artist Jack Hunter. “It’s amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime,” Hunter told The New Yorker. “This is great for our kids, a moment we can all celebrate.” Even though Bert and Ernie are fictional characters, in 2011 there was an online petition and Facebook page saying they should get married. The buzz grew to the point that Sesame Street Workshop formally addressed it. “Bert and Ernie are best friends," the Workshop said in a statement at the time. "They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most 'Sesame Street' Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation." Public reaction to the New Yorker cover has been mixed. The Huffington Post claims its one of the “most awesome covers of all time,” while the Atlantic Wire stated it’s “the picture perfect symbol” for gay marriage. On Flavorwire, however, Tyler Coates writes that the image is “infantilizing and offensive,” and that it belittled the decades-long fight for equal rights by “by needlessly sexualizing a pair of puppets.” Slate weighs in, writing that although it’s a cute image, it simply wasn’t appropriate for the event. “It’s a terrible way to commemorate a major civil-rights victory for gay and lesbian couples,” wrote June Thomas. On Twitter, the cover has been called everything from “terrible” to “a keeper” to “outing” America’s favorite puppets. Then again, some say we shouldn’t look too hard into one magazine cover. “Let's not over-analyze this wonderful cover,” writes the Atlantic’s Rebecca Greenfield. “Okay, enough. Now let's all have a good cuddle."
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Poetry Corner for this love gone dead + no one loves you like the rain in your neck + you came to me as a solid hurting, handing down the responsibility of your previous woman’s thighs/i can’t hold her down if i tried/not enough fingers/not enough explanation of why you’re here/here this way to begin with/why bring me this sadness wrapped on a plate of resignation/why not swallow the song/swallow the whole song/swallow the song whole + syntax as a mistress to language/you worth a dialect to die for/i eat poems like you/i eat poems like you & re-dream them in my sleep + what’s it called when you document the descent into another mouth’s music— your mama saying, ‘i told you so’ + ; ‘you better run’ + answering the electricity in your body + there’s a button between your shoulder blades that’s pressed only during sex, the night as a malady, the medicine that is black coffee, the hangover that is a lover’s eyelashes, the liquor that is the lines surrounding their lips like parentheses + cheekbones are everything/mean everything in situations that are sunken sunk in like this + so glad not to be burping up time bombs + do i really have to explain to my father the man i was trying to be for you/that i stood like a soldier in front of the meanest men and pled your case like the moon would do for any star that was having trouble shining/let me know when you thought it was okay to compare me to a flashlight when i’ve always been a fire + not fuck you or forget you not come back to me or convene me not adorn me or attack the blush in my cheeks/let’s take this for what is and what it’ll always be—a drug deal gone beautiful gone badly gone awry gone madly some people will love until the death of them/we can respect that/we just can’t be those people/ wrapped in the earth’s explanation of what a skeleton should look like/do skeletons wear flowers in their hair because i wear flowers in my hair do skeletons care or do they tarnish in the tenderness? do skeletons stretch their blues like i do? and perhaps most importantly do skeletons write poems do they ever rest in peace? by Jazmine Davis Page 6
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Show Bois Drag King Show Pride Community Center of North Central Florida is excited to host a community Drag King Show. This is a fundraiser for the center & proceeds will finance the Gainesville Pride Festival!! Tickets: $12 / advance; $15 / door Ticket price includes delicious hors d'oeuvres during intermission and free admission to the University Club after the Show!
(Tickets available at the Pride Center)
Cash Bar!
Saturday, August 24th 8:00 pm Location: TBA If you are interested in performing for this event, please email us at pridectr@bellsouth.net or call 352-377-8915.
The Out List Yet another documentary about gay things? Yep! But this one — aired on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which ushered in the modern gay rights movement — eschews chewed-over history in favor of a personal touch. Renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders gathers luminaries from the LGBT community — Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, Scissor Sisters leader Jake Shears, ACT UP founder Larry Kramer, actor Neil Patrick Harris, and loads more — to tell stories from their lives. What results is serious and, sure, sometimes heavy-handed, but ultimately The Out List is nothing but completely relevant and honest.
www.hbo.com/documentaries/thewww.hbo.com/documentaries/the-outout-list excerpt from www.ew.com Kindred Sisters — July 2013
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THE THUMBS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT! by Nancy Breeze I seem to have arrived at the time of life when pliers are necessary for successful daily living. I keep wondering when / how this happened. It must have been a gradual thing. Perhaps one day I couldn't remove the paper lid from of the inside of the vitamin bottle. Or I was unable to 'Lift 'n' Peel' as it says in the juice container (this instruction is trademarked!) No one ever prepared me for this; I haven't read about it in 'Advice to Seniors' columns. My parents never mentioned it. Contemporary friends are mum on the subject. But when I try to open a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup, that handy little tab no longer works. (And I am newly accustomed to tabs; being born into the 'wind-up canopener' generation.) But now, what had been an easy way to get at the soup, is impossible! Unless I yank on it with the pliers from the tool box in the utility room.
directs, "to open press button." Pliers are not going to do it -- I hope to find someone with a working thumb to help me here. This morning a new situation -- the ironing board. Now I no longer make a habit of ironing. (In fact I was hardly able to find the iron.) But I do make an exception for iron-on mending tape. So in this emergency, I located and tried to open the ironing board. Not good. Even though we no longer live near the ocean, some amount of humidity must have done its work. I pushed the lever, yanked on the board, even put the foot of this balky contraption under MY foot and pulled again. However, nothing was going to budge this uncooperative one. Considered a hammer! Then I had a thought. I didn't really NEED an actual ironing board. I wasn't going to iron anything fancy. All I wanted was a good surface to press the iron against. So I balanced the still-flat board on the tops of the washer and dryer, plugged in the iron, and went to work! Thirty seconds later the tape was firmly attached to conceal the hole in my nightshirt!
Last night I went to our local salad bar. The broccoli in the back was almost out of reach. (I may have Not only the soup, but the cat food can, the ink become a little shorter too.) But I bravely grabbed cartridge, or any packaging which proclaims, 'just the tongs to capture a little bit. That thumb began to tear here' or 'simply lift and slide' is a problem. The throb, so I changed to my left hand. Got some of the U.S.P.S. flat rate box cheerfully advises, "pull tab to reluctant vegetable, and pulled it toward me. That's open." What do THEY know, as I pull and pull, before when my left thumb 'let go,' and I dropped most of I head to the tool box. 'Just follow directions' the green stuff into the canned peaches! The doesn't apply to me anymore. Not yet taking pliers woman next in line tried to make me feel better -wherever I go, I ask a McDonald's clerk to open the she said, "they should make tongs for left-handers." peanuts package so I can sprinkle nuts on my hot fudge sundae. Then there's the ice chest which NOT feeling better in De Land, Florida! MY THUMBS JUST DON'T WORK ANYMORE!
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In the Spotlight Lesley Gore Lesley Gore (b. 1946) was one of the few successful female solo artists during the era of the "girl groups." Best known as a teen singing sensation in the 1960s, Lesley Gore has also been a successful songwriter and an influence on a number of other women artists, from Debbie Harry to Madonna, as well as an actress. One of her signature songs, "You Don't Own Me" (1964), became a sort of anthem for the nascent women's movement. Gore's family and the people working with her were long aware of her lesbianism, but her first public acknowledgment of it came when she hosted an episode of the glbtq magazine show In the Life in 2003. She has since done another episode and has been touched by the response from glbtq people--particularly those not from urban areas--who have approached her when she is on tour. Gore has not publicly named her partner but has acknowledged that she has been in a committed relationship with another woman since the early 1980s. excerpt from www.glbtq.com
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Wild Iris Books Announces Regular Hours – Starting July 2 This is it… The post we’ve been waiting to write for months… Wild Iris Books is resuming normal business hours on Tuesday, July 2. We’ll be here to serve all your literary needs Tuesday thru Saturday from 1-8pm. We envisioned a different opening, joining you last spring in our new home. But the universe has its own time schedule and things always work out as they should. We’ve enjoyed the break – traveling, having dinner with friends at non-events, and reading books on our lists. But now we’re back. We’ll be opening and building as we go, things will be changing and morphing as we experiment with our new digs. Come by and give us your input and help us build our inventory wish lists. So here are the basics:
Tuesday – Saturday, 1 - 8pm Cash Only for a Short Time – (Though you can use the computer in the store to order online with a debit or credit card while you chat with us if you need!) 22 SE 5th Ave, Ste D
To our local vendors and consignment artists: We’re hammering out the last details in the new contracts and once we get all the merchandise and furniture settled – we’ll be contacting you to set up in the new shop. To our current and future volunteers: Next week we’ll be tightening up the training modules, creating some videos to help you all out and in about a week or two we’ll make a call for you all to sign up for training on the new system. Still though, don’t wait for that to stop by and see us! To those who want a party: Don’t worry, come Fall when all is in place and running smoothly, the sun slows down and our campus folk are back in town – there will be some massive celebration, in fact there will probably be several… Find your favorite way to keep in touch with us, Facebook, Twitter, Newsletters, etc, so you don’t miss the (excerpt from www.blog.wildirisbooks.com) all the updates and changes! Page 10
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Florida NOWPAC CCE Endorses Nan Rich The Florida National Organization for Women CCE board of directors announces that the NOWPAC CCE is giving its endorsement to Nan Rich for governor of the state of Florida. "We feel that Ms. Rich is the best hope for the future of Florida women. Her voting record shows her strong commitment to our issues” said Donna Slutiak, President of Florida NOWPAC CCE. Ms. Rich championed women's rights throughout her career as a Florida legislator, and Florida NOW is confident that she will make an excellent governor. Florida NOW hopes that showing early support will give Ms. Rich the momentum to become our state’s next governor.
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25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced! The winners of the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 3 in a sold-out gala ceremony hosted by comedienne Kate Clinton at The Great Hall at Cooper Union. Taking place just after BookExpo America, – the book publishing industry’s largest annual gathering of booksellers, publishers, authors, and readers – the Lambda ceremony brought together almost 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities to celebrate excellence in LGBT literature and 25 years of the groundbreaking literary awards. Legendary performer Janis Ian took to the stage at the ceremony, and the VIP After-Party at the New Museum was hosted by super-hot DJ Honey Dijon making a quarter century of the “Lammys” a night to remember.
Winners of the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Transgender Fiction The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender Vanguard, edited by Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, Topside Press Transgender Nonfiction Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, edited by Anne Enke, Temple University Press
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Bisexual Literature [TIE] In One Person, John Irving, Simon & Schuster My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B, Cheryl Burke, Topside Signature Gay General Fiction Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Cinco Puntos Press Gay Memoir/Biography Fire in the Belly, Cynthia Carr, Bloomsbury Gay Mystery Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery, Jeffrey Round, Dundurn Gay Poetry He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, Stephen S. Mills, Sibling Rivalry Press Gay Romance Kamikaze Boys, Jay Bell, Jay Bell Books Gay Erotica The Facialist, Mykola Dementiuk, JMS Books Lesbian General Fiction The World We Found: A Novel, Thrity Umrigar, HarperCollins Pub Kindred Sisters — July 2013
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson, Grove/Atlantic Lesbian Mystery Ill Will, J.M. Redmann, Bold Strokes Books Lesbian Poetry Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan, Nightboat Books
LGBT Drama The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan, Marc Robinson, University of Michigan Press LGBT Nonfiction Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, Dale Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company LGBT Science Fiction/ Fantasy/Horror Green Thumb, Tom Cardamone, Lethe Press
LGBT Studies Performing Queer Lesbian Romance Month of Sundays, Yolanda Wallace, Bold Strokes Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics, Ramón H. RiveraBooks Servera, University of Michigan Press Lesbian Erotica The Harder She Comes: Dr. James Duggins Mid-Career Novelist Prize Butch/Femme Erotica, Nicola Griffith D.L. King, Cleis Press Trebor Healey LGBT Anthology Dr. Betty Berzon No Straight Lines: Four Emerging Writer Decades of Queer Awards Comics, Justin Hall – Sassafras Lowrey Editor, Fantagraphics Carter Sickels Books LGBT Children’s/ Young Adult Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster/ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
excerpt from www.lambdaliterary.org
LGBT Debut Fiction The Summer We Got Free, Mia McKenzie, BGD Press
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WhatÊs Happening? Jul 2, 6:30pm: Queer Anti-violence Relationship Conversations (QuARC) Join Peaceful Paths advocates for an educational workshop series on intimate partner violence (IPV) in LGBTQ relationships. Topics will include communication and conflict resolution (July 2) and community resources (August 6). Workshops are free and open to all members of the community, including LGBTQ folks, friends, family members, allies, educators, and service providers. Meets at Library Headquarters, 401 E University Ave, Gainesville. www.peacefulpaths.org Jul 8, 7pm: Feminist Film Fest Gainesville NOW’s annual Summer Feminist Film Fest! Film: The Handmaid's Tale. Civic Media Center, 433 S Main St. $5 suggested donation. www.civicmediacenter.org Jul 9, 5:30pm: Cooking with Summer Leaf Vegetables Edible Plant Project's first cooking class! We grow a lot of nutritious and locally adapted food plants that most of you have no idea how to eat, so we're going to teach you. EPP specializes in warm-season leaf vegetables like callaloo, lamb's quarter, quailgrass/ celosia, molokhiya, edible-leaf elephant ear, moringa, chaya, and many more. Come to this class and learn how to prepare delicious and healthy recipes using some of them. If this works out, we hope to have more classes like this to introduce you to more of these wonderful plants. The class will be taught by 1) Georgette Peters, who has experience with the healthy alternative cooking style, and taught cooking classes for Weight Watchers, and 2) Michael Adler, the long-time coordinator of the Edible Plant Project. We're asking for $10 per attendee. Space is limited Page 14
so we're taking reservations for 15 attendees (go to https://www.facebook.com/ events/552443541458559/ to sign up). Held at 1323 S Main Street, Gainesville. Jul 9, 7:30pm: Ice Cream & Beer! Do you like amazing Ice Cream?? Do you like amazing Craft Beer??? Well then you definitely do no want to miss this event! The HOB is extremely excited to team up with Sweet Dreams Ice Cream to bring you Craft Beer Floats. We will be featuring Swamp Head's Midnight Oil and Sprecher's Hard Root Beer (5% abv) aged in Bootlegger Bourbon Barrels. Sweet Dreams Ice Cream will provide us with their delicious vanilla ice cream. Gainesville House Of Beer, 19 W University Ave, Gainesville. Jul 11, 5-7pm: Sweetwater Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Sweetwater invites you to a fun Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on our beautiful central downtown property to celebrate our brand new 30ft. in-ground pool & spa, our completely renovated new 2 bedroom 2.5 bath Nora Belle's guest cottage, and Sweetwater Branch Inn's 20 Year Anniversary! Food and beverage will be provided, as well as Sweetwater door prizes and tours of different parts of the property, such as the Reception Hall, the McKenzie Gardens, the Honeymoon and Nora Belle's Cottages, and both of our Victorian Houses. Email RSVP required: reserve@sweetwaterinn.com. Please note that parking will be available for all guests across the street at the Kirby Smith Center. Sweetwater Branch Inn, 625 E University Ave, Gainesville.
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WhatÊs Happening? Jul 12, 7:30pm: The Ulitmate Thriller UFPA presents a Michael Jackson tribute concert! The Ultimate Thriller, a live Michael Jackson tribute concert, is based on Jackson’s Dangerous and Bad concert tours and features classic hits like Billie Jean, Beat It, Black or White and many others. The production is supported by an audio consultant and dance experts who worked with Jackson and features four musicians, two background singers, four dancers and Fabio Morda as “Michael.” Tickets start at $20 and may be purchased at the Phillips Center, 352-392-2787, or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com. Jul 13, 8pm: Hairball 16 Variety Show Starring all your favorite local entertainers! This year we will feature a “Big Hair Contest” with the winner selected by audience participation. This PCCNCF fundraiser will be held at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 4225 NW 34th Blvd, Gainesville. Tickets: $12/adv; $15/door (includes snacks during intermission and free cover charge that same night at The University Club). Tickets available at Pride Community Center, 3131 NW 13th St. EVENT HAS LIMITED SEATING AND USUALLY SELLS OUT TO STANDING ROOM ONLY. For more information contact 352377-8915 or pridectr@bellsouth.net. www.gainesvillepride.org Jul 13, 8pm: Women’s Roller Derby Swamp City vs. Vero Vandalettes! Doors open at 7:30pm. Tickets: $10/adv, $15/door (available at Volta, Sweet Dreams, & www.brownpapertickets.com). Bring a chair or brave the suicide track-side seating. Skate Station Funworks, 1311 NW 76th Blvd, Gainesville. www.gainesvillerollerrebels.com Kindred Sisters — July 2013
Jul 16: International Drag Day International Drag Day is an annual celebration of Drag Artists, such as Drag Queens, Drag Kings, & faux queens. Jul 16, 7pm: Womanspirit Rising A monthly internet radio show with Flash Silvermoon & other Priestesses of different traditions to offer Live On-Air Rituals to Heal the Planet and Ourselves. This month the focus will be on Balance - how to find that space of Balance between the Light and Dark of the intense Changes! www.flashsilvermoon.com Jul 20, 1-7pm: Healing and Psychic Fair at the Sacred Earth Center, 1029 NW 23rd Ave, Gainesville. www.sacredearthcenter.org Jul 22, 7pm: "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" The Civic Media Center hosts the Gainesville branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) screening of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Stricken by cancer and close to death, Judi Bari--a leader of the movement to save California’s old growth redwoods-gives her testimony about the attempt on her life and her lawsuit against the FBI for trying to frame her and Darryl Cherney. It’s a story about beating the system and saving the trees; a film that resonates today as we face deteriorating civil rights and the huge ecological problems that bring us closer to catastrophic climate change. Civic Media Center, 433 S Main St, Gainesville. $3-5 donation requested. 352-373-0010, www.civicmediacenter.org
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WhatÊs Happening? Aug 6, 6:30pm: Queer Anti-violence Relationship Conversations (QuARC) Join Peaceful Paths advocates for an educational workshop on intimate partner violence (IPV) in LGBTQ relationships. This month’s topic will be community resources. Workshops are free and open to all members of the community, including LGBTQ folks, friends, family members, allies, educators, and service providers. Meets at Library Headquarters, 401 E University Ave, Gainesville. www.peacefulpaths.org Aug 12, 7pm: Feminist Film Fest Gainesville NOW’s annual Summer Feminist Film Fest! Film: The Brandon Teena Story. Civic Media Center, 433 S Main St. $5 suggested donation. www.civicmediacenter.org Aug 17, 9am-4pm: PFLAG Gainesville Summer Summit at IFAS
Ongoing Events AA Meetings in Gainesville LGBT Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings on Sundays at 7:30pm at Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St. AA Meetings in St. Augustine LGBT AA Meetings held at 7pm on Saturdays at Flagler Hospital in the Alicia room. Buy Local at the Weekly Farm Market! Everything Fresh. Everything Local. Every Sunday, 2-5pm. Fresh baked bread, Farm fresh eggs & produce, Unique ethnic cuisines, Homemade soaps, candles, & more! Citizens Co-op Courtyard, 435 S Main St, Gainesville. www.citizensco-op.com Page 16
Confidential HIV & STD Testing - FREE 1st & 3rd Thursdays of each month at 5-7pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville. Drag Bingo Mondays at 9pm at The Jones B-Side Veranda, 203 SW 2nd Avenue, Gainesville Farm Stead Saturday Saturdays, 9am-3pm, at Crones’ Cradle Conserve, 6411 NE 217th Pl in Citra, FL. Farm Tours & Organic Produce! 352-5953377 Gainesville Area NOW Meetings Gainesville Area National Organization for Women meets the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St. Public Welcome. www.gainesvillenow.org Gainesville Area Women’s Network GAWN is the friendliest networking in town. Supportive women gather for lunch, to network & learn from each other & guest speakers. Meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Sweetwater Branch Inn. 352-215-1621, www.gawn.org Gaynesville Queer Reading Group Meets 2nd Wednesday every month at 7pm to discuss a book that relates to queerness, including history, theory, fiction, etc. Civic Media Center, 433 S Main St. 352-373-0010 Interweave A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender individuals & their allies. Meets at 6:30pm on the 2nd Sunday of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville, 4225 NW 34th St. Potluck, Kindred Sisters — July 2013
WhatÊs Happening? presentation, & discussion. "Just Us" Created for professional women 35+ to meet & mingle. Meets the last Saturday of the month at different restaurants, mostly in Volusia County. Join us for fun & food. "No mess, no men, no fuss, it's "Just Us". Contact Dee, dee1023@yahoo.com Lesbian Readings & Potluck We have a good time together! Come and eat good food, bring something you have written and want to share, and/or come and listen to others read. Some womyn come just to the potluck, some just to the readings, and some to both. It's a lovely, connected evening with a small group of womyn as we share our stories and food. Time: 6:30 Potluck; 7:30 - Readings. Place: TBA. Contact: Madeline 352-335-3138. PFLAG Gainesville PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meets monthly (3rd Tuesday) at 7pm to realize our goal of moving equality forward. United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW 5th Ave. 352-3403770, www.pflaggainesville.org
Stonewall Democrats of Alachua County LGBT Democrats & supporters meet monthly on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 6pm at the Alachua County Democratic Hdqtrs, 901 NW 8th Ave #A-3. Transgender Gainesville Discussion Group Meets on 2nd & 4th Wednesdays at 7pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St. Trans* Movie Night Join Spectrum and PCCNCF on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St. spectrumgainesville@yahoo.com What the Animals Tell Me Every Wednesday at 8:30pm Flash Silvermoon hosts a live internet radio show for animal lovers. Listen to the live stream or check the archives later: www.internetvoicesradio.com Youth Discussion Group PCCNCF hosts a weekly “Youth Discussion Group” for GLBT youth between the ages of 14 & 18 years old on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville. FMI call 352-377-8915
PFLAG Ocala Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6-8pm at the Ocala Public Library (Room B). FMI 352-857-1739. “Sister Song” - Gainesville Women's Choir All are welcome; no experience needed. Rehearsals every Wednesday at 7pm at Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St Ste 62. For more info contact Ruth at 352-538-4927. Kindred Sisters — July 2013
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7 Ladders, 2 Plays There are 7 LADDERS in my house, not for climbing or repairs, but part of my cherished LESBIAN LIBRARY. This lesbian review was published from 1956 to 1970 monthly, less regularly after Daughters of Bilitis disbanded. Barbara Grier was editor for a while, and expanded their list to 3800. I read in Lesbian Connection of the recent passing of Sally Duplaix, who was responsible for me owning several of my seven copies, and is the cute dyke on the cover of JUNE 1965, looking out to sea (get it?). It’s a black and white full-length photo. A handsome woman, nattily dressed in slacks, shirt, windbreaker and snap brim fedora, in a fashion pose, sunglasses...gazes down the beach, away from the camera. On the back cover, just her head and upper torso, with the legend: LOOK AHEAD TO ECHO 65! (East Coast Homophile Organization) in New York City, with all male speakers on lofty academic topics, but I believe they knew how to have lesbian fun! Sally and Deedy Breed came to Pagoda for an early steering committee OLOC conference, and I helped organize my Lesbian neighborhood for the visitation. Requirements were that we have a sizable “over sixty” local support group meeting on
a regular basis, arrange housing and transport, and some venues for meetings of up to 40. Kaimora’s beachhouse was finished and ready, with an accessible meeting room, and my neighbors Irene Weiss and Marilyn Murphy were already committed to OLOC, having attended the first west coast conference, 1987. Nancy Breeze, neighbor next door, and Faye Quinlivan, local, participated. Kate Rosenblatt, California playwright, whose Florida daughter was my movie buddy. Arden Eversmeyer and Charlotte came driving in from Texas, bringing several friends. Some of the sessions were OPEN, some for OLOC MEMBERS ONLY. A neighboring Fish House, Oscar’s, was big and barny, and had a local band on Thursdays. When our group arrived, there was a spontaneous square dance enjoyed by all! This buncha bananas knew how to enjoy themselves. Rosemary from California, the original group, got INTO IT, in true redhead fashion. Anyway, Sally and Deedy were among my first OLOC friends, and in 2006 Durham, I saw Sally again, and she was giving away some OLD ISSUES of The LADDER, and we had time for a short waltz down memory lane about the seaside Florida meeting, so many years ago. I have another literary treasure: TWO PLAYS by KATE ROSENBLATT, which she gave for PAGODA in my keeping. TWENTY TWO TWENTY THREE WEST GROVE ST first performed at the FIRST WEST COAST CONFERENCE by and for OLD LESBIANS, 1987. MY SISTER - Copywright, December 29, 1985. First performance: 11/21/87, San Diego OLOC conference. I’m thinking the plays might be published by OLOC or archived by them, if requested? I’m KEEPING THE LADDERS; the writing is timeless. by Rainbow Williams
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Feminist Film Festival! Gainesville Area National Organization for Women presents a Summer Film Festival.
July 8 - The Handmaid's Tale Set in a time when a buildup of toxic chemicals has made most people sterile, Volker Schlondorff's film offers a disturbing view of a society under martial law in which fertile women are captured and made into handmaids to bear children for rich and infertile matrons. The film unfolds from the eyes of newly converted handmaid Kate (Natasha Richardson). She is trapped in this mysogynistic society which both deifies these fertile women as prized possessions and condemns them as whores. Throughout the story Kate has to cope with the jealousy of the woman she serves (Faye Dunaway), the advances of her sleazy military husband (the Commander, played by Robert Duvall), and the loss of her daughter, who has been shuttled off to a similarly aristocratic setting. She also falls in love with one of the Commander's security guards (Aidan Quinn), who sympathizes with her plight and potentially offers her a way out. Throughout The Handmaid's Tale, issues of feminism, abortion rights, male dominance, and conservative religious politics all come under fire. Some may view the film itself as antifemale considering its concepts, but it is quite the opposite. Instead it shows how only through solidarity can women bring down an overriding patriarchical mindset. The film, which works from Harold Pinter's screenplay adaption of Margaret Atwood's novel, features strong performances from those mentioned as well as Elizabeth McGovern and Victoria Tennant.
Aug 12 - The Brandon Teena Story Brandon Teena was a handsome boy who had tremendous success with women because he always seemed to know exactly what they wanted. Perhaps it helped that Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, a young woman who desperately wanted to be a man. But Brandon lived in a small Midwestern town, where his sexual identity crisis wasn't tolerated, inciting two so-called friends to brutally murder him and two other innocents. This true story, which was the basis for the feature film Boys Don't Cry, is recounted in this award-winning (Best Documentary at both the Vancouver and Berlin film festivals) documentary.
Films will be shown at 7:00 pm at the Civic Media Center, 433 S Main St. Suggested donation: $5
www.GainesvilleNOW.org
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Attn: Writers & Artists Call for Submissions
The Round Up Writer’s Zine is a new literary and we are actively seeking fresh and relatively unpublished writers looking for a place to share their work with other passionate and like minded individuals. Currently we are interested in works, such as short stories, both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, quirky essays and personal musings. We would like our submissions to be laced in humor or darkness, or both. If it is snarky or laden in sarcasm, bring it on. Most importantly, we like pieces that are edgy. If this sounds like your writing we want to hear from you! For more info, go to www.roundupzine.com/submit Riptide Publishing is celebrating our second anniversary this October. To say “Thank you!” to the readers and authors who’ve made this milestone possible, we’re holding our first-ever totally open call this October. For one week in October—10/1/13 to 10/7/13—we will be open for all submissions. We have only three core requirements for your stories: a rainbow component (LGBTQ main characters), a strong authorial voice, and an integral-to-the-story romance. (We have some submission guidelines, as well. Please check them out at www.riptidepublishing.com/call-forsubmissions.) Migdalia Reyes and Nívea Castro are calling for creative works by and about out-of-the-closet Latina Lesbians for a special issue of Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and arts journal. We are committed to exploring the
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diverse life experiences of out Latina lesbians, told in our own voices. We seek writing on the ethnic, racial, spiritual, political, economic, gender and/or sexual impact on our lives and relationships with women, family, work and/or community. For details, go to www.sinisterwisdom.submittable.com/submit Sibling Rivalry Press seeks poetry and creative nonfiction submissions for The Queer South, an anthology scheduled for publication in September 2014. The anthology, edited by Douglas Ray, will be the first-ever to explore and celebrate Dixie’s queer culture in essays and poetry. Whether your roots are in the South, you spent some time there, you had an unforgettable encounter at a Mardi Gras ball in the Reagan Era, or you staged an impromptu drag show in Talladega after a NASCAR race, your submissions are welcome. Submit up to four previously unpublished poems or one essay of no more than 5000 words at thequeersouth.submittable.com. As predicted, zombies never die. So I am putting out the call for stories for Still Hungry for your Love, the second volume of my zombie romance anthology. This is a pansexual anthology, so all genders and sexualities are welcome! Zombie love knows no boundaries. I’m looking for stories of love amongst the undead, between zombies and the living, and (we hope) many stories about the hot, alpha male and female zombie killers. These stories can take place in the zombie apocalypse, alternative reality, the future or on another planet. You can cross genres (zombie steampunk?) and even sexual proclivities (not sure I can even imagine zombie BDSM). But, hey, Kindred Sisters — July 2013
let’s be creative. Please email me at lori@riverdaleavebooks.com and let me know if you are working on a story.
nin is a new journal of erotic poetics engaged in the threeway of literature, words and pleasure. Submissions are now open until August 1 for the inaugural issue due out September 2013. nin encourages exploration in what it means to be a poem, and as such all manner of ephemera, text with visuals and phonetics will be considered for publication. Named after novelist and lover of the erotic Anais Nin, the journal seeks to publish work that explores the body and sex through language. Visit our website for more information at www.ninjournal.tumblr.com. Wilde Magazine is a quarterly publication of art and writing by and for the GLBTQ community. We seek to not only offer a high-quality publication from a queer perspective, but to also create an environment for discussion and workshopping. We’re seeking submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, and visual art of all mediums. See www.wildemagazine.org/ submit for details.
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Lucky Charms Celebrates Pride From all of the marriage equality celebrations to Facebook's new Pride emoticon, everyone's seeing the colors of the rainbow these past few days and now, to continue celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride, you don't have to look any further than your cereal bowl. General Mills has come out in support of the gay community for Pride, and what better way to show their love than with the Lucky Charms marshmallow rainbow? The "magically delicious" cereal is serving as the face of the new #LuckyToBe campaign which encourages people with Pride to tweet and post online their reasons for why they're prideful using the hashtag #LuckyToBe. "We're celebrating Pride month with whimsical delight, magical charms, and two new rainbow marshmallows... If you're lucky enough to be different, we're celebrating you," the #LuckyToBe campaign stated in a press release sent to GLAAD. General Mills, which is based in Minneapolis, spoke out about equality recently when a bill was proposed to ban gay marriage in Minnesota. Ken Charles, the company's vice president of diversity and inclusion, said: "We do not believe the proposed constitutional amendment is in the best interests of our employees or our state economy -- and as a Minnesota-based company we oppose it. We value diversity. We value inclusion. We always have ... and we always will. We’re proud of our workplace, and we’re proud to be a leader for diversity and inclusion in our community. For decades, General Mills has worked to create an inclusive culture that welcomes and values the contributions of all." Check out the website for #LuckyToBe (http://luckyto.be) where you can submit why you're lucky and don't forget to have a second bowl of Lucky Charms! excerpt from www.huffingtonpost.com
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20 Week Abortion Ban by NOW President Terry O'Neill
After voting to move forward on the vote, the House of Representatives has approved -- in a nearly party-line vote of 228-196 -- Rep. Trent Franks' appalling nationwide 20-week abortion ban. This bill represents the most restrictive abortion legislation to come to a vote in either chamber over the past decade and is a clear violation of Roe v. Wade. Anyone who thinks the Republican leadership's war on women is moderating, let alone over, is mistaken. This bill places the health and well-being of women in the hands of ideologues more interested in politics than women's lives. By banning abortion after 20 weeks and cutting funding to necessary social safety nets, among other policy decisions, the Republican members of the House continue to show their true colors. No amount of softening rhetoric or moderate posturing will change the harsh reality that today's GOP is out of step and out of touch when it comes to women. We at NOW are not fooled, and neither are women voters. NOW will continue to fight for a comprehensive approach to achieving reproductive justice for all women – from expanding reproductive health services in every community to ending the discrimination and inequality that keep women from controlling their own reproductive lives.
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Facebook Launches Rainbow Emoticon In Honor Of Gay Pride Social media celebration in wake of the historic gay Supreme Court rulings has been huge. Anyone on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or any of the other social media sites has no doubt been bombarded by posts about gay pride. Facebook has now made showing your pride even easier with a new rainbow emoticon. This past April Facebook launched emoticons that you can plug into your status update, and now you can insert a rainbow icon when using Facebook. To make your status more colorful with the rainbow emoticon, just follow these simple steps outlined by GLAAD: 1. Compose a new status 2. Click on the emoticon (next to the camera icon), choose Feeling 3. Type in "pride" after Feeling 4. The Pride rainbow will be added to your status The social media giant also launched the hashtag #PrideConnectsUs to help users show their pride -and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been using it. In a press release sent to The Huffington Post from GLAAD, it was noted that on June 26, Facebook also posted a status to its official page liked by over 90 million users that said "Approximately 70% of people on Facebook in the U.S. are connected to a friend who has expressly identified themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual on their timeline. excerpt from www.huffingtonpost.com Page 23
AstroFlash ARIES - I'm sure glad the fire picks up by the end of the month because we fiery ones can only take so much water. After swimming and boating one can feel saturated. Nah just playing, I love playing in the water but I just need to keep my fire hot when it seems like all the energies are conspiring to keep me soggy. Guess not too many folks are having a problem staying hot jeez this is some weather. I shouldn't complain about the water when so many places need some to put out the fires. Why not take some water from the flooding and pump it too the forest fires. Balance yeah, if I were a Libra I could give that more airtime. Good thing we don't have global warming or anything like that. Uranus in my sign is making me a bit more irritable than usual and with Mars kickin' me in Cancer better give me a wide berth. I am not comfortable with this harsh energy but I seem to go with it anyway after all, I am Mars the warrior. Be that as it may, I think I would rather have my guidance come from Artemis or the Amazons.
feel like splashing around like a little child and I can feel the weight of the world slip off my shoulders. Sometimes the deep Scorpionic water pulls me into its dark fertile spaces where my mind can pursue the many mysteries of the moon. Perhaps I can use the water as a reflecting pool to discern the future. Ah the future, it all seems so uncertain these days and I remember a good book I read in college called The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. His words ring true today as they did back in the 60's.
LEO - Oh yeah we are coming into my month as we embrace late July's steamy nights. I dream and wait for these nights all year long and the time is just right for my mood. Prowling about surveying my domain longing for a playful swat from my special mate and knowing that she could be lurking behind any palm or sago stretched out bathed in moonlight. These steamy summer nights are made for love and with Venus in my sign even the retro Mercury can't stop me for long. I may need to be more open and expressive because I have kept my wants hidden even from myself. I am feeling more settled as I feel myself appreciated and that long magical road opening wide TAURUS - This bull loves the idea of lounging by the pool or on the before me. My excitement is bubbling up from hidden places inside beach, love me some water. Better than the blazing heat but of course I love the sensuality of the summer. Venus is in Leo and bulls me and I revel in it. and lions are not exactly compatible but I could get behind a sweet cuddly lion for a lunch date. I am such a nature girl that any natural VIRGO - I am feeling both more liberated and a little confused. There is a minor battle going on between my well worn logical mind and the place of beauty is an instant turn on for me as long as you let me take my time to get used to the cool mountain stream or that hill in new/old more intuitive mind that is emerging. I know it needn't be a the forest. As a matter of fact I like to take my time with everything. fight between them but more like an even handed truce where both parties get their place at the astro table. I know I am sounding With Saturn opposing my Sun, slow is the speed it's gonna be no almost Libran with this balance stuff but it sure would be nice to feel matter what. As I have said so many times, BABY, I'm built for that for a little while. I am finding more ways to let my inquisitive comfort, not for speed. mind explore and find new ways to see what energy or totem is offering itself to me. I typically like to run the show or at least think GEMINI - Sure do miss having the luxury of Jupiter around me. I could have anything, do anything, oh and the parties! I traveled, long that I do.and I am starting to enjoy letting myself feel a little more fluid with Neptune and Chiron opposing my Sun. With Mercury retro, I and short trips , didn't matter, I just felt like I ruled the world for these few months. I suppose it's time to buckle down and make some will need to feed my mind with very positive messages about my talents because if not given good guidance it could take another more focused decisions about how I spend my time. Damn, no road which would not be nearly as pleasant. planets in my sign and Mercury retrograde too! Jeez focus and I have to slow down and be mindful. My mind is full, always is but when LIBRA - I sure heard my name mentioned throughout these words my ruling sign Mercury goes backwards, it kind of puts me in a and I know that I could play a significant role in the unveiling of this tailspin and my thoughts go off cycling. I must not gossip now no matter how I feel ya know you must remember too much or you get new and changing world. I heard my favorite word, balance, and it is a path that calls me always. Hopefully as I mature I will have an tripped up, nah mum is the word for this Gemini. easier time of it. I am tired of having to chase that pendulum to and fro bouncing from one extreme to another. Plenty of drama there CANCER - Body surfing on the cosmic wave for this Cancer as I and I can enjoy the romance of it all too. Somehow that Middle Road dodge the spiritual white water. So much energy congealed in my sign in the earlier part of the month and then Mars comes barging in calls to me and the peace that it offers seems like a delicious wrecking everything. Hard to duck when that angry warrior comes offering to the Goddesses sweet and luscious and hard earned. I crashing through my sanctuary and you know how we moon children know when I round that corner I will honor my progress and consider my journey well done. like our peace and safety. I actually love all the water swirling around me, it makes me feel so buoyant and dreamy. Sometimes I Page 24
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SCORPIO - Deep water that's where I live no doubt. I have mixed feelings about being part of this Grand Water trine though because I don't want to disappear into a watery mass and lose myself. I mean it's not likely that you will mistake me for anyone else.I don't like drawing a lot of notice to myself and I much rather make a big impact while no one is looking. Saturn in my sign has made me want to put the lid on my doings even more. I don't crave working in groups because I have some fears about the "group mind." When people get all stirred up the intensity can drag all in their path into the melee. If I am going to get into some trouble I want to do it on my terms and in my way, just my thing and I am setting some boundaries thanks to heavy duty Saturn. Hope I get to have some fun one of these days. I am not a Capricorn so please let me enlighten up. SAGITTARIUS - Not a lot of planetary energy aiming directly at me but as you know I am a mutable [watery} fire sign which means that I manifest some of the energy of both elements. I am actually feeling more free than usual and am wanting to express my creative urges that seem to be flowing beautifully. With all the rain we are having you can see me shining in the morning sun, a rainbow across the sky calling you out to play with me. Loving being me these days too as I can be the life of many parties, no holding back.I am drawn into the physical but even more into the metaphysical. My lust for travel can be more easily satisfied on a magic carpet than Delta but it's all good. See ya on a higher plane, I'll be the one flying solo with a multi-colored scarf trailing behind.
The mountain top view is kind of heady and the air is rarified, breathing deep. AQUARIUS - The Full Moon this month is in my sign and I know that I must gather with my circle. Sometimes I prefer to go solo but not this time. I am feeling the need for community support and also to support the community. My thinking tends to be most progressive but occasionally I get stuck behind the way things were instead of living more authentically in the moment. If there is one thing that I would love to master this year it is to be more present and to live into the moment that is rather than the one I imagine there to be. I am even contemplating dealing more openly with my emotions! I know there is power in letting all the energies into my world. PISCES - I am a very sensitive being to begin with and the presence of all these planets in water signs especially that Grand Trine we have been talking about has heightened my sensitivity 10 fold. For my psychic abilities, this is mostly a big plus but for all else it winds up being almost too much of a good thing. The more time I spend in the water the better I feel its almost as if I am a mermaid who needs the comfort of her seaside home to manage life on earth. Any way that I can buffer the harshness of my outer reality is good for me at this time and I enjoy my sanctuary where I find it. Animals soothe me but their plight gets harder and harder for me to take never the less my commitment to them is part of what gives my life more meaning. I would not want to imagine my world without them. The material world is less of a draw for me but the pleasure of my intimacy with Spirit is Divine.
Through my monthly Astroflash, I have endeavored to offer gender neutral astrology to speak to all sexual preferences and identities. If you know your Rising sign, your personal reading will be more accurate if you read the passage for that sign as well as your Sun sign. Flash Silvermoon, North Florida's Favorite Psychic, Astrologer and Animal Communicator has served the community for 40+ years with readings that are both accurate and empowering. Call 352-4752432 for your appt today. She really tells it like it is! Flash can easily read for you by phone wherever you are and you can pay on her website at the section called Moonmarket (scroll to products and you are in!). This is a great time for a reading to help guide you through these stormy waters. For deeper questions and readings of CAPRICORN - Working hard as usual but now that little Uranus won't an Astrological or Psychic nature, feel free to contact Flash by be so demanding that I change everything right now. So much better phone or through her website. She can help your animal companions for Pluto in my sign to operate more autonomously, it's just easier as well. that way. I was feeling very pulled and not always in the same direction so I am relieved to be able to make more even handed choices for my future and dare I say I feel cautiously optimistic. See the rest of Flash Silvermoon's Astroflash for Imagine that, me the Capricorn seeing the glass half full for a July at www.flashsilvermoon.com change. This Phoenix is coming out of the ashes and shaking off the dust. I am ready to embrace the rest of my life with some gusto too. Kindred Sisters — July 2013
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COMMUNITY RESOURCES Civic Media Center (CMC) 433 S Main St, 352-373-0010 CodePink -- Women for Peace jacque@codepinkalert.org, 352-468-2101, www.codepinkalert.org Crone’s Cradle Conserve Retreat 352-595-3377, www.cronescradleconserve.com Flash Silvermoon - Wise Woman’s Fest www.flashsilvermoon.com, 352-475-2432 Gainesville Area AIDS Project (GAAP) 352-373-4227 or info@gaaponline.org Gainesville Community Alliance (GCA) www.gcaonline.org Gainesville Iguana http://www.afn.org/~iguana/ Gay & Lesbian National Hotline 1-888-843-4564, www.glnh.org Human Rights Council (HRCNCF) 352-372-5192 or hrcncf@gmail.com LGBT Youth Support Group gainesvillepridecenteryouth@gmail.com National Center for Lesbian Rights www.nclrights.org Peaceful Paths Domestic Violence Hotline 352-377-8255, 1-800-393-7233 www.peacefulpaths.org
Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF) 352-377-8915, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville www.gainesvillepride.org Pride Student Union 352-392-1665 #326 or pride@sg.ufl.edu Rainbow Families (Gay Parents Group) 352-284-4541, gayparentgroup@bellsouth.net Shake Rag Art & Culture Center 882 North State Road 21, Melrose FL 352-475-5551, www.shakeragarts.org St. Augustine MCC Church 904-824-2802, www.FirstCoastMCC.org Stonewall Democrats of Alachua County 352-373-1730, PO Box 223, Gainesville Survivors of Anti-LGBT Victimization (SAV) 352-264-6760, 1-866-252-5439 Trinity Metropolitan Community Church 352-495-3378, www.mccgainesville.org UF Office of LGBT Affairs 352-392-1217, www.lgbt.multicultural.ufl.edu Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 352-377-1669, 4225 NW 34th St, Gainesville Wild Iris Books www.wildirisbooks.com, 352-375-7477
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