On Sunday, July 29, 2007, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of San Francisco will celebrate diversity by honoring the transgender community in their 11 am and 7 pm services.

At the 11 am service, Dr. Dawnne Woodie, church board member and
TransSpirit Ministry Coordinator, will lead the service. She will preach and consecrate a special communion honoring, blessing and encouraging the transgender community. Aidan Dunn will preside at the 7pm service. Both services will include a special prayer time of blessing and affirmation of those transpersons present.

*EVERYONE* is invited to attend services!

MCC San Francisco — now meeting in Kanbar Center, 44 Page Street (between Gough and Franklin)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-863-4434
Or for directions call Dr. Dawnne Woodie, 415-359-4736

Alexis Giraldo, a Latina transgender woman, is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for failing to protect her (and other transgender women) from rape and sexual assault while in prison.

Ms. Giraldo is seeking money damages for her injuries and a declaration from the court to force the CDCR to develop policies and practices to better protect transgender prisoners.

The Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIP) and the Community United Against Violence (CUAV) encourage the community to attend the trial and show support for Alexis Giraldo.

The trial will take place at the San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse in Room 206, starting on or after Thurs, July 5th. Check the TGIP website for more information and daily updates.

Why We Sing is a documentary that focuses on the 7th International Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses Choral Festival. More than 5,000 singers comprising 160 choruses participated in the festival. Through song and interviews, Why We Sing explores many current issues: same-sex marriage, religious views on LGBT rights, and the trans rights movement.

Tune into kpfa.org to hear this program celebrating the contributions and struggles of gays, lesbians, transgender and queer people around the U.S. and the world in a two hour special broadcast.

A longer version will be on kpfa 94.1 FM on Sunday, July 1st at 6:30pm.

Queers for Economic Justice and Southerners on New Ground (SONG) invite you to join them in an all-day planning session at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia on June 26th, to discuss how to build a national queer left.

Queers for Economic Justice is a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.

The goal of Queers for Economic Justice is to challenge and change the systems that create poverty and economic injustice in our communities, and to promote an economic system that embraces sexual and gender diversity.

SONG was founded in order to advance Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer multi-racial, multi-issued education and organizing capable of combating the Right wing strategies of fragmentation and division.

Be a Mentor, Get a Mentor!

The Transgender Economic Employment Initiative (TEEI) offers mentors and mentees the chance to meet someone new, help and be helped, share stories and advice. But TEEI needs to hear from you! The Transgender Mentoring Program will provide peer-based practical and emotional support to job seekers and newly placed employees. If you are a transgender/transsexual person and would like to be a career/employment focused mentor, or would like to have a mentor, please contact TEEI.

Email Yavanté Thomas-Guess, yavantetATsfcenter.org. TEEI will assist in pairing you with the appropriate mentor or mentee for your career/employment focused relationship. The program will launch on 07/02/07, so contact TEEI soon.

A film by Shelly Prevost.

Trained in the Ways of Men is a SF Bay Area film about the 2002 murder of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teenager.

The film uses Gwen’s murder to discuss issues of gender identity, gender “deception” and the so-called “gay-panic” defense.

Showing in San Francisco on June 16 as part of the Frameline LGBT Film festival

In San Francisco, June 13, 2007:

A spoken-word performance by trans and intersex women as an attempt to “dephallocize” the penis. They will give first-hand accounts of their experiences navigating through the world as women whose genitals do not conform to people’s assumptions.

A Queer Arts Festival event.

Then say “hello” to genderqueer revolution.

Genderqueer Revolution is a national organization dedicated to empowering EVERYONE to embrace the gift of the gender rainbow.

Because we all want to change the world.

Is this the eternal question?

If you are a curious fag you can learn the basics of female genitalia at The Center for Sex & Culture in San Francisco. On June 17, the Center will present a workshop called “Cunts for Fags” to demystify “the innies of the genital world.”

The workshop is open to people aged 18 and over. All genders and sexual orientations are welcome.