Should you want to shop til you drop this Spring Break, club alumni member Andhi sent us this invitation for you to use:
Hi Project Pride,
I know you like good deals on clothing/fashion so I got you a private invitation for Shop It To Me:
Go here:
http://shopittome.com/expiring_invitation/abv3abbe39d
-Andhika
While we are officially on Spring Break, be sure to stay in touch via Face Book & My Space & email & the blog & well, just grab a fella club member & go have some safe fun!
We will be starting next quarter with our weekly meetings tentatively planned for Fridays, mid day. Again, this is tentative- its not too late to get your oppinion on this to a club officer. Also, if you would like to serve the club in a support position to Josef or Ramiro, let us know. Sam' (me, writing this now, the blogger-) is looking for a clubby to train in the weekly blog postings. If you would like to help out in that capacity & have a sincere passion for being reliable on a regualar basis, weekly, then let us know. I (Sam') need to eventually retire from this blog job so if you wanna intern, speak up.
Lets also remember our greater community as Spring Flings & Proms are now happening. Fella Club Member, Jesse would like to comment on a current news story with her personal sharing to us:
(Jesse says-) Here is the article I found on it: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lesbian_prom_date
The synopsis is the Mississippi school district cancelled the entire prom when a lesbian senior student chose to take her girlfriend with her, and she would be wearing a tuxedo. She has faced harassment from other students over this (one of them actually saying "thanks for ruining my senior year.”)
Civil right groups (ACLU and GLSEN) have advocated on her behalf and have said it violates her civil rights and her freedom of expression. There may be a compromise of a privately held prom but I do not know much about the school district or the community, although she does mention it's very conservative and these are the folks with money.... hmm...
I would like to share my experience with taking my girlfriend to the senior prom, I went to Edmonds Woodway High School and graduated 2006.
We both chose to wear dresses because we weren't out to our parents, and we also said that we were going as friends to find dates there. Of course we were going as a couple, we were not out to our parents and thus didn't want this to slip.
Anyways, the reactions to us going as a couple were remarkably normal... it could be that a few years before some same sex couples we knew went and while it raised eyebrows when they went... but it was like people have gotten over it by the time we went.
Nobody teased or made fun of us when we kissed or hugged or danced... and we even got our prom photos taken and a professional photographer, unrelated to the school or anything, didn't even care.
It was a great night and my fondest memory of her.
Anyways, it totally burns me that the teen here, Constance McMillian, got the opposite treatment. It's really not fair at all that would could have been a really fun and memorable night of her life got taken away, and that she's also been punished by other students as well. She deserves to have the same options and fair treatments as other teens. My hopes are that this gets resolved in a civil manner and she, as well as her fellow students, still get a chance to attend a prom they've been looking forward to.
Just felt like sharing because this article brought up some strong feelings for me. (-Jesse)
Respectfully submitted by Club member Sam'
