Political Update: Contact your State Senators to Support Equality Bills

Let’s hold our elected officials accountable!  Call your District Representative and State Senator’s office right now and tell them you support LGBT equality legislation. It only takes a few minutes, and helps in the fight for equality in NC.

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)

burr.senate.gov

Washington, D.C. Office:
217 Russell Senate Office Building,
District of Columbia 20510-3306
Phone: (202) 224-3154
Fax: (202) 228-2981

Winston-Salem Office:
2000 West First Street, Suite 508
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27104
Phone: (336) 631-5125
Fax: (336) 725-4493

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)

hagan.senate.gov

Washington, D.C. Office:
521 Dirksen Senate Office Building,
District of Columbia 20510-3301
Phone: (202) 224-6342
Fax: (202) 228-2563

Greensboro Office:
701 Green Valley Road, Suite 201
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408
Phone: (336) 333-5311
Fax: (336) 333-5331

North Carolina HB 361/ SB 272

These bills propose amending the state constitution to provide that “marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.” If approved by the legislature, the proposed amendment would go before voters.

HB 361
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/HTML/H361v1.html

SB 272
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/HTML/S272v1.html

Call your elected officials today!

Upcoming Gay Prides in NC!

New York Pride

Charlotte Pride – July 25, 2009 – 11AM-6PM
Gateway Village
http://www.pridecharlotte.com

NC Pride – September 26, 2009, 10am – 4pm
Duke East Campus, Durham, NC.
http://www.ncpride.org/pride/

Queer Benefit Extravaganza for Tranzmission Prison Books!

Concert!  Trans 101!  Bake sale!  Come join UNCA’s Alliance on Wednesday, March 4 in the Highsmith Union Alumni Hall for a benefit extravaganza in support of Tranzmission Prison Books.  We’re kicking off this event with a Trans 101 workshop at 7 pm to educate students and community members about trans identity and trans issues.  After the workshop, at 9 pm, there will be a concert including local band performances by boys of summer, one tough cookie, and the rap stylings of A naturale.  You won’t want to miss this!

Because this is a benefit, we ask that you bring some queer-themed books and/or a donation of $3-5, that will go directly toward buying queer books and resources for queer and trans prisoners nationwide.  Also, don’t forget to bring a few extra dollars for our Bake Sale!

Tranzmission Prison Books is a books-to-prisoners organization focusing on providing books and resources to queer and trans prisoners nationwide. Alliance is a consciousness raising and activist group on the UNCA campus dedicated to creating safe spaces and links of queer community at the university.

For more information about the acts performing, visit their MySpace profiles.

boys of summer: http://www.myspace.com/boysof
one tough cookie:  http://www.myspace.com/cookiesaretuff
A naturale:  http://www.myspace.com/anaturale

Dragtastic Drag Show/Dance Party and Canned Food Drive

Print me! Post me! Hand me out!

Hello gang! Just wanted to remind you all of the Drag Show/Dance party that is happening on Thursday the 13th in the Grotto on the bottom floor of Highsmith Union. It starts at 8pm and goes until 11pm. Come dressed in drag or just in a sweet costume. We are taking donations of canned food or cash for WNCAP’s program, Loving Food Resources so bring some with you. If you have any music requests or would like to perform in drag send us an email at alliance.unca@gmail.com.

Hope to see you all there!

-Alliance

Barack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Carving

Come one come all!  From 4-6pm on the quad.  We have a limited number of pumpkins for sale so BYOP.  We’ll provide stencils and hot cider so let’s get carving!

BYOP!

Meeting Tonight at The Hop

Hello all!  Just wanted to let you guys know that we have our Thursday meeting tonight at The Hop on Merrimon Ave.  A group of us is meeting on the mini quad next to New Hall at 5:30pm and we’ll be walking over to The Hop.  You can drive/walk/bike and meet us there on your own which will be around 6.  We’re going to discuss our plans for the coming months *we have some exciting events in the works* and perhaps we’ll have another round of board games.  Bring one of your favorites if you’d like.  Come join us and chow down on some yummy local ice cream!

See you soon!

Queer Conference

We discussed Queer Conference at the meeting this week.  For more information about the conference and the Keynote Speakers, visit http://www.unca.edu/queer/.

Progressive Prom Pictures, Spring 2008

Hello all!  Just wanted to let you know that we have some of your Progressive Prom pictures in the Alliance office, Room #241 in the Student Org. Suite in Highsmith.  One of us is more than likely here during the day but if you want to stop by at a certain time, shoot us a quick email letting us know your name and when you’d like to drop in and we’ll have it ready for you.

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for a rockin’ potluck.

Upcoming Meeting September 25 @ 6 PM in Laurel Forum

We hope you’re all ready for another meeting.  Since we devoted our last meeting to getting to know each other, we’ve decided to host a game night and pot luck on Thursday, September 25 at 6:00 PM in the Laurel Forum (Karpen Hall).  We’ll have a number of games available to play, including Cranium, Catchphrase, and Apples to Apples.  Feel free to bring other games (and other people), as well!  Of course, we’ll also have a discussion about what you all want to see from Alliance, and we have some ideas for member participation in both our club throughout the year and in the upcoming Queer Conference in the spring semester.

If you come, please bring some sort of food/drink to share (But if you can’t bring anything, we understand — come anyway!).  If you know what you’ll bring, shoot us an e-mail (at alliance.unca@gmail.com) so we can make sure we don’t have several of the same items.