Wild Nunling in Natural Habitat

Back to the 70's with Disco BINGO!

Don't forget to dust off your 70's finest and join us at Icepics tonight 8 - 10:30 for Disco BINGO benefiting Project Hard Hat!!!!
Icepics is right next to the Red Devil
3108 E Mc Dowell Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85008

Wear your big hat if you want discounts on drinks, and bring some extra funds for those delicious Perpetual Pudding Shots! $2 for 1, $5 for 3!

Exorcise those Devil Duckies for AIDS Walk!

Sister Scavenger Hunt

On Saturday September 27, 2008 Several Bars in the Downtown Phoenix Metropolitan Area will join forces To Find a Cure!

The Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence need your help finding “Dastardly Devil Duckies” that have escaped from a local laboratory and are said to be infecting queer bars all over town! They have been spreading hatred and striking fear in the hearts of Valley Residents, with their hatemongering and right wing rhetoric. One recent victim said, “They are worse than Fred Phelps at a Pride March”! Demonic Duckies have been overheard spreading vicious lies about the Phoenix GLBTQ Community and its’ inability to come together for a common cause. They will surely continue down this Fowl Path and attempt to crush anyone that stands in the way of their hatred, if something is not done immediately!


Therefore, The Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence would like for you to join them in Defeating Those Devil Duckies! Meet at Ice Pics Video Bar 3108 E McDowell Road between 6-8pm on Saturday September 27, 2008. Once there, you will be asked to split into teams of 3-4 people (one person on each team must be a Designated Driver) to go and search for the Demonic Ducks beginning at 8pm. You will be provided with a list of bars that have recently been affected by this feathery scourge and you will be given some of the necessary tools needed to find and capture them. They must be delivered back to Ice Pics by the stroke of midnight on 8/28/08. At that time, The Sisters will attempt to do a proper exorcism in order to return the Duckies back to their original, more peaceful state of mind and hopefully rid the community of this plague, once and for all. The local bars are so distraught about this preposterous predicament; they have offered to donate 10% of their proceeds, for the evening, to the team that gathers the Most Devil Duckies. Winners/Sponsors donation will be announced at AIDS Walk 2008

Please join us on this historic night! Together We Can Make A Difference!
For more information go to…

http://www.azsisters.org/aidswalk2008 or http://www.aidswalk2008.org

Proceeds From This Event To Benefit Phoenix AIDS Walk 2008

Help Hydrate the Homeless

Drop off bottled water at any of the following locations before October 6th.

Water will be delivered to Central Arizona Shelters (CASS)

• Mama Java's
• Pumphouse II
• Cash Inn
• Tuff Stuff Leather
• Melrose Pharmacy
• Charlie's
• Apollo's
• Bunkhouse
• The 70's Shop and Hookah Lounge
• Friends
• Boom Boom Larue's
• The Antique Shoppe
• Modified Arts
• 1 Voice Community Center
  
• La Roca (The Rock)
  
• Unique Urban Boutique
• Chute
• Off Chute
• Fair Trade Cafe

Reading, Singing, Speaking, Fighting for Equality

Transgender Voices was a fun event and Alternatives/1 VCC saw a good crowd that day! The raffle raised $100 towards This is How. Thank you to James and all the fabulous people at Alternatives for such fun raffle prizes!

There was sharing heard from a woman who has been helped by This is How during a very difficult time in her life. There are more fundraisers to help that worthy cause coming up, so stay tuned and of course you can always check out their website at http://www.thisishowhome.org/

After Lori Girshick (http://www.loribgirshick.com/) read her book Transgender Voices and lead an interesting discussion, we were blessed by the dulcet tones of miss Namoli Brennet. If you haven't heard her, check out her website at www.namolibrennet.com or go check her out in person at one of her upcoming performances, that girl gets around!

At the Transgender Voices event Lori Girshick read stories from her book and discussed gender policing and how protection policies for Gender Identity and Expression can help keep students safe at our local schools which really ties in to where I was last night. A few of my friends who are college students in the Maricopa Community College District went and spoke up at the board meeting to explain why such protections are needed.

Kudos to their board for taking on such an important issue when many of them didn't even realize gender varient students and employees were encountering obstacles at their schools. Last night they heard brief 3 minute presentations from each of 8 people for the protections, and 1 against. If memory serves there were 6 students, (5 trans identified and 1 intersexed) and a local doctor we call Dr Becky. All in all, an inspiring evening. It was encouraging to see so many community members there. Not only students but professors, counselors, spouses and friends. I am told they will hold a special meeting on October 13th to consider this issue, so of course it's on my calendar.