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You Have a Home in PFLAG! GREENSBORO, N.C. Vol. 15 No. 2 February, 2008 Welcome to PFLAG Greensboro. We offer a safe, confidential space in which to 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. Parents, 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 that is healthy and resfyectful of human diversity. PFLAG Greensboro February meeting Tuesday, Feb. 19 7:30 p.m. Friendship Friends Meeting House 1103 New Garden Road Greensboro, NC Program: "Can I Hear You Now? Effective Listening and Communicating Across Age and Gender Lines" PFLAG Program for February meeting We have decided to begin having special programs at our monthly meetings. Al the Feb. 19 meeting we will have a discussion on the topic "Can I Hear You Now? Effective Listening and Communicating Across Age and Gender Lines." The program will follow a short session of support for people in need. * * * Membership Meeting Feb. 4 - Travis Compton has resigned as Webmaster; Dave Parker will assume this responsibility. We will contact library administrators to check on putting literature displays at Greensboro public libraries. There was also discussion about working with GSAFE to provide support for gay youth now that GLASS is not functioning. New date for NC - SC PFLAG conference The date for the NC-SC leadership conference has been tentatively changed to April 26 in order to avoid conflict with the Jewish holiday the previous wek. The conference will be hosted by the Salisbury/ Rowan PFLAG. There will be several different workshops/speakers including staff from PFLAG National and EqualityNC. Support for LGBT youth GLASS, the Greensboro area support group for LGBT teen-agers is no longer functioning (due to lack of attendance) and there is no real support group for gay youth in our area now. There have been some recent inquiries from teens asking if such a group exists, so GSAFE is rethinking it and asking if PFLAG would be interested in collaborating with GSAFE on starting something new and different. There has been a lot of positive change in the schools and we see less need for some of the more structured support we used to offer. But we would like there to be some way that local LGBT youth and their allies can get together informally. One idea would be to sponsor regular gatherings at a local coffee house. Our two groups could publicize the time and place and be sure there is someone there to represent us - preferably a young person (recent college grad?) who the teens can relate to. There wouldn't need to be any program or agenda, and the ground rules would be minimal. - Annette Green, vice-chair Gay Straight Advocates for Education (GSAFE) Alamance PFLAG, Discussion of "For the Bible Tells Me So" Tuesday February 12, 7:30 pm - Elon Commun. Church Some of us have seen the nationally syndicated full-length documentary entitled "For the Bible Tells Me So": Two Haw River residents, Brenda and David Poteat, who appeared in the film, will be present for a discussion with us Tuesday night to discuss how they were recruited to be in the film and how it feels to talk to film-goers at screenings. They are very proud of their daughter and her major accomplishments, but they struggled when she came out to them.
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Transcript | You Have a Home in PFLAG! GREENSBORO, N.C. Vol. 15 No. 2 February, 2008 Welcome to PFLAG Greensboro. We offer a safe, confidential space in which to 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. Parents, 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 that is healthy and resfyectful of human diversity. PFLAG Greensboro February meeting Tuesday, Feb. 19 7:30 p.m. Friendship Friends Meeting House 1103 New Garden Road Greensboro, NC Program: "Can I Hear You Now? Effective Listening and Communicating Across Age and Gender Lines" PFLAG Program for February meeting We have decided to begin having special programs at our monthly meetings. Al the Feb. 19 meeting we will have a discussion on the topic "Can I Hear You Now? Effective Listening and Communicating Across Age and Gender Lines." The program will follow a short session of support for people in need. * * * Membership Meeting Feb. 4 - Travis Compton has resigned as Webmaster; Dave Parker will assume this responsibility. We will contact library administrators to check on putting literature displays at Greensboro public libraries. There was also discussion about working with GSAFE to provide support for gay youth now that GLASS is not functioning. New date for NC - SC PFLAG conference The date for the NC-SC leadership conference has been tentatively changed to April 26 in order to avoid conflict with the Jewish holiday the previous wek. The conference will be hosted by the Salisbury/ Rowan PFLAG. There will be several different workshops/speakers including staff from PFLAG National and EqualityNC. Support for LGBT youth GLASS, the Greensboro area support group for LGBT teen-agers is no longer functioning (due to lack of attendance) and there is no real support group for gay youth in our area now. There have been some recent inquiries from teens asking if such a group exists, so GSAFE is rethinking it and asking if PFLAG would be interested in collaborating with GSAFE on starting something new and different. There has been a lot of positive change in the schools and we see less need for some of the more structured support we used to offer. But we would like there to be some way that local LGBT youth and their allies can get together informally. One idea would be to sponsor regular gatherings at a local coffee house. Our two groups could publicize the time and place and be sure there is someone there to represent us - preferably a young person (recent college grad?) who the teens can relate to. There wouldn't need to be any program or agenda, and the ground rules would be minimal. - Annette Green, vice-chair Gay Straight Advocates for Education (GSAFE) Alamance PFLAG, Discussion of "For the Bible Tells Me So" Tuesday February 12, 7:30 pm - Elon Commun. Church Some of us have seen the nationally syndicated full-length documentary entitled "For the Bible Tells Me So": Two Haw River residents, Brenda and David Poteat, who appeared in the film, will be present for a discussion with us Tuesday night to discuss how they were recruited to be in the film and how it feels to talk to film-goers at screenings. They are very proud of their daughter and her major accomplishments, but they struggled when she came out to them. |