Announcements

Dear PFLAG Membership, Friends and Supporters;

Thank you for your current and past support of PFLAG. Your support directly relates to the progress and ongoing services that Eugene/Springfield provides. Please consider purchasing or renewing your annual membership at this time. Last year's membership will receive membership renewal cards in the mail this week. Your contributions help us to continue to work towards the objectives of the PFLAG mission: "To promote the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: SUPPORT to cope with an adverse society, EDUCATION to enlighten an ill-informed public; and ADVOCACY to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights." Again, thank you for your continuing support.

NEW MEMBERS PLEASE CLICK ON THE FORM BELOW AND MAIL TO:
PFLAG Eugene/Springfield
P.O. Box 11137
Eugene, OR 97440
MEMBERSHIP FORM

Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) will be holding a closed support group for LGBTIQ folks who have experienced any form of sexual violence in their lives. The group will take place this fall for 8-10 weeks. If you are interested in more information or signing up please call (541) 484-9791 by October 13, 2010- ask for Anastasia or Jenny to set up an appointment. Support groups are a great way for survivors of sexual violence to work through their healing process and access support from others who have experienced similar events in their lives.

SASS is a non-profit that works with survivors of sexual violence, past or present and offers a 24 hour crisis and support line, advocacy, community education, self defense classes, in person crisis support and support groups. All of SASS services are free and confidential.

Rainbow Women Dinner Group
We meet the 1st & 3rd Sat. of each month at 5pm. Location varies. We also look forward to gathering at other times for movies, potlucks, Sunday brunches etc. To be added to the e-mail list call Bonnie at 683-2793. Hope to see you there!!

So I know other queer women (and I use that term as broadly and as inclusive as people can make it) are out there-- getting a few years older and finding it a little harder to get to a workout, exercise, play sports, whatever you used to do but don't anymore. I am hosting a new goggle group call QueerFit for queer women to post for workout buddies, spontaneous swim partners, walking friends, a rousing game of kickball, whatever comes up. I would love to have a piece for queer guys if I can find a co-host and of course if folks are looking across gender lines that is great too.

It will be moderated only the extent to discourage any bashing of this event or that, any chatter about someone's dating history, or a spam bot looking to take over your email. There is no expectation about skills or any required time commitment only a desire to do something. If enough people are interested I would be willing to host a few "flash mob" fitness events etc. Anyone else wishing they were training for the 5K or just walking past the end of the block. Wish you were playing tennis more, knew where your swim goggles were. I know you are out there. So drop me an email—or look up the group on google groups under QueerFit.

Google emails are free and they seem to be pretty spam free.

Chicora Martin

While some transgender people in Lane County experience strong social support, I've noticed it can be pretty difficult for people to find support who are new to the community and/or who are new to identifying as transgender. To address that problem in one small way, I started an email list for the use of transgender people and allies in Lane County who want a way to connect with others.

If you are a transgender person or ally, please consider joining and sending a message introducing yourself to the group. Or, consider forwarding this message to someone who is. Thanks for your attention to this!

Ron Unger


Click to join Lanetrans

Eugene Bisexual and Lesbian Women's Social Meetup Group

It is free to join. Check us out at www.meetup.com and type in "Eugene Lesbian".
It is a social group for women of all ages. We will be offering a wide range of activities: hikes, dances, art events, family events and more. Come join us:)

I'd like to get the word out to see if there is enough interest in the area to form a gay men's chorus based in Eugene. Of course it would be open to any gay men in Lane county and surrounding counties. A top-knotch professional choral conductor has already volunteered his services.

I'm open to ideas on how to do this. Prior music-reading and singing experience is preferred, but these will be taught as the chorus learns its music, so anyone can join. This would be a volunteer group with no fees or dues. As it forms, a day and time for a weekly 2-hour rehearsal will be determined by the group.

The purpose of the group is to enjoy singing and share that joy with the community through our performances. The group will also be an avenue for forming new friendships and socializing. Such "community" choruses sing at special events, give concerts and sometimes tour. Most cities have a gay men's chorus, some have more than one! CONTACT: Bob via email, at if interested.

Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) is starting a new, free, LGBTQI support group in the spring of 2010 and periodically thereafter. This 6-10 week group is open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning, or intersexed survivors of either past or present sexual assault.

To get more information, or to sign up to be a part of this closed group, please contact Shanta Kamath at (541)-484-9791 ext # 312 or email supportgroup@sass-lane.org

Wild Women Saturday Coffee Club
We meet at 10:30 am every Saturday, at a variety of coffee shops in town. Please contact me at wildwomencoffeeclub@gmail.com for location info or to be put on the mailing list.

Queer Men's Social Group

We're a friendly, welcoming group who meet to socialize in an easy-going, low-pressure way for friendship and conversation. We currently meet every Mondays from 5:00-7:00pm for happy hour at the Starlight Lounge downtown. We also meet every Saturday from 10:00am to noon-ish for coffee at Vero Espresso. Open to queer men of all ages and to their friends and allies.

For more information, contact Pippin

Lesbian/Gay/Bi-Sexual/Transgendered/Questioning/Straight

New Meeting Group
*This is a closed meeting for addicts only, no children please

When: Sundays
This is a confidential meeting of Narcotics Anonymous. If you have questions or concerns please call Jacque 232-7213 or Rhonda 606-6179

Here is a list of many lgbt libraries/archives. They deserve support, donations of time, materials, energy and money, in saving our 60 years of history in working for civil/equal rights for homosexual Americans. (Courtesy of Gayellow Pages)

Burritt Library (CT) gagliardi@ccsu.edu

Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific NW (Portland) info@glpn.org

Gerberhart Library (Chicago) info@gerberhart.org

GLBT Archives of Philadelphia Archives (gay center) archives@waygay.org

GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco) info@glbthistory.org

GLBT History Month (Equality Forum) PA info@equalityforum.com

GLBTQ Inc info@glbtq.com

Gulf Coast Archive & Museum (Houston) info@gcam.org

Happy Foundation (Gene Elder) (San Antonio) elder4tomato@yahoo.com

Homosexual Information Center (Inc) LA and L.A.(Cal State, Northridge) tangentgroup.org, ctgrant@mac.com

James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco ( part of city library)

June Mazer Lesbian Archives (West Hollywood) mazerarchives@earthlink.net

Kinsey Institute, not just glbt Kinsey@indiana.edu

Lambda Archives of San Diego info@lambdaarchives.org

Lavender library, Archives & Cultural Exchange of Sacramento info@lavenderlibrary.org

Leather Archives archives@leatherarchives.org

Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable

Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York) lesbianherstoryarchives.org

LGBT Religious Archives network info@lgbtran.org

Lombardi-Nash (have urania manuscript) FL mal123nash@aol.com,

Madeline Davis GLBT Archives of Western New York-Buffalo phoenix.md@verizon.net

Milwaukee LGBT History project webmaster@mkelgbthist.org

Museum of Sex info@museumofsex.com

Nancy & Joe McDonald Rainbow Library (OK) okeq.org ?

National Archives of GLBT History (gay center) archive@gaycenter.org

National Museum of Women in Arts (DC) no address

Northeast Ohio LGBT Archives (Cleveland) reference@wrhs.org

Northwest Lesbian @ Gay History Museum Project lgbthistorynw.org

Ohio Lesbian Archives ohiolesbianarchives@yahoo.com

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives L. A. (USC) askone@onearchives.org

outhistory.org (CLAGS, New york project)

Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives lisa@pnwlesbianarchives.org

Phil Johnson Historic Archives & Research Library & Gay Center) Dallas library@rcdallas.org

Quatrefoil Library (MN) info@qlibrary.org

Sexual Minorities Archives (Northhampton MA) betpower@yahoo.com

Stonewall library &Archives (FL) info@stonewall-library.org

Sunflower Archives (KS) mfarchives@aol.com
Also glbt archives at University of Kansas

Terry Mangan Memorial Library (gay center CO) info@glbtcolorado.org

Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies (MN) trett007@umn.edu

William Nichols Archives (at University of Louisville) willnich@aol.com & kyarchives@aol.com