NEWS FROM AROUND WISCONSIN FORGE TRANSGENDER AGING NETWORK PART OF GROUNDBREAKING FEDERAL CENTER Milwaukee - The White House announced on Feb - clearinghouse with resources useful to all three au - • The National Association of Area Agencies on ruary 10 the award of the first-ever, federally funded, diences; a train-the-trainer curriculum and national Aging, representing local government agencies that national resource center devoted to lesbian, gay, bi - LGBT aging training corps; in-person trainings and oversee all programs funded under the Older Amer - sexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, awarding a 3- webinars; best practice publications; consumer edu - icans Act; and year contract to a coalition that includes FORGE's cational materials and campaigns; a listserv to pro - • The National Institute on Senior Centers of the Transgender Aging Network (TAN) in Milwaukee. vide professionals ongoing technical assistance and National Council on Aging. TAN is one of ten organizational partners that support; dedicated phone and email technical assis - "We are extremely pleased to be included as an will assist lead agency Services and Advocacy for tance portals; and a range of social media vehicles to equal partner with many of the country's leading or - GLBT Elders (SAGE), the country's oldest and largest entice users to remain in contact with the Resource ganizations addressing aging issues," said FORGE agency devoted to serving LGBT elders, in carrying Center and grow along with it. The Resource Center Executive Director Michael Munson. "I think our in - out the duties of the U.S. Administration on Aging's will also devote special outreach and attention to clusion is a tribute to how much work TAN has new Technical Assistance Resource Center: Promot - low-income, rural, transgender, limited English- done over the past 11 years to raise awareness of ing Appropriate Long Term Care Supports for LGBT speaking LGBT elders and LGBT elders of color. the unique needs of transgender elders. We also Elders (Resource Center). In addition to TAN and SAGE, the organizational want to thank SAGE for recognizing how important TAN is charged with helping ensure that the di - partners in the new Resource Center are: it is to include transgender aging experts and so en - verse needs and viewpoints of transgender elders are • Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity sure that this exceptionally exciting federal effort reflected in all Resource Center training and techni - at Hunter College of the City University of New York; meets the needs of all older members of the LGBT cal assistance materials. TAN's founder, Loree Cook- • Centerlink, a national association of LGBT com - community." Daniels, will also serve as part of the core training munity centers; This partnership award represents the fourth staff that will be deployed throughout the country. • Griot Circle, the nation's largest organization serv - time in a year that FORGE has been awarded fed - The Resource Center has three mandates: ing LGBT elders of color; eral funds. In mid-2009, FORGE completed a 6- • Educate mainstream aging services organizations • Openhouse, a San Francisco agency with particu - month Office of Victims of Crime grant to produce about the existence and special needs of LGBT elders; lar expertise in LGBT elder housing; a "Guide for Milwaukee LGBT Crime Victims" and • Sensitize LGBT organizations about the existence • PHI, a national organization addressing the needs train local service providers. In the latter part of and special needs of older adults; and of direct-care workers; 2009, FORGE won two additional, 3-year grants • Educate LGBT individuals about the importance of • The American Society on Aging, a national asso - from the Department of Justice to provide direct planning ahead for future long-term care needs. ciation of aging professionals; services to transgender survivors of sexual vio - The Resource Center will achieve these goals by • The LGBT Aging Project, a Boston-based training lence, and training and technical assistance to the developing: a comprehensive, interactive, web-based agency with a caregiver support specialty; professionals who serve them. and dessert, as well as complementary champagne. PERFECT HARMONY MEN’S Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus is South-central Wisconsin’s gay and CHORUS’ TROOP SALUTE gay-friendly men’s chorus, now in its thirteenth (13th) season is a mem - A Cabaret That Is Decidedly “Do Ask, Do Tell” ber of GALA Choruses, performing before an international audience at Madison - Perfect Harmony’s own Bob Moore as hosts an evening of pre - GALA Fest 2008. 1945 favorites in a USO-style show. TROOP SALUTE will be performed two Tickets are $40 for Saturday night and $35 for Sunday night. Contact nights only - 7 pm on Saturday, March 13, and 7 pm on Sunday, March 14, Ken Forney at 608-445-6767 for information and reservations, and visit 2010 at the West Side Club of Madison, 437 County Hwy M in Madison. www.perfectharmonychorus.org . These are songs you wouldn’t believe were written in an innocent age. Perfect Harmony will feature the first ever SILENT AUCTION at TROOP SALUTE. Items include original oil paintings, prints, crafts, dinners, col - lectibles, and service type items. Cash or check only. Food will be pro - vided by Queen Anne’s Catering, repeatedly voted the Best of Madison award for “Caterer”. They will supply an extensive array of hors d’oeuvres “SAPPHO IN LOVE” BRINGS A JIHAD FOR LOVE PART OF THE CAMPY COMEDY WITH LESBIAN INTERNATIONAL LGBT FILM FEST AT UW-L TWIST FROM STAGEQ LaCrosse - Visiting Scholar and Di - rector Parvez Sharma, will host a lec - ture , film screening and discussion as part of the UW-L International LGBT Film Festival February 26 and 27. Sponsored by: Provost's Office through the Visiting Scholar/Artist of Color Grant, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Pride Center, and the De - partments of Psychology, Modern Madison, WI - StageQ, the local queer theater Language, English, Sociology/Ar - company brings warmth (no, make that heat) to the chaeology. Five other films with LGBT February chills with the romantic Lesbian romp themes will also be screened at the Sappho In Love at the Bartell Theatere located at 113 festival in 339 Cartwright Center. E. Mifflin Street in downtown Madison, WI Friday, Parvez Sharma is the director and February 12, 2010 through Saturday, February 27th. producer of A Jihad for Love Sappho In Love , written by the popular Carolyn (www.ajihadforlove.com), which is Gage (Ugly Ducklings, Second Coming of Joan of the world’s first feature documentary Arc) and directed by StageQ favorite Katy Conley, is to explore the complex global inter - a lesbian midsummer night's dream with the god - desses of celibacy, love, and marriage competing for sections between Islam and homo - Sappho's attention amid poetry contests, meteor sexuality. Crucially, this film speaks showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic with a Muslim voice, unlike other trysting, mix-ups and disguises. Wet and wild ro - documentaries about sexual politics mantic comedy! in Islam made by Western directors. Critics claim “Touching, funny, gregarious-well In the hope of opening a dialogue worth the money! For anyone who enjoys the the - that has been mostly non-existent in ater, Sappho in Love is one of the most side-splitting Islam’s recent history and defining two hours you can have! Hysterical, sweet and just jihad as a “struggle” rather than a “war,” the film Friday, Feb. 26 7 pm. A Jihad for Love (Middle a little different!" presents the struggle for love. East/South Asia Running time: 81 minutes) fol - Sappho In Love stars Molly Vanderlin as A Jihad for Love has been screened at more than lowed by a Conversation with Director Parvez Aphrodite, Laura Spring as Hera, Leonie Dolch as 70 other international film festivals and is the win - Sharma, 339 Cartwright Center. Artemis and Boye as Sappho, along with Kristin ner of several international awards. Sat., Feb. 27: 12pm-10 pm ,339 Cartwright Center Forde, Petrovnia McIntosh, Juli Branch, Marian Her - 12pm: The Baby Formula zog, Nikki Weinfurtner, Christine Esche, Rachel The lecture; Islam and Diversity , will be held Granda-Gluski, Sabra Katz-Wise, Vanessa Vesper - February 25 at 4 pm, Cleary Center. A few of the (Canada RUNNING TIME: 81 minutes) man, Shelly Murray, Luv Seamon, Thia Triggs and topics include: Does the 1429 year old religion of 2pm: Diagnosing Difference Michelle Morency. Islam have principles that are relevant in the 21st (USA Run time: 60 minutes) Show times are Thursday at 7:30pm Friday and century? What is the sexual psyche of those young 3:30pm: Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Saturday at 8pm and Sunday, February 21st at 2pm. men who take on weapons in order to defend Islam Developing World Tickets are $15 for the Friday and Saturday shows and are ready to die for the promised seventy virgins (Egypt, Honduras, Kenya, Thailand 60 minutes) and $10 for Thursday evening and Sunday matinee in heaven? What does “jihad” mean in the context 5:00pm: XXY shows. Tickets may be purchased or reserved at of Parvez Sharma’s film? (Argentina|Spanish w/ English subtitles 91 Min.) www.StageQ.com or by calling 608-661-9696 x3. The complete film festival schedule is listed right. 7pm: Patrik, Age 1,5 (Sweden) people ages 18 to 98 to socialize and discuss a va - more than 600 attendees with twenty voluntary, HARMONY CAFE’S riety of issues. Please drop in and check it out! drag show performers . This year’s performers in - SPECTRUM GROUP FMI, contact Mark [email protected] or clude local favorites Lady Gia, Leo Long, Ms. B. EXPANDS TO GREEN BAY Cricket (920)437-7400 [email protected].