People with HIV-AIDS, friends and family are invited to a free healing and transformational workshop April 18 through 19 in Pasadena.
The seminar is designed to offer a place where HIV positive men, women, youths and family members can receive support in their effort to learn how to live a long, healthy, productive life and overcome the fears associated with the disease.
Presenter will touch on topics such as drug treatment options, disclosure, relationships, understanding lab reports insurance and public benefits, sex and intimacy, nutrition and HIV, key elements to HIV treatment success, music and art therapy and support groups.
Presenters, volunteers and staff will reach out to men, women, people of color, gay men and heterosexual HIV individuals. Breakout or concurrent sessions will address a specific demographic majority.
Participants will be asked about their specific concerns and goals. The interactive workshop’s presenters welcome questions and comments.
Details: visit www.TheLifeGroupLA.org or call 888-208-8081.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Not enough
If every country in the world used “civil union,” marriage needn’t be an issue for gays and lesbians around the world who seek equal status in the eyes of the law. The problem is that marriage, as a legal and secular terminology, has the weight and promise of equality.
Recently, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that two Pepperdine law professors proposed civil unions as a compromise to all citizens of California while the state Supreme Court debated same-sex marriage.
When Justice Ming Chin asked Dean Kenneth Starr, the lawyer for Proposition 8's sponsors former Clinton impeachment prosecutor if he’d consider the compromise, Starr responded that it was not a bad idea except that Prop. 8 already treats gays and lesbians equally - apart from not letting them marry.
Michael Maroko, the challenging lawyer had a different view.
"If you're in the marriage business, do it equally," Maroko told Chin, including granting everyone or no one the right to marry.
KPCC’s Pat Morrison reported on something similar: Two college students want to put on the ballot an initiative to change the word ”marriage” to ”civil union” in California’s laws.
The students have to collect more than 640,000 signatures to get that measure on the ballot.
The problem with the word "civil unions" is that it is not a universal term, national or international, and therefore continues to be a pseudo Jim Crow stance. Marriage is recognized internationally.
If a same-sex couple hopes to someday file joint taxes federally or a person wants to sponsor their same-sex partner from another country, the word “marriage” is requirement. Moreover, if a couple hopes to be granted equal rights in another country “some day” the word “marriage” also is required.
The word, in and of itself, provides legal rights and responsibilities to couples. If gays and lesbians ever are to achieve global equality this word must stand in the books. What many have not considered, maybe is restricting legal-civil marriages to government and separating religious marriage only for religious purposes as is the case in countries, such as Mexico, where a couple has the option of a civil and religious marriage.
The result may also carry an economic benefit to municipalities that issue licenses and churches that perform ceremonies.
Recently, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that two Pepperdine law professors proposed civil unions as a compromise to all citizens of California while the state Supreme Court debated same-sex marriage.
When Justice Ming Chin asked Dean Kenneth Starr, the lawyer for Proposition 8's sponsors former Clinton impeachment prosecutor if he’d consider the compromise, Starr responded that it was not a bad idea except that Prop. 8 already treats gays and lesbians equally - apart from not letting them marry.
Michael Maroko, the challenging lawyer had a different view.
"If you're in the marriage business, do it equally," Maroko told Chin, including granting everyone or no one the right to marry.
KPCC’s Pat Morrison reported on something similar: Two college students want to put on the ballot an initiative to change the word ”marriage” to ”civil union” in California’s laws.
The students have to collect more than 640,000 signatures to get that measure on the ballot.
The problem with the word "civil unions" is that it is not a universal term, national or international, and therefore continues to be a pseudo Jim Crow stance. Marriage is recognized internationally.
If a same-sex couple hopes to someday file joint taxes federally or a person wants to sponsor their same-sex partner from another country, the word “marriage” is requirement. Moreover, if a couple hopes to be granted equal rights in another country “some day” the word “marriage” also is required.
The word, in and of itself, provides legal rights and responsibilities to couples. If gays and lesbians ever are to achieve global equality this word must stand in the books. What many have not considered, maybe is restricting legal-civil marriages to government and separating religious marriage only for religious purposes as is the case in countries, such as Mexico, where a couple has the option of a civil and religious marriage.
The result may also carry an economic benefit to municipalities that issue licenses and churches that perform ceremonies.
LGBT Idols
Get ready to pour your heart out in song divas. The Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride recently announced the 2009 Pride Star Competition, a karaoke contest for adult amateurs.
Winners will receive $2,500 cash prize and opportunity to record an original track fully produced by Media Temple Productions. The produced recording will receive guaranteed airplay on Gay Internet Radio Network-StudioOUT.com. Second place will win $750 and third place will receive $400.
The competition takes place March 31 through May 8 at several venues in Long Beach, including Hot Java, Club Ripples, Silver Fox and Hamburger Mary's.The finalists will compete May 16 and 17on the main stage of the Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival Celebration, where celebrity judges will determine the winner.Details: visit www.longbeachpride.com/
Winners will receive $2,500 cash prize and opportunity to record an original track fully produced by Media Temple Productions. The produced recording will receive guaranteed airplay on Gay Internet Radio Network-StudioOUT.com. Second place will win $750 and third place will receive $400.
The competition takes place March 31 through May 8 at several venues in Long Beach, including Hot Java, Club Ripples, Silver Fox and Hamburger Mary's.The finalists will compete May 16 and 17on the main stage of the Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival Celebration, where celebrity judges will determine the winner.Details: visit www.longbeachpride.com/
Medical student seek better bedside manners
An article on Medical News Today is tackling a subject few people have taken notice of: the importance of being out at the doctor’s office.
The article describes how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients often question whether they should tell their doctors about their sexual preference when they meet a doctor for the first time, fearing homophobia and insensitivity on the part of their heterosexual physician.
A group of four Stanford medical students recently organized their own on-campus research group, called the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Medical Education Research Group. The group plans to survey the deans of medical education at several schools in United States and Canada to determine what is being taught. Thereafter, the group plans to forward recommendations toward improvements. The survey questions, which will be sent out this spring, will include: "When learning how to conduct a sexual history, are students at your institution taught to obtain information about same-sex relations, e.g. asking 'do you have sex with men, women, or both?” and "Is there a clinical clerkship site that is specifically designed to facilitate LGBT patient care?" The survey also provides a glossary of terms such as, "Sex reassignment surgery: the genital alteration surgery that transgender individuals sometimes undergo.
A similar survey will next be sent out to all medical students. The four students - Elizabeth Goldsmith, Leslie Stewart, Juno Obedin-Maliver and Lunn - decided to form their research group after attending the 25th annual conference of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, or GLMA, in 2007 and learning of the lack of research regarding LGBT content in medical schools on a national level. The four received a small grant from Stanford to help launch their study.
The knowledge shortage might explain health disparities, such as increased risk factors for breast cancer among lesbians, higher rates of depression and anxiety due to homophobia that plague the LGBT community.
Kudos to these fantastic four, whose effort may help combat the ignorance in the medical profession and improve access to appropriate healthcare for a poorly served community, nationwide.
Details: http://med.stanford.edu/lgbt or http://mednews.stanford.edu.
The article describes how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients often question whether they should tell their doctors about their sexual preference when they meet a doctor for the first time, fearing homophobia and insensitivity on the part of their heterosexual physician.
A group of four Stanford medical students recently organized their own on-campus research group, called the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Medical Education Research Group. The group plans to survey the deans of medical education at several schools in United States and Canada to determine what is being taught. Thereafter, the group plans to forward recommendations toward improvements. The survey questions, which will be sent out this spring, will include: "When learning how to conduct a sexual history, are students at your institution taught to obtain information about same-sex relations, e.g. asking 'do you have sex with men, women, or both?” and "Is there a clinical clerkship site that is specifically designed to facilitate LGBT patient care?" The survey also provides a glossary of terms such as, "Sex reassignment surgery: the genital alteration surgery that transgender individuals sometimes undergo.
A similar survey will next be sent out to all medical students. The four students - Elizabeth Goldsmith, Leslie Stewart, Juno Obedin-Maliver and Lunn - decided to form their research group after attending the 25th annual conference of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, or GLMA, in 2007 and learning of the lack of research regarding LGBT content in medical schools on a national level. The four received a small grant from Stanford to help launch their study.
The knowledge shortage might explain health disparities, such as increased risk factors for breast cancer among lesbians, higher rates of depression and anxiety due to homophobia that plague the LGBT community.
Kudos to these fantastic four, whose effort may help combat the ignorance in the medical profession and improve access to appropriate healthcare for a poorly served community, nationwide.
Details: http://med.stanford.edu/lgbt or http://mednews.stanford.edu.
Helping hands meet and greet
Catalyst Community, a community collaborative is hosting a mixer party from 5 to 10 p.m. March 21 at Hank’s Place, 2625 E. 1st St. in Long Beach.
Local individuals and groups are invited to connect with community-friendly businesses, organizers and volunteers to inform and improve community relations in the area.
The participants will enjoy authentic Mexican Tacos, the live music of Wings for the Queen and prizes. Partakers are encouraged to bring beverages to share with the group.
Details: visit www.gocatalyst.org, e-mail eric.leocadio@gocatalyst.org or call (562) 208-2737
Local individuals and groups are invited to connect with community-friendly businesses, organizers and volunteers to inform and improve community relations in the area.
The participants will enjoy authentic Mexican Tacos, the live music of Wings for the Queen and prizes. Partakers are encouraged to bring beverages to share with the group.
Details: visit www.gocatalyst.org, e-mail eric.leocadio@gocatalyst.org or call (562) 208-2737
A march for a future
A Youth March for Equality is planned at noon March 22 at Spring and College Streets in downtown Los Angeles.
The rally is for high school LGBTQ youth and supporters seeking an end homophobia, discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, abuse, forced homelessness of queer youth and for marriage equality. Details: e-mail info@equalaction.org or visit www.equalaction.org Adults who want to volunteer contact volunteer@equalaction.org
The rally is for high school LGBTQ youth and supporters seeking an end homophobia, discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, abuse, forced homelessness of queer youth and for marriage equality. Details: e-mail info@equalaction.org or visit www.equalaction.org Adults who want to volunteer contact volunteer@equalaction.org
POZ Life Weekend Seminar
People with HIV-AIDS, friends and family are invited to a free healing and transformational workshop April 18 through 19 in Pasadena.
The seminar is designed to offer a place where HIV positive men, women, youths and family members can receive support in their effort to learn how to live a long, healthy, productive life and overcome the fears associated with the disease.
Presenter will touch on topics such as drug treatment options, disclosure, relationships, understanding lab reports insurance and public benefits, sex and intimacy, nutrition and HIV, key elements to HIV treatment success, music and art therapy and support groups.
Presenters, volunteers and staff will reach out to men, women, people of color, gay men and heterosexual HIV individuals. Breakout or concurrent sessions will address a specific demographic majority.
Participants will be asked about their specific concerns and goals. The interactive workshop’s presenters welcome questions and comments.
Details: visit www.TheLifeGroupLA.org or call 888-208-8081.
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The seminar is designed to offer a place where HIV positive men, women, youths and family members can receive support in their effort to learn how to live a long, healthy, productive life and overcome the fears associated with the disease.
Presenter will touch on topics such as drug treatment options, disclosure, relationships, understanding lab reports insurance and public benefits, sex and intimacy, nutrition and HIV, key elements to HIV treatment success, music and art therapy and support groups.
Presenters, volunteers and staff will reach out to men, women, people of color, gay men and heterosexual HIV individuals. Breakout or concurrent sessions will address a specific demographic majority.
Participants will be asked about their specific concerns and goals. The interactive workshop’s presenters welcome questions and comments.
Details: visit www.TheLifeGroupLA.org or call 888-208-8081.
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