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JULY 22, 2013 WEEKLY ISSUE

OnTrack Our Gang Online Weekly Magazine!

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WEEKENDS @ TraX FRIDAYS from 5pm-2am ALWAYS A GREAT CROWD

ONTRACK MAGAZINE

2nd Friday Bear Night 3rd Friday Country Night

SATURDAY from 5pm-2am ALWAYS A GREAT CROWD 4th Saturday Leather Night WE OPEN ON SUNDAYS @ 4PM S.I.N. Night

PUBLISHED FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF MEMBERS AND GUEST OF TRAX, SIX TEN CENTER STREET AND MISS KITTY’S ONTRACK is published and distributed as a Notice to Members and Guest of TraX, Six Ten Center Street, and Miss Kitty’s. Publication of the name, photograph or likeness of any person, business or organization in this publication is not to be construed as any indication of the sexual orientation or preferences of such person, business or organization. Opinions expressed herein by columnists or advertisers do not necessarily reflect the opinions of ONTRACK or its staff. Publisher of ONTRACK reserves the right to refuse advertising materials for any reason whatsoever.

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Join Us At 610, For Our New Menu. We Will Have Jeff Behind The Bar To Mix Up Your Favorite Drinks And Kevin Will Be Taking And Making Those Dinner Orders. So Join Us Monday Off Our New Hours M-F 5-10. Also We Will Have Kristen Martin Tickling The Ivorys For Your Enjoyment. PAGE 6-.........OnTrack Magazine Published Weekly by Our Gang

Monday, July 22, 2013

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Join us Saturday July 27th for A Brulesque Party, Come dressed in your Brulesque Best as we celebrate the return of

The Diamond Dames to Kitty’s.

Pregame with us at 610 and celebrate Liz’ Birthday and then head on over to the show at Kitty’s. Trust me when I say these girls can move it. Dont miss all the fun and entertainment with at

610.

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Come on Out to Miss Kittys Wednesday Night Drageoke! Hosted by Chichi Valdez with special Guest Each Week. Drink Specials & $1 Jello Shots. Doors open at 7pm and Kareoke kicks off at 8:30. 21+ to enter and valid I.D. Hope to see familiar faces out

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Talent Night Every Thursday @ Miss Kitty’s-Saloon Each week Miss Kitty’s Host our Weekly Talent Night and the weekly winners comes back on the 4th Thursday of the Month for Brittney Paige’s Talent Showcase Showdown. Entry is $2.00 with the proceeds going to the winner each week. Each winner progresses to the monthly showcase showdown where they win the door prize and a spotlight in Brittney Paige’s monthly show. Come out and support your friends. The more people that come out to support you the more money you can win. The Sky’s the limit.

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“Hot Springs Gay Pride” Formational Meeting

straight owned establishment has offered to welcome the Gay community.

“Hot Springs Gay Pride” Formational Meeting was

Anne K made an appeal to our group to work with other groups in LR that have common goals. Counter points made by Trevor and Alan were made. Although no one in this group is against the idea of helping other groups, we need to form this one first and establish ourselves, first.

held at 7:20 pm at 1501 Park Avenue.

Trevor Nelson called the meeting to order and offered to preside over the meeting. ◾Hosts Tab and Eli were thanked for their generosity ◾Neil and Alan were thanked for the electronic devices ◾Thanks and welcome to all in attendance After a brief discussion about Parliamentary Procedure, it was decided to conduct the meeting with less formality. Trevor spoke about the fractured condition of the Hot Springs Gay Community. Having no centralized meeting point we’ve devolved into small factions...but that our strength lies in numbers. Questions posed to those in attendance: ◾What are we known for? ANSWER: Caring and Compassion Why are we organizing? For what purpose? What do we hope to accomplish? After much discussion the group continued to reiterate these points: ◾Break Stereotypes through community outreach (through volunteerism) ◾Show of power (strength in numbers) ◾To re-establish the gay community as a community ◾Support groups working to change legislation such as AfE or AIME ◾Maintain a message board where important events and political info directly related to Gays in Hot Springs can be posted and maintained. ◾Establish a link to a separate page (Facebook or other) to use for chatting, advertising gay businesses, etc. ◾Participate in LR October Pride event (if possible) ◾Apply to have a float in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Shon and James spoke about their involvement in several groups in LR and about their experience with their gay news paper called Pink Spectrum in 2006. Anne J had a conversation with the owner of The Corner Bar (formerly known as Hard Times). This

Discussion was held about the scope of the group: lesbian and gay? Tranny? Intersexed? Diversity? Straight? Someone suggested “Make the gay agenda the Human Agenda.” It was generally decided that although we stand for all human rights, and women’s rights, that this group was founded specifically to advance the rights of Lesbians and Gays in Hot Springs/Arkansas. Mya/Larry and Eli offered web design skills Debate was held over our group name: some want it to be LGBTQ, some want it to say “and straight allies.” Some don’t want it to say gay at all, others insisted that it must say gay to self identify. This discussion was tabled until next meeting, and a call for slogans, acronyms, group names, and mission statement was made. General discussion was had about how we would like to govern our group. Trevor asked for a show of hands to see who wants to hold an office such as president. No one volunteered. Neil suggested a decentralized form of governance, by quorum. Eli made a motion to adopt the “Quorum of Nine” Alan seconded the motion...motion passed. (This means that if at least 9 of us show up to a meeting we can conduct business. Any nine. It must also be noted that this form of governance depends on a clear mission statement and some sort of constitution in order to be effective. The Quorum of 9 promises to use our mission statement and constitution to guide any decisions made.) Intermission Meeting Called back to order Ann Q invited our group to participate in the Seeds of Peace event on Sept 21 from 9-11. Sponsored by “R.E.G.A.R.D”, Seeds of Peace is an inter-faith/inter-

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community/celebration of tolerance and diversity in Hot Springs. Booths are $5, and if we offer some sort of activity they waive the fee. Several expressed that this venue would be a good first “coming out” for the group.

laws in the public schools, to make ourselves know to city council members, consider forming a chapter of PFLAG, work toward domestic partnership on a city level such as Eureka Springs currently enjoys, to assist the marriage equality ballot initiatives.

Alan and Joe suggested the UU Church on Spring as a possible meeting place. They are active in social justice, HIV causes, and support R.E.G.A.R.D.

Business for next meeting: ◾Create a name for the group ◾Create mission statement out of submissions ◾work on or choose a logo ◾Discuss the booth at the Seeds of Changes event

Trey from A.I.M.E. gave us encouragement by reminding us to remain involved politically, to pridefully engage in public service, to do volunteer work. In particular he asked us to push and work for anti-discrimination laws in the work place, anti-discrimination by-

Next meeting: July 28th 7 pm, Fordyce Ricks Estate at 1501 Park All are welcome

Hot Springs Gay Pride Meeting Sunday, July 28, 2013 Unitarian Universalist Church on Spring Street Bring suggestions for mission statements, slogan, acronyms, logos, and anything else we should discuss. Bring friends, a drink or snack to share if you are able, and a chair!

Community Theatre of Little Rock Announces Open Auditions for its Fall Comedy

“Lost in Yonkers” by Neil Simon Auditions for Community Theatre of Little Rock’s Fall Comedy “Lost in Yonkers” by Neil Simon will be held on Thursday, July 27th at 2 pm at The PUBLIC Theatre and Monday, July 29th at 7:30 pm, (Place TBA) Mark Troillett and Josh Sigal will be directing. There will be cold readings from the script. 2 Pre-teen boys, 2 Males, 3 Females Production dates for the show are September 13th - 29th, 2013. Rehearsals begin around August 1st. By America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in a Yonkers in 1942. Bella is 35-years-old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz . As the play opens, ne’r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a smalltime hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers. Founded in 1956, the Community Theatre of Little Rock(CTLR) is Central Arkansas’s oldest and finest theater tradition. CTLR is a nonprofit, volunteer organization striving to enlighten, educate and entertain our community by providing live theatrical productions of the highest quality, as well as providing opportunities for talented people to perform and participate in all phases of producing live theater. For further information, visit our website www.ctlr-act.org. You may also look us up on Facebook or call our information line at (501) 410-ACT3(2283). .

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Out & About

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Out & About

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Screening of Trans the Movie

Trans Presented by Gender Equality Arkansas (GEAR), A Program of CAR CoSponsored by: Little Rock PFLAG and Just Communities of Arkansas (JCA) Monday, July 22 7:30pm - 9:33pm in N Little Rock, AR

at Cinemark Tandy 10 $10.00 General

Tickets are $10.00 each. ALL Tickets MUST be purchased online. No tickets will be sold at the door. To purchase tickets please use this link. http://www.tugg.com/events/4559 “TRANS” is a 2012 documentary feature about males and females and everything in between. It is an “Up Close and Personal” view of the Transgender Community that will change both your mind and your heart. This Screening is presented by GEAR (Gender Equality Arkansas) a program of CAR, Little Rock PFLAG and Just Communities of Arkansas. A panel discussion will follow the film.

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GRTC for 7-22-2013 edition Howdy Campers. Well we are Going into the hot dog days of summer. No group events scheduled in the near future. Thomas Speakmon-Smith and Glen will be on the injured reserve list for the next month or so after Glen’s back surgery on Thursday the 18th. If you know of any relevant events going on send us the info and we will get it posted. We have a website in the works GRTC.info it’s a work in progress But would like to thank Charles Tinsley for his help in this. A website will allow us to put out a lot more info and different things that currently Facebook doesn’t make possible for us. We want to include links of gay owned and gay friendly camp grounds, resorts, hotels etc. So if you know of some you think we should include send us a message at gayroadtrippingcampers@ gmail.com, or on facebook as a post on our group page. Thomas and Glen along with all the founders of this group are very happy with what the group has accomplished and excited at the trips we have had and plans we have for the future. If you haven’t joined us yet please do so, it isn’t like some of the other gay groups that some might not feel comfortable with and we have a lot of fun and have met a lot of new friends. We have the Cactus canyon trip (may not be for everyone) the first weekend in October and our Annual Petit Jean Anniversary weekend the first weekend in

December planned and we will plan some other trips soon. One we will be having hopefully September possibly is a short trip to Choctaw area near Clinton. Nice little Campground with a nice lake for swimming, fishing and boating. Hopefully have another meet and greet night out at Trax or one of the other Our Gang bars. We hope to have that planned as soon as the back will heal enough. Would also like to thank our sponsor Our Gang for all their help and support they have given our group and for the outstanding leadership and support they continually give our community. Look forward to meeting more of ya’ll and look forward to many adventures ahead. Peace, Love and Happy Camping! and Remember You’ve got a friend in GRTC! -Glen Smith Life is short, Decide whats most important to you and Live like it is.

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WEDNESDAY PROGRESSIVE HAPPY HOUR NIGHT THURSDAY BARTENDER SHOT SPECIAL FRIDAY 1ST FRIDAY SIDEKICKS NIGHT 2ND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH BEAR NIGHT 3RD FRIDAY OF THE MONTH COUNTRY NIGHT SATURDAY 4TH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH LEATHER NIGHT SUNDAY WE OPEN AT 4 PM 1ST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH POTLUCK SIN NIGHT

A Blast from the Past.

Do you recognize anyone? Digging up our Family Roots.

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