Living Transgender In American Society Today: Breaking News

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Breaking News - GLASS files for Chapter 7

See the following article on "Pam's House Blend".

I think you will be as appalled as I am this morning.
here's the link:

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=FAC285379A07BCD30B81FAC4FB8FA365?diaryId=9533

More than ever I believe that we all in the TBLGQI... community start to pull together on supporting each part of the "community" so that more disasters like this don't happen. I hear this same sort of sentiment a lot these days and I believe it is this fragmenting of community effort that lost us the battle for Marriage Equality this time out. Some say "I support only Marriage Equality issues" and others say "I won't help on that cause because of how we got left out of ENDA" and so on, but the end result is we all get sold short. Don't you see that we are all in this together whether we like it or not.

We are all important and our issues are important, so we all need to stand together, especially for our children!!

Regards,
Eva-Genevieve! Scarborough

1 comment:

Renee KleinFebruary 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM
This is so terrible for the children and just unbelievable that it came down to money. They need to contact a supportive politician that can find revenue if it is just about the money. Perhaps contacting a celebrity,like Rosie, that can help with finances
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Any Body, Everybody, Christ’s Body…

…was the theme at this years National Gathering of the UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns this year in San Diego (July 14 –17). There were about 125 attendees from all across the US and we even had folks from other countries. Several topics were discussed including ways to make Church accessible to all – many physical and mental challenges were included in this discussion as well as LGBT concerns, Mentoring Queer youth – the emphasis being the need for all of us to be mentors as we are able and that we all have something to teach others, Advocacy & Empowerment, OnA Next Steps: Telling Our Stories, and also a panel discussion on including “transgender” and gender expression more specifically in OnA statements, and immigration issues too – far more issues and information than one person could take in or even list here.

Starting Wednesday afternoon we jumped right in with a very lively worship service with wonderful music and through the course of the gathering we heard many inspiring speakers and participated in several “breakout” workshop sessions. We broke into small discussion groups daily, heard many points of view on important topics, and made many friends in the process. On our last evening the General Minister and President of the UCC, the Revered Geoffrey Black was the keynote speaker at the banquet. My favorite speaker at the conference was Felix Carrion who often contributes to the UCC’s “Stillspeaking” on-line daily Devotional. We ended the conference Saturday morning with another lively worship service and dismissed just in time for several of us to rush over and march in San Diego’s Pride parade with the Mission Hills UCC Church and Bloom in the Desert Ministries (also UCC affiliated). I brought back lots of things to discuss in upcoming Mission Board meetings, but more than anything else it is the personal connections that made the conference very worthwhile. I feel a part of something much larger now – there was so much positive, hopeful energy shared there. I felt so very warmly welcomed by everyone and I believe that my input there was greatly valued as well. And, of course, I made an impression with my array of colorful dresses and hats too! (Would you expect anything less)? I was so blessed for being allowed to represent First Congregational Church in Riverside at this Gathering.

Follow this link to pictures from the event -the photos are in no particular order and a few shots of the fire that broke out behind the motel where I was staying.

Hugs and Blessings,

Eva-Genevieve!