Please join us on Friday, January 26th for the pop-folk stylings of singer/songwriter Edie Carey in a one of a kind performance to take place in the Panasci Lounge, located in the upper level of Syracuse University's Schine Student Center at 8:00 pm. This concert is FREE and open to all students, faculty, staff and community members. Sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center, Orange Night Live, and UEncounter.

"Fusion" will be held on Thursday, January 25 from 6-8 pm at the LGBT Resource Center, and this will be social event where we will show folks how to make Sushi! Vegetarian, vegan and non-sea food sushi options will be available. Karaoke and games will also be available. This was a huge hit last year - not one to miss!

This event is free and open to LGBT students, faculty, and staff of color to gather and celebrate the diversity within the LGBT community. In order to assist us in ordering the right amount of food supplies, please RSVP to Amit Taneja (ataneja@syr.edu ) by noon on Wednesday, Jan 24. Other Fusion Dates for the semester: Feb 22, Mar 22, and April 26.

Come as you are, and feel free to tell a friend! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the facilitators: Tanya Bowen, Counseling Center, 443-4715, tsbowen@syr.edu and Amit Taneja, LGBT Resource Center, 443-3092, ataneja@syr.edu.

Have a few words you'd like to get off your chest? Consider this week's Café Q an opportunity to get in touch with your inner beatnik! Join us in enjoying the verbal talents of your fellow students, complete with the hot coffee and chill atmosphere that Café Q never ceases to provide!

Feeling brave? For your chance to perform contact lgbt@syr.edu!

What is gender? How does our gender or the perception of it impact our daily lives? How does gender intersect with our other identities and ways of being in the world? What impact does gender have on our campus and community? Come to aGenda, a discussion group where questions about gender and its role in contributing to our understanding of the world will be explored.

Please join us for discussion and community building on Tuesday, January 23rd at 8:00pm at the LGBT Resource Center, 750 Ostrom Ave. Interested parties can contact co-facilitators Jackie Micieli and Mary Bazemore with questions, jamiciel@syr.edu or, mebazemo@syr.edu. aGenda is open to everyone.

I and other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists working with the New York Free the Cuban 5 Committee very much hope that you will sign on to the call below for "Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five." The Cuban Five are political prisoners held by the United States government for the "crime" of trying to stop U.S.-based terror attacks against Cuba. U.S. courts recently denied the ruling for a new trial. With this call we hope to re-invigorate outrage at the targeting and continued imprisonment of these political prisoners.

Americans typically assume that nuclear families represent authentic, mature adulthood. Adults who reside in non- traditional households and rely on friendship networks challenge traditional adulthood. This course centers on depictions of ?alternative? kinship systems in popular culture. For the Spring this course will fulfill the following requirement: Writing 105 OR Writing Intensive OR Writing 195 can be fulfilled by this class. Students must petition to Dean Wadley for approval as WRT 195.

The Syracuse University Rape Advocacy, Prevention, and Education (R.A.P.E.) Center is seeking students who want to join the peer theater troupe e5m, which addresses issues of sexual assault prevention and education through performance and dialogue with students across the SU community. Interested students may attend an open informational meeting, with no commitment to join, next Monday, January 22, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The meeting will be in Room 001, 111 Waverly Avenue. e5m meets weekly on Mondays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Jill Sneider, sexual health coordinator, at jasneide@syr.edu or 443-7126,

The LGBTQ Youth Center at Aids Community Resources in Syracuse is looking for the two following positions. Both positions are paid @ $11/Hr. For more information about the LGBTQ Youth Center, this position or application procedures, contact: Elizabethe Payne, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, 350 Huntington Hall; or email ecpayne@syr.edu. Dr. Payne is the Director of the LGBTQ Youth Center @ ACR and teaches in CFE.

CyberCenter Program Assistant: Developing programs utilizing the CyberCenter will be central to the new After School program. Basic skills such as Word Processing and conducting Internet Searches as well as more advanced skills will be taught through the CyberCenter.

After School Educational Program Assistant: The LGBTQ Youth Center has received funding for an After School Program that will work with youth through academic tutoring, mentoring, skill building, and enrichment activities to help them stay in school and succeed. This is a new program and as far as we know, the first of its kind in the country!

Winter/Spring Session: January 17?May 2, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 6:30 pm.

Where: Sage Upstate Center, 501 James St (corner of Townsend and James in the First English Lutheran Church) To register: free of charge; participants must register in advance. To register, contact Sage Upstate at 315-478-1923 or kdill@sageupstate.org.

TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. state of New Jersey legalized same-sex civil unions on Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the same rights as marriage but would not allow such partnerships to be called "marriage." Massachusetts became the first and only state to legalize gay marriage in 2004. Several other states have civil union or domestic partnership laws.

To apply click at the link and search for job # 5488BR.

CALL FOR PAPERS: EXAMINING THE LIVES OF GLBTQ OF COLOR: A special issue devoted to the above topic in: The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy & Research. Deadline for submission is July 31, 2007 with a planned publication in 2008. Submissions should be sent to: Chong-suk Han, Guest Editor, Department of Sociology, Temple University, 713 Gladfelter Hall, 1115 West Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

Essays by Queer Men on Gender and Politics: Gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men's gender identities often exist somewhere outside the traditional categories of "masculine" and "feminine." Sissies, drag queens, and leather daddies alike play with gender in a way that cannot be accounted for in traditional understandings of maleness. This collection -- part blog, part anthology, part audiobook -- aims to shatter traditional understandings of maleness and point towards a new understanding of how queerness and gender intersect.

WASHINGTON (January 16, 2007) ? Singing a cappella, wearing blazers, donning neck ties ... not exactly stuff of "real men" -- and the apparent motivation behind a New Year's Eve attack in San Francisco on a visiting all-male singing group from Yale University that left three seeking hospital treatment for injuries ranging from a concussion to a broken jaw. No arrests have been made since the attack took place two weeks ago.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Only a minority of gay, lesbian or bisexual teenagers tell doctors about their sexual orientation, RAND Corporation researchers said. Even though 70 percent of the individuals were aware of their orientation as teens, just 35 percent told their doctors. "We were surprised by these results," said Garth Meckler, assistant professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics with the Oregon Health and Science University, Portland. "We figured they would have a higher disclosure rate than most youth, and yet, despite being out to almost everyone in their lives, only 35 percent had told their doctor about their sexual orientation."