Reading Pride Celebration

Please join Reading Community Players along with Reading Pride Celebration Saturday March 6 at 7 pm for Take Me Out. 2003 Tony Award Winner for Best Play. Written by Richard Greenberg Directed By Santo D. Marabella.

Wine & Cheese Reception at 7:00 PM
Show at 8:00 PM and Panel Discussion After the Show

Tickets $25.00.

Audience advisory:Mature themes,nudity and strong language. Check out www.rcptheate.org
Address 403 N. 11 th Street, Reading

March 06, 2010 7:00 PM
Reading Community Players
403 N. 11th Street
Reading, PA 19604 [map it!]

Price $25.00

Info Line 610-375-9106
http://www.readingcommunityplayers.com/

Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg's Broadway hit and Tony Award Winner. Wine & Cheese reception prior to show. Panel discussion afterward.

The play explores with wit and compassion what might happen if a player on a major league baseball team were to announce that he is gay. Greenberg brings out many attitudes toward homosexuality by drawing his main character as a very specific, unique individual. Darren Lemming is the star player who has led his team to win two Worlds Series in a row. He comes from a middle-class, biracial family but has never faced any sort of racial prejudice. He is the ideal ballplayer on the ideal team, until the day he decides to announce his sexual orientation to his team: then his relationships change with his coach; his teammates; his new business manager, who is gay; his best friend, who is devoutly religious; and especially with the homophobic pitcher recently up from the minors, who refers to Lemming by using an offensive slur during an interview. The play is full of insights about baseball, masculinity, and identity in the twenty-first century.

AUDIENCE ADVISORY: MATURE THEMES, NUDITY & STRONG LANGUAGE

Common Roads and Dickinson College are pleased to present the 3rd Annual Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Leadership Summit: an opportunity for students and professionals to meet, network and participate in workshops designed to help everyone better understand and advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and allied students in central Pennsylvania and beyond.


GSAs registered for the Summit by February 20th will receive a copy of the documentary Out in the Silence (www.outinthesilence.com) along with a discussion guide and an event-planning toolkit. This opportunity is provided by The Philadelphia Foundation.

Click here for the Registration Packet for this year’s event.

Calling for your help!!!

Reading Pride Celebration is working to start a newsletter on our web site.

We are having a contest to name the newsletter. If your entry is chosen, you will receive a $20.00 gift card to Iezzi's Bar and Restaurant in Boyertown.

Submit your ideas to readingpridenews@gmail.com. Please include your name and phone number so we can contact you if you win!

Deadline for the contest is March 13th.

Bible and Homosexuality Workshop
Thursday, January 21 – Part 1 from 7pm to 9pm
Thursday, January 28 – Part 2 from 7pm to 9pm


SOCIAL EVENT – Queer Karaoke with other fun activities and food!
Sunday, January 31 at 6pm.

Meeting At: The Quaker Meeting House
108 N. 6th Street
Reading, PA 19601
www.visionofhopemcc.org

Friday, December 18th
Christmas Dance
8-11pm
$5 admission

CHISTMAS EVE SERVICES
7pm and 10pm

New Year's Eve Party
9:30pm-12:30am
alcohol free

Stephanie Schaffer
20’s /30’s Ministry Leader

MCC of the Lehigh Valley
930 North 4th Street, First Floor
Allentown, PA 18102
610-709-8800
mcclv.org

VIVA tapas lounge, located in Greater Reading, is sponsoring a new program for nonprofits. Friday night is DANCE night at VIVA featuring live bands. Planned Parenthood will benefit from a night of high-energy dance music by the spectacular BUNCHAFUNK!!! Your "cover charge" is donated to Planned Parenthood of Northeast and Mid-Penn!!

Join us on Friday, December 4th, 10:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. !

Tickets can be purchased at VIVA now and the night of the event or

Tickets to the event can be secured by contacting:
Planned Parenthood/Andrea Dolak
(610) 481-0481 ext. 26
adolak@planitpa.org

Credit cards are accepted.

Don’t forget to email all your friends and family, too!

Lets dance the night away to benefit all the women, men and teens who are served by Planned Parenthood!

VIVA is located at 901 Hill Avenue (one block off North Park Road) Wyomissing, 19610

BUNCHAFUNK is an 8 piece band including three horns and a full rhythm section, featuring dance, R&B, the sounds of Earth, Wind, & Fire, Rick James, Tower of Power, and Temptations.

Kutztown University’s GLBTQ Resource Center will be hosting a Human Rights Day Panel Discussion, “Looking Back, Looking Forward”, on Thursday, December 10, 11 AM, in the McFarland Student Union Building, Room 218.

The panelists include: Jacqueline Conforti Barnett, Special Assistant to the PASSHE Chancellor, Stephen A. Glassman, Chairperson of the PA Human Relations Commission, and Barbara M. Taliaferro, KU Associate Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion.

The panelists will discuss human rights past, present and future from National, State, and Kutztown University perspectives. This will be an opportunity to hear about the strides that have been made and the work yet to be done. All are invited to this free event.

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This is a reminder that the Reading PFLAG meeting will be on Tuesday, October 20th. Begin arriving at 6:30PM; to start the meeting by 6:45PM.

This month Deb Sieger will be leading on our discussion on the potential effects of health care reform on the LBGT Community, their families, and friends.

Please be aware that, after learning their survey results last month, they are still contemplating the future of Reading PFLAG and exactly what form it will take. The October and November meetings are the last ones officially scheduled following our regular format.

Please join them to participate in a lively discussion on a current topic and to help them move forward with our future.

Location:

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County
416 Franklin Street
Reading
610-372-0928
You can find directions to the UU Church on their website www.uuberks.org under "About Our Church" - "Driving Directions" or at www.uuberks.org/directions.htm


PFLAG - Eastern PA Chapter
Helplines: 610-967-5219, 570-620-1234
website: www.eastern-pa-pflag.org e-mail: info@eastern-pa-pflag.org
berks@eastern-pa-pflag.org

The Berks County Community Foundation is hosting a two part seminar on November 18th focused on LGBT Estate Planning.

3-5 pm is for professional advisors (CPA’s, Attorneys, Financial Advisors)

5-6:30 Community Mixer (food and drink)

6:30-8:30 LGBT Community Seminar

They will be featuring an reading attorney (Mike Mixell), a CPA (Franki Aiken), trust officer (Tom Moore) and sinancial Advisorde (Amy Smart) signed around highlighting the needs and related solutions.

Call the Berks County Community Foundation to RSVP: 610.685.2223
http://www.bccf.org/