Shakespeare in the Park The Merry Wives of Windsor Friday, August 10 at 5:30 p.m.
Thornden Park Amphitheatre
Free. Meet at the LGBT Resource Center by 5:00 p.m. and we'll walk over.

Don't miss the Sage Upstate Annual Picnic!
Sunday, August 12, 2 pm
Oneida Shores Park, McKinley Ridge West Shelter

Food: provided by Sage Upstate (burgers, veggie burgers, chicken, Italian sausage, sides, soft drinks, strawberry shortcake)
Fun: Bring your favorite games, some provided. Oneida Shores Beach is a 10 minute walk from picnic site
Need A Ride?
If you'd like to carpool to the picnic site, please e-mail Adrea Jaehnig at aljaehni@syr.edu and plan to meet at the LGBT Resource Center (750 Ostrom Ave) at 1:30 PM!

The Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps Band will be marching in the daily parade at the New York State Fair. Come out and support our friends as they promote Music, Visibility, and Pride. For more information, please contact Deb at dmfrank@syr.edu.

The International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) is seeking proposals for presentations and workshops for Transgender 2008, which will take place March 31-April 5, 2008 in Tucson. Our theme for 2008 is "Towards a Greater Diversity." This year we are especially looking for papers on the follow themes, and others:

-Issues regarding transgender people of color
-Trans youth and youth/families of transgender parents
-Elders and aging issues
-Issues and concerns of cross-dressers
-Transgender relationships - for SOs, couples, & transgender people with or without partners
-Religion, faith, and spirituality
-Transgender health, medicine, & legal concerns
-Issues and concerns of FTMs (There will be a full track for transmen!!)
-Creating more unity in the transgender communities and between the LGB and T communities

New ideas, new topics, and new faces are of particular interest. We are ESPECIALLY interested in presentations by Spanish-speaking presenters on most any of the topics above.

Submit your proposal no later than September 15, 2007 to insure space and schedule availability. Your proposal should be submitted via the form provided on the Conference Web site, www.transeventsusa.org/ifge. You must include a short biography and any A/V equipment needs. The conference Web site also includes other news and information about the conference.

If you have questions regarding your proposal, contact Alison Laing at alng@mindspring.com.

We are writing to let you know about an exciting event that will be taking place in San Francisco from October 13-14, 2007. Transforming Justice will be the first-ever gathering of activists, advocates, former prisoners, and community members from across the country working to stop the cycles of poverty, criminalization, and imprisonment in transgender and gender non-conforming communities. This two-day roundtable event will work to develop shared understanding of these cycles and strategize about how we can work more effectively to end the human rights abuses and mass imprisonment of transgender and gender non-conforming people, while building safe, healthy, and strong communities. Transforming Justice will be an opportunity to learn, connect, and envision together as we work to challenge the prison industrial complex and build a world where we all can thrive.

A range of organizations and volunteers involved in LGBTSTQ justice, anti-prison, and prisoner rights movements are helping to plan this exciting gathering. The Local Coordinating Committee consists of interested community members and representatives from our local host organizations, including Critical Resistance, Justice Now, the Trans/Gender Variant in Prison (TIP) Committee, and the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP). The National Advisory Committee consists of representatives from our sponsoring organizations, including American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT Project, Human Rights Watch's LGBT Rights Program, Lambda Legal, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

Who should attend? In an effort to centralize the leadership and participation of people most impacted by the prison industrial complex, this event is open to any LGBTSTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two- Spirit, transgender, queer) person who has been imprisoned, detained, arrested, or directly impacted by prisons, policing, or poverty. We are also targeting specific invitations to organizations, activists, attorneys, and community members from a broad spectrum of social justice movements working to: end transphobia and homophobia; challenge the prison industrial complex and defend the rights of people in prisons, jails, and detention centers; promote racial, gender, and economic justice, marriage equality, women's rights, youth leadership, non-violence, and/or immigrant rights.

We would like to invite you and/or 1-3 members of your organization to participate in Transforming Justice. We particularly encourage people most directly impacted by prisons, policing, and poverty to attend: including formerly imprisoned people, survivors of police violence, people of color, transgender and gender non-conforming people, immigrants, and low-income people.