Download PDFs: The Pride Connection • July 2010 calendar • August 2010 calendar

Click on the links for more details about events. You can also call us at (928) 445-8800 or email us for more information about any of the listings. We are located at 111 Josephine Street, Prescott, AZ .

Hours of Operation

Our office hours are Saturdays, 2 to 5 pm

July and August 2010 Announcements

Community Clean-Up Kudos

The Pride Center would like to send out special thanks to the following people who donated their time on the Community Clean-Up Day (see photo ). This small group of energetic volunteers braved incredibly high winds to work on outdoor projects that were long overdue. The place looks great and we owe it all to them!

Special thanks are also in order for these folks who donated to the Clean-Up Day cause. These individuals made it possible for us to tackle some big tasks that we couldn’t have done without their support. Thanks for your generosity, gang!

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Staffers Needed

Our staffing pool is getting a little shallow again, so we’re looking for some new volunteers to help us provide full coverage for open hours. If you have a few hours that you could spare on a Saturday afternoon, please consider signing up to become a staffer. We’re looking for personable people with polite phone skills and the ability to be a good host for Pride Center visitors. Reliability is also important since you’ll be responsible for keeping the Pride Center open during visiting hours. If you have these attributes and you’d like to give something back to the community, please call Frankie at (928) 443-8520 to sign up. The training is simple and short and you’ll work with an experienced staffer until you feel ready to go it alone. Please call today and help us expand our volunteer pool!

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TransTalk: Information & Insights on Transgender Issues

We thought it made sense to start off our new TransTalk segment with some basic terminology. Here are a few words and definitions that might help you understand gender and gender identity a little bit better. Watch the next issue of The Pride Connection for more advanced terminology!
Transgender or Trans: Most commonly used as an umbrella term for individuals whose gender identity and/or expression is sometimes or always different from the gender assigned to them at birth. Transgender people include transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, genderqueers, and others who cross traditional gender categories.
Gender Variant, Gender Diverse, or Gender Non-Conforming: Alternative terms for transgender, meaning one who varies from traditional “masculine” and “feminine” gender roles.
Transsexual: An individual whose gender identity is different from their assigned gender at birth. Transsexual people often undergo hormone treatments and gender confirmation surgeries to align their anatomy with their core identity, but not all desire or are able to do so.
Crossdresser: An individual who, regardless of motivation, wears clothing, makeup, etc. that are considered by the culture to be appropriate for another gender, but not one’s own. This term is generally preferred over “transvestite.”
Drag King and Drag Queen: Female-bodied crossdressers (typically lesbians) and male-bodied crossdressers (typically gay men), respectively, who present in public, often for entertainment purposes.
Genderqueer: People who identify as neither male nor female, as both, or as somewhere in between, and who often seek to blur gender lines. It is a particularly common identity among transgender youth.
Intersex or Disorders of Sexual Development: Congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical (preferred term to “hermaphrodite”). About one in 1,500 to 2,000 children are born with an intersex condition.
Two Spirit People: A Native American/First Nation term for people who blend the masculine and the feminine. It is commonly used to describe anatomical women who took on the roles and/or dress of men and anatomical men who took on the roles and/or dress of women in the past. The term is also often used by contemporary GLBT Native American and First Nation people to describe themselves.

Source: The Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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New and Special Events
(click on the link to go to our Events and News Page for details)

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Regularly Scheduled Events

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Upcoming Events

Looking down the road a bit, we now have listings of some events planned for the next few months. (Note: Some of these plans may be pretty tentative at this point, and details are subject to change as dates approach. Changes will be made and events will be added as we become aware of them.)

 

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Continuing Items of Interest

Other Continuing Items

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GLBT Online Surveys

There is always a wide variety of interesting research being done on the GLBT community, but there’s never enough room to include all the details in the print edition of The Pride Connection. Please check our bulletin board regularly or visit us at www.prescottpridecenter.com for links to information on GLBT-specific scientific studies.

The Psychology Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles is currently conducting an online survey about sexuality among gay and bisexual men and same-sex couples. Those who participate in this study will be entered into a lottery to win one of several prizes, including two iPod Nanos and four $50 Visa gift cards. Click here to go to the survey.

The Social Identity Lab at the University of Washington would like to represent the GLB community in a study on cognition and social groups. They are conducting an anonymous, online study on cognitive processing about social groups. Their study takes about 15 to 20 minutes to complete and participants will have the opportunity to enter a drawing for $50. Click here to go to the survey.

The Department of Urology at the University of California in San Francisco is conducting a survey of urinary and sexual wellness in women who have sex with women (WSW) and men who have sex with men (MSM). They are looking for GLBT people 18 and older to take part in an anonymous online survey. The survey for women is here and the survery for men is here.

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The Pride Connection and Calendar PDFs

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