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LGBT News Newsletter of Uptown and Alliance Volume 37 Number 7 July, 2020

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Center Action Network... George Floyd LGBTQ Organizations Unite to Combat Racial Violence “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen Layla Pelaez Sánchez, Penélope Díaz Ramírez, Nina Pop, HelleJae the side of the oppressor.” Those words, written over 30 years ago by O’Regan, and Tony McDade Archbishop Desmond Tutu, remind us that indifference can never All of these incidents are stark reminders of why we must bridge the divide of hate. And, today, they should serve as a call to ac- speak out when hate, violence, and systemic claim — too of- tion to all of us, and to the Movement for LGBTQ equality. ten with impunity — Black Lives. This spring has been a stark and stinging reminder that ra- The LGBTQ Movement’s work has earned significant victo- cism, and its strategic objective, white supremacy, is as defining a ries in expanding the civil rights of LGBTQ people. But what good characteristic of the American experience as those ideals upon which are civil rights without the freedom to enjoy them? we claim to hold our democracy — justice, equality, liberty. Many of our organizations have made progress in adopting • We listened to the haunting pleas of George Floyd for the intersectionality as a core value and have committed to be more di- most basic of human needs — simply, breath — as a Minneapolis verse, equitable, and inclusive. But this moment requires that we go police officer kneeled with cruel indifference on his neck. further — that we make explicit commitments to embrace anti-racism • We felt the pain of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend as he called and end white supremacy, not as necessary corollaries to our mission, 9-1-1 after plainclothes Louisville police kicked down the door of their but as integral to the objective of full equality for LGBTQ people. home and shot her eight times as she slept in her bed. We, the undersigned, recognize we cannot remain neutral, nor • We watched the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery by white will awareness substitute for action. The LGBTQ community knows vigilantes in Brunswick, GA, aware that they evaded the consequence about the work of resisting police brutality and violence. We celebrate of their actions until the video surfaced and sparked national outrage. June as Pride Month, because it commemorates, in part, our resisting • We saw the weaponizing of race by a white woman who police harassment and brutality at Stonewall in , and pantomimed fear in calling the police on Christian Cooper, a Black earlier in , when such violence was common and expected. gay man bird-watching in Central Park. We remember it as a breakthrough moment when we refused to accept • We have heard and read about the killings of humiliation and fear as the price of living fully, freely and authenti- people -- Black transgender women in particular — with such regular- cally. ity, it is no exaggeration to describe it as an epidemic of violence. This We understand what it means to rise up and push back year alone, we have lost at least 12 members of our community: Dus- against a culture that tells us we are less than, that our lives don't tin Parker, Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, Yampi Méndez Arocho, Monika matter. Today, we join together again to say #BlackLivesMatter and Diamond, Lexi, Johanna Metzger, Serena Angelique, Velázquez Ramos, commit ourselves to the action those words require. See List of United LGBTQ Organizations on Pages 2, 5 & 6 Join UGLAʼs Virtual ZOOM Mixer, Sunday, July 12, 2pm (see page 3) Center Action Network: LGBTQ Organizations Unite to Combat Racial Violence Affirmations, Dave Garcia, Executive Director • AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Aisha N. Davis, Director of Policy American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Anthony D. Romero, ExecDir • Arkansas Transgender Equity Collaborative, Tonya Estell, Brd/Dir Campaign for Southern Equality, Adam Polaski, ComDir • Cathedral Of Hope UCC, Rev. Dr. Neil G Thomas, Senior Pastor Center on Halsted, Modesto Valle, CEO • , Michael Soto, ExecDir • , Rick Chavez Zbur, ExecDir Equality Delaware, Mark Purpura, Director • , Rebecca Isaacs, Executive Director , Nadine Smith, ExecDir • , Brian Johnson, CEO • Equality , Kendra R Johnson, Exec Dir Equality New Mexico, Adrian N. Carver, Executive Director • Equality New York, Amanda Babine, Executive Director , Grant Stancliff, Communications Director • Fair Wisconsin, Megin McDonell, Executive Director , Tamara Russell, Board Member • Family Equality, Denise Brogan-Kator, Chief Policy Officer Freedom for All Americans, Kasey Suffredini, CEO & National Campaign Director • FreeState Justice, Mark Procopio, ExecDir Gay City: 's LGBTQ Center, Fred Swanson, Executive Director • , Jeff Graham, Executive Director GLAAD, Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO • GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Janson Wu, Executive Director GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, Hector Vargas, Executive Director • GLSEN, Eliza Byard, Executive Director GMHC, Kelsey Louie, CEO • GSAFE, Brian Juchens, Co-Director • , Alphonso David, President Immigration Equality, Aaron C. Morris, Executive Director • Ingersoll Gender Center, Karter Booher, Executive Director , Kevin Jennings, CEO • LGBT Com.Ctr of the Desert, Mike Thompson, CEO • LGBT Life Center, Stacie Walls, CEO

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Louisiana Trans Advocates, Peyton Rose Michelle, Dir/Ops • Transgender Political Coalition, Tre'Andre Valentine, ExecDir MassEquality, Tanya V. Neslusan, Executive Director • Movement Advancement Project, Ineke Mushovic, Executive Director National Black Justice Coalition, David Johns, ExecDir • National Center for Lesbian Rights, Imani Rupert-Gordon, ExecDir National Center for Transgender Equalilty, Mara Keisling, ExecDir • National LGBTQ Task Force, Rea Carey, ExecDir NMAC, Paul Kawata, ExecDir • Oakland LGBTQ Community Ctr, Joe Hawkins, CEO • One , Daniel Ramos, ExecDir , Courtney Reyes, ExecDir • OutFront , Monica Meyer, ExecDir • OutNebraska, Abbi Swatsworth, ExecDir Pacific Center for Human Growth, Michelle Gonzalez, Executive Director • PFLAG National, Brian K. Bond, Executive Director PRC, Brett Andrews, CEO • Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County, Kiku Johnson, Executive Director Resource Center, Cece Cox, CEO • Sacramento LGBT Community Center, David Heitstuman, CEO Community Health Center, Lance Toma, CEO • SF LGBT Center, Rebecca Rolfe, Executive Director SAGE, Michael Adams, CEO • Silver State Equality, André C. Wade, State Director • Tennessee Equality Project, Chris Sanders, ExecDir The Diversity Center, Sharon E Papo, ExecDir • The Lesbian, Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, Glennda Testone, ExecDir The LGBTQ Center Long Beach, Porter Gilberg, Executive Director • The San Diego LGBT Community Center, Cara Dessert, CEO , Amit Paley, CEO • Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), Emmett Schelling, Executive Director Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), Andy Marra, ExecDir • TransOhio, James Knapp, Chair & ExecDir Uptown Gay & Lesbian Alliance (UGLA), Carl Matthes, President • Wyoming Equality, Sara Burlingame, Executive Director America Kneeling We all want to get home safely...

2 President’s Message Noel Francisco and other Justice Depart- by Carl Matthes UGLA’s Virtual ZOOM Mixer ment attorneys maintain the City of Phila- UGLA President Sunday, July 12, 2pm delphia has ‘impermissibly discriminated Gather some snacks, your favorite against religious exercise’ under the First On June 15, the Supreme Court, in beverage and join us on-line for Amendment by requiring Catholic Social an action watched closely and with trepida- UGLA’s 1st Virtual Mixer Services (CSS) to abide by a contract requir- tion by LGBTQ folks, further advanced the “BLACK LIVES MATTER” ing LGBTQ non- practices in cause of our rights by ruling that Title VII of featuring child placement.” the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes Sharon Kyle and Dick Price I believe this means, in regular Eng- it illegal for employers to discriminate be- lish, if the law says you can’t discriminate cause of a person's sex, also covers sexual against LGBTQ folks when it comes to orientation. That’s us! While some conserva- adoption, that law is invalid when a religious tives want to punish our community for hav- group says it’s trampling on its “freedom of ing LGBTQ sex, they couldn’t accept that the religion.” (Remember the action of a baker 1964 law actually covered LGBTQ sex, only who refused to fill an order for a wedding straight sex! The court upheld rulings from Pasadena ACLU Board members and cake for LGBTQ couple?) lower courts that said dis- Editors of LAProgressive.com Trump’s Department of Justice con- crimination was a form of sex discrimation. tinued, “The has a substantial Now, , Also hear UGLA members’ personal stories interest in the preservation of the free exer- , bisexuals, trans- Meeting ID 939 7390 7856 cise of religion...and in the enforcement of gendered and questioning To join the meeting here is the online link: rules prohibiting discrimination by govern- folks will benefit from the https://csun.zoom.us/j/93973907856 ment contractors.” landmark civil rights law Supporters of the city argued, “The barring sex discrimination For those UGLA Members who wish to Trump administration submitted a brief to in the workplace. The 6 to participate in our upcoming Virtual Mixer Maya Riley the Supreme Court on the side of a taxpayer- 3 decision was written by on July 12, but are not familiar with Attorney, Activist funded agency that is seeking a constitutional Associate Justice Neil ZOOM, please visit UGLA.org “...a massive right to turn away people who fail to meet Gorsuch, President Don- By July 1, we will have a special page dedi- victory” the agency’s religious criteria,” ald Trump’s first nominee cated to providing support, tips, & video re- Tennessee has become the latest state to to the court. He was joined by Chief Justice sources to guide you through the ZOOM assure continued taxpayer funding of faith- John Roberts and the court's four liberal jus- platform. based foster care and adoption agencies even tices. Said Justice Gorsuch, "An employer Obama was President. Even the White House if those organizations exclude LGBTQ fami- who fires an individual for being homosexual itself was bathed in gay flag colors. These lies and others based on religious beliefs. Re- or transgender fires that person for traits or days? It’s a good day when the Trump ad- publican Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill with- actions it would not have ministration isn’t removing protections for out fanfare or an official announcement. questioned in members of a our community or starting court action Lee said he endorsed the law because he different sex. Only the against us. And, now, with this ruling, the believed defending religious liberty “is very written word is the law, Trump administration efforts to allow relig- important.” The Republican has often cited and all persons are entitled iously affiliated adoption agencies to refuse his Christian faith throughout his first term. to its benefit." to place children with same-sex couples may Finally, it seems same-sex marriage is “This is a land- not gain legal traction. These type of cases very good business! A study by UCLA, re- mark victory for LGBTQ Alphonso David are working their way through the courts. leased for June PRIDE 2020, shows same- equality,” said Human The Washington Blade, a leading sex weddings have generated close to $4 bil- Rights Campaign President Alphonso David. weekly LGBTQ newspaper, created by Nancy lion since same-sex marriage was legalized in “No one should be denied a job or fired sim- Tucker and Lilli Vincenz in 1969, reports: 2015. ply because of who they are or whom they “In a 35-page brief, U.S. Solicitor General According to the UCLA School of Law, love. For the past two decades, federal courts since the U.S. Supreme Court's have determined that discrimina- 2015 decision on Obergefell v. tion on the basis of LGBTQ Hodges — the ruling that legal- status is unlawful ized same-sex marriage in the discrimination...” This affirma- U.S. — almost 300,000 same- tion of LGBTQ civil rights sex couples have gotten married. comes at a time when we are Hmmm...my math skills are under constant attack by relig- challenged, but isn’t that a lot ious folks who greatly influence of money per wedding? the current administration. While same-sex weddings I think we all remem- cost about $4,000 less on aver- ber the growth of LGBTQ civil age than straight weddings, and human rights when Barack they've helped support around (continued in next column) 45,000 jobs since June 2015. LGBTQ Pride Honors “All Black Lives Matter” during June 14 PRIDE on Hollywood Blvd. (See page 8 for photos of UGLAʼs PRIDE banner at intersetion of Colorado & Eagle Rock Blvds.) 3 UGLA Honors the Memories From Center Action Network Dustin Parker of Members and Friends Neulisa Luciano Ruiz Charlene Abernathy As Pride month begins, we ac- Yampi Méndez Arocho Hiroshi Amemiya • Ruth Anderson knowledge that LGBTQ+ history is firmly Albert “Buddy” Antunes rooted in protesting against police violence Monika Diamond Mark Atkinson and abuse. The Stonewall Uprising started in Lexi Paul Bagley • Bill Bailey the early hours of June 28, 1969, when New Johanna Metzger Carol Bauer • Jim Beckham York City police raided the , a Ester Bentley • Jim Berg gay club in New York City. The raid turned Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos Robert Brauer into six days of protests and violent clashes Layla Pelaez Sánchez Dan Brodzik • Dale Carby with law enforcement, led by transgender and Penélope Díaz Ramírez Jim Carter • Vince Cavalier people of color. It served as a catalyst Reid Turner Rasmussen & for the gay rights movement in the United Nina Pop Calvin Cottam States and around the world. Helle Jae O’Regan Ron Crabtree • Bob Cross We understand what it means to be Tony McDade Mary Ellen (Sonny) Cruz forced to push back against a culture that Claude Denis • John Due tells us we are less than equal. While Center- Iyanna Dior Gus DiClairo/George Lawrence Link has made significant progress in com- These are just the people we know Bill Dixon • Dudley Doerflinger mitting to being more equitable, diverse, and of. There are countless other Black lives lost Michael D'Ornellas inclusive, we recognize that to fully support due to violence and systemic racism. Connie Eddy • Robert Faust the Black Lives Matter movement we must While awareness is important, it is Chris Garcea • Ken Hahn do more. not a substitute for action. CenterLink and Hugh Harrison • Blaine Hightower CenterLink, along with over 500 other LGBTQ+ organizations must utilize our Tim Holland • Raoul Jacques other LGBTQ+ organizations, recently signed platforms and resources to help communities Carl Johnson • Ken Kane on to a statement condemning racial vio- overcome racist challenges. We must support David Inman/Gene Webster lence. There are many recent tragedies that Black organizational leadership, including Charlotte Kehl • Tony Kom serve as a reminder of why we must speak LGBTQ+ community centers led by Black Lucille Lemmon • Charles Lewis out when hate, violence, and systemic racism CEOs and Executive Directors. We must Tom Macias claim lives – in this case, Black lives. stand in solidarity with communities of color Lee McEvoy/Brian Minto and engage in activism that will bring change. Terry McMahan • George Floyd pleading for air as CenterLink has made a commitment Don Meadows • Audrey Melane a Minneapolis, MN police officer to include racial equity into our work. We Ardella Morris kneeled on his neck and slowly drained will continue to make our platform available Mary Norcross the life from his body. for the people who need to be heard. We will Florian Novak • Breonna Taylor dying after provide resources for our community centers Harry Park/Herb Larrimore Louisville, KY police kicked down her to encourage them to educate, mobilize, and Thom Pentecost door and shot her eight times while she engage in racial justice matters. We will en- Jeff Pulling slept. gage in active listening and amplify the mes- John Raino sages of Black-led community center leaders. Woody Reuther • Ahmaud Arbery being murdered And we will continue to hold ourselves ac- Z. Alexandra Shultes-Ramirez at the hands of white vigilantes in countable to these promises. We know these Robert A. Russell Brunswick, GA as he jogged through a actions are a small piece of what is needed to Angel Silva predominantly white neighborhood. bring lasting change, there is much work to be done. William 'Bill' Singer • Rayshard Brooks fatally shot by Protests are a powerful way to be John H. Smith/Kunio Ohashi police at a Wendy's drive-thru after offi- heard and being heard is just the beginning. Sergio Sosapavon cials said he resisted arrest and stole an We have an opportunity and an obligation to John Stillion/Carlos Chammorro officer's Taser. An autopsy found that take additional action by voting for lawmak- Rick St. Germaine Brooks suffered two gunshots to the ers who support equality and fight against ra- Barbara Trotter back. cism at the national, state, and local levels. Virginia Uribe These elected officials have a direct impact on Charles Urtuzuastegui In addition, at least 11 people losing social justice issues in our communities. To Alphonso Vallejo their lives during this week’s protests seek- move our country forward and bring lasting Don Vanderhei/Tono Sciacca ing justice for George Floyd, many of them change, it is vital that we raise awareness in Anne Walnum • Phillip Wesley Black. Within our own community, trans- the streets and cast our ballots at the polls. Patti Wiggins/Trish Morey gender people – Black transgender people in Black Lives Matter. CenterLink John Akasawa Wong particular – are far too often the victims of stands in solidarity with the Black commu- Rene Zendejas violence. In 2020 alone at least 13 members nity and will continue to work with our inter- Editor’s note: This list is maintained of the trans community have been killed. national network of LGBTQ+ centers and the by Allen Luke. Please contact him: They are: communities they serve to fight to end racism [email protected] and injustice. 4 Listed on pages 5 & 6 are over 350 prominent LGBTQ and civil rights organizations which signed-onto a letter calling for structural change, for divestment of police resources and reinvestment in communities and for long-term transformational change in policing. The letter is posted at https://www.hrc.org/blog/lgbtq-organizations-call-for-transformational-change-in-policing

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Harvey Milk Foundation Meroe & Wellness, LLC Deaf Queer Resource Center Have A Gay Day Methodist Federation for Social Action Desert AIDS Project Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights Movement Advancement Project Diocese of Southern Ohio Hearts on a Wire Nashville LGBT Chamber Disciples LGBTQ+ Alliance - AllianceQ Henderson Equality Center Dolphin Democrats Hester Street Fair, LLC National Black Justice Coalition Drag Story Hour- Arizona Hetrick-Martin Institute: New Jersey National Center for Lesbian Rights East Bay Getting to Zero Holyoke Pride National Center for Transgender Equality EduTechnologic Hope & Help, Inc. National Coalition for LGBT Health End Hep C SF Horizons Foundation National Equality Action Team (NEAT) Houston GLBT Political Caucus National LGBT Cancer Network Equality Arizona Howard Brown Health National LGBT Chamber of Commerce Equality Business Alliance Hudson Pride Center (NGLCC) Equality California Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation National LGBTQ Task Force Equality Delaware Foundation Human Rights Alliance Santa Fe (continued on other side) 5 National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Pride Com Center, Inc (Brazos Valley, TX) The Cubbyhole Bar Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc. 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Pride Center West Texas The Chroma Museum Zebra Coalition 6 From Gail Rolf... From Bill Kaiser... Hi Carl...I can’t remember if I saw your article - probably Hi everyone... at the time. I just ran across it while doing some research. What a It is Friday and this is nice article (see below), and, what a beautiful photo (I must have one of my banners for taken the photo). Thank you for this. our weekly peace and justice vigil at 5 pm at Pico LaCienega . Happy Juneteenth! A day of freedom from slavery and resistance. Tomorrow June 20 is the virtual Poor People’s Campaign. Rise Up! Bill

From Paul McDermott... 2017 Hollywood Bowl From left, 2016 Models of Excellence Scholarship Ceremony Carl Johnson, Picnic... UGLA Board Member & Newsletter Editor,, Angela Olivares, UGLA Scholarship Recipient,, Carl Matthes, UGLA President, From left Dr. Virginia Uribe, Founder Project 10 & UGLA member counter-clock- wise: Blake, July 2016 LA Progressive Article “After Orlando - LGTB Youth” Khoa, Tomio, https://www.laprogressive.com/lgbt-youth/ Adi, Paul, Dun- The June 2016 attack on Orlando’s Pulse night club showed a diverse ning, Carlos and – kaleidoscopic view – of America’s LGBT community. This savage Herb gun spree, which ended the lives of so many, has sparked momentum toward curtailing the sale of assault weapons in our country. Young lives taken away by a senseless shooting. But, from tragedy, a ray of 2020 GOP Platform hope. According to Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA), after Places LGBTQ Community at Risk Democratic Congress members staged an historic sit-in and after his “Our laws and our government’s regulations should recognize own anti-gun rally in downtown Los Angeles, the Republican leader- marriage as the union of one man and one woman. We do not ac- ship in the House of Representatives may bring forward some type of cept the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage and we urge its gun control measure upon returning from vacation. Xavier’s words of reversal.” caution? It may not be an effective bill. (The GOP platform also supports President Donald Trump’s Back in the 1960s, it was a rebellion by diverse LGBT folk efforts to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community.) at New York City’s gay Stonewall Inn, against police harassment “That same provision of law is now being used by bureaucrats and brutality, which ignited hope and a nationwide LGBT rights to impose a social and cultural revolution upon the American movement. people by wrongly redefining sex discrimination to include sex- The AIDS epidemic started in the early 1980s and the LGBT ual orientation or other categories.” community began to rally as one, attracting many to the fight “We reject the use of the military as a platform for social against this ravaging virus and eventually galvanizing America – and experimentation and will not accept or continue attempts to un- the world – in the decades long fight. The fight for Marriage Equality dermine military priorities and mission readiness.” and against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which started in the 1990s, “We endorse the 1st Amendment Defense Act, Republican brought solidarity to LGBT folk and our allies resulting in the fast- legislation in the House and Senate which will bar government tracking of these issues into the American psyche. discrimination against individuals and businesses for acting on Founded in 1984 at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles by the belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.” teacher and counselor Dr. Virginia Uribe, Project 10 has provided education and support services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen- ((Project 10 continued) LGBT youth have now learned first- dered, questioning (LGBTQ) students, and other sexual minority hand how precious is life and how easily hate, ignorance and extrem- youth. ism can extinguish the brightest flames. And now, the 2016 Orlando attack has awakened all of us, One of the groups supporting and fighting for LGBT youth and especially our youth, to continue fighting for civil and human is Project 10. Founded in 1984 at Fairfax High School in Los Ange- rights. Today’s LGBT youth has learned that it is only through hard les by teacher and counselor Dr. Virginia Uribe, Project 10 has pro- work, cohesiveness and perseverance that the world will listen and vided education and support services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- make way. gendered, questioning (LGBTQ) students, and other sexual minority We know that the LGBT community is represented in every youth. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Uribe said, racial, ethnic and religious demographic. We come in every shade, “Every young person has a right to a sense of self-respect and dig- speak each language and are faithful practitioners of all religions – nity. In public education we serve the needs of all our students. and of no religion. With this barbaric massacre, our relevance, safety Some are gay and lesbian and we need to serve them too. We’re sup- and vibrancy has been fused with America’s 21st century social and posed to be teaching them to live in an increasingly diverse society. political culture. (continued in next column and on page 6) (continued on page 8) 7

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9 LGBTQ News A monthly publication of LGBTQ News Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance UPTOWN Staff & Contributors P. O. Box 65111, Los Angeles 90065 Debra Waz, Marcie Rose (323) 258-8842 GAY [email protected] and Joan Potter, Carl Matthes Photos: Arthur Macbeth, Mark Allen WWW.UGLA.ORG LESBIAN ALLIANCE UGLA Mission Statement Solicitation of Articles Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance is a The LGBTQ News welcomes charitable and educational public service contributions and reserves the right organization recognized by the Internal 2020/2021 Board of Directors to edit material for consistency Revenue Service. Its primary goals are to President Carl Matthes with the goals and purposes of UGLA. provide visibility and a support system [email protected] Deadline for all material is the for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and Vice-President Ken Salzman 15th of each month. and education for individuals [email protected] Send to: [email protected] and the community-at-large on the true Treasurer Joan Potter nature of the LGBTQ community. UGLA [email protected] supports charitable projects and Special: Pay for 10 months in advance Recording Secretary Debbie Waz institutions, thereby enhancing all and receive one year of advertising! [email protected] Northeast Los Angeles and the greater Outreach Paul McDermott Los Angeles area. Monthly Advertising Rates [email protected] Members Non-members • Planned Giving • Bill Bailey Property Joey Bermudez Quarter page $15 $25 Ask your financial advisor/lawyer about [email protected] 4 wide X 5 including UGLA in your estate planning. Directors-at-large: Half page $25 $40 Investment Chair, WebMaster, Carlos Avalos [email protected] 8 wide X 5 Mixer Coordinator Ruth Riley [email protected] Full page $50 $70 Allen Luke: itsinvestments@netscape Marcie Rose [email protected] 8 wide X 10

UGLAʼs PRIDE Banner Flies High in Eagle Rock

From Debbie Waz Angela and I were in Santa Barbara and saw this terrific mural. I took a photo and made a postcard of it. It shows Ernest Hemingway driving a friend of his in his Thanks, Michael Nogueira, for restored Chrysler New hanging UGLA’s June Pride Banner Yorker convertible at Colorado & Eagle Rock Blvds. when living in his beloved Cuba.

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