Greensboro PFLAG newsletter, April 2006

              GREENSBORO, N.C.
Vol. 13 No. 4
Welcome to FFLAG Greensboro,
We offer a safe, confidential space in
which (o explore our feelings and
understandings about the GLBT
experience, especially "coming out"
and what this means to families and
other loved ones. Listen and share,
as much or as little as you feel
comfortable with, knowing that others
can    understand. Welcome
especially to our returning members
whose love is so healing.
Patents, Families, and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
promotes the health and well-being
of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgendered persons, their families
and friends through: support, to
cope with an adverse society;
education, to enlighten an ill-
informed public; and advocacy, to
end discrimination and secure equal
civil rights. PFLAG provides an
opportunity for dialogue about sexual
orientation and gender identity and
acts to create a society thai is
healthy and respectful of human
diversify.
PFLAG Greensboro
April meeting
Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Friendship Friends
Meeting House
1103 New Garden Road
Greensboro, NC
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Day of Silence, Night of Noise
According to the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN),
unprecedented numbers of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and other student
clubs are planning to take part in this year's tenth national Day of Silence on
April 26. It is anticipated that a record breaking 500,000 students from
approximately 4,000 schools will participate.
In Guilford County, students at several high schools will be
participating The Day of Silence will be followed by "A Night of Noise" on
April 29 - a gay-straight dance to be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church
On the Day of Silence, hundreds of thousands of students across
America will use silence to voice the truth about anti-LGBT bullying and
harassment in America's schools," said GLSEN Founder and Executive Director
Kevin Jennings. "The tremendous numbers of students who take part in the Day
of Silence is cause for celebration and a loud message from America's students
that we must work harder to ensure safe and effective schools for every child"
The Day of Silence is a student-led day of action where those who
support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of
silence to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment - in effect,
the silencing - experienced by LGBT students and their allies. The Day of
Silence was founded in 1996.
Dining For Friends: Saturday, May 20.
Please join hundreds of your friends and neighbors in hosting a party -
or thousands in attending one - to raise needed funds for the Triad Health
Project. The Grande Dessert Finale and dancing to the sounds of the
Greensboro Big Band will once again take place at the Greensboro Coliseum
Special Events Center. Host registration is now in full swing. You can go to our
web site at www.triadhealthproiect.com for more informatioa