Upcoming Activities
Check the Center website calendar for all events.
Center Activities
Meet and Greet, June 14, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served. Spend time with new and old friends at the Center. There will be another Meet and Greet on July 12 with the same hours.
The Center is working a Festival Foods Brat Sale fundraiser on July 19 and August 9 at the Onalaska store. We need volunteers to help staff the Brat Hut and lots of people to come eat brats as the proceeds will go to the Center.
Pride Activities
Pride now has its own domain name. Visit the Pride website at http://lacrossepride.us/
Volunteers are wanted for the fun and important job of organizing Pride 2008. Meet with the committee at the 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center, 303 Pearl Street, at 7:15 pm every other Monday. Everyone is welcome to help! For upcoming meeting dates, check the Center website calendar
This year's Pride ride is July 19. Watch next month's newsletter for more details.
Pride is August 23. More details in future newsletters.
Area Activities
Milwaukee Pride, June 6-9.
For more details: http://www.pridefest.com/
AA Twin Cities Round-up, June 12-15.
For more details see http://www.twincitiesroundup.com Contact: registration@twincitiesroundup.com
National Women's Music Festival, June 19 to 22.
The national Women's Music Festival has moved to Madison this year and will be at the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall. WIA has kept this beautiful festival alive for 34 years and they hope you will attend this year's festival and experience all that the National Women's Music Festival has to offer. Beyond the music itself, there is a writers series, pet lovers series, spirituality series, and workshops ranging from palm reading to holistic singing to gender and women's studies and so much more. The adjacent and nearby hotels are offering reduced rates for guests. You just have to ask for the National Women's Music Festival rate. Plus, most of the hotels are pet friendly. Yes you can bring your dog! There is also RV and tent camping available. Some of the performers for 2008 are: All the Kings Men, Andrea Gibson, Cris Williamson, Driftwood Fire, Ellis, Edie Carey, Flaming Dykasaurus, Girl Parts, God-des and She, Jamie Anderson, Lisa Ferraro, Lynette, LVNMUZIQ, Karen Williams, Martine Locke, Mimi Gonzalez, Nicole Reynolds, Paprika, Sonia, Tret Fure, 2 Chix & A Drum. More information on performers and registration is here: http://wiaonline.org/home.htm
Twin Cities Pride, June 28 and 29.
More details: http://www.tcpride.org/index_main.php
Ongoing Center Activities
Weekly Activities
AA Group
An LGBT AA Group meets weekly on Fridays, 7:00 pm, at the Center. Questions? Call 608.784.0452.
Monthly Activities
Gender Queer/Transgender Gathering at the Center:
Do you identify as gender queer? How about Transgender? Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in because of your gender identity or expression? Then come to a monthly discussion group at the 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center. The group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7:00. For more information contact: vanroose.kath@uwlax.edu. For upcoming meeting dates, check the Center website calendar
Genderqueer – A gender variant person whose gender identity is neither male nor female, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders. This person may want to challenge gender stereotypes and the gender binary system.
Transgender – A person who lives as a member of a gender other than that expected based on anatomical sex.