More on Stonewall Youth at Washington Middle School, including my letter to the editor.

Stonewall Youth’s speaker’s panel spoke about bullying at Washington Middle School in Olympia on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Alec and I attended a school board meeting on Monday, July 11, 2007, along with youth from Stonewall, members of PFLAG and other folks in the community. This letter to the editor was published as a Letters …

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Stonewall Youth at a Washington Middle School Assembly

Read School talk about gays, lesbians riles some parentsby Heather Woodward ~ June 8, 2007 ~ The Olympian I have Chris’ permission to share this letter. June 8, 2007 I’m still waiting for the day when a school can have a speaker who dares utter the word “gay” or “lesbian” without bringing down the wrath …

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The Wives of Marty Winters

On Alec’s blog: South Sound Arts etc. ~ Posted: 07 Apr 2007 The Wives of Marty Winters is my latest novel. I’m in the midst of my second complete rewrite — up to page 147 of 212 right now, after having two trusted friends who are good writers read it and make editorial comments. One …

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A medical update

On Tuesday February 20th I posted that I was home and recovering from a seizure.After that I started having tight chest pain and at first thought it might be heartburn, which I hadn’t had in years. But taking antacid didn’t do a thing. Then I thought I had injured myself during the seizure or had …

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My email this morning to the pflag-all email list: Friends of PFLAG Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu have opened a new play in NYC to rave reviews

Hi everyone Steve Schalchlin and his partner Jim Brochu – have opened a new play off-Broadway in New York City to rave reviews: “The Big Voice: God or Merman?” http://www.thebigvoice.com Some of you may remember that an earlier musical of theirs, “The Last Session” was recognized with many awards including PFLAG-LA’s Oscar Wilde Award for …

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The Stay Close Campaign

In 2002 PFLAG New York City took the lead in developing The Stay Close Campaign as awareness campaign to get the word out about the PFLAG organization to parents, families, teachers, clergy, politicians, GLBT people, and the general public. Why This Campaign is So Important * It is estimated that one in 4 families includes …

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The TCPronet Annual Picnic

Today Alec and I went to the second annual Memorial Day Networking Picnic of the Thurston County Progressive Network (TC Pro-Net), a local organization dedicated to uniting the efforts of area activists. Here is the big tent. Our friend and ally Rep. Sam Hunt was making a great speech. and here is Alec tabling for …

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A letter to Jay Leno

This letter came to me through a PFLAG email list I am on. The man who wrote it is Jeff Whitty, the author of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play “Avenue Q.” He wants this to go around the globe and back so by all means post it on your websites and email it to everyone …

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