VERMONT activists bash Civil Unions

Associated Press, 13 Sept 04, from South Royalton, VT, reports
on a conference at which
"Gay marriage advocates say they are not satisfied
with the civil union law......"

For AP story, please see BOSTON GLOBE:

http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2004/09/13/vermont_activists_say_civil_unions_fall_short/
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Do other readers have more details on Vermont ?
Or on the conference?
If so, please post as comments, below.
Thanks,
TBL
Wed. morn , 15 Sept 04
[Sorry, I don't have time today to follow up on this.]

PS 1:
Also, does anyone have details on results of Mass
primary election,
which was held on
Tuesday, 14 Sept 04?

How did our friends do?

One might start searching at
[ http://www.boston.com/news/ ]

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PS 2: And here's your
CALENDAR 4 FREEDOM-SEEKERS
( compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
plus info from HolyTitClamps ):
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For even MORE queer things to do
in the SF Gay Area,
please visit Larry-bob at HTC:

[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
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Please FORWARD freely, as appropriate.
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SEPTEMBER 2004:
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CAL-SF: "Wednesday, Sept 15, 7:30 pm signup, 8 pm show: SMACK DAB : an open mic hosted by Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts. (tonight special guest host Patsy Lincoln-Hatt.) Making the Castro safe for performance again. Featured performers: Jim E. Sparkle Pants and TBA. Bring five minutes of words, music, comedy or miscellany. Bring your charm and magic and cheerful can-do attitude. Or just come and watch and cheer folks on. All ages and genders will be welcomed and adored. Please respect the five minute limit so more people have a chance to participate. Musicians, one song please. All happening at Magnet, the new gay men's neighborhood health center, 4122 18th Street between Castro and Collingwood. Free.
http://www.magnetsf.org
[-HTC]
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USA: circa 15 Sept. to 15 Oct: Hispanic Heritage Month.
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MEXICO and USA: Sept. 16: Mexican Independence Day.

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CAL: SF: now thru Sept. 19:
Fringe Festival [theatrical performances]:

http://www.sfFringe.org
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CAL-SF: "Saturday Sept 18, noon-3 pm:
San Francisco Queer Leather Munch.
We meet the third SATURDAY of every month.
This is a munch for anyone ages 18 and over in the leather community of any gender or sexuality
who identies[ sic] as queer, lesbian, gay, fag, dyke, genderqueer, genderfuckers, genderbenders, trans, MTF, FTM, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, questioning, intersexed, did I leave anyone out? We will be meeting at the SF LGBT Center Cafe [ "Three Dollar Bill"] on the 1st floor..... 1800 Market St.
For those who have never been [at] or heard of a munch, this is a gathering of like-mided people to discuss anything and everything under the sun, as well as a place to meet new people.
*Please note this event is now 18 and over [....]" [-HTC]
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***CAL, northern: 17-19 Sept.: NUDESTOCK:
annual clothing-optional music weekend.
Advance registration required.
[ http://www.NudestockFestival.com ]
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LOUISIANA: 18 Sept., Saturday: state primary election;
including vote on anti-marriage amendment to state constitution.
[There was a lawsuit seeking to keep this bigotry off the September ballot,
butr that effort apparently failed.]
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CAL, northern: circa 19 Sept., Sunday (?): Berkeley:
Will X-plicit Players again hold
a clothing-optional event in Peoples Park ?
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Cal-SF: "Sunday Sept 19, noon to 3 pm (or later): HICCUP! pic-up queer and genderfuk playground. what to bring: your frisbee, football, basketball, tennis shoes, wrastlin shoes, black boots, bell bottoms, imagination, snazzaroons, snacks,
toilet paper, energy for playing, cheering or watching, chapstick, lipstick, vasoline [sic], water balloons.
LET'S GET IT ON!
where: Corona Heights Park, States Street off Castro (up the hill from the gas station), free! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kithology_hiccup/
[-HTC]
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OKLAHOMA: circa , Thursday, 23 September (?):
State supreme court hears oral arguments
about whether an anti-marriage amendment
should appear on November OK ballot.

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***CAL: SF: Sat., 25 September:

Perverts Put Out!

Saturday
8:00 pm sharp
[on the night before Folsom Fair]
848 Community Space
at 848 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA

Your last chance, for this year, to catch this long-running and ever-popular literary
smut-salon.
Come experience the cutting edge of erotic fiction,
with presentations by local and visiting writer/performers including
Daphne Gottlieb,
Patrick Califia,
Jen Collins,
Simon Sheppard,
Bill Brent,
Doug Harrison,
Steven Schwartz,
ferret.


Costumes, including fetish wear
and birthday suits,
are welcome.

$12-$20 sliding-scale contribution will benefit our chosen charities --
this time around, we're donating to
the Center for Sex and Culture.
No-one turned away for lack of funds.

We strongly suggest making a reservation
by calling (510) 451-2646
and leaving your phone number for confirmation,
or emailing
PPO [at] blackbooks.com.
Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve
basis. We suggest you arrive by 7:45pm
and allow enough time before
that for parking, if you are traveling by car.
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*** CAL: SF: Sept. 26, Sunday, 11AM to 6PM:
world-famous,
clothing-optional
FOLSOM STREET FAIR!

Demonstrate nude for peace and freedom!
Distribute leaflets against circumcision of infants!

[ http://FolsomStreetEvents.org/ ]

In SF's SoMa district, on Folsom St, from 7th St to 12th St.
Always on last Sunday of each September.

Expect around 400,000 leatherfolk, friends, and fans.

Please donate when you enter.

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CAL-SF: "Weds. September 29th, performances at 9 pm: "Pirate Booty" at the Lusty Lady, SF's own world-famous peepshow. Get your feet wet with delicious mermaids, swashbuckling scoundrels, bawdy broads & more! Watch glamorous figureheads come to life, thrilling swordfights & bondage plank-walking in our evening performances staring at 9 pm. Open 11 am- 3 am. We're the only worker-owned, unionized peepshow in exsistence, so come support your local sexy subversives! There's no cover charge & our booth prices are a mere 25 cents. Location: Lusty Lady, 1033 Kearney @ Broadway. Hotline: 415.391.3991. "
[-HTC]
http://www.lustyladylive.com

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OCTOBER 2004:
Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
Breast Cancer Awareness Month;
Hispanic Heritage Month (until Oct. 15).
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***NEW YORK: October 1st, Friday morning, early:
Spencer Tunick's next Naked Pavement photo-shoot will take place
1 October at 6:45 AM,
in New York City on 13th Street
between Washington Street and the West Side Highway.
All are welcome to pose.
The shoot is part of Extremely Refrigerated, a two-week art and performance installation
taking place in New York's meat-market district and on the Internet.
It's being produced by the Floating Point Unit transmedia art collective.
More info at HotWired: Retina - Naked City:

[ http://hotwired.wired.com/retina/95/33/naked/ ]
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CAL: SF: early October?: Love Parade ??? [or maybe in 2005?]
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CAL: SF: October 2-3, Sat-Sun:
"Reggae in the Park" festival,
in Golden Gate Park.
Festival WON'T include "burn the queer" singer Capleton.
Please see SF Examiner, 13 September 2004:
"Controversial reggae artist cut from festival.
Jamaican singer called homophobic."
by Alison Soltau.
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CAL: SF: circa 2-3 Oct. (first weekend):
"Strictly Bluegrass" festival, in Golden Gate Park.
Free.
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CAL: SF: Oct. 3, Sunday:
Castro Street Fair.

Sunday Oct 3: Castro Street Fair,
including Sugar Valley.

[ http://www.castrostreetfair.org/ ]

[ http://www.sugarvalley.org/ ]


CSF was considered wild in the Seventies.
Today, coming one week after Folsom, it seems mild.

Women can go topfree if they choose;
but nudity and bare genitals are banned.
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CAL: Oct 3: SF, Cable 29: "Outlook" [queer news], first Sunday, 5pm.
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USA: Will Bush, and/or Wahhabi terrorists, stage another "October Surprise" ?
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USA: thru 11 October:
" Marriage Equality California Caravan
and National Rally in Washington D.C.
From October 4 to 11, 2004, marriage activists will leave San Francisco and cross the
country to Washington D.C. on the Marriage Equality Express, making 14 stops to
network with local marriage activists and spread the fire for marriage equality nation-wide.

EQCA and MECA will post daily blogs from the riders.

Consider going to Washington D.C. for the
National Marriage Equality Rally
on National Coming Out Day [Monday, Oct. 11]
in the Upper Senate Park -
hear Barney Frank, Mabel Teng, marriage plaintiffs,
civil rights advocates, Tuck and Patti and more.
To learn more about supporting the marriage caravan and rally go to

( http://www.marriageequalityca.org/events/2004/national-rally/index.php ). +

+ Register to Vote Absentee!
...Registered voters are five times more likely
to actually vote,
when they vote by mail.
To register to vote absentee go to

( http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm ).
[-- MECA]
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CAL-SF: 4 October, Monday, 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM: "Celebrating Women" exhibit by IMOW,
at One Market, concourse lobby, downown SF.
Take Bart/Muni to Embarcadero Station.

"The International Museum of Women presents “Celebrating Women,” an exhibit of artifacts, music and photographs of festivals from around the world; richly documented for the first time by Paola Gianturco in her new book “Celebrating Women”(powerHouse Books, October 2004).
The International Museum of Women will open in 2008 at Pier 26 in San Francisco.

Celebrating Women features more than 17 festivals, in many countries. The exhibit affirms the power of women as athletes, defenders, goddesses, providers, warriors and more. Since different cultures deem different attributes laudable, the exhibit offers a view of how women's roles are defined by community and their identities are informed by tradition. It is an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of ourselves and others, as we strive together for positive social change. For more information please go to
http://www.imow.org
Our mission is to value the lives of women around the world."
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USA: Friday, 8 October:
"Boycott for Equality".
Please spend NO money today.
[ http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1693067.php ]
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CA: SF: 9 October 2004:
first annual Nude Peace Day at Baker Beach:

*** N U D E PEACE DAY: You're invited to bodypaint and get bodypainted, for peace and freedom, on N u d e Peace Day, the second Saturday of each October, at Baker Beach, San Francisco. Free. Adults of all genders and orientations are welcome. Take #29 Muni bus to Baker Beach (either of two stops; ask driver); or bike there; or walk from Geary Blvd. and 25th Ave. Walk to northern parking lot, which has water fountain & toilets. From parking lot, walk north on beach (toward Golden Gate Bridge), thru prude zone and into clothing-optional zone. Then visually follow the cable fence (separating usable beach from protected vegetation) until you see a Leather Pride Flag (bearing a red heart, with stripes of black, blue, and white). If you don't see the flag yet, just enjoy the beach on your own. Look again for flag, or bodypainters, each hour, especially near the log stairway. Since organizers must carry supplies on bus, no reliable time can be guaranteed. We hope to be there by 2PM, possibly earlier. Rain cancels.
For details or last-minute changes, please see SUN
[ http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude ]
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