Download PDFs: The Pride Connection • September 2010 calendar • October 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 .

10-Year Donation

Hours of Operation

Our office hours are Saturdays from 2 to 5 pm (NOTE: no regular office hours on Saturday, Oct. 26th for Community Clean-up Day)

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

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September and October 2010 Announcements

Commemorative Contribution Conte$t


The Pride Center is turning ten years old and we’re challenging YOU to join others in giving back to an organization that has given so much to the local GLBT community! We’ve set up three special donation levels to help us mark our big ten-year milestone—$10, $100, and $1000. The first ten people to contribute at each level will have their names inscribed on a plaque commemorating our ten years of service. So what are you waiting for? Be one of the first “10 for 10” donors!

To make your contribution, just click on the PayPal® button labeled “10-Year Donation.” You can pay by credit card or use funds from your own PayPal® account. You can also choose a different donation amount if our levels don’t fit your budget—we’ll accept any show of appreciation you can offer. Just remember, only the first ten people in each category will be included on the plaque, so donate today!

Note: PayPal® charges the Pride Center a transaction fee for processing every online donation. If you’d like to help us avoid these fees, please add 52¢ to your $10 donation, $2.50 to your $100 donation, or $22.30 to your $1000 donation. To completely bypass any online service charges, feel free to send us a check made out to “Prescott Pride Center” with “10 for 10 Contest” on the memo line. Call us the day you mail it and we’ll include you in the contest

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Big Checks Boggle Our Minds!

When you operate a small non-profit organization and the economy takes a swan dive, you definitely start to wonder if you’re going to survive. Regular contributions go down and big donations seem to disappear altogether. That’s why we thought our 2010 Rainbow Club would be an empty clubhouse with no members at all. Well, one amazing night changed all that! At the acknowledgement dinner for last year’s Rainbow Club members, we were presented with two checks (that’s right, TWO checks) for the 2010 Rainbow Club!

During our after-dinner stretch, Chris Hagen & Lori Sellers of Prescott Valley presented us with a check for $1000. While we were busy picking our jaws up off the floor, Ginger Buhr of Dewey handed us ANOTHER check for $1000! We were truly dumbstruck by their generosity, especially since that evening was supposed to be all about them! It just goes to show you that, even in a culture that emphasizes “me, me, me,” there are still people out there who care deeply about others. What a blessing it is to have them in our community family. Thank you, Chis, Lori, and Ginger, for your generous gifts and your ongoing commitment to the Pride Center!

If anyone else out there would like to join the 2010 Rainbow Club, simply mail your $1000 donation (or an installment payment) to the “Prescott Pride Center” at P.O. Box 3765, Prescott, AZ 86302 (be sure to write “Rainbow Club” on the memo line). You can also donate online. Members will receive special permanent recognition at the Pride Center and will be invited to an exclusive annual dinner. If you’d like more information about the Rainbow Club, please contact Frankie at (928) 443-8520.

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Still Need Staffers!

Know why we’re only open on Saturdays now? Because we don’t have enough reliable volunteers to stay open more often. That’s right, we need committed volunteers to step up and help us staff the place. If you have a few hours that you could spare on a Saturday afternoon, please consider signing up as 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 keep the Pride Center open.

It’s not rocket science, people. The formula is simple: volunteers = open, no volunteers = closed. It’s your choice, you make the call! Literally, go make the call!!!

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TransTalk: Information & Insights on Transgender Issues

Now that you have some basic trans terminology down, here are a few more advanced definitions that might help you understand gender and gender identity a little bit better. We ‘ll be bringing you even more advanced info in the next issue of The Pride Connection. Watch for it!
Gender: The social construction of masculinity and femininity in a specific culture. It involves gender assignment (the gender designation of someone at birth), gender roles (the expectations imposed on someone based on their gender), gender attribution (how others perceive someone’s gender), and gender identity (how someone defines their own gender).
Gender Expression: How one chooses to express one’s gender identity through behavior, clothing, hairstyle, voice, body characteristics, etc.
Gender Identity: An individual’s sense of being male, female, or something else. Since gender identity is internal, one’s gender identity is not necessarily visible to others.
Gender Identity Disorder (GID): The classification for transsexuality in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Edition, Text Revision, 2001). Most transsexual people strongly object to being considered mentally ill, arguing that it is a completely inaccurate diagnosis and serves to dehumanize and pathologize them. However, some transsexual individuals in countries such as Canada and Holland support GID being recognized as a mental disorder, because it enables them to have their gender reassignment surgeries covered by government health insurance (gender reassignment surgeries are rarely covered in the United States).
Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS): Surgical procedures that change one’s body to conform to one’s gender identity. These procedures may include “top surgery” (breast augmentation or removal) and “bottom surgery” (altering genitals).

Source: The Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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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 survey for men is here.

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The Pride Connection and Calendar PDFs

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