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The Opening Night party of the 7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival features hot filmmakers and cool DJs like Olga T (Movement Productions) and Wepa. Join us at the Room, 101 6th Street for sexy fun and serious dancing.

7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Presented by Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP)
June 10-12, 2011
Brava Theater, 2789 24th Street, SF, CA 94110
FREE
(415) 752-0868, festival@qwocmap.org, www.QWOCMAP.org

You are invited to the FIRST EVER LGBTQQIA inter-community college conference at Skyline College!

Sponsored by the Skyline Gay-Straight Alliance, along with the Associated Students of Skyline College, this will be a day-long event filled with workshops, speakers and performances.

And it's FREE!

Register for the event here: http://gsacon.wordpress.com/registration/

For more information, please visit:
http://gsacon.wordpress.com/

FULL LIST OF NATIONWIDE EVENTS AT http://bit.ly/Prop8DOD

The Prop 8 Decision will be coming out between 1pm and 3pm PDT Today (Wed 8/4). More information on how to get the decision below.

On Saturday April 24th, as a tribute to Sexual Assault Awareness Month hundreds of people will march thru the streets of San Francisco to say NO! to sexual violence in their communities. Join us for this 5K walk culminating in a festival at Mission Dolores Park with live music and performers, speakers, activities, food and drinks and the clothesline project. Prizes available for top fundraisers! All proceeds benefit San Francisco Women Against Rape. The event is wheelchair accessible. Be a part of the solution; gather your friends and family and Walk Against Rape!

Women’s Lives Are Human Lives! Health Care for People, Not Profits! DIE-IN at the Ferry Building to Protest the Stupac Amendment (abortion ban) and Demand quality single payer health care for all Saturday, December 5 gather 11:00 a.m. on the median strip opposite the SF Ferry Building we will explain the action and assign roles (this is a low-risk, high-visibility direct action; we do not anticipate anyone being arrested) Die-in will begin about 11:45 and end by 1:00 p.m. Please wear black

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.

TAKE A STAND, NO TO HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL On Wednesday, one transgender woman was stabbed to death in Washington, D.C. and another was in stable condition with stab wounds from an unknown assailant following an incident. The stabbings happened about two blocks away from the offices of the Transgender Health Empowerment (T.H.E.), a social services organization that offers drop-in services to transgender people, especially to transgender youth within the city.

Join Marriage Equality USA's 6th Annual Coast to Coast Bridgewalk on Sunday October 11, 2009. Click here to create your own fundraising page today at http://www.firstgiving.com/meusa and help support Marriage Equality USA's ongoing efforts in building bridges of understanding, fairness and support for all loving committed couples. Click here to donate to others who have signed up for the annual wedding march at http://www.firstgiving.com/meusa.

So there has been lots of attention to gay marriage these days. It has put Queer peoples in the fore front on Media attention. This has come up with good results for visability and there have been the other side of the coin as well. 2 gay men in Utah handcuffed and harassed for kissing. Fort Worth Texas people in a gay bar are beaten relentlessly by police placing one man in a coma. Stories of gay and lesbian couples attacked and harassed by people and law enforcement in states across the country just for showing affection to a person of the same gender.