Transgender Health and Wellness Conference
Forwarded from the Bay Area Bisexual Network:
It's Florencia, the bisexual filmmaker making the bisexual film... in less than 4 weeks!
I need your help to send my way any cute trans boys (should be aged between 21-30) that may be interested in playing a small role in my film. The role of DRE was a non-speaking part that grew to have one speaking scene and two non-speaking ones - the love interest of one of the girls. No acting training required, since it's a small role; just someone comfortable in front of the camera and interested in being part of a film.
I'm holding auditions for some other small roles on Tuesday, so would love to be able to audition any potentials this Tuesday as well.
So! Please help me spread the word! Send any potentials my way - ask them to email mynahfilms@gmail. com ASAP. They can also check out the website:
www.mynahfilms. com
Thanks...
-F.
July, August & September Meetings
7/19 -- Regular discussion meeting (No Topic)
8/16 -- Regular discussion meeting (No Topic)
9/20 -- Regular discussion meeting (No Topic)
October, November & December Meetings
10/18 -- TLC Presentation: Legal Issues
11/15 -- Regular discussion meeting (No Topic)
12/20 -- Panel of trans men who are healers
Meetings and Support Groups are held on the third Saturday of each month from 2-5pm at the Eureka Valley Rec Center, 100 Collingwood Street - Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94114.
7/19 -- Regular discussion meeting (No Topic)
Informational meetings odd months are (open), centered around a topic to focus discussion, provide time for networking/social gathering and are open to all genders.
The Lou Sullivan Society strives to keep the life and spirit of Louis Graydon Sullivan alive in the hearts and minds of transgender, transsexual and genderqueer men through providing information, support, community building, education and advocacy for Female to Male persons and their loved ones.
Saturday June, 21 2-3:30pm, Topic: UCSF AIDS Health Project (AHP) - HIV/STD Prevention - Discussion, instruction, referrals, answers, needs. (3:30-5pm will be open discussion on any topic without guest presenters)
Guest Presenters: Dee Hampton is the Mobile Testing, Medical Team Coordinator for AHP's HIV/STD Counseling Testing and Linkages Program at AHP & John Tighe, LCSW, is coordinator of the Groups & Workshops Program at AHP
The UCSF AIDS Health Project has been providing HIV testing since 1985 & is funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health
by Martin Rawlings-Fein
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Bri Smith opened my eyes to Midwestern history with zirs Lou Sullivan biographical event. Bri was an unassuming person tall, from my perspective, quiet and personable. It was quite a surprise to see Bri as such an engaging speaker at the June 23rd "Remembering Lou Sullivan: Celebrating 20 Years of FTM Voices" event and from what I learned it should have been called 20 years of Bay Area FTM Voices. The dynamic presentation was eye opening in the least.
Lou Sullivan was on the vanguard in the Wisconsin beat counterculture scene. He was truly a voice for change even as a child and young person living in the Midwest. He consistently talked about "playing boys" and about it meaning more to him than it did to the other children. He was also fostered by gay liberation movement and the gender-bending aesthetic of the late sixties and early seventies, in Wisconsin.
This Midwesterner was out loud and proud to be a freak, in the good sense, with the support of a loving family, partners and friends. His identity morphed from a girl "playing boys" to a "female transvestite" to eventually a "transsexual" just before he moved to San Francisco in 1975. Only to be turned away from surgery because the DSM did not agree that transsexuals could be homosexual. Sullivan the lover of men could therefore not be a true transsexual unless he lied.
Sullivan, in a true testament to living life to the fullest potential with honesty and forthrightness, did not lie on his applications for surgery. Instead he told the truth which got him rejected many times over. However, in the end the truth won out and he was cleared for surgery in 1986 the same year he founded the FTM support group in San Francisco.
In the end of Bri's dynamic presentation I was moved to an intense love of the places in between the coasts. They do not get as much respect as they should. Places like Wauwatosa, WI, can produce people like Louis Graydon Sullivan and they have since the beginning of our movement. Yet, Lou did not come here as many others do, running from the past. He came here to be with his sister, Maryellen, with a pocket watch from his mother engraved "Go West Young Man" and a dream of being the man he was meant to be.
After the presentation Maryellen and Bri announced that Sullivan's diaries, from age 11 to just before his death from AIDS complications in 1991, were going to be released to a Midwestern FTM publisher for printing sometime next year. Perhaps another Lou Sullivan is out there in the Midwest waiting to stumble upon them in a library like we in the Bay Area can do any day of the week.
Sullivan's full collection of papers and diaries are held at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library for all to see. Bri Smith is a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PhD candidate in History. Smith's dissertation is titled "'Yours in Liberation': The Life and Work of Lou Sullivan." Please email Bri at SmithB@uwm.edu with recollections, questions, and/or comments that you might have.
This is a monumental day for human dignity and the rights of all. In a 4-3 decision, the California Supreme Court justices said the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship." The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when the decision takes effect in 30 days from May 15th.
"The California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples," Chief Justice Ronald George wrote in the majority opinion.The Lou Sullivan Society applauds the justices decision to overturn the discriminatory law that halted the lives of thousands of same-sex couples married four years ago in San Francisco.
The California case is In re Marriage Cases, S147999. The ruling is available at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions.
Pictures from San Francisco City Hall
Video from the Steps of the Courthouse
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