Greensboro PFLAG newsletter, February 2008

              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.