PFLAG MISSION STATEMENT
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through:
- Support,
to cope with an adverse society;
- Education, to enlighten an
ill-informed public; and
- Advocacy, to end discrimination
and to secure equal civil rights.
PFLAG provides opportunity to dialogue about sexual orientation and
gender identify, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of
human diversity.
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If you need help, please call our hotline at
(520) 360-3795 or e-mail us at
pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org. We will connect you with a PFLAG member
who has been where you are and who understands.
SUPPORT MEETINGS
PFLAG support meetings are held on the first
Wednesday evening of every other month starting in February from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Ward VI City Council
Offices at 3202 E. 1st Street. Click
here for more
detailed directions and a
location map. For our schedule,
see below. Please call our help line (360-3795) or
send us an e-mail message (pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org)
if you want or need immediate support.
OTHER NEWS, VIEWS, AND INFORMATION
PFLAG/MSN SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION
Please join us for our annual reception for our 2008
scholarship winners, to be help Saturday evening, May 3, at 7:00 pm at the
Rochester home at 4551 N. Camino Gacela, north of River Road half-way
between Swan and Craycroft. This year PFLAG has awarded eight $1000
scholarships and Mens Social Network has awarded two $1000 scholarships.
It is an uplifting experience to meet our scholarship winners and to learn about
what fine and committed LGBT scholars our community has.
JUNE 2008 SUPPORT
MEETING
Our next support meeting will be on Wednesday, June
4, at 7:00 pm in the main conference room at the Ward VI City Council offices at
3202 E. 1st Street. We hope to have someone speak to us on transgendered
children. Moving to bi-monthly support meetings may make it more difficult
for people to receive the support that they need, and we welcome requests to
meet individually with people outside this time.
WINGSPAN/EON HOMELESS
YOUTH PROJECT AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM (PRISM)
Wingspan/Eon's Homeless Youth Project is putting out a general call for people willing to qualify with a
local youth agency and act as a "host family" for homeless LGBTQ
youth. Eon has also established a new program called the
Prism Project to help LGBTQ youth deal with
substance abuse. Please click here
for complete information.
DONATE TO PFLAG
TUCSON ON-LINE
PFLAG Tucson is now registered with Network for Good
so that we can receive donations on-line. You can specify a specific purpose for
your gift, such as
our Scholarship Fund, general expenses, etc.
Click here for more information and instructions.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
We will be hosting our scholarships reception in May and will have no support
meeting this month.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
PFLAG Support Meeting, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, at the Ward
VI City Council Offices at 3202 E 1st. Street, one block east of Country Club
Road and one block south of Speedway Boulevard. Tentatively we will be
focusing on transgendered children.
CONTACT INFORMATION
