This Monday, September 18th, the Outrage meeting will start promptly at 5:30pm at the LGBT Resource Center instead of 7:30pm, due to the Jane Goodall lecture. We will be electing an outreach coordinator, talking about important opportunities that have recently come up, and planning the Human Rainbow Bridge. Please come if you are able- especially if you can't make our usual 7:30pm meetings. We may branch off into some smaller committees that can meet outside our regular meeting time, and this is the meeting to be at to get involved.

Where will you be on Tuesday October 10th? Well if you are looking for an internship, full time job or just want to network with several Fortune 500 companies, your answer should be: "At the Diversity Business Summit!!" The Diversity Business Summit is a prime opportunity for students to connect with internationally recognized organizations looking to diversify their workforce with knowledgeable, proficient, and proactive student candidates. Find out what three ways you can get involved by checking out the website at: http://students.syr.edu/careerservices/news/dbs- studentinfo.htm This event brought to you by JPMorgan Chase, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Morgan Stanley with support from the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Career Services Network! Call the Center for Career Services at 443-3616 or email Greg Victory at gjvictor@syr.edu with questions!

Syracuse Stage is having a dress rehearsal of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS on Tuesday at 7:00p.m. We'd like to have an audience, so, feel free to spread the word and attend! Please be in lobby by 6:45pm. No limit. Make friends. Its funny.

The Women's Studies Program at Syracuse University is hosting a national conference on the contested and complex relationship between feminism and war. The focus will be on recent U.S. government initiatives that claim war in the name of women's liberation, but with a global and transnational context in which other military actions might be considered. Conference themes include: Women's Liberation and U.S. Foreign Policy: U.S. War and Women in Iraq and Afghanistan War and Women in and of the U.S The War and Organizing for Women's Liberation Confirmed Speakers: Angela Davis, Cindy Sheehan, Leslie Cagan, Zillah Eisenstein, Cynthia Enloe, Jaspir Kaur Puar, Shanaz Khan and Julia Sudbury. We need volunteers to serve two hour shifts beginning on Tuesday, October 17th through Saturday, October 21st. In particular, on October 17, 18, and 19 from 11-4pm we need volunteers to sit at a table in the Shine while we show a film "Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation" (www.deepdishtv.org) and hand out flyers and information about the conference. *2 hour shifts = No conference registration fees! *4 hour shifts = No registration fees + one meal ticket! If you are interested please send you name, email, phone number, and availability to our Student Volunteer Coordinator Alice Loomis, aloomis@syr.edu.

September 14, 2006) ? ALBANY ? Four people from Westchester County have sued the state comptroller trying to overturn his decision to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Canada. The four, who are also suing Westchester County over its policy of recognizing same-sex marriages, claim that Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who is the sole trustee of the state employee pension system, exceeded his authority and acted illegally. Hevesi issued a ruling in 2004 that said the pension fund would recognize same-sex marriages performed in other countries. Being the spouse of someone with a state pension entitles the person to benefits like accidental-death payments and cost-of-living raises once the member dies. One of the four people bringing the suit, Margaret Godfrey of New Rochelle, a retired New York City school teacher, said Wednesday she was "very interested in this cause." She said she has also sued the city of New Rochelle over its decision to provide benefits to domestic partners. She referred other questions to her lawyer, who didn't immediately return a call. The other three plaintiffs named in the complaint couldn't be reached immediately. Their lawyers are being provided by the Arizona- based Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit group that wants to uphold traditional marriages. "Marriage has become an extremely emotional issue because certain people are trying to reduce it to nothing more than a benefits system for loving couples," said Brian Raum, an alliance lawyer. "These officials are clearly defying the law since New York courts have consistently defined marriage in the state as one man and one woman." The group has also sued Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano over an executive order he issued requiring all county departments and officials to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside New York. That suit claims that Spano exceeded his authority and that the order is costing taxpayers money. Hevesi said he'll fight the lawsuit, scheduled to be heard on Oct. 6 in an Albany court. Hevesi spokesman Dan Weiller said the comptroller doesn't know how many Canadian same-sex marriages have been recognized or how much money is at stake. The state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled in July that state law defines marriage as the legal union between a man and a woman.

ImageOut: Rochester's Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival will be here before you know it! This year's festival will run from October 6th through the 15th. We want to take this opportunity to remind you about our YOUTH PROJECT FILM SERIES. The series is made up of films selected specifically for their appeal to LGBT youth and their friends and supporters. Tickets for these films are FREE to anyone under the age of 21. Attached you'll find the program pages for the 2006 Youth Project Film Series. Feel free to pass them along or print them out. The full catalog of films for this year's festival will be available September 6th. Please let us know if you would like programs delivered to your school! This year we are excited to again be hosting a pre- festival youth event at the GAGV Youth Center located on 875 East Main Street in Rochester. This event will take place on Sunday September 24th from 2:30 - 4:30pm. Along with the opportunity to see a great movie, food and prizes will be offered, and tickets will be available for the festival's youth films. We hope you can join us! Ticket requests for the youth films can be directed to IOtickets@rochester.rr.com, or call the ImageOut office (585-271-2640) or e-mail (imageout@rochester.rr.com) with any questions you might have. We ask that requests for free tickets be made by October 4th.

Sponsor: City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School and University Center Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) For more information please visit Url: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec? id=39200&_ksTicket=6de45bade6b48c8b9255fb416a90 ab15&_ksExpires=2006091900:00:00

August 18, 2006 Dear Abby: Yesterday I made a visit to a city larger than the one in which I currently reside and encountered a problem I have never had before. I was in a women's restroom when a man wearing a wig walked in. It was obvious that this 6-footer, with a large Adam's apple, deep husky voice, dressed in a floral print dress and high heels, was a man. Should a transvestite be allowed to use the ladies' restroom? And if sex change surgery was performed, are there any visible signs? ? Bewildered in Ada, Okla. Dear Bewildered: There is a difference between a transvestite (someone who feels compelled to wear the clothing of the opposite sex) and a transsexual. A transsexual is a person who feels trapped in the body of the wrong sex. Before a transsexual is allowed to have gender reassignment surgery, he or she must live for one year in the role of someone of the opposite sex. This includes using the restroom facilities of the opposite gender. It is not against the law, and it was no threat to you. When sex change surgery is performed, the surgeons have perfected their technique to such a degree that it can be difficult, if not impossible, to tell that it has been done.