MASS + Ithaca marriage news, SF, etc.

SOME MASS. BOSSES STILL CRAP ON SAME-SEX COUPLES

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=59530&format=

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HIGHEST MASS. COURT WILL WEIGH (racist) 1913 LAW

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/24/sjc_will_hear_challenge_to_1913_marriage_law/

....... and please see also:

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=70142
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ITHACA COUPLES LOSE
( in N.Y. state--- NOT in NY City )

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--gaymarriage-ithac0224feb24,0,7376937.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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verdict in BRIT sex photos & prisoner abuse

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7715116

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FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events + news-links
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps.com, SFBG.com, et alii ):
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For more "queer things to do"
in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
please visit Larrybob at HTC:

[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
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For news of EduKink leather/BDSM classes,
please consider joining

[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edukink ]
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Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
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*24 Feb, Thursday, 7pm:
authors present
VAGINAS:
AN OWNER'S MANUAL
at A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books,
601 Van Ness, SF.
Free.

http://www.bookstore.com

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Same-sex marriage lecture
Thursday, Feb. 24, the Boalt Center for Social Justice holds a lecture on taking
the next steps to legalizing marriage between same-sex couples.
5-6 p.m., UC Berkeley,
Booth Auditorium, Bancroft and Telegraph, Berk.
Free.
http://www.marycdunlap.org
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Thursday Feb 24, 6 pm: Valencia Rose Revisited. Early Queer Theater -
In January 1982, Hank Wilson and Ron Lanza turned a former funeral home into what became one of the city's most prominent queer theatrical venues in the city. Home to comedy, plays, lectures and political organizing, the Rose featured such performers as Whoopi Goldberg, Lea DeLaria, Marga Gomez, Doug Holsclaw and Tom Ammiano. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of its closing in 1985, join invited guests Tom Ammiano, Doug Holsclaw, Ron Lanza, Karen Ripley and F. Allen Sawyer in a lively traipse down memory lane, as well as rare performance footage from the Rose.
Main Library, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room,
100 Larkin Street (at Grove) SF.
FREE
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Thursday, February 24th at 7 PM: free DIY Book Arts and Entertainment
at Modern Times Bookstore featuring: readings by Masha Gutkin, Kat Case, Melissa Klein, slideshow by Sarolta Jane Cump, film by Gretchen Hildebran, and a "talk" by Sara Jaffe.
free popcorn! please come! at Modern Times (888 Valencia St, 415-282-9246)
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Thursday, February 24, 7:00pm: Best Lesbian Erotica 2005
Join guest judge Felice Newman, and authors Shannon Cummings, Jean Roberta, and Renee Rivera, for an evening of hot, hot, hot stories of lesbian desire.
A Different Light Bookstore, 489 Castro St., San Francisco (415) 431-0891
Free!
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*SF: 25 Feb.:
'Half Price Friday'
Open Play Party
at SF Citadel
8 PM to 1 AM
our special discount night of play -
only $10 per person!
RSVPs aren't required.
For work exchange, contact
volunteers [at] sfcitadel.org
For Citadel street address,
and possible last-minute changes,
please see:
[ http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]

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Friday February 25 -- SF
3:00 - 5:00 PM:
Queer Removal and Deportation:
Danita Ganzon Speaks Out!
Department of Homeland Security Targets Transgender Couple.
USF Main Campus, Maraschi Room, 2800 Turk Street at Parker, San Francisco, University of San Francisco
http://artsci.usfca.edu/servlet/EventsList?deptID=42

[USF = Catholic U near St Mary's hospital (Stanyan near Fulton). ]
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Friday, February 25, 7:00pm: book reading:
You Can't Say That
by Charles Karel Bouley (radio host)
at A Different Light, Castro and 18th; SF
FREE.
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Young Africans speak
Friday, Feb. 25, and Saturday, Feb. 26, meet young leaders from Africa who are part of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization
African Initiative of the American Friends Service Committee, and hear them speak about how they intend to organize better societies in their respective home countries.
Fri/25, 6 p.m., Friends Meeting House, 65 Ninth St., S.F. Free. Sat/26, 5 p.m.,
Black Repertory Theatre, 3201 Adeline, Berk. Free. (510) 238-8080, ext. 309
jalkebulan [at] afsc.org
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Get military recruiters off campuses
Saturday, Feb. 26, join teachers, students, antiwar activists, and veterans at a meeting to start a movement to kick U.S. military recruiters off high school and college campuses. 2 p.m., Women's Building, Audrey Lorde Room, 3543 18th St., S.F. (415) 412-4540
ragina [at] mac.com
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Know your rights
Saturday, Feb. 26, get informed on potential threats to your rights at a Gray Panthers Civil Liberties Committee meeting with featured speaker Kai Lundgren-Williams, a teacher of activism and social change at New College of California.
2 p.m., San Francisco Public Library, Park Branch, 1833 Page, S.F.
Free.
(415) 552-8800
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27 February, Sunday morning, 10am:
Unitarian-Universalist Forum,
on "Cents and Sensibility:
assessing our energy policy in the United States".

FREE
1187 Franklin St, SF (near Geary & Van Ness).


http://www.uusf.org

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*CAL, northern: Berkeley:
UNDRESSED PROJECT classes continue...
Naked dance technique classes geared towards healing body image,
taught by Eric Kupers
and combining aspects of modern dance, improvisation, and
various somatic arts.
FOR ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE.
Sunday.... Feb. 27th,
3 - 5 pm,
Western Sky Studio,
2525 Eighth Street, Berkeley,
$15 – 30 sliding scale.
RSVP to
erickupers [at] hotmail.com
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Monday February 28, 2005 -- Oakland
7-8:30pm: Film Discussion and Screening-
Toilet Training: Law and Order in the Bathroom.
A documentary video and collaboration between transgender videomaker Tara Mateik and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization dedicated to ending poverty and gender identity discrimination.
SRLP provides free legal services to low-income transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming communities.
FREE!
Change Makers Bookstore, 6536 Telegraph Ave, Oakland.
510.655.2405
http://www.srlp.org
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