This Saturday Barney Frank will present the scholarship in his Mother Elsie’s name to the 6 winners chosen by PFLAG.
The students range from an Asian boy in Quincy who came out and became the captain of the wrestling team, to a transgender student who watched as a gang attacked her and killed her friend.
You can meet these incredibly inspiring students, and have a chance to meet Barney Frank at the PFLAG fundraiser this Saturday! (Buy Tickets: http://www.gbpflag.org )
PFLAG does amazing work in supporting LGBT youth by training teachers and principles about their needs. They also provide support groups nationwide for parents of LGBT youth.
If you, like me, were upset with Barney over his support for a divided ENDA you may hesitate about attending. PFLAG unwaveringly supports a united ENDA, and transgender youth and adults. The scholarship in Elsie’s name was created years ago.
Although Massachusetts now has gay marriage, LGBT youth still need your support. They are 3+ more times likely to attempt suicide, more likely to face violence, alcoholism, and other risk factors. Come on out this Saturday and show your support!
The event includes an amazing silent auction featuring a trip to Africa among other things.
I went last year with a group of friends and it was a lot of fun. Everybody in my group won something in the silent action, two of the couples won vacations and my partner won a massage. The food was really good and the drinks were flowing.
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p>This year Robert Parker author of the Spenser mysteries will be there with his wife
and not only for parents, as they were originally, but for lgbt people too, as their role in the scholarship program shows. advocacy is also part of their charter, from panels of lgbt & ally speakers they put together at the request of schools and colleges, to redressing attacks on lgbt people such as by OK state representative Sally Kern. milo200 is right – set aside your differences with Barney and go enjoy a great evening, support a great organization and congratulate some deserving scholarship winners.
Mayor Menino is supposed to be attending, as well.
I hope that the presence and story of the transgender teen milo mentions may have some impact on Frank’s dismissal of trans concerns over ENDA…
and having lived my entire life in this state my retirement plan dubbed “Exodus from Massachusetts” has gone from comic relief to essential core strategy.
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p>My wife has rank and file nursing home workers asking me questions as to why “our” government killed 3000 of it’s own citizens on 911 yet she is coming out voting for McCain. I can’t argue with her at this point knowing that the position of pResident of the United States is mainly golfing buddy to the global corporate elites.
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p>Consumer confidence is at an all time low, so who publishes the government confidence index?
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p>For $100,000 a year I would gladly assume that responsibility!