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2012 Annual Report 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 ANNUAL REPORT Empowering pride 2010 2011 2012 for 40 years. s we leave 2012, about to embark During the last two months, we as Co-Presidents on our 40th year as the Gay Alliance of the Board have met with over twenty A of the Genesee Valley, we do so community leaders to discuss the future of the in celebration of your contributions and the Gay Alliance and how we can most effectively wonderful accomplishments achieved to sustain serve the needs of the LGBT community. We our fine organization. expect to announce our vision in early February, a time when we will be fiscally stable, enabling 2012 brought us a few changes at the Gay us to continue to attract the visionary leadership Alliance, starting with a fond farewell to Sue necessary to meet the needs and aspirations for Cowell who left her ED post to help re-elect the current generation and generations to come. Louise Slaughter. We can’t thank Sue enough for her many years of devotion to the Gay On a final note, as we look back on 2012 and Alliance. We soon welcomed Anne Wakeman as the struggles and triumphs of years past, we Interim ED. During her tenure the Gay Alliance hope you’ll join us in 2013 as we turn forty and program leaders created a nationally recognized become even more fabulous! Please participate intergenerational program, as well as transferring in our year long fundraising celebration and the records of the Helping People with AIDS stay tuned for the Fall premiere of Shoulders organization to the Smithsonian Museum. The to Stand On, a documentary showcasing our transfer was made possible through three years pioneers and our community, made possible of diligent work from the Records and Archives with your generous contributions and support. Grant interns. In October, we hired a former interim ED, Joanne Giuffrida, as our Business Manager in a part-time capacity to help us manage operations and maintain efficiencies as we focus on our leadership strategy for the future. Even though we raised over $50,000 at the end of 2011 during our first donor sponsored $25,000 Challenge Grant, we still entered 2012 with a deficit of $15,638. We were also facing another year of shrinking grant support and sadly had to reduce staff to three full-time and two part-time positions, even though demand Emily Jones W. Bruce Gorman continues to grow for our community education, youth and senior programs. On a happier note, we have much to be proud of as we continue to achieve success as an organization and experience unparalleled civil rights changes as a community. s7HATANAMAZINGVICTORYANDHISTORICAL event we all experienced last summer with our right to marry! s4HECOMPLETECOLLECTIONOFThe Empty Closet – that’s 40 years of New York’s oldest LGBT newspaper – was transferred for archival storage to the Smithsonian on November 30, 2012. s)N THE0RESIDENTSTATEDTHATHENO longer supported DOMA and sometime early in 2013 the United States Supreme Court will hear a case that may recognize LGBT people as a protected class. We continue to thank the Gay Alliance leaders, dedicated board trustees, members and volunteers along with our community leaders who have participated in every step of these courageous transformational changes. School Without Walls Gay Alliance Programs St. John Fisher College St. Joseph’s Villa In the 2011 Annual Report we provided In 2012 Education and Outreach SUNY Brockport you with what we proposed to do in Presentations were made to: SUNY Geneseo 2012 to stay relevant with all of our SUNY Morrisville programs. Below are the results that Aging & Adult Services/Catholic Family Center Threshold Youth Conference were generated in 2012 to sustain and AIDS Clinic at University of Rochester United Nations Association of Rochester grow our impact on the community. Americorps University of Rochester Bath VA Medical Center Home University of Rochester Psychiatric Residency Education BOCES 2 Program Brockport Library Webster Thomas High School and Outreach Brockport Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship Webster-Schroeder High School - Alternative Ed Canandaigua VA Medical Center Home To Stay Relevant: It is critical that we expand Program Center for Teen Empowerment our capacity to provide community education, Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher Children’s Mental Health Coalition of WNY’s professional development and training in College Bullying Prevention Conference response to increased calls from schools, Wheatland Chili High School Churchville/Chili Central School District medical systems, senior care providers and other Winton Library Consumer Credit Counseling local organizations. YWCA Coordinated Care Services, Inc 2012 Results: Corning Incorporated Intergenerational sWorked with the Jewish Community Center Crime Victim’s Conference to co-sponsor the traveling exhibit from the DePaul PROS Programs US Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Nazi Dignity/Integrity To Stay Relevant: It is critical to continue to Persecution of Homosexuals,” with collaborative East Rochester Elementary School increase the number of contact points we have volunteer coordination and eight weeks of related Eastman School of Music with youth throughout the year. programming. Edison High School Project Search 2012 Results: Education Conference at SUNY Brockport sProvided 160 Educational sessions, reaching sHeld our annual Breaking the Silence event Excellus BCBS nearly 4000 individuals, mostly in the Western and Big Gay Prom which each attracted over First Unitarian Church NY area. 200 youth from Monroe County and other West- First Universalist Church ern New York communities. sProvided Technical Assistance to five different Geva Theater organizations on LGBT inclusive documentation Greater Rochester Area Partnership for the sAdded Royal Gender Bender to the Pride Royal for service delivery. Elderly Court competition held during Rochester Pride sProduced full training curriculum and educational Greater Rochester Collaborative MSW Program as a way of providing more inclusion for trans support material for the University of Rochester. Halpern Education Center and gender queer youth. Health Symposium at SUNY Brockport sPartnered with Wegmans School of Pharmacy sAdded Teen Scene Tent to the Pride Festival. Hilton High School at St John Fisher College to provide professional Tent admission was restricted to youth 13-23. Hobart and William Smith College development for area Pharmacists on We provided games, Michael Jackson Wii, and Jewish Community Center Transgender identity. arts & craft activities in a comfy outdoor “living Leadership Genesee Program room” setting. Festival Headliner and former sProvided customized training for educators on LifeSpan Eldersource Pussycat Doll Jessica Sutta visited the tent and LGBT concerns as they relate to the Dignity for Mayo Clinic spoke with youth about her own experience of All Students Act Mental Health Association being bullied. She took pictures with the youth sCreated a Transgender Special section in the Monroe Community College’s Bullying and provided autographs. February Empty Closet and online for agencies Conference sRecruited 25 new volunteers to work with the to download in an effort to focus attention Monroe County Preventive Services Coalition’s Program, primarily during Center programing. on less visible members of the LGBT community. Annual Conference Our specific goal is to provide youth with direct Monroe County Youth Bureau’s SOAR Youth sSpoke on Many Visions Many Voices, 1370 role models to convey the it gets better message Group Connections, interviewed for USAToday, and to further expose youth to members of the National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Democrat & Chronicle, City Newspaper adult LGBT community. Dependence and WROC TV, WHAM and other media National Institute of Domestic Violence sHeld our first leadership development summer opportunities. Awareness & Prevention camp. Twelve youth participated in the Out Loud Nazareth College Out Proud Youth Summer Camp, a one week Thanks to our 2012 Volunteers North East Regional Prides Convention day camp where students practiced communi- s6OLUNTEERHOURSAPPROX NY Civil Liberties Union cation and team building skills, learned about s6OLUNTEER0RIDEHOURSAPPROX Pittsford Mendon High School LGBT history, sexual identity, healthy mind and s4OTALACTIVEVOLUNTEERSAPPROX Planned Parenthood Rape Crisis Service body and gave back to the community during a s!CTIVE0RIDEVOLUNTEERS Rochester City School District community service project. s0ERCENTOFSTRAIGHTALLIESINVOLUNTEERPOOL Rochester Institute of Technology sThe Youth program was given a major overhaul approx. 20% Rochester Kink Society after benchmarking other LGBT youth pro- Rochester Plaza Hotel grams throughout the country. The top age was Rose and Joseph Denaro Interfaith Center Safe School Summit dropped to 20, so now youth age out of the sHeld community outreach meetings at 7 sProvided an opportunity for networking and out- program at 21. We added 3 new support groups: local public libraries. reach by the businesses, services and organizations Coming Out/Being Out, Gender Identity and Re- sMet with directors of 4 senior centers in that welcome LGBT and Allied people their friends mix Young Adult groups. There are now 3 hours Monroe County. and families. of life skills and 1.5 hours of leadership develop- sCelebrated the health, dignity, self respect and ment workshops per week.
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