Domestic Violence, Lifetime Trauma and Mental Health.
When: Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Registration: 7:30 a.m.
Workshop 8:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Where: St. Cajetan’s, Auraria Campus,
Denver, Colorado
Dr.
Carole Warshaw is the Executive Director of the Domestic Violence & Mental Health Policy Initiative and Director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, projects designed to bridge the philosophical and service delivery gaps between the domestic violence and mental health provider communities and to enhance the capacity of local, state and national service systems to address the trauma and mental health needs of domestic violence survivors and their children.
Download a PDF copy of the brochure here...
Contact the Center for Domestic Violence: 303-315-2489 or by email for more information and details about how to register.
Project Visibility Train the Trainer
When: Friday, January 9, 2009- 9am to 3pm
Where: Community Room at the 29th Street Mall (second floor by Borders)
Cost: $90.00 includes manual with video (CEU's for Licensed Social Workers)
Project Visibility is a winner of two national awards: the 2006 and Aging Innovation Award for Ethnic and Cultural Diversity and the 2006 NACO Innovation Achievement Award. Learn how to utilize the Project Visibility training materials to do staff presentations or trainings in your location and/or area of expertise.
Participants will learn:
To educate and sensitize service providers about issues facing LGBT older adults.
To raise awareness of the strengths and needs of elder LGBT adults.
Tips on creating safe/welcoming environments for LGBT elders and their families.
Skills on how to tailor trainings to specific audiences and time frames.
Volunteers Are Provided:
A package of training materials valued at $90 (includes: video, power point and manual.
A trainer’s manual that includes materials on how to conduct Project Visibility Trainings.
Lunch
CEUs if a licensed Social Workers
Pre-registration will be required.
Direct inquiries to: Emily Lewis at 303-441-3583 or email
Funded by The Open Door Fund, a Fund of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, The Theodore and Chandos Rice Charitable Foundation, Aging Services Foundation of Boulder County, the Gill Foundation, the Women’s Foundation of Colorado and individual donors
Bent Lens Cinema Presents QUEER REALITIES
When: JANUARY 9 - 11, 2009
Where: @ the Nomad Theatre in Boulder (corner N. Broadway and Quince)
Bent Lens Cinema Presents its Annual All Documentary Film Program *** Queer Realities ***
A weekend of the best in glbt film from around the world Featuring some of the year's top documentaries...and the Bent Lens Salon
Stay tuned for program details and Join Us for Boulder's cinematic salute to glbt documentaries!
Check out the Bent Lens Website
FRIDAY JANUARY 9 -- 7:30pm http://www.suddenlylastwinter.com/
"Suddenly Last Winter" -- Italy, 2008
Written and Directed by: Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi
Gustav and Luca, 30-something residents of Rome, have been together for over eight years. When the center-left coalition Italian government presents a draft law in 2006 that would give civil union-like rights to gay couples, short of marriage, Italy goes wild. The outcry is so loud that Luca and Gustav set out with good humor to find out why everyone is so hysterical about honoring their love for each other.
FOLLOWED BY THE BENT LENS SALON
SATURDAY JANUARY 10 -- 7:30pm www.zeitgeistfilms.com/chris&don
"Chris & Don: A Love Story" (2007)
Directed by: Guidi Santi & Tina Mascara (90 mins)
Chronicling the unlikely 30 year relationship between the English writer Christopher Isherwood -- best known as the author of "The Berlin Diaries" on which "Cabaret" is based -- and his partner, the American portrait artist, Don Bachardy who was 30 years his junior, "Chris & Don" is a tender and highly acclaimed love story for the ages.
Followed by the Bent Lens Salon with Boulder Pride -- An evening in support of Creating Change, the 21st annual lgbt movement building conference, Denver, January 28 - February 1, Grand Hyatt Hotel Creating Change
SUNDAY JANUARY 11 -- 4pm http://www.freeheld.com/
"Freeheld: The Laurel Hester Story" 2007
Written and Directred by: Cynthia Wade (38 mins)
*** WINNER 2007 ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT ***
After serving 25 years as a highly decorated police officer in Ocean County, New Jersey, Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester discovers she has stage 3 lung cancer and up to a year to live. Her next discovery is that Ocean County's conservative "Freeholder" county officials do not permit domestic partners to inherit pensions. Laurel and Stacy, supported by people from across the spectrum in their community, begin a campaign -- with a short time frame -- to win domestic partner benefits for county employees so that Stacy can receive Laurel's pension when she dies.
It's a beautiful thing. BYOK (Bring Your Own Kleenex)
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Preceded by, "High Heels on Wheels"
Directed by: Donna Cassyd, Leslie Sloan (11 mins)
Whether you're old enough to remember the good ole' days of women's roller derby, or are a regular at Denver's own roller derby club, you'll have a blast watching some of the hottest skating on wheels in this tribute to the women who paved the road for women's competitive sports.
FOLLOWED BY THE BENT LENS SALON
The City of Longmont Honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
L-Word Season Premier
January 17 @ the bside lounge in Boulder
January 18 @Trax in Denver
First Statewide Colorado Queer Youth Summit!
When: Saturday, January 24, 2009
Where: Denver (bus tokens and carpooling available)
Cost: $10 (work exchange & scholarships are available)
Come and meet LGBTIQ youth from across Colorado at the first ever CO Queer Youth Summit. This day long event in Denver will feature workshops, LGBTIQ focused movies, performances, and a dance party! Workshop will include topics such as safer sex, relationships, leadership development, arts, queer history, drag, and much more! Please check back at www.coqueeryouthsummit.org for further details or to sign-up for our mailing list. We also have postings on facebook and myspace so join up and become our "friends"!
Where to find us: www.coqueeryouthsummit.org
http://www.myspace.com/coqueeryouthsummit
Facebook
Lynn Patrick performing with bassist Chris Engleman
When: January 25th, 6pm.
Where: Nissi's, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, CO 80026 (
303-665-2757)
Tickets are $20 and include a dinner buffet. Buy Tickets online
Directions:
From 95th and Arapahoe Road: Go south one block on Arapahoe and
east
onto North Park Drive (between a church and a bank). Go about 100
yards until you see the Bridgetown building.
Creating Change 2009
The National Conference on LGBT Equality Comes to Denver January 28-Feb 1 2009, sponsored by The Task Force
Join activists from around Colorado and the U.S. as the largest glbt activist gathering in the U.S. comes to Denver this year, January 28 - February 1, 2009, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The Denver Host Committee -- about 50 volunteers -- welcomes your involvement and help as we organize the local portions of the conference. Workshop proposals welcome for Colorado submitters through October 10. The event includes hundreds of workshops and related events for the 2500 queers who will descend on the Mile High City for this spectacular opportunity to network with other lgbt activists.
For more information, or to join the Host Committee and work on the conference itself, go to:
www.creatingchange.org or www.thetaskforce.org Or join the conversation on Facebook! creating change 2009
Join the Facebook group!
Boulder Pride Red Party- February 14, 2009
this is an event you do not want to miss! There will be a dinner with limited seating, then the doors will open for a night of fabulous entertainment and dancing!
Ongoing
GLBT show on KGNU - OutSources
On This Way Out, Mondays at 6:30 PM
Host:
Norman F. Strizek
Headlines from This Way Out and local GLBT issues on OutSources
OutSources is a new GLBT show,produced at KGNU, played in conjuction with This Way Out. The new show will feature stories, news and public affairs, events and information sources about Colorados GLBT community.
Please tune in LIVE or via the internet at www.kgnu.org.
88.5 FM Boulder // 1390 AM Denver // 93.7 FM Nederland // Online Streams
This week's guests are Victor J. Banis
Banis has written 150 books and his blojg is at http://thesweetflagmenlove.blogspot.com/. In 1964, he was indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute obscene material, this for his first novel, The Affairs of Gloria (Brandon House, 1964), which had no sexually explicit words or phrases, but did contain one "damn," and, more to the point, a couple of very tepid lesbian scenes. Clearly, in the early sixties, the U. S. Government
thought that writing about or publishing books depicting homosexual behavior, male or female, was in and of itself obscene, and they meant to stamp it out. Banis was watched by the FBI and had his mail opened and telphone lines tapped.
"And, since those little blurbs mentioned above, some of them, at least, touch upon the subject, I suppose I ought to talk about my gay writing history.
I have no embarrassment in doing so, and my only reluctance is my reluctance to label myself a "gay writer," since in fact gay writing has been only a part of my literary output, and not the larger part. I think that I did sit down in the earliest days of my career to write gay novels (I think, because it was so very long ago), but I have long since ceased to think in terms of genre or subject matter or even style. I don't think today I can even correctly say I write "stories." I write people. They come to me and talk to me—often I literally hear them whispering in my ear—and they are who they are, and I don't get to dictate whether they are gay or straight or Martian, anymore than I would with the person next to me on an airplane. They tell me their stories, these visitors, and I think it would be presumptuous of me to try to tell them what their stories should be, or how they should be written, let alone that they must fit into some preconceived
"genre." So, just a writer, then, and not a "this writer" or "that writer."
On the other hand, if I have had an appreciable impact upon the world of books and writing, it is certainly in the genre of gay publishing, where I have become something of a cult figure over the years and a hero to some writers and critics. Please join me as I interview this wonderful writer.
save the date:
7th Annual National LGBT Health Awareness Week
When: March 8-14, 2009
For more information: stay tuned to their website~ National Coalition for LGBT Health
National Black Justice Coalition- The Power of Us: Moving Beyond History
When: March 26-28, 2009
Where: San Francisco, CA
The Power of Us: Moving Beyond History to be held in San Francisco, CA, March 26-28, 2009 will mark NBJC's fifth anniversary. The passage of California Proposition 8 removes the fundamental right to marry for our gay and lesbian families and has revealed a troubling a potentially disabling racial divide within our movement and with too many of our African American allies. Black LGBT people have found ourselves caught in the middle—defending our right to full equality, acknowledging the continued challenges of homophobia and heterosexism within African American communities and the racial inequalities and bias within the LGBT movement.
We need your cooperation to move beyond this history and discover a unified way forward.
For more information and to register: NBJC Power of Us
To see other events nationally that NBJC is hosting and/or co-sponsoring NBJC Events
National LGBT Equality Town Hall Meeting at The Power of Us Conference
When: March 28, 2009
We hope to bring together leaders of LGBT movement organizations, community activist, bloggers and opinion leaders with African American community leaders for a frank and open discussions about our movement, its strengths and how we ensure that we seize this moment to improve the lives of those we represent.
Power of Us: Moving Beyond History
Colorado Gold Rush
When: March 26-29, 2009
Where: Renassaince Hotel, Denver
For more information: Colorado Gold Rush check their website regularly for updates!
Open Door Dinner
When: Saturday, April 11, 2009, again at the St. Julien Hotel in downtown Boulder. The featured speaker for the dinner will be announced soon. Stay tuned! The Open Door Fund provides grants to non-profits like Boulder Pride who serve the LGBTQ community in Boulder County. Our annual dinner is our BIG fundraiser. Money raised at this annual event goes directly to support the LGBTQ community and helps build the Open Door endowment, which will insure funding for these groups well into the future.
For more information, visit www.opendoorfund.org.
Because '09
When: April 17-19, 2009
Location:Coffman Union University of Minnesota300 Washington Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bisexual Empowerment Conference: A Uniting, Supportive Experience 2009 will mark the 15th BECAUSE Conference.
Join us at the conference and become part of history! BECAUSE Conference is the premier weekend event in the Midwest for bisexuals, queers, trans, bi-curious, questioning, and all others, regardless of identity. BECAUSE Conference is open to everyone.
Keynote Speaker: Robyn Ochs, Author & Activist http://www.robynochs.com/index.html
For more information and to register: BECAUSE website
World Outgames 2009-Copenhagen
July 25- August 9, 2009
for more information: World Outgames 2009
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Gay and Lesbian Ski Parties
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Telluride Gay Ski Week
February 21-28
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Vail Gay Ski Week
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Lake Tahoe Gay Ski Week
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Outboard in Crested Butte
March 25-29
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Ongoing Events
The CU Women’s Resource Center presents BitchCraft
When: Thursdays from 5:30-7:00 PM (January15, 22, 29)
Where: the Women’s Resource Center, room 416 in the UMC... a time for women to come together, learn new crafts, have some snacks and spend the evening chatting about life. Once a month there will be an instructional meeting, where a new craft will be taught, and then every following Thursday of the month will simply be time to come together, have fun and work on projects. We welcome all students, staff or faculty. We hope to see you at our first meeting of November where we will be learning card-making. Learn how to make cards with us or bring another project to work on. Supplies, instruction and snacks are provided.
Art on the Walls at Barnes & Noble in Boulder
Sponsored by: Boulder County Arts Alliance
When: First Tuesday of every month (January 6)
Where: 2915 Pearl St, (303) 442-1665
Reception with music provided by Laurie Dameron
Featured artist: Society for Creative Aging--- this is always an extra special art event with fantastic art from our local senior citizens!
For more information: http://www.bouldercountyarts.org/html/walls_gallery.html
Pride Business Network: A group of GLBT professional businesses
When: first Tuesday evening of each month, 5:30-7:30pm (January 6)
Where: bside Lounge (2017 13th, Boulder, CO)
Please join us again at the b.side Lounge! Our first evening meeting on Oct. 7 was a lot of fun. Food and drink sure help to elevate the spirits! We had some great appetizers going around and plenty of drink options to choose from. It was nice to mingle with other folks in a more relaxed atmosphere. There was plenty of time for socializing too, which gave us the opportunity to get to know each other on a different level. We did maintain our business intentions in spite of the festive atmoshpere; everyone gave their commercials and passed out cards and brochures. It was also great fun to know that we were hosted in a lesbian-owned venue, and Betsy Workman, the owner, was very helpful and accommodating. We had an entire section dedicated to PBN. Please come to our second meeting and bring your promotional info to share with the group. We are no longer "one representative per profession," so bring your colleagues and let's have a great night of networking. The more businesses that participate, the better networking opportunities we have!
Cost: Our group is free to visit.
Contact: 303-442-2440
Women's Social Network Third Thursday Happy Hour- Colorado Springs
Sponsored by: Women's Social Network
When: Every third Thursday 5:00-7:00 PM (January 15)
Where: Colorado Springs, Location Varies, E-mail for details
For more information: email Women's Social Network
New Friends Brunch- Denver
The Mercury is a funky, gay friendly restaurant with wonderful food prepared from scratch, including many vegetarian and vegan dishes.
When: First Sunday of every month, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (January 4)
Where: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street Denver, CO 80205 (303) 294-9281
Please RSVP so that we'll know how many are attending, email: Jane
The Colorado Prime Timers Luncheons
When: Every Wednesday at Noon (January 7, 14, 21, 28)
Where: Park Avenue Cafe, Located at Park Avenue & I-25
Cost: $5.00 - $10.00 for full meal, includes drink, tax, and tip
For more information contact Jimmy Stanley at 303-442-1667 or email Jimmy.
Babes Around Denver aka BAD First Friday Women's Party
When: First Friday of every month (January 2- featuring Dinah Shore Promo Party and a Divine Madness Reunion Party)
Where: Tracks Nightclub (3500 Walnut). Denver's hottest GLBT club
Time: 6pm-2am
Music: 3 rooms and 2 huge dance floors means there is something for everyone!
Cost: still only $5
About First Friday: Join Babes Around Denver aka "BAD" for the LARGEST monthly women's party in the US! No kidding! More than 1500 women attend First Friday every month.3 rooms - 2 huge dance floors and fabulous lights and sound. Music by DJ Trina J - we play something for everyone. Doors Open @ 6PM.Cover ONLY $5. Drink specials every month. Music format:6-9 CW in EXDO room; Main Room 8-10 - retro 70's,80's and 90's; 10-2 - Top 400, house, hip hop, club! NOT to be missed! Westword - "Best of Denver" 2008! All GLBT and straight allies welcome but it's all about WOMEN!
Boulder Bacchus (Wine Tasting Group)
When: 2nd Friday of the month (January 9)
Time: 7:00PM- 9:30PM
Locations: in various members homes, To Be Announced to the confidential member list
Cost: The cost is $15 per session and includes 6-7 wines for tasting, paired with light snacks. Cost covers expenses.
**Membership is restricted to the GLBT community, age 21+.
Do you enjoy wine? Do you want to learn more about wines and wine pairings? A small group of friends have recently formed "Boulder Bacchus," a wine tasting group for the GLBT community. The format is a monthly get-together rotated among host homes. A wine expert will work with a wine selection group to choose themes for each evening and present the wines at the session with brief information about each wine along with suggested food pairings. You do not have to be a wine expert to attend; in fact it is all about learning and having fun and fellowship with wine in a relaxed fun environment. You just need to bring a wine glass and $15 (check or cash) to each wine tasting.
Effective January 2009 all events are held on the SECOND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH AT 7:00PM.
For more information and to register for future events: email Boulder Bacchus
or you can go to BOULDERBACCHUS.COM and follow registration instructions.
Once registered you will receive an invitation to each event, you will need to RSVP. Bring your own wine glass and $15.00 check or cash to each event to cover expenses for wines and light appetizers. 2009 Events currently scheduled are: January 9; February 13; March 13; April 10; May 8, 2009.
DANCING DIVAS: Social Dances
When: Second Friday of every month (January 9)
7-8 p.m. lessons, 8-10:30 p.m. open dancing with DJ Sandra G 2-step, club, swing, ballroom, salsa, line dancing, disco, Motown, etc.
Cost: $10 and we offer a sliding scale.
Where: Avalon Dance Hall,
6185 Arapahoe Avenue,
Boulder, 80301 (a beautiful dance space on east Arapahoe in Boulder)
For more information: call Jan Jones at 303-909-4338 www.dancindivas.org
CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THIS DANCE ONLY - SEE BELOW Please join us on Friday December 12th for our annual holiday dance co-hosted by The Boulder Lavendar Group. This dance will be held at the East Boulder Recreation Center in the Senior Center (first building on the right). Dress up attire is requested but not required. Susie Pringle will teach from 7-8 pm followed by open dance until 10:30 pm with Sandra G spinning tunes. The cost is $10 and we offer a sliding scale.
Longmont GLBT Potluck
When: The Second Sunday of Every Month, 5:30 pm (January 11)
Where: UCC Church in Longmont at 9th and Francis in the Fellowship Hall, Longmont
Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LGBTQ_longmont/
Contact: Jim Duffield, via email
Description: An informal group that meets the 2nd Sunday of every month except for June when we host the Pride Picnic in the Park (usually at Sunset Park in Longmont). We meet at the UCC Church in Longmont at 9th and Francis at 5:30 pm. Please come to the north side of the building to the Fireplace Room. We provide plates, utensils and soft drinks. Please bring a dish to share. Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be from Longmont to join in for this social gathering. We have had people from Ft Collins to Denver join us. There is no charge. Whenever our supplies run low, we ask for a donation of supplies or pass the hat, whatever people are comfortable doing.
Women's Songwriter Night!
When: 7:30-10:30pm on the last Wednesday of every month (January 28)
Where: Rock n Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste I
Cost: $3 cover
Poets welcome!
Presented by: Windchime Productions and the Rock n Soul Cafe.
Hosted by: Laurie Dameron
Sign up to play a 15 minute slot at 7:15pm
featured artist: Michelle Allen and the Slick Allen Trio Deeply influenced by Blues, Bluegrass, Folk, Alt-country, Acoustic Rock and Old Time roots music, most of the Slick Allen Trios music doesn't fit neatly into a musical category. A veteran of the front-range Bluegrass band Little Liza Jane, Michelle's original tunes continue a remarkable creative evolution establishing Allen as a musical icon in the front range area. Although truly a sensitive singer-songwriter, the title fails to fully convey the depth of her songwriting or power of her soulful voice. Paired with Kevin Slick, on banjo, mandolin and guitar and Jay Allen on upright Bass, the trio combines the best of traditional roots with contemporary creativity.www.myspace.com/slickallentrio
Rock n Soul Cafe: 303-443-5107 www.RocknSoulCafe.com
Laurie Dameron: 303-449-3529 www.LaurieDameron.us
Lambda Community Center- Fort Collins
GLBTIQQA Resources for Northern Colorado Stay up to date on the events, groups, and happenings for/with our friends in Northern Colorado: http://www.lambdacenter.org/calendar.html
Back Country Bettys
The Back Country Bettys (BCB) is an organization for lesbians and women accepting of
lesbian lifestyles. We seek out and encourage participation from the entire lesbian community. We offer a monthly newsletter of events connecting lesbians in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming.
For more information and to sign up for their newsletter: email BCB
Interested in finding out more information? You might also want to check out: www.lambdacenter.org and www.FortPride.org
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