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Winter 2010 “It Takes a Village to Raise a Colorado P F L A G PFLAG Cincinnati Quarterly Newsletter Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Letter from Celebrating PFLAG Cincinnati the President 25 years in the Cincinnati Community Volume 25 Issue 1 all the hard work you put into The old saying goes newsletter all the way from PFLAG to ensure that our Winter 2010 “It takes a village to raise a Colorado. Jane Biddinger for message and our mission child.” Well PFLAG is our her brilliantly crafted, sensi- are heard. child and it has taken so tive and sometimes humor- ☺ Night of a Thousand many people to help raise it. ous articles. Each quarter We have had some Laughs There are so many people she manages to thoroughly very informative and insight- ☺ who have worked behind the capture the essence of our ful speakers over the past A Box of Yesterdays scenes to ensure that our organization. Thank you to years. Thank you to each ☺ CINCINNATI CHAPTER children are safe and that Worley Rodehaver for print- one of them for the informa- - PFLAG, The Begin- parents have the answers ing, managing and paying for tion they gave to us to help ning they need. the GLBT News! Michael us in our quest to equality. ☺ Welcome Baby Jesse I received an email Chanak for promoting Cheryl Hutchins, Ed from one of the board mem- PFLAG events. Kathy Lauf- Green, Victory Lloyd, Cheryl bers who thought we needed man for being a strong ally Eagleson, Antonia Harter. to do something to thank the for PFLAG. Harold Delph for Joan Wyzenbeek and Pat Inside this issue: people who help to make being a consistent pillar for Ritz, Tracey Duest, Steven PFLAG Families. Night of a Thousand 3 PFLAG a success. We de- Nichols, Daniel Drent, Tami Laughs cided that the first thing we Marti Kwiatakowski Huber, Debi Johnson, Barry could was write an article to for being a strong board Floore, Adam Reilly, Dan and A Box of Yesterdays 4 say thank you! First and fore- member and for guidance Nancy Tepher, Janice Flani- CINCINNATI CHAPTER - 5 most we want to say thank over the years. Linda Arnest gan. Marc Adams, Mike and PFLAG, the Beginning you to Marian Wedge for for being a strong advocate Jan Neubecker, Lisa Meeks, starting our local chapter. in the LGBT community and Priscilla Wood, Diane Tor- Welcome Baby Jesse 6 Lois Kay for working our hot- for keeping Paul's memory rence, Brad Schmelling. Community Events 7 line each night, Lynne Le- alive. Maria Sulcer for being Leland Spencer, Mark Byers, fevbre for speaking to col- the head of the Paul Delph Dorothy Byers are just a Police Academy Panel 7 leges, law makers, police AIDS Walk Team this past taste of what PFLAG has to What’s happening 8 departments and anyone year. Thanks to David offer. PFLAG at Xavier Univer- 8 else who will listen on LGBT Whitaker for working the li- So in closing re- issue. Rick Kay for helping brary each month. Emily member that it takes a village Cooking with John 8 us out each year with taxes! Roth for helping out when- to raise a child. PFLAG says News from Abu Dhabi 9 Tim and Carol Egbert for ever and wherever she can! Thank you to all our making sure we get snacks I would like to per- 'villagers'. When you think each month! Tom Jenkins for PFLAG Scholarship Appli- 10 sonally thank the board of you don’t need PFLAG, cations Available! maintaining our website and directors for all their help and PFLAG needs YOU!! newsletter mailings. Marie GLSEN Prom 10 11 guidance the past 2 years. Michael Cotrell Jenkins for being at every Lynne Lefevbre, Mark Smith, PFLAG Policy Matters 11 meeting and giving insight Brent Rose, Monica Plett, President and information to new par- Suzanne Whitaker, Karen and ents. Dan Ley for spearhead- Weber, Dorothy Byers, and ing our scholarship program. Tom Jenkins. Thank you for The 2010 Board of Directors. Tim Gross for writing our Mission Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Support , to cope with an adverse society, Gays (PFLAG) promotes the health and well- Education , to enlighten an ill-informed public, and being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: Advocacy , to end discrimination and secure civil rights. Meetings Our monthly chapter meetings are on ested in learning more about the tions. Paid up members of the chap- the second Tuesday of each month topic. Meetings are completely confi- ter are welcome to attend the monthly from 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. at Mt. Auburn dential. What is said there stays board meeting. Presbyterian Church (link for direc- there. Confidentiality is important to tions http://www.mtauburnpresby.org/ most of us for one reason or another, more_about_us.html ) located at 103 and at all time we respect the rights of Please send an email to William Howard Taft Rd, 45219. The others. [email protected] or call the PFLAG Help Line at 513-721-7900 if you monthly chapter meeting is open to everyone , including parents, friends need more information about the and family of gays, lesbians, bisexu- The chapter also has a monthly board monthly chapter meeting OR informa- als and transgender persons, as well meeting that is held on the Thursday tion about attending the chapter board as to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and before the monthly chapter meeting, meeting. transgender persons or anyone inter- starting at 6:30 P.M. at various loca- Newsletter This newsletter is published quarterly Send an email to the editor at an article. Also, feel free to send an (usually sometime in the first month [email protected] if you have email to the editor if you have any of the quarter). The chapter would an announcement that should in in- suggestions or comments regarding benefit greatly from your involvement cluded, an idea for an article, or even your chapter’s quarterly newsletter’s in the creation of this newsletter. better, would be interested in writing content or design. 2009/2010 Officers & Chairpersons/Board Members Executive Board Committee Chairs President: Michael Cotrell Advocacy Chair: Lynne Lefebvre [email protected] Hotline: Lois Kay Email Liaison: Tom Jenkins Vice President: Lynne Lefebvre Library: David Whitaker [email protected] Membership: Tom Jenkins Secretary: Monica Plett Newsletter: Tim Gross [email protected] Treasurer: Brent Rose Programs: OPEN [email protected] Refreshments: Tim & Carol Egbert Members at Large Speaker’s Bureau: OPEN Tom Jenkins, Karen Weber, Suzanne Scholarship: Dan Ley Whitaker, & Mark Smith [email protected] Webmaster: Tom Jenkins [email protected] WHEN YOU NO LONGER NEED PFLAG, PFLAG NEEDS YOU!! Volume 25 Issue 1 Page 2 PFLAG Cincinnati Presents Night of a Thousand Laughs A Benefit for the PFLAG Scholarship Fund When: Saturday, May 15, 2010. 6:30 - 10:00 pm Where: Below Zero Lounge, 1122 Walnut Street, Cincinnati 45202 How much: $25 single, $45 couple . Join your PFLAG friends for a night of comedy, conversation and light snacks. A cash bar will be available. Our perform- ers will be Loraine Braun and Mike Neubecker. Loraine Braun is a comedian from Villa Hills, Kentucky. According to her bio, “after realizing that she had too many bad habits to be a nun, Loraine decided to be ac- tive in politics. At the age of 24, Loraine was the youngest woman elected to serve on City Council of her hometown in Northern Kentucky”. More recently she enrolled in comedy classes at the Funny Bone on the Levee in Newport and since graduat- ing from that program has been performing comedy wherever she can: “Early and often . the same way she votes”. She has performed at many venues in the greater Cincinnati area and beyond. There’s more about her comedy career and interests at http://www.myspace.com/cissybraun . Mike Neubecker is a PFLAG National Vice-President and Chair of the Re- gional Directors Council. In addition to his long and dedicated service to PFLAG, he enjoys performing his comedy routine. Mike has been a stand-up comic since 1998. Lately he’s doing a lot of material about having an openly gay son to mainstream crowds with very lively receptions. He has performed at all the Detroit area clubs, across the USA from coast to coast. He brings his own style of comedy to mainstream audiences and making them laugh while showing support for his gay son. He also enjoys performing for the LGBT community which really needs some comic relief as the struggle for equal rights goes forward. He has opened for comedy greats, Rosie O’Donnell, Jennie McNulty, Chrissy Burns, Chili Challis, and Vickie Shaw. His MySpace page is http://www.myspace.com/standupdad . To order tickets, email [email protected] or call 513-202-1707. Volume 25 Issue 1 Page 3 A Box of Yesterdays Jane Biddinger Each January we think about One on my nightstand. Another hid- homosexuality. Picking up a book cleaning the basement. Every decade den beneath a stack of newspapers. and reading its words would make the or so, we actually put those thoughts A third tucked under the seat of the situation real. It would crack my shield into action. Last weekend was one of car. of denial. It would force me to face those times. Believe me, we were reality. While I was far from blissful, overdue. I didn’t handle the news of my my ignorance didn’t seem like such a son’s sexual orientation well. Please bad thing. It’s amazing what two people can feel free to consider that a gross un- accumulate when the space is avail- derstatement.
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