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 month 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.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEWS
- PFLAG Tucson/Tucson
LGBTQ
2012 Scholarships.
This year PFLAG Tucson will award three $1,000 scholarships in the name of Gene
Moore, PFLAG Tucson's past president, and one $1,000 scholarship in the
name of Mark and Art Woodland, son and husband of long-time PFLAG
member Elaine Woodland. In addition, Tucson LGBTQ will award two
$250 School Book Scholarships to deserving, economically challenged Tucson LGBT graduating high
school seniors to attend Pima College. Full information and
application materials are available at this link.
Applications are due March 31, 2012.
- 2012 Couples
Celebration.
This year we have moved our annual Couples Celebration to
Wednesday, February 15, from 6:30-8:30 pm. We have decided to make
this a stand-alone event separate from our monthly support meeting.
We have moved the celebration to the Fellowship Hall at Rincon
Congregational United Church of Christ at 122 N. Craycroft Road,
just north of Broadway on the east side of the street. Join us to celebrate Tucson's LGBT couples with
good food and story telling. Each year this reminds us once again
how long lasting and devoted these relationships can be and that these
couples deserve the same recognition and rights as married couples.
Couples, singles, friends, allies - all are welcome!
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This coming February 17-19 and 24-26, the
Southwest LGBT Film Society will host the 1st annual Tucson International
LGBT Film Festival at the
Screening Room, 127 E. congress. PFLAG Tucson is a program sponsor.
A celebration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender films, the festival will
showcase the best features, documentaries, shorts and musical films exploring
LGBT issues and/or created by members of the LGBT community. All proceeds
from the festival will go to
Tucson Pride in
support of Tucson's annual October Pride celebrations. PFLAG needs a
couple of volunteers to help with the festival. Please let us know
if you're interested,
pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org.
RAINBOW
BUILD II
The official drive to
raise money for the Rainbow Build II, the second Habitat for Humanity
Tucson house, has started. The house is schedule to be built in 2012. To build
such a home, LGBT groups and individuals (of any persuasion) contribute money
for materials and then work together to construct it. We were strong supporters of the first build, which
was in 2005, and have been asked to contribute to this one. This second house
will be targeted for an eligible LGBT family.
The 2005 Tucson Rainbow Build was the first LGBT build in the nation and was
featured in the July 19, 2005, issue of The Advocate. You can learn more
about that venture by following
this link (preserved online in Google Books). Some 35 Tucson organizations
joined together in that effort.
As incentive, the Alliance Fund is giving $2,000 as a grant. The total amount
the community needs to raise is $22,000. This should be doable if each
organization that helped on the first build - such as PFLAG - comes up with
$1000-$2000. To contribute, you may make out checks to PFLAG Tucson with
"Rainbow Build II" on the notation line and send them to P.O. Box 36264, Tucson,
AZ 85740. We will then submit a single check to Habitat for Humanity for the
build.
For more information
about Habitat for Humanity Tucson, visit
http://www.habitattucson.org/.
OTHER INFORMATION
EON HOT MEALS
Every third Wednesday of each month, Wingspan hosts
a hot meal for
Eon youth. Again, everyone is invited to bring food.
Those bringing food should plan to arrive by 4:15 pm. If you cannot stay,
however, non-perishable, clearly labeled food items can be dropped off before
the meal or before 7:30 pm the night before. For more information and to
get on the contact list, contact Shelli Cohen at
shellicohenaz@gmail.com.
The Eon
Thanksgiving Dinner, held Friday, November 18, was a great success.
Approximately 50 people attended, with much good food to go around (and to go
home!). We look forward to another great event next year.
PHOTOS AND
BIO'S OF 2011 PFLAG
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
This past year PFLAG Tucson awarded five $1,000
Gene Moore Memorial Scholarships as well as a $1,000 scholarship in
the name of Mark Woodland, the son of long-time PFLAG members Art and
Elaine Woodland. In addition,
Tucson LGBT awarded four $250 School Book Scholarships through the
PFLAG application process to economically challenged students who are
attending or plan to attend Pima Community College in Tucson. Please
take a look at these winners and read their impressive bio's at this
link.
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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.
SUPPORT MEETINGS
Wednesday, February 1
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.
Dr. Stephen Russell, Distinguished Professor, Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair at the
University of Arizona, will talk to us about a new study that he is doing on
LGBTQ youth and suicide risk. Our normal support meeting will follow his
presentation.
Wednesday, February 15
PFLAG Annual LGBT Couples
Celebration, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Fellowship
Hall, Rincon Congregational United Church of Christ, 122 N. Craycroft
Road, just north of Broadway on the east side of the street.
Wednesday, March 2, 2012
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.
We are working on having a panel of four LGBT young people talk to us about
coming out to their parents and how parents might best respond to their children
when this happens.
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