A local event will be at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta at 3:00 p.m. The event is a UUCA “public advocacy campaign promoting respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every person.” The celebration will feature a free screening of the documentary ‘Lesbian Grandmothers from Mars.’ You are invited to join UUCA at 3501 Walton Way Ext and “celebrate a Valentine’s Day re-imagined. Love is about more than romance, greeting cards and chocolates. We want to celebrate love’s power to transform communities!”

To learn more about the Standing on the Side Of Love campaign, visit standingonthesideoflove.org

January 24th, 2010 @ 12:30 PM
Hosted by MCC of Our Redeemer
557 Greene Street, Downtown Augusta


The Augusta Pride Committee Presents

Forum on Pride 2010

Presentation by the APC Directors on plans for CSRA Pride 2010

We are having our first outreach this Thursday, October 15th, 2009 @ 8:00pm @ the Metro Coffee House. Come and meet your Augusta Pride Board of Directors, Committee,
and fellow volunteers over some coffee and drinks! This is a chance to bring friends that want to get involved!! See you there!

To sign up for the newsletter, contact isaac@prideaugusta.org.

“Come Out, Come Out Whoever You Are” The Reverend Margaret L. Beard

October 11th is “National Coming Out Day” which is an internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Find out more about the history of this day, the national and local situation and why “fullness of being” and full equality are religious issues.

Service is at 11:00am

For directions and contact information, visit uuaugusta.org.

This is a TalkBack against the Savannah River Site. Y’all won’t print it, but right as you go into Aiken barricade, there is a big sign Come Celebrate National Gay Pride Day with Us. Is the Savannah River Site taking taxpayers’ money and paying for a gay pride celebration? Gives you a serious case of road rage to go in the barricade to work and this sign glaring you in the face. I challenge you to take a picture of this and put it in the a paper and run a survey and ask the employees that have helped to build this country’s security and defense system about it being a slap in their face. Challenge you, Aiken Standard. We’ll see if you print it.

Help me answer this question…what exactly is a slap in the face? It appears to me to be an example of freedom – in speech and expression. Wasn’t our country’s defense system created to defend this very freedom? Or perhaps our defense system only exists to protect this one dear reader’s freedom of speech and everyone else should just shut up. Yep. I think that’s it.

Please share this information with LGBT students you know. Also, if you have a prom experience you’d like to share, please do so in the comments.

Here’s where you can help… our community isn’t going to grow unless more LGBT people move here and/or come out and become active in the community. Any information you can contribute would be SUPER helpful.

• What neighborhoods would you recommend as gay friendly?
• What apt./condo complexes would you recommend?
• What businesses, companies, and retailers have you had positive experiences with?

Leave your comments and encourage others to do the same. Thanks for helping build this resource for people inquiring about our area!

I hope that students in the CSRA participate. If you or anyone you know participates, please leave a comment here with your experience.

To learn more about the Day of Silence, visit DayOfSilence.org.

The next meeting of the Coalition for Augusta Pride will be Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 7 PM at The Filling Station bar on Gordon Highway. There will be lots of updates at this meeting, so be sure to pass the word on to anyone who may be interested.

Photo courtesy H4NUM4N via Flickr