Greensboro PFLAG newsletter, August 2007

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You Have a Home in PFLAG!
GREENSBORO, N.C.
Vol. 14 No. 8
August, 2007
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
iiille as you fee! 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 respectful of human
diversity.    	
PFLAG Greensboro
August meeting
Tuesday, August 21
7:30 p.m.
Friendship Friends
Meeting House
1103 New Garden Road
Greensboro, NC
News from GSAFE (Gay Straight Advocates for Education)
Guilford County Schools is printing enough "In Tiiis Classroom" signs for
one to be displayed in each classroom. This will help students and teachers become
aware of the the official policy banning harassment, bullying, and discrimination.
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TRIAD PRIDE
August 23,2007 through August 26, 2007
Living Out Loud is the the theme for Triad Pride 2007 Festival! Living
Out Loud means a little something different for each person, Living Out Loud is the
expression of a person to live life as you want and to be free to be your self with the
freedom to express your self fully. With out the freedom to be oneself then there is
no freedom for anyone. Come Out and join Triad Pride and enjoy the fun and
festival from start to end
There will be at rally at Festival Park in downtown Greensboro on
Saturday (Aug. 25) from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. with speakers and entertainment,
including the Triad Pride Chorus. On Sunday there will be a family picnic at Oka
Hester Park (11:30 am. to 2 p.m.—for $2 per person).
Friday night there will be Green Queen Bingo (Regency Room, South Elm
Street, Downtown Greensboro, Guilford Green Foundation, 7 pm until 10 pm.). In
addition, the festival will include special events at Triad bars and clubs each night,
concluding with Sunday night's Mr. & Miss Triad Pride Pageant at Warehouse 29.