When: Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 p.m.
Where: St. John’s United Methodist Church 1501 University Ave., Lubbock
Our program will feature John J. Masselli, Ph.D, CPA, Haskell Taylor Professor of Taxation with the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. We look forward to hearing Dr. Masselli’s story of his success in the academic world!
When: Saturday, February 4, at noon
Where: Metropolitan Community Church,
4501 University Ave., Lubbock
This fall, PFLAG Lubbock helped sponsor the GLBTQ Film Festival. We screened select parts of TransGeneration, an original documentary series exploring the lives of four transgendered students for a year. After our viewing and discussion, the feedback was loud and clear: we want more! So, by popular demand, PFLAG Lubbock will host a special movie marathon at MCC Lubbock on Saturday, February 4, beginning at noon, where we’ll show the entire documentary series of TransGeneration:
EPISODE 1: Meet Raci, Gabbie, Lucas, & T.J.
EPISODE 2: Lucas visits family & Raci seeks illegal hormones.
EPISODE 3: T.J. & Lucas write home to explain their decisions
EPISODE 4: Gabbie visits her grandparents & T.J. plans a trip home to Cyprus.
EPISODE 5: Raci’s class attendance drops while Lucas takes on campus politics.
EPISODE 6: Raci openly attends a LGBT meeting as Lucas celebrates a turning point.
EPISODE 7: Gabbie gets a pre-op dinner party and T.J. prepares to return home.
EPISODE 8: One last visit with Raci, Gabbie, Lucas, & T.J.
This is your chance to catch the whole story. We hope you’ll join us for all or part of this special movie marathon! 272 minutes total for all eight parts; drinks & snacks available for purchase from our PFLAG Moms’ Group.
Our first meeting of 2012 is coming up soon! Join us on Tuesday, January 17 at 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s United Methodist Church (1501 University Ave. in Lubbock).
We will be screening a documentary called Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History, with discussion to follow.
Bullied chronicles the story of student Jamie Nabozny’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies throughout middle and high school. The documentary offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today.
Bullied is distributed by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Why We Shouldn’t Use the Word ‘Tranny’,” by Lance Bass. Huffington Post, 23 Dec 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lance-bass/why-we-shouldnt-use-the-word-tranny_b_1168078.html
Nice piece about words and about the role of the media (and yes, the gay media) in flaming blunders like this one. Bass’s tone is spot on and this piece is well worth reading.
It’s almost time for our annual holiday party! The 2011 PFLAG Lubbock Holiday Social and White Ele-phant Gift Exchange will be will be on Monday, December 12, 7pm. We are pleased to report that we’ve actually outgrown Jane’s house, so this year we’ll meet in the Garden Room of St. John’s United Method-ist Church (the same location as our usual monthly meetings). Please bring a covered dish to share, along with a wrapped white elephant gift if you’d like to join our holiday exchange. It’s always a fun time and we know we’ll have lots of great food, so we hope you’ll join us as we celebrate the holidays and look back on a fan-tastic year with PFLAG Lubbock.
Relevant for our LIST project.
Dionne Malikowski, 16, claims she was told she would be suspended for three days from Fort Collins High School when she was caught using the women’s restroom. “I cried,” said Malikowski, who was born male but now identifies as transgender. At present, she is required to use the staff bathrooms instead of the students’ bathrooms. “I told them that it was really messed up for them to do that to me, and they were like, ‘We’ve warned you before,’ and I was just like, ‘Obviously you don’t understand what it’s like.’”
Read the whole article at the Huffington Post, and visit the PFLAG Lubbock’s LIST project (Lubbock Initiatives for Safe Toilets)
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