Next Meeting - October 15, 2006House to House Canvass Followed by DinnerNOTE: We will NOT meet at the Friends Meeting House this month. House to House Canvas: Instead of our regular meeting, all those able and interested will go house to house with Fair Wisconsin to talk to voters about the amendment on civil un-ions and marriage. Our starting place and time will be announced a week or two before the event, but we know it will be in Madison. Fair Wisconsin will do a one hour training ses-sion (usually starting around 10:45 am) and then after the canvass, there will be a debrief-ing session, usually around 3 pm. All those doing the house to house canvass should sign up with Kay. |
Be sure to fill out and return the Madison PFLAG registration materials that were enclosed with last month’s newsletter. You can also print out our online form and mail it.
From your PFLAG Librarian....
Our chapter collection has grown to 175 titles on its mobile book cart at
the Friends Meet-ing House. Some of these titles are good old reliables while
others are quite new. All are sources of information and enlightenment related
to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and In-tersex people, their families,
friends, needs and issues.
Sharon recently donated an autographed copy of "Why Marriage Matters"
by Evan Wolf-son. This important book is especially pertinent now as Wisconsin
deals with the November referendum that would forever deny our GLBT sons and
daughters the possibility of a legally recognized union.
I have updated the list of titles and authors so that it can be included
on our PFLAG Madison website.
While the list is alphabetized, the books are currently shelved by subject.
Is this the best way? Take a look at the shelves when you're at the Meeting
House. Try to find a title or author or subject. How could the process be
made easier and more user friendly? I welcome your in-put.
Presently 36 titles have been checked out, including all 3 copies of Mel White's "Stranger At the Gate." Most have been out for a long time. Frankly, I doubt they will be returned as some names on the cards are not familiar member names. In other cases our Good Samaritan members have checked out books for others with whom contact has not been maintained. It is not uncommon for people to come to a single PFLAG meeting, check out one or more titles, never to be heard from again. Phone numbers and names on the undated outcards make tracing all but impossible. My feeling is we'll just have to consider these titles lost, no longer available.
Reminder: check the shelves the next time you attend PFLAG and let me know how to im-prove our library system.
Harriet Bruyn, Librarian"
Karen Baker and Sharon Whitney ‘personed’ a table on Oct. 7 at a seminar covering topics of interest to LGBT persons. Sharon also attended on Oct. 8, the Solidarity Sunday service at Holy Wisdom Monastery at the invitation of Dignity members and then went on to St. John’s Lutheran church to represent PFLAG at an adult forum discussion about becoming a welcoming congregation.
The Love Makes a Family photo exhibit, created by the Family Diversity Institute and including some Madison-area families, is on exhibit in the Rotunda of the State Capitol through October 21. The Rotunda is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends
StageQ, Inc. is delighted to announce the production of the dramatic play Ugly Ducklings by Carolyn Gage, directed by Jan Levine Thal. The show opens Thursday, September 28, 2006 and runs through Saturday, October 21 at the Bartell Theatre at 113 E. Mifflin Street in Madison.
Set in a girls' summer camp, the play explores the dynamics of homophobia in a same-sex environment. At a time when basic human rights are under attack from the right, Ugly Duck-lings examines some of the attitudes that make those attacks possible.
Tickets are $10 for Thursdays and Sundays; $15 for Fridays and Saturdays.
All perform-ances are at the Bartell Theater, 113 E Mifflin Street, Madison,
Wisconsin.
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