The Weekend
Stolen from tommytesto
Does the HRC support transgender people?
HRC President Joe Solmonese speaks about ENDA, September 14, 2007 - Southern Comfort Conference.
You oppose any legislation which is not inclusive? Yeah, right. Forward this link far and wide, please.
Saturday I got up bright and early to head to Salem for the quarterly AGLY (Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth) meeting. As usual, the person driving the furthest was the first to arrive. After a bit of griping, I got over it.
I really like AGLY meetings. Hanging out with a group of people who run queer youth groups is insanely amusing. After the meeting, I ran down to Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie to grab some Gibralters and Blackjacks. Two of the oldest candies ever sold in this country, and yummy ones to boot! I'd only had them once before and was sooo happy to have the chance to pick up some more.
Then I busted butt to get back home and get ready for the Parrotfish Prom. Parrotfish is a book by Ellen Wittlinger, a local author, about a trans teen. (You can see a video "preview" for the book here.) The prom was a release party of sorts, and a benefit for the youth group I run.
Talk about fun! There was a dj who played mostly 80's music and- who would've ever thought?- "Walk Like An Egyptian" may have been the most popular song of the night! There was also a station where two stylists from a local salon were doing hair, a station to get prom photos taken, and a station with tons of Ken and Barbie dolls just waiting to be cross-dressed.
People got incredibly creative- cutting hair off of Barbie and using a glue gun to transform Ken, borrowing product from the salon people to give Barbie a mohawk (as Kat did), turning a very metrosexual Ken into a pretty pink princess (as I did). Kat joked that every party should have a "therapy table" where people can dress up/mutilate Barbie and Ken dolls.
It was a long day, but well worth it.
Last night we had a friend over that we haven't seen in quite a while and made vegetarian sushi. It was great to catch up and the sushi rocked!
Desperate Housewives premiere kicked ass. I always complain that it's too short, but I guess that's why we buy the box sets and do weekend marathons, no?
Health stuff in the post to come...
Does the HRC support transgender people?
HRC President Joe Solmonese speaks about ENDA, September 14, 2007 - Southern Comfort Conference.
You oppose any legislation which is not inclusive? Yeah, right. Forward this link far and wide, please.
Click to viewSaturday I got up bright and early to head to Salem for the quarterly AGLY (Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth) meeting. As usual, the person driving the furthest was the first to arrive. After a bit of griping, I got over it.
I really like AGLY meetings. Hanging out with a group of people who run queer youth groups is insanely amusing. After the meeting, I ran down to Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie to grab some Gibralters and Blackjacks. Two of the oldest candies ever sold in this country, and yummy ones to boot! I'd only had them once before and was sooo happy to have the chance to pick up some more.
Then I busted butt to get back home and get ready for the Parrotfish Prom. Parrotfish is a book by Ellen Wittlinger, a local author, about a trans teen. (You can see a video "preview" for the book here.) The prom was a release party of sorts, and a benefit for the youth group I run.
Talk about fun! There was a dj who played mostly 80's music and- who would've ever thought?- "Walk Like An Egyptian" may have been the most popular song of the night! There was also a station where two stylists from a local salon were doing hair, a station to get prom photos taken, and a station with tons of Ken and Barbie dolls just waiting to be cross-dressed.
People got incredibly creative- cutting hair off of Barbie and using a glue gun to transform Ken, borrowing product from the salon people to give Barbie a mohawk (as Kat did), turning a very metrosexual Ken into a pretty pink princess (as I did). Kat joked that every party should have a "therapy table" where people can dress up/mutilate Barbie and Ken dolls.
It was a long day, but well worth it.
Last night we had a friend over that we haven't seen in quite a while and made vegetarian sushi. It was great to catch up and the sushi rocked!
Desperate Housewives premiere kicked ass. I always complain that it's too short, but I guess that's why we buy the box sets and do weekend marathons, no?
Health stuff in the post to come...