Time to celebrate our hard work

Don't forget to check out Into The Woods this Saturday at 7:30. It is the last day!

We enjoyed watching "Boys Don't Cry" this Friday (thanks Heather!). Next Friday we will be preparing for the Pride Parade! Help us make signs and banners so we can be ready to march down the parade. Sam' will be running this meeting.

Don't forget on June 4th we have our "Over The Rainbow Graduation Party". It's gonna be a blast! We will have games, music, condoms and food! Show up and also learn about the gay community! It's a free event, it's on a Friday and you get to listen to disco, why wouldn't you come?

Hope to see everyone there tonight! The show is in SCC Theater, bring your student ID's for a big discount!

Club Notes, May 14-May 20

This Friday we will meet in the same place, same time for a showing & discussion of the movie, "Boys Don't Cry" (thank you to our PR Person for it!)

This next weekend is the 2nd & last chance for a great campus theatre production that our club Prez Ramiro has a leading role in. A couple of us have already gone to it- & can attest that it is awesome! Good adult humor with excellent musical talent.

The moral of the play is that anything can happen in the woods- which I believe now that I've seen Ramiro play his part of chasing Cinderella. Grab a club friend or a hot date & head over to the showing: Thurs-Sat (May 20-22), 7:30 pm nightly in the campus theatre.

If a good book is more your thing, then check out this good read offered by a club supporter who contacted us by email: Wong Cook, Stud Swagger Coach with Stud Swagger Publishing has a new book: "50 Secrets to becoming the Perfect Lesbian Stud"-

-email Wong at studswagger@gmail.com or call (909) 614-1004.

See you this Friday, May 21 for the movie & discussion.

Respectfully submitted by Sam'

This is your president speaking

As most of you know Sam' is leaving Project Pride as an official member at the end of this quarter. However she is not leaving us for good, as she plans to be there to support the club as an alumni.

With that said, don't forget that we hare showing a movie on Friday, May 21st at 1pm in the game room. We will be showing Boys Don't Cry.

We have updates on the Pride Parade. We will be marching this year with the company of Mimi Harvey. Don't forget to come on May 28th to help Sam' make some awesome signs and banners. We will be marching on June 27th. More details on that to come.

Our Over The Rainbow Graduation Party is coming up and we need games and performers. This is going to be our biggest on campus event we host this year so spread the word and bring some friends. We will be selling Pizza and cookies to generate some money for the Pride Parade.

The sun's out, the rain's gone, the rainbow is coming.

Ramiro

-President

Meeting Notes Friday April 30, Week of May 2-9

Friday we talked about this year's Pride Parade & decided that in May we will make a banner of our club name & school to carry when we march. We would also like for each of us to wear one solid rainbow color- like if you choose pink, then everything you wear is to be pink. But those were ideas & of course, if you forget the rainbow colors, you can still march. We are looking forward to the parade. We also discussed our end of the quarter party....

Mark your calendar for Friday, June 4 @ 1pm in the PUB Quiet Dining Room. We are starting to pass out personal invitations for this party- everyone is welcome, even Mom & Dad. This party is to be a celebration for our club members who have been graduating this year as well as to congradulate club members who are finishing this year of school to move on to another year of school. We have several alumni members who have recently graduated & if you are reading this, we hope you will take this time to celebrate your success with pride.

Next Friday, May 7, usual club time & place, we will have our quarterly Gay Bingo. Rumor has it that we will have a drag queen in our presence for this gay game day. See you Friday at 12:30 in Room 9103 of the PUB.

Respectfully submitted by Sam'

Meeting Notes, Friday April 23

As we prepare for mid-terms, remember we have the best place on campus to take a much needed break from the norms of the day...that's on Fridays at 12:30 in Room 9103 of the PUB for Project Pride. Join in.

This Friday (the 30th), we will have open discussion of current events, of life in general, & well, its on our agenda for this meeting to come up with some invitations for our End of the Quarter End of the Rainbow Party, so if you have ideas or the like, bring 'em. If we are a small group, we may go upstairs to the SLC to use the computers for graphic designed invitations. Together we'll decide when the day is here.

Until then, go out on campus, be proud & loud of who you are, help open those closet doors & drag your friends & study buddies & queer allys into the club, kickin' & screamin' if you have too.

Respectfully submitted by Sam'

Meeting Notes Friday April 16

We started our club meeting with a few minutes of talking about our club's activities for the quarter.

Our P.R. Officer, Heather also gave a report, sharing with us some heightened international news to be aware of- the increasingly anti-gay hate crimes happening in African countries. Because our club is small in comparison to the country of Africa the part that we can do is to become aware of the problem and to share this awareness with others, to talk about it, to learn all we can about the problem and to become aware of causes to individually be a part of to combat this hatred.

We also had open discussion of National Day of Silence, April 16, and its meaning. In summary, its due time for us to come out of the closet & not be silent.

The activity part of our club meeting was spent with finger paint & glitter & colored markers to create Pride Art for us to use at our next couple of club activities.

This Tuesday, April 20, we will meet in the court-yard at 12:30 to help Prez Ramiro & P.R. Officer Heather with an informational booth to share the word of Project Pride GSA.

Meeting Notes Friday April 9

Join us this next Friday for
Pride Art Day!

Our Tentative Spring Quarter Schedule looks like this:

Friday April 16, Pride Art Day

Tuesday April 20, @ 12:30 in the Court yard, weather permitting for our Club Info Table

Friday April 23, Open Mic

Friday April 30, Make Party Invitations (for June 4) & other crafts

Friday May 7, Quarterly Gay Bingo

Friday May 14, Guest Speaker courtesy of Heather & Ramiro. And its Sam's Birthday, shhh.

Friday May 28, TBA

Friday June 4 @ 3:30 in the PUB for club sponsored campus party, Over the Rainbow Graduation Party to celebrate the end of the year & to celebrate our recent graduates. Open to all interested persons, friends, loved ones, & alumni.

Sunday June 27, we walk as an entry in the Seattle Pride Parade, details TBA

Respectfully submitted by VP Sam'

Meeting Notes Friday April 2, 2010

Spring will be a great quarter: We spent our first club meeting talking about our club plans for the Pride Parade.

We also took a brief tour of the Student Leadership Center to learn about our available resources as a club to include computer & color printer use, our own club mail box, access to treasury club monies, & free condoms. “Grape flavored condoms too”, says our Prez Ramiro .

Congratulations to our new club officers as we look forward to your awesome ideas in planning our club table at the soon upcoming Club Expo! Generally, Club Expo is the time that clubs campus -wide come together in the cafeteria, each with their own table to display what the club has done or accomplished during the prior 2 or 3 quarters & what they plan on doing during Spring Quarter. It’s a time to not only display our table but to also check out other clubs & become club friendly with everyone.

This year’s Expo will likely be this month, April- we’ll let our officers find out just when & inform us at this next club meeting. It will be awesome to gain new Project Pride Club Members & new allied friends & for our class-mates to come out of the closet.


Picture courtesy of our archived blog posting of May 15, 2009 as we participated in the campus Club Expo 2009.


This Friday we will meet in Room 9201 instead of the usual room, but same time, 12:30. This will be the time & club meeting to bring your ideas, props, or resource materials that you would like for us to consider offering or displaying at the Club Expo, so that we can be ready for that.

Respectfully submitted by Sam'

Welcome to Spring Quarter

We will meet this Friday in Room 9103 of the PUB- across from the Bookstore at 12:30. This first meeting will be to say hello & to meet each other, to take a tour of the Student Leadership Center & to confirm who our Spring Officers are.

This quarter we will focus on

• Preparing for the campus Club Expo
• Preparing for our place in the Seattle Pride Parade
• Making a difference & having fun!

Happy Spring Quarter!

Respectfully submitted by club member Sam'

Spring is gay and so is Project Pride

Attention Project Pride Members:

Project Pride Club is changing it's name to Project Pride Gay Straight Alliance. We are also signing a new constitution and choosing our new officers this Sunday (March 21st). The following positions are available:

Secretary: In charge of taking notes at meetings and keeping our blog up to date. This person also needs to be aware of current events that can be shared through our blog.

Treasurer: Manage our budget and handle paperwork necessary to use it. Creates budgets for events that we organize through the quarter.

Public Relations: In charge advertising through flyers and other media. Communicates questions from members to vice-president or president.

Vice-President: In charge of assisting the club president with various activities and taking over if the club president is not available.

President: Oversees all aspects of the club and manages our e-mail, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Spring Quarter Updates:

Project Pride will meet on Fridays at 12:30pm in room 9103 (Game Room) starting April 2nd.

We need your input to come up with more activities for our members. Please bring your suggestions to us.

Have A Gay Day

Ramiro Orellana

Project Pride

Meeting Notes Week of March 8-14

Our club is leaving this week with a closing of Winter Quarter. We will officially be on Spring Break until our next club meeting, happening likely April 2 (a Friday.) Please, please have a safe Spring Break, as Project Pride Club Members, we care about each other & our campus community & our LGBTQ&A community at large. Lets have fun this break but not fall into situations of victimization as sadly happened to 2 of our campus class-mates a year ago Spring. While our hearts went out to them at that time, they are not forgotten as we move forward to a new Spring.

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'

Meeting Notes March 1- 7

Join us this week at lunch time in our reserved room on Tuesday & Wednesday, Room 9103. If you missed last week, a recap of it is that we played Monopoly & celebrated Cher with Josef.

As Winter Quarter comes to an end, Spring Quarter will have room for anyone that wants to help out the club by serving in an officer capacity in support of & collaboration with Josef & Ramiro. If interested, please check in with one of these 2 awesome guys!

On another note, for individual FYI only,

Club Member Jesse is looking for anyone who would like to join her as she gets involved in the 32^nd District Caucus with a voice to represent the LGBT community. The minimum statewide goals of participation at the 2010 State Convention set by the Washington State Democrats include: 4% African American, 8% Hispanic/Latino, 3% Enrolled Native Americans,8% Asian/Pacific Islanders, 3% Persons with Disabilities, 7% LGBT, & 3% Youth (Age 17-24).More information about the Caucus can be found at – http://www.32democrats.org/

Respectfully submitted by club member, Sam'